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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. Wonderland
    In short, Wonderland is an extraordinary film, as entertaining as it is observant, about ordinary people.
    • Los Angeles Times
  2. The Wind Will Carry Us
    The impact of its finish has been dissipated by too much meandering along the way.
    • Los Angeles Times
  3. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Lays thick, goopy layers of uplift on what should be lighter on the heart and stomach.
  4. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    (To be) thoroughly enjoyed as a privileged look at one of the loopiest of late 20th century lives.
  5. 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.
  6. $pent
    Well-paced and solidly crafted.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Loser
    Formulaic new teen opus
  10. What Lies Beneath
    Feels more planned than passionate, scary at points but unconvincing overall.
  11. The In Crowd
    Trite and uninvolving.
  12. The Five Senses
    An elegant, deliberate film about loneliness and hope, connection and loss.
  13. Chuck & Buck
    Succeeds because it turns out not to be the movie it might so easily have been.
  14. 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.
  15. The Big Blue
    Besson's restored Big Blue proves mystical, intriguing.
  16. All the Rage
    Misfires badly as both an entertainment and a message movie.
  17. 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.
  18. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Works against its goals.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Shower
    Beguiling and poignant.
  22. 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.
  23. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Does go on too long, leading to inevitable dead spots.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. The Patriot
    Does benefit from Gibson's charisma...Whether it is quite good enough is another question.
  27. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    A mesmerizing, shimmering and amazingly successful adaptation of Time Regained.
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