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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. Along Came a Spider
    Broody fun.
  2. Crazy/Beautiful
    Dunst, in her finest performance yet, has now transcended her fellow teen stars. She is arguably the first actress of her generation poised to take on Gwyneth and Julia.
  3. Prey for Rock & Roll
    An ingratiatingly scrappy little movie. It's been cobbled together out of a great many conventional crises (drugs, abusive boyfriends, heartless girlfriends, a looming record deal), yet there's a tough and appealing vitality to the way that it embraces the petty ego-tripping and party-down squalor of the rock lifestyle and stands apart from it at the same time.
  4. Together
    To contextualize the story's lack of subtlety, it helps to see these casting choices as ongoing penance for the time when, as a boy, Chen denounced his own father to the Red Guard.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sliding Doors
    The story is hackneyed, and the gimmick only doubles the dullardry.
  6. Trembling Before G-d
    While the compiled testimony is strong, some larger context is missing.
  7. Sorority Boys
    There are moments of real funniness in this smarter-than-anticipated goof-fest.
  8. Spy Kids
    It's Alan Cumming who takes over the movie as the impish mastermind Fegan Floop.
  9. How to Deal
    Moore makes Halley's awakening organic and touching. In an age when most teenagers are up to their eyeballs in postmodern consumer glitz, her movies seem radical not just in their retro squareness but in their unfashionable embrace of faith over ironic flippancy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What's Cooking?
    Like the meal itself, the movie's both filling and familiar.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Abyss
    The Abyss ends with a whimper. But it starts out with a bang that lasts for an exciting hour and a half. And that's enough to make it worth taking the plunge.
  12. Frailty
    Against all odds in heaven and hell, it creeped me out just fine.
  13. L.A. Story
    The trouble is, nothing about this couple is particularly rooted in Los Angeles. The love affair has a bland, generic feel. What's more, the picture lacks verve.
  14. Better Luck Tomorrow
    Lin works with a rhythmic observational flair that outweighs the movie's flaws. It's a long way from Long Duk Dong.
  15. Confidence
    Confidence may be mannered at times, but its shell-game plot is alive with organic trickery.
  16. What Women Want
    Gibson, in a disarmingly nimble, fast break performance, makes Nick's new hyperempathy look like the essence of virile panache.
  17. The Dinner Game
    Veteran French farceur Francis Veber proves that feature-length idiot humor is not limited to the Farrelly brothers.
  18. Pi
    The movie's freakazoid intensity gets to you, but there's something at once cramped and show-offy in Aronofsky's refusal to even slighty vary its atmosphere of shock-corridor burnout.
  19. American Movie
    A tacit auteur-to-auteur endorsement of the inalienable right to make movies--regardless of talent or sobriety or adult responsibilities--is what gives American Movie its uneasy kick.
  20. Varsity Blues
    The movie is also brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect.
  21. The Wood
    A genial story of friendship among three young African-American men that gets far on charm even when the cinema technique falters and stalls.
  22. S.W.A.T.
    Aware of its own cuteness because the dialogue plays by the rules of meta-entertainment.
  23. The Piano Teacher
    The audience for this grimly disquieting film is, or ought to be, self-selecting.
  24. Evolution
    Visually witty and even marvelous when it comes to depicting the spectacular creatures evolving at a speed previously known only in the Bible.
  25. Torque
    The movie is a guzzle of yahoo-Mountain Dew empty-calorie satisfaction: A quick blood-sugar high, an eyeful of bikes and bosoms, and you're out of the theater in 80 minutes. And on a bleak winter's day, that can be meal enough.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    sex, lies, and videotape
    Compulsively watchable.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Psycho
    The film is shot in color and includes an amped-up Danny Elfman version of Bernard Herrmann's haunting score.
  28. The Prince of Egypt
    Moses was elevating mankind to a place closer to God, but when the Red Sea parts here, the feeling it gives you isn't awe; it's closer to deep impact.
  29. Groove
    What's infectious about Groove is the friendly, almost innocent way that its brat pack of digital-age bohemians seek liberation in a world where there is nothing left to rebel against.
  30. The Horse Whisperer
    All the nuggets of spoken wisdom rattle around with a tad too much space and (at 2 1/2 hours plus) too much length.
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