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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Clerks
    The latest slacker manifesto, Clerks lacks the grunge artistry of either "Stranger Than Paradise" or "Slacker," but it's a fast, likable 90 minutes at the movies.
  2. The Cooler
    A lot of fun early in the evening, when the Rat Pack ambiance is novel, but gets bleary by 4 a.m. in the story.
  3. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    A hit-or-miss affair that starts out wobbly and then gathers comic momentum.
  4. Mostly Martha
    Nettelbeck has a particularly lovely sense of behind-the-scenes restaurant choreography. And her warm, patient understanding of little girls' psyches guides young Maxime Foerste, as the turbulent niece, to a terrific performance.
  5. Road to Perdition
    There's much that's simplistically grand, worthy, and fine in Perdition. If I yearn for less measured filmmaking that cries out with more reckless despair, it's because I think hell on earth is a meaner, much more interesting, and far less tidy cinematic place than Mendes trusts his audience to handle.
  6. Shanghai Knights
    This is an action-comedy sequel so indefatigably preposterous and farklemt -- as they say in certain Upper West Side saloons -- that it actually improves on the original.
  7. Waterworld
    Costner's surfer-bum affectlessness works here; he turns the Mariner into the world's most jaded lifeguard.
  8. 10 Things I Hate About You
    The film's crank-case snappishness doesn't break any molds, but it certainly gives you a lift.
  9. Not Another Teen Movie
    A big, fat, juicy spitball lobbed, with mostly dead-on aim, at the teen-smarm clichés that have accumulated like so much earwax over the last three years.
  10. The Brown Bunny
    It's hard to deny that Gallo has caught the freedom and melancholy, the intoxicating aimlessness, the lonely twilight beauty of a solo road trip in a way that no previous filmmaker quite has.
  11. Changing Lanes
    Teasing drama whose relentless good-deed/bad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting, less symmetrical, less obviously cross-shaped creation.
  12. We Were Soldiers
    The writer-director bestows honor -- generously, apolitically -- not only on the dead and still living American veterans who fought in Ia Drang, but also on their families, on their Vietnamese adversaries, and on the families of their adversaries too.
  13. Blow
    Carries little in the way of passion or revelatory charge.
  14. The Reckoning
    The Reckoning, with a script by Mark Mills, demands close attention; it's a play of words and ideas crowding for consideration.
  15. Open Range
    There's nothing corny, however, about the climactic shoot-out, which Costner has staged superbly as an extended logistical mini-war that surges and rifle-cracks with bloody abandon through what feels like every building in town. Call it dances with guns.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Own Private Idaho
    But Van Sant, whose vision is otherwise sharp, pushes the connection to Shakespeare's Henry IV too far, having Reeves at one point declaim in rhyming couplets, which severely tests even the most forgiving viewer.
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  17. What Lies Beneath
    Bears the weight of too many genres jostling for screen time.
  18. A Bug's Life
    So obsessed with wowing you, in every corner of every frame, that as a movie it doesn't quite breathe.
  19. Monsters, Inc.
    Monsters, Inc. has got that swing, that zippity, multilevel awareness of kids'-eye sensibilities and adult-pitched humor.
  20. Spun
    Spun is accomplished, but it's also numbing. It's hard to have much connection to people who never connect with each other.
  21. The Usual Suspects
    Dense with plot intricacies, thick with atmosphere, and packed with showy roles for a hip ensemble.
  22. Three Kings
    So overstuffed with random fireworks that despite its politics, it's easy to imagine the film getting a four-star rave from Bush or Saddam.
  23. George of the Jungle
    Hits you on the head until you laugh.
  24. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Bridget's most attractive asset is that she's played by Renée Zellweger.
  25. Elephant
    Beauty competes with vacuity in Elephant, and for a good stretch of writer-director Gus Van Sant's maddeningly passive ode to high school innocence and Columbine-age youthful evil, beauty wins.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Thelma & Louise
    Never quite connects with us emotionally, yet the more it shades off into the gonzo-poetic, the more fun it becomes.
  27. Jackass: The Movie
    Provokes a suspense halfway between comedy and horror. I'm not sure if I enjoyed myself, exactly, but I could hardly wait to see what I'd be appalled by next.
  28. The Mother
    Director Roger Michell (''Notting Hill'') conveys some of the sharpest insights into the woman buried beneath the wife and mother in those early scenes, using ragged, vérité-style camera work that takes merciless inventory of a certain stripe of posh, hard-edged modern family life in which dowdy grannies are invisible.
  29. Robot Stories
    The collection can be summed up in four words I never thought I'd see together: science-fiction chamber music.
  30. Good Will Hunting
    Stuffed--indeed, overstuffed--with heart, soul, audacity, and blarney. You may not believe a minute of it, but you don't necessarily want to stop watching.
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