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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. All the Rage
    Misfires badly as both an entertainment and a message movie.
  2. I'm the One That I Want
    Identifying herself with other minorities (whose members she mimics outrageously), Cho shatters racial and sexual stereotypes with merciless wit.
  3. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Works against its goals.
  4. The Kid
    A movie we might like to buy into if left to our own devices, but that idea is anathema to Turteltaub, intent on pushing us so hard that we end up pushing back.
  5. Scary Movie
    While undeniably silly and violent in a cartoon-like manner, is by and large a hilarious skewering of the clichés of teen pix.
  6. Shower
    Beguiling and poignant.
  7. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    With her unblinking but nonjudgmental eye, Spheeris doesn't shy away from the horrifying, at times violent messes these kids make of their lives, but she is always sensitive to the pain behind everything, to the unhappy futility of squandered potential.
  8. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Does go on too long, leading to inevitable dead spots.
  9. The Perfect Storm
    Has noticeable problems with characterization and dialogue. But once that awesome storm, one of the most terrifying ever put on film, gets cranked up, it's hard to remember what those difficulties were, let alone care too much about them.
  10. Trixie
    So much of the film is so funny, inspired and sophisticated, the performances so richly nuanced, that many viewers, Rudolph admirers in particular, will be inclined to forgive a little self-indulgence on the part of this authentic auteur.
  11. The Patriot
    Does benefit from Gibson's charisma...Whether it is quite good enough is another question.
  12. Me, Myself & Irene
    As the Farrellys have proved, tastelessness can be made palatable, but they've misfired with Me, Myself & Irene.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Praise
    A lovely piece of movie making: precisely controlled but with a lived-in scruffiness.
  14. Chicken Run
    Never loses its priceless stamp of individuality. Reduced to its essence, this is a joke told by a person, not a corporation--and that makes all the difference.
  15. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    A mesmerizing, shimmering and amazingly successful adaptation of Time Regained.
  16. Titan A.E.
    It's not the story that's the story here, it' the film' bravura visual look.
  17. Shaft
    The main thing the new Shaft gets right is casting for the title role. It's too bad the rest of the film doesn't hold your attention the way he does.
  18. Boys and Girls
    A likably thoughtful romantic comedy.
  19. Butterfly Tongues
    A beautiful, harrowing film of understated power and perception that affords Fernando Fernán Gómez, the Spanish cinema's great, weathered veteran, yet another of his unforgettable performances.
  20. Humanité
    A film of stunning impact.
  21. Jesus' Son
    In a sea of one-note symphonies, this touching feature is bleak and comic, heartbreaking and affirmative, romantic and tragic, gimlet-eyed and sympathetic, all at the same time.
  22. The Woman Chaser
    Very much a first film, but a venturesome start for Devor as well as a splendid launch for Warburton.
  23. Pop & Me
    A documentary made with rigor, humor and no small amount of honest emotion.
  24. Love's Labour's Lost
    It ought to be delightful, but it isn't.
  25. Groove
    There's not enough sustained musical momentum to simulate the energy of an actual rave; the characters are likable but unremarkable.
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  26. Sunshine
    It is a superb period re-creation and boasts a formidable international cast.... It is nevertheless absorbing and illuminating in regard to the eras its spans but is also pretty wearying by the time it starts winding down.
  27. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    It has a tendency to run ragged and spends an unhealthy amount of time idling pointlessly at intersections.
  28. American Pimp
    The dehumanizing aspect of pimping is what's scariest about the Hughes brothers' investigation--so powerful the filmmakers realize they need only to record it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Big Momma's House
    If you think that Martin Lawrence dressed up as a hefty grandmother is funny, be gone with you .For the rest of you, you'd be better off just taking a ride on the bus. The script.. .is off and stumbling over unfunny one-liners.
    • Los Angeles Times
  30. Running Free
    A stunner marred by its central figure, a colt named Lucky, having been voiced (by Lukas Haas). Piovani's score is lyrical and emotionally charged, and it goes a long way toward negating the effects of the voice-over narration we're asked to accept.
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