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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. Under the Tuscan Sun
    The author was able to compensate for the book's plotlessness by contemplating other people leading full lives quite as important as hers. In Wells' movie adaptation, even the birth of a friend's baby becomes all about Frances and the play of emotions on Lane's busy, beautiful face.
  2. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    It's all way too heavy-handed, though nicely acted by Hirsch, Culkin, and, especially, Jena Malone.
  3. The Prince and Me
    In a series of endings, she, and the audience, are falsely promised that she can have it all. In other words, The Prince & Me is committed to the controversial American policy of No Fantasy Left Behind.
  4. Purple Butterfly
    Too often, Purple Butterfly is as impenetrable as Zhang's placid, obdurate beauty.
  5. Stage Beauty
    A celebration of the theater that tends to drag the moment it's out of drag.
  6. A Knight's Tale
    Laddish, one joke, genre scrambling rock & roll fairy tale.
  7. Enemy at the Gates
    The one valuable prize for audiences in this war pic Cracker Jack box is Jude Law. Once again the talented Mr. Law makes more of a role than most movies know what to do with.
  8. Raising Helen
    Hudson's sunny, ringlet-tossing appeal fits snugly into the film's happy-homemaker ideology: She makes caring for three kids she barely knows look downright glamorous.
  9. Anything But Love
    The frustration of this good-hearted, off-key warble of an indie, written by Rose with Robert Cary, who directed, is that the filmmaking pales when compared with the classic elements of 1950s and early '60s romantic musicals to which it pays homage.
  10. Jackpot
    It's as self consciously arty and fragmented as ''Twin Falls'' was controlled and organically built.
  11. Secondhand Lions
    With no baseline ''truth'' to be found among the cartoony characters and cheesy twists, the whole production feels like a Texas-size load of secondhand lyin'.
  12. Batman & Robin
    Unfortunately, the charming Batfamily can't stay in their cave indefinitely; they've got to go out and fight crime. And that's where this elaborately high-style production from Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher hits an iceberg.
  13. Resident Evil
    A splattery futuristic zombie thriller, designed as a jolt-a-minute freakout for young audiences who were numbed into submission long ago.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Thunderbirds
    Without fail its upbeat cheesy wholesomeness is always good for a smile.
  15. EuroTrip
    In the world according to Eurotrip, the Europeans may be a twisted, outdated, ridiculous lot, but what defines them is that unlike the Americans, they've never quite evolved to irony: They treat even the scuzziest habits with dire sincerity.
  16. Old School
    Under Reitman's deanship, Ferrell lets his freak flag fly and Vaughn unlooses a notably funny, light-on-his-feet lunkheadedness.
  17. The Perfect Storm
    Petersen gives us monumental images of waves and rain and wind, but the editing is so choppy that the images don't build and crest.
  18. Shark Tale
    The noisiest laughs in this watery animated comedy are reserved for those who value self-referential winks above all else.
  19. Super Troopers
    Scattershot, hit-and-often-miss comedy.
  20. Just Married
    Collapses into the most generic sort of teen movie-ville, just at the moment it's convinced you that its lightly appealing stars are capable of better.
  21. The Matrix
    The real soullessness here is built into the production, a polished adaptation of Hong Kong-style filmmaking that, with its cast of depressive characters, allows for little Hong Kong-style joy.
  22. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    2F2F, under the cut-to-the-chase direction of John Singleton, strips the package known as the Mindless Summer Movie down to its barest components of wheels, skin, and a pulsing soundtrack.
  23. The Beach
    As a book, The Beach offers the option of diving deep. As a movie, it sticks too close to the shoreline.
  24. The New Guy
    A Jekyll-and-Hyde teen comedy that sounds like a Pauly Shore reject, but Qualls moves his marionette body around with a true clown's effervescence, and he does rubber-faced parodies of youth cool that are just what youth cool deserves.
  25. Moonlight Mile
    In ''Ordinary People,'' at least one character -- Mary Tyler Moore's -- had to fall so that the others could survive. In Moonlight Mile, no one gets shut out of the hug cycle.
  26. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    By the time Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is over, it may send more than a few viewers scurrying off to the bookstore. They'll surely want to see what all the fuss was about.
  27. Can't Hardly Wait
    Agreeably mindless generation-next trash, but it leaves you hungry for a movie in which the characters are more than walking screenwriter index cards.
  28. Clueless
    There are funny bits in Amy Heckerling's high school sat-ire, but the characters are teen-movie zombies with no discernible personality apart from their trendoid obsessions.
  29. The Terminal
    I didn't mind The Terminal, but I didn't really buy it, either. Spielberg has crafted the film with a proficiency as seamless, and impersonal, as the setting, and you may feel, after a while, that you're longing for your departure time.
  30. The Grudge
    A horror film that consists of virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of logic.
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