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For 16,523 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 2.3 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: 8,698 out of 16523
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16523
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16523
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  1. Pearl Harbor
    The film's immense cast and crew, headed by director Michael Bay, writer Randall Wallace and stars Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale, blend artistry and technology to create a blockbuster entertainment that has passion, valor and tremendous action.
  2. Our Song
    This modest film has virtues that come out of nowhere. It takes familiar material and develops it with such tact and skill that we find ourselves moved and sort of amazed at the same time.
  3. Fast Food Fast Women
    An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense.
  4. Angel Eyes
    Adds up to a carefully crafted romantic drama of considerable insight and emotional impact that provides Lopez an acting challenge she meets with ease.
  5. Moulin Rouge!
    You can go with it or resist it, be exhilarated or worn out. But forgetting the experience is not one of your options.
  6. Shrek
    This fractured fairy tale not only knows there's no substitute for clever writing, it also has the confidence to take that information straight to the bank.
  7. Sordid Lives
    Has its moments here and there, but not nearly enough of them to add up to a satisfying movie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Startup.com
    Nimbly documents the rise and fall of a Web company through its charismatic leaders.
  9. The King Is Alive
    Stylish and gritty, The King Is Alive lacks the impact of revelation that might have made the journey worth taking.
  10. The Trumpet of the Swan
    Nothing quite works about The Trumpet of the Swan, one of those animated films that make you realize how hard it is to strike the right tone for a family film.
  11. Bread and Roses
    Bread and Roses" hits home when one of Maya's co-workers observes, "When we put on uniforms, we become invisible." It's a truth as uncomfortable as it is undeniable.
  12. A Knight's Tale
    As advertised, A Knight's Tale does try to rock you. The problem is, it doesn't rock you nearly enough.
  13. About Adam
    A sly romantic comedy made with wit and style.
  14. Pavilion of Women
    Can never rise above the melodrama of a past era, despite a splendid, impassioned portrayal by Willem Dafoe and an affecting one by Luo Yan.
  15. Under the Sand
    Requires careful attention at its abrupt finish. Close concentration on the final shots yields a meaning not possible should a viewer's attention wander or turn away a few moments too soon.
  16. Nora
    The filmmakers' special triumph lies in the inspired way that in the nick of time it draws its story to a close, with Nora and Joyce struggling toward a new level of understanding.
  17. Eureka
    To watch this film, in short, can be a transforming experience.
  18. Time and Tide
    Visually, the film is a stunner with its impossibly mobile camera work. It is also all but impossible to hold on to the story line.
  19. The Mummy Returns
    Both pleasantly old-fashioned and packed with up-to-date computer-generated special effects, the film's constant plot turns, cheeky sensibility and omnipresent action sequences have no trouble attracting our attention and holding on.
  20. Ed Gein
    At times awkward and under-inspired, creating a question as to whether so gloomy and repugnant a tale was worth telling simply for its own sake.
  21. Deuces Wild
    Skip it. Just fill in the blanks and you too can brew the same bland, goopy mixture, right down to such clunker lines as "There is a Santa Claus, Ma. He just doesn't come to Brooklyn anymore."
  22. Green Dragon
    A gracious, eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost.
  23. One Night at McCool's
    One Night at McCool's is one night too much.
  24. Driven
    Harlin's skill compensates for a lot of narrative preposterousness, even it is overmatched this time around.
  25. The Golden Bowl
    Yet another Merchant Ivory triumph.
  26. Town & Country
    Seems merely tired and stale, the opposite of fresh, marked by ideas for jokes rather than things that are actually funny. Then, without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye.
  27. The Luzhin Defence
    Carefully made, involving and old-fashioned, the superior work it's inspired gives it an impact that lingers even when the endgame is over.
  28. The Low Down
    Thraves is skillful at evoking mood and atmosphere and at depicting transitional periods in a person's life with a mildly wistful humor.
  29. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Hidden Wars is less dependent on talking heads than "Plan Colombia" and has the advantage of distance from some of the key events.
  30. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Where there was a modicum of charm to Mick Dundee's earliest exploits in New York City, the joke has withered as markedly as Hogan's face.
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