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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. Rush Hour 2
    The best parts of the movie occur during the outtakes, which are genuinely funny. The movie proper is insufferable.
  2. The Princess Diaries
    The director is Garry Marshall, but The Princess Diaries is no where near as nauseating a fairy tale as Marshall's "Pretty Woman."
  3. Apocalypse Now Redux
    To look at Apocalypse Now is to realize that most of us are fast forgetting what a movie looks like -- a real movie, the last movie, an American masterpiece.
  4. Planet of the Apes
    Overly familiar industrial product, a big-budgeted entertainment defined by its putatively big concept (apes rule), an underwritten script and a few flashes of Burton's visual genius and gently askew worldview.
  5. The Monkey's Mask
    What makes the film compelling is the filmmakers' ability to blend a studied (occasionally academic) dissection of cultural and sexual decadence with a potboiler plot.
  6. Bread and Tulips
    Maglietta, whose soulful countenance and offhand grace are soothing to behold, and Ganz, who says more with a shrug and sigh than most poets do with a sonnet.
  7. Cure
    Less outright terrifying than under-the-skin shivery, this psychological thriller from sui generis Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa breaks nearly all the rules -- including those of narrative logic.
  8. Jackpot
    The mood is hermetic to the point of claustrophobia, embellished with a sense of everyday surrealism indebted to David Lynch.
  9. Wet Hot American Summer
    Like, you know, genius. But, like, you know, why?
  10. Greenfingers
    Ingratiating trifle.
  11. Reykjavík
    First-time director Baltasar Kormakur -- balances tones with a smooth, mature confidence.
  12. Brother
    Brother is a solid return to gangster form for Kitano, who knows how to transcend the most overly familiar genre clichés without betraying the rules of engagement.
  13. America's Sweethearts
    The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal.
  14. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    Mitchell retools his play magnificently, opening it up into a vibrant cinematic work.
  15. Ghost World
    Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.
  16. Jurassic Park III
    More of the same -- only less so.
  17. Downtown 81
    Poignant, funny, and proof of Basquiat's magic.
  18. The Score
    You begin to wonder whether a story is ever going to show up. When it does, it's worth the wait for a long and well-turned set piece coordinating the heist, and two lovely flips in the plot.
  19. Made
    Made may look like a Wong Kar-Wai movie -- the cinematographer, Chris Doyle, has brought to the film the dark, rich romanticism of the movies he's shot for the Hong Kong prodigy -- but the sensibility is Woody Allen, only sweeter.
  20. Legally Blonde
    With her ductile physicality and undeniable charm, Witherspoon remains acutely present even when everyone else -- director, writers and cast -- has checked out.
  21. Bully
    The film's start-and-go rhythm can be as maddening as the characters' amorality and sheer wallowing stupidity, but Clark has an uncanny talent for putting atmosphere on celluloid.
  22. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    A soulless affair.
  23. Everybody's Famous!
    The one saving grace is a sweet, affecting performance by Werner de Smedt.
  24. Kiss of the Dragon
    The inventive, often comically horrible fight set pieces will have you standing on your seat cheering like a Viking, and the result is a supremely kinetic and amusing guilty pleasure.
  25. Lost and Delirious
    Blessed with a lovely score and strong acting, but crippled by an awkward, mawkish script.
  26. Jump Tomorrow
    One of the sweetest comedies in a long time, which doesn't mean it's sugary or fey.
  27. Cats & Dogs
    Plays cleverly to adults, but will fly straight over the heads of minors, who have little but a lone fart joke and wave upon wave of flying fur to keep them laughing.
  28. Scary Movie 2
    The Wayanses can be crude beyond crude, but they're so clever that their inventiveness takes the place of taste.
  29. The Crimson Rivers
    Never lets up: A door can't shut without sounding like a bomb going off; mutilated bodies show up with clockwork punctuality, gratuitously underscored by a relentlessly overbearing soundtrack.
  30. Pandaemonium
    Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.
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