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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. Laurel Canyon
    The characters are tedious, as are the fussy performances of Bale and Beckinsale. Everything good in this rock & roll fantasy belongs to the sexy, worldly-wise McDormand, who makes Jane ripe, real, and irresistible.
  2. Est - Ouest
    Wargnier directs his French historical drama, a foreign film Oscar nominee, in a way that allows little perspective on the extent of Stalinist cruelty; even when terrible things happen, they do so sedately.
  3. The Cell
    The Cell is foremost about singular imagery, a succession of still pictures strung together frame by frame.
  4. Pushing Tin
    Makes you wish that Newell and company had had the gumption to finish what they so enticingly started.
  5. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Has my eye, seduced by the devious and tactile delights of ''Shrek,'' already evolved in tandem with the technological leaps in computer animation? Or is Atlantis simply a Disney dud?
  6. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Croft is one humorless butt-kicker. Excavations in exotic lands have rarely looked so much like items on a to-do list.
  7. Pleasantville
    Technical elegance and fine performances mask the shallowness of a story as simpleminded as the '50s TV to which it condescends; certainly it's got none of the depth, poignance, and brilliance of "The Truman Show," the recent TV-is-stifling drama that immediately comes to mind.
  8. Bulworth
    It's a tease of a satire that never really follows through on its audacious premise.
  9. Manic
    There's something already exhausted, however, in the intrusively gauzy, wobbly, blurry, zoomy digital-video look of the piece.
  10. Primal Fear
    Gere taps into his charismatic-weasel mode, but director Gregory Hoblit fills the big screen with excellent TV actors (Andre Braugher, John Mahoney, Maura Tierney) and then gives them nothing interesting to do.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Glass House
    As the supporting cast gets winnowed away, though, we're left with a cat-and-mouse game between girl and murderous faux-dad that's simply boilerplate.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Joy Luck Club
    A sumptuous two-and-a-quarter-hour emotional epic built on one lachrymose climax after another. What little plot there is exists only to set up the next Big Cry.
  13. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    There's not a moment in Bagger Vance that can't be anticipated.
  14. Little Secrets
    The kids in this syrupy family picture are spunky tykes and the adults are dolts, but Wood is worth watching because she's so clearly ready to play nobody's girl but her own.
  15. Human Nature
    The movie is too cute to take itself too seriously, but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college students.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dr. Dolittle 2
    Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    Judging by the title, though, Sprecher made the movie she wanted to make, and if you're in the right damp-wool mood, you may connect with it too.
  18. Home Fries
    Adorable or what?
  19. Riding in Cars with Boys
    When Barrymore finally gets mean, the movie finally gets good. Then comes another sing-along, dammit.
  20. Knock Off
    Van Damme and his cronies (including Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, and, for no immediately graspable reason, Rob Schneider as Van Damme's rabbity sidekick) race, speed, shoot, chop, and zip through scenes of such festive mayhem, plot is a clunky afterthought, like a lopsided fake Prada label on a cheap nylon knapsack.
  21. Dopamine
    A melancholy romance that has the distinction of being the first film set among San Francisco dotcommers that knows it's about the end of the boom.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under Suspicion
    Pits the two actors against each other in a ''long night of the soul'' talkathon that director Stephen Hopkins' jerky editing techniques can't quite spark into sustained life.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    Like Demi Moore leaking tears or Sharon Stone crossing her legs, Jamie Lee Curtis screaming is one of those glorious sights that inspire a generation of moviegoers to binge on popcorn.
  24. The Missing
    What's missing in The Missing -- despite throwing in The Everything, from magic trinkets to group hugs -- is soul.
  25. Saving Grace
    Wrings laughs from the antics of affable, eccentric villagers who cheerily break the law.
  26. Wonder Boys
    Sweet, flaky, and more than a little aimless.
  27. The Mummy Returns
    The actors themselves are more rip roaring and full of spunk than in their first outing.
  28. Alice et Martin
    It's as if, in exploring the scars that shape these personalities, Téchiné has forgotten to color in the flesh.
  29. Bully
    With its smooth skinned cast and demonized adults, doesn't feel very authentic.
  30. Frida
    A revolutionary life has rarely felt less edgy, or the biography of an iconoclast more bourgeois.
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