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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    American Pimp
    Credit the Hugheses for plunging headfirst into a deeply taboo topic, but they're doing it for the wrong reasons and thus playing into the worst of public stereotypes, namely that all black men are hustlers.
  2. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Written in 60 Seconds would be a more appropriate title.
  3. Running Free
    Let horses be horses, scrap the tin-eared Lukas Haas narration.
  4. Grass
    Aims for crowd-pleasing impact over subtlety. But it's still a welcome corrective to the current "zero tolerance" fad.
  5. Big Momma's House
    Yo momma so fat, when she gets in an elevator, it has to go down. Had enough?
  6. Shanghai Noon
    A modest pleasure, driven by a jumble of Old West signifiers and goofball modern flourishes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Better Living Through Circuitry
    Succeeds in articulating the fluid values and constituent parts of the "culture" even as that culture's subjects are at best mildly articulate.
  8. Passion of Mind
    It's hard to imagine a movie at once more pandering and insulting to adult women
  9. Kikujirô no natsu
    Ends up a flabby vehicle for the most banal of road-movie messages: The journey's the thing; the goal inevitably disappoints.
  10. 8 ½ Women
    As powerfully as the film lingers in the mind, one can't help wishing he were led just a bit more by his heart.
  11. Mission: Impossible II
    Every car chase, every plane crash, every potential drop off a cliff is a masterpiece of grace and surprise.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dinosaur
    There are plenty of gorgeous real-life vistas for adults to look at while stuffing popcorn in their ears to avoid the oversignifyin' music and the hurtin' dialogue.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Why 3-D?
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luminous Motion
    The elegant gambol through ideas, combined with Gordon's clear love of luminous motion -- literally -- is a welcome treat.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Small Time Crooks
    Small Time Crooks is definitely minor Allen that, nevertheless, offers a welcome riposte to the current national obsession with getting rich.
  16. Road Trip
    Genially moronic, Road Trip will tide you over until the next slice of "American Pie" comes along.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Held Up
    It looks like the film is angling for a "Northern Exposure" reunion, except with none of the regional eccentricity.
  18. Kadosh
    This unusually classical story from experimental Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai flows along, suffused in a quiet beauty flecked with sober foreboding.
  19. Center Stage
    Has next to no story beyond some stock clichés about bulimia, stage mothers and internal affairs in the corps de ballet.
  20. Screwed
    Miraculously seems a great deal longer (this is not a good thing) as it careens from shit joke to corpse joke to ass joke to dog-turd joke and back.
  21. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A stinker.
  22. Coming Soon
    Like oversolicitous lovers, the filmmakers are hung up on foreplay -- and not enough old-fashioned teenage raunch.
  23. Hamlet
    Cast for fun, and the whimsy is enjoyable both for its parody of heavy-handed "relevant" updates of the play.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Human Traffic
    Turns into a driving soundtrack accompanied by a film.
  25. La Nouvelle Ève
    Corsini's insight into the psyche of this contemporary woman doesn't have much of a point because it tells us nothing new.
  26. Up at the Villa
    Impressive supporting cast---, in character parts both expanded and invented, enrich the enterprise.
  27. I Dreamed of Africa
    There's little room for Kuki to evolve into anything approaching an actual character, and it would take an actress far greater than Basinger, who gives it her all, to make something of the role.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Michael Jordan to the Max
    Ultimately, it's as vapid as (Michael Jordan's) perfume and as disposable as a pair of his Hanes.
  29. The Basket
    Well-acted, briskly paced and prettily photographed, the film is a mild-mannered family story with a caring heart, and that's ultimately enough to make its 104 minutes worthwhile.
  30. Gladiator
    Filled with brilliant filmmaking and features outstanding performances, but it's neither profound enough nor pop enough to be great -- it's mournful, serious, beautiful and, finally, pointless.
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