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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. The Amati Girls
    The cast, which includes Cloris Leachman as the sisters' mother and Paul Sorvino, Jamey Sheridan and Mark Harmon as their various men, emote like pros, even as they deplete any audience goodwill left over from past triumphs.
  2. Snatch.
    It all feels rather laddish and belabored, but it will eat up 90 minutes of your time without making you regret the loss.
  3. Panic
    Enigmas make Panic involving, and suspenseful.
  4. Double Take
    An ostensible action-comedy that can't seem to get either side of its genre equation right.
  5. Save the Last Dance
    It's pretty good, really.
  6. Antitrust
    As a film, it essentially bites.
  7. The Claim
    A superb film by any measure, as deep and harsh as the sin Dillon committed to become great.
  8. Chunhyangdyun
    The film is unabashedly sexy, and its heady romanticism feels as right and as unaffected as Im's bold use of color and his equally bold decision to tell the story through traditional pansori narration.
  9. Shadow of the Vampire
    Malkovich and Dafoe play off each other with a devilish hamminess.
  10. Traffic
    His (Soderbergh's) work has taken on echoes of a classier, bygone age of cinema, at once more literate and lighthearted.
  11. Thirteen Days
    A refreshing breakaway from both idolatry and cynicism.
  12. Vatel
    While the filmmakers are not above corset-drama bed-hopping and back-stabbing, it's delicious when the beds and backs belong to Uma Thurman, Tim Roth and Julian Sands.
  13. The House of Mirth
    Has a marvelous, pent-up passion.
  14. Cast Away
    Solid and inspiring will do nicely for Christmas, but it ought not to be good enough for the Oscar nominations that will almost certainly rain upon this movie's adequate head.
  15. Dracula 2000
    Although it's not half bad -- which doesn't mean it's half good -- this horror cheapie comes equipped with a few ideas, a little atmosphere and a couple of serviceable scares.
  16. The Family Man
    Has the airiness of a well-made souffle, springing delicate small surprises at calibrated intervals.
  17. The Gift
    Here, it's the creepily quiet stuff, the stuff that might be rushed over in a different movie -- Annie shivering alone in bed or being visited by her dead grandmother as she hangs out the wash -- that makes the film more than a generic distraction.
  18. What Women Want
    Narrow definitions of femininity limit the comedy and the romance.
  19. The Visit
    Performances that are natural yet weighted with history and frequently heart-wrenching.
  20. Pollock
    What Harris extracts from himself is nothing less than a psychological nude scene, sustained across two hours.
  21. Dude, Where's My Car?
    A film where everyone -- white, black, gay or otherwise -- is equally, lovably dumb.
  22. The Emperor's New Groove
    Plotwise, the movie's groove is more like a well-worn rut. Visually, too, the movie looks half-recycled.
  23. Chocolat
    While there are scenes of wrenching emotional openness and spontaneous charm -- largely due to the irresistible allure and impeccable craft of its ensemble cast -- the degree of calculation apparent in its plot and images undermines its efforts to move and seduce.
  24. South of Heaven, West of Hell
    Oxymoronic musings of a vain country singer.
  25. Vertical Limit
    A thriller that, at its best, has the gooney absurdity of an old Saturday-afternoon movie serial.
  26. Proof of Life
    Exactly the sort of good bad movie that Hollywood does best -- it's big, worthless fun.
  27. Strippers
    That clunky, God-awful bit of exposition-heavy dialogue perfectly encapsulates all that's wrong with this dismal film.
  28. Dungeons & Dragons
    A cheap "Star Wars" rip-off with swords instead of light sabers.
  29. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Has the sprawling canvas of an epic and the emotional heat of classical melodrama.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Poor White Trash
    Essentially a single-gag movie: Namely, trailer trash are funny; we laugh at their bad taste and social ineptitude.
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