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For 16,550 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Downtown 81
    Its bygone-ness still abuzz with creativity and movement, Downtown 81 is a celluloid scrapbook that we can all be thankful for in helping capture the rumble before takeoff.
  2. Made
    Favreau, who wrote "Swingers," has now directed and written the hilarious Made, which re-teams him with Vaughn. The two play off each other so well that they recall fond memories of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
  3. Legally Blonde
    Guilty of squandering resources. Amusing as it goes about setting up its premise, in Witherspoon, the gifted veteran of "Election" and "Pleasantville," it has an actress willing to throw herself completely into the part to excellent effect.
  4. Bully
    Whatever his intentions, Clark, in his third outing as a director, has come up with a film that is seriously flawed.
  5. The Score
    A top-drawer heist movie that ratchets up the tension inch by careful inch, The Score will remind you of classic caper films of the past, and that is a good thing.
  6. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    The film's plot gets so convoluted no nongamer older than 14 will be able to follow it all.
  7. Everybody's Famous!
    Hearty mainstream comedy with a sharp satirical edge balanced with just enough sentimentality to send audiences home happy.
  8. Kiss of the Dragon
    The non-fighting parts of Kiss of the Dragon are, despite the presence of co-star Bridget Fonda, completely non-compelling. It's a proud convention in films like this for fans to mark time during exposition, waiting patiently for the action to start up again, and Kiss is very much in that tradition.
  9. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    A wholly enveloping experience. Gentle, ravishingly beautiful and awash in everyday sensuality, it so intoxicates you with the elegance and refinement of its filmmaking that even noticing, let alone caring, whether it has a plot starts to seem beside the point.
  10. Lost and Delirious
    Will divide audiences between those whose hearts have been tugged into going along with the picture way past common sense and those who find it impossible to accept the film's credibility-defying developments.
  11. Jump Tomorrow
    Many try but few succeed as well as writer-director Joel Hopkins with his beguiling first feature, Jump Tomorrow, in giving a fresh spin to '30s screwball comedy.
  12. Cats & Dogs
    Irritating, childish and more frantic than funny, Cats & Dogs does manage some few pleasant moments, but they are not worth waiting for.
  13. Scary Movie 2
    All-out burlesque rather than spoof from the outset, the film becomes less and less amusing. Wayans has a wild zaniness that can be hilarious, but how many bodily function jokes, ultra-crude sexual innuendoes and quite a lot of men and women simply punching each other out can one movie endure?
  14. The Closet
    Veber, also responsible for "The Dinner Game," apparently has a finger on the pulse of French audiences and Gallic-minded Americans, but there's just not a lot of freshness in this Closet.
  15. Pandaemonium
    It's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess.
  16. The Crimson Rivers
    Not even the strong, reflective, world-weary presence of Reno or Cassel's energy can make a dent in a movie in which suspense and tension dissipate quickly, with action sequences not spectacular enough to compensate. All that's left is gratuitous gore.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pootie Tang
    Too often is as garbled as Pootie's own jargon.
  18. Crazy/Beautiful
    Very much of a guilty pleasure. A nifty piece of teenage romantic piffle, it combines two strong and attractive performances.
  19. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    The skill involved holds us in our seats, the project's inability to transcend its built-in limitations keep it from achieving the kind of overarching impact it is after.
  20. Come Undone
    Brings maximum subtlety, nuance and insight into the timeless story of first love.
  21. Lumumba
    Lumumba is potent stuff. Complex, powerful, intensely dramatic.
  22. Baby Boy
    At once too neat and too messy, but films like this are too rare to leave it at that. Ragged but ambitious, it retains a core of genuine emotion -- this picture is doing the best it can, and although that may not be everything, it ought to count for something.
  23. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    Offers a violent but compelling vision of what an animated feature can be.
  24. The Princess and the Warrior
    A heady yet disciplined work, a dazzling fable of love, destiny and redemption.
  25. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Its successful moments (and they are only moments) remind us that this is a squandered opportunity.
  26. The Fast and the Furious
    The result is an intensely involving entertainment that can be enjoyed by viewers who scarcely know how their own cars work.
  27. Chain Camera
    On the whole, Chain Camera is encouraging.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Huey P. Newton Story
    Lee and his top-notch production staff employ camera wizardry and lighting techniques to evocative effect, yet manage to never take away from Smith’s performance.
  29. Life and Debt
    The damning commentary and revelations about the perils of globalization, not just for Jamaica but developing countries the world over, do come across loud and clear.
  30. The Adventures of Felix
    An odyssey of self-discovery of much charm, humor and admirable subtlety.
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