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For 7,797 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 2.2 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Resident Evil
    A splattery futuristic zombie thriller, designed as a jolt-a-minute freakout for young audiences who were numbed into submission long ago.
  2. Ice Age
    Ice Age never matches the brilliance of ''Toy Story'' or the heartfelt heft of ''Shrek,'' but it's an antic and sweet-spirited pleasure.
  3. All About the Benjamins
    Something puddles to nothing in this relentless Miami sun.
  4. The Time Machine
    Deliberately quaint and old-fashioned, a once-over-slightly exercise in nostalgic wonder directed by the British-born great-grandson of H.G. Wells, who treats the spirit of his ancestor's novel with literal-minded fealty.
  5. Stolen Summer
    The entertainment gods have cast mixed blessings on Stolen Summer. Let Pete Jones pray.
  6. Borstal Boy
    A quaint, romanticized rendering.
  7. 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.
  8. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    A kinder, gentler teensploitation comedy, but Hartnett's Matt, at least, invites the audience to graduate to something better.
  9. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Branagh shows us the comedy of a man who is too clever to understand that in the guise of dreading fatherhood, he is really at war with how much he longs for it.
  10. Big Bad Love
    Howard luxuriates in writerly misery as Barlow, and the participation of the filmmaker's real-life wife, Debra Winger, as Barlow's ex gives the scenes between the two of them an unfakeable erotic charge.
  11. Mean Machine
    After too many ''Full Monty''s, it has come to look like nothing so much as a coy ritual of emasculation.
  12. Monsoon Wedding
    The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater.
  13. Dragonfly
    Preposterous-for-no-good-reason supernatural tale.
  14. Queen of the Damned
    Maybe in a few years the incoherent gaudiness of this underperforming sequel to ''Interview With A Vampire'' -- will have transmuted into a kind of appreciable camp. Until that time, however, we're stuck with this damned production
  15. Return to Never Land
    There's always something to look at (an octopus holding his eyeballs aloft, the petulant Jane assaulted by pixie dust), but the story is weak tea.
  16. Wendigo
    If you think it all adds up to a bald-faced rip off of ''The Shining,'' you'd be right, with a crucial difference: Wendigo trades the puffed-up metaphysics of middle-class murder for the no-budget spectacle of...an incredibly fake-looking monster deer.
  17. Hart's War
    It may seem harmless, to some, that our movies have never entirely abandoned the land of Poitier-ville, but as Hart's War demonstrates, it's an insult that they haven't.
  18. Crossroads
    Not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate ''Glitter,'' or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in ''A Walk to Remember.''
  19. Super Troopers
    Scattershot, hit-and-often-miss comedy.
  20. John Q
    The movie could have used a brain transplant. It doesn't explore injustice -- it just exploits it.
  21. Scotland, Pa.
    Funny? Yes, but in its slapdash way, it sounds nuttier than it plays.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Rollerball
    Rollerball was trash even back in 1975, but in some small way it was ahead of its time. The new version just makes you feel like you've been watching a lame late-night rerun while stuck in a thunderdome.
  23. Big Fat Liar
    How appealing is Muniz, taking a break from ''Malcolm in the Middle,'' a day job he should by no means let go of?
  24. Collateral Damage
    The result is an ''action film'' mired in stasis. The ending piles on the potboiler mayhem, but it's telling that Schwarzenegger's climactic catchphrase is down to one measly word. This time, he's the luggage.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Birthday Girl
    If British writer-director Jez Butterworth had let his sophomore picture get as dirty as Kidman's game recklessness invited -- she started this before ''Moulin Rouge'' and ''The Others'' -- he would have served up a tasty piece of cake.
  26. A Rumor of Angels
    Director Peter O'Fallon fires his biggest gun: a blast of Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, truly heavenly music wasted on a handful of dust.
  27. Slackers
    The movie doesn't so much extend Schwartzman's antic outsider persona from ''Rushmore'' as uglify it, reducing him to the ultimate Uncool Anti-WASP.
  28. Domestic Violence
    Wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror.
  29. The Son's Room
    It takes skill these days, if not nerve, to put a vital, happy nuclear family on screen and to invite us to share in every quiet tremor, every gentle jostle and smile of their steady, deep-flowing contentment.
  30. The Mothman Prophecies
    It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair.
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