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For 16,532 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,702 out of 16532
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16532
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16532
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  1. The Opportunists
    A small gem.
  2. Aimee & Jaguar
    With key scenes so vivid they barely feel scripted, this is more than a same-sex success, it's a most affecting, most sensual on-screen love affair, period.
  3. An Affair of Love
    A film as romantic as its title.
  4. Bless the Child
    Lapses into an exercise in foolishness.
  5. Cecil B. DeMented
    A fast, furious and funny fusillade of a movie.
  6. The Replacements
    A haphazard film about half as sophisticated as the average beer commercial.
  7. The Tao of Steve
    A constant, idiosyncratic pleasure that leaves us eager to see what the Goodmans and Logue will do next.
  8. The Tic Code
    Starts out self-consciously but gets better as it goes along, winding up as affecting as it is illuminating.
  9. Saving Grace
    It makes you giggle. That's the dark, dirty secret. You giggle. You giggle again.
  10. Psycho Beach Party
    Psycho Beach Party is, from the start, in dire need of the electroshock therapy that Florence ultimately undergoes.
  11. Coyote Ugly
    A bad movie for connoisseurs of the genre.
  12. Hollow Man
    Despite a wealth of special effects...this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level.
  13. Space Cowboys
    This is a mostly genial film that gets as much mileage as it can out of the undeniable charisma of its stars.
  14. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    The thrill is definitely gone, leaving a disappointing and unpleasant mess in its place.
  15. Girl on the Bridge
    Locale is crucial here, and Monte Carlo, Athens and Istanbul are a wonderful trio of cities for glamorous romance, intrigue and danger--and they could not seem more richly atmospheric with Dreujou's lush camerawork.
  16. Wonderland
    In short, Wonderland is an extraordinary film, as entertaining as it is observant, about ordinary people.
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  17. The Wind Will Carry Us
    The impact of its finish has been dissipated by too much meandering along the way.
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  18. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Lays thick, goopy layers of uplift on what should be lighter on the heart and stomach.
  19. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    (To be) thoroughly enjoyed as a privileged look at one of the loopiest of late 20th century lives.
  20. Benjamin Smoke
    There's such a rawness, purity and even mystical force to everything Benjamin says or sings, that anything else would seem extraneous and detracting from the impact of a man who has lived his life with absolutely no holds barred.
  21. $pent
    Well-paced and solidly crafted.
  22. Rififi (re-release)
    One of the great crime thrillers, the benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against, it's no musty museum piece but a driving, compelling piece of work, redolent of the air of human frailty and fatalistic doom.
  23. Alice et Martin
    Boldly structured, intensely focused and briskly paced, Alice and Martin has a tremendous emotional density that places the utmost demands upon its actors--and asks a lot of audiences, too.
  24. Loser
    Formulaic new teen opus
  25. What Lies Beneath
    Feels more planned than passionate, scary at points but unconvincing overall.
  26. The In Crowd
    Trite and uninvolving.
  27. The Five Senses
    An elegant, deliberate film about loneliness and hope, connection and loss.
  28. Chuck & Buck
    Succeeds because it turns out not to be the movie it might so easily have been.
  29. X-Men
    While X-Men doesn't take your breath away wire-to-wire the way "The Matrix" did, it's an accomplished piece of work with considerable pulp watchability to it.
  30. The Big Blue
    Besson's restored Big Blue proves mystical, intriguing.
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