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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. Mission to Mars
    It's a wonderful piece of filmmaking, but once any mouth is opened the magic is immediately tarnished.
  2. The Ninth Gate
    Lacking noticeable energy or drive, its almost visceral distaste for dramatic momentum is puzzling, especially in a film about the black arts.
  3. Condo Painting
    Has an edgy feel and a knockout soundtrack.
  4. The Next Best Thing
    A misguided romantic serio-comedy aimed at women and gay men that ends up caricaturing both.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's a nearly pitch-perfect melding of genres, influences and modes of expression--it's the first Mafia movie for the hip-hop age.
  6. Drowning Mona
    With a hilarious script and capable cast, the film puts a clever spin on the everyone-is-a-suspect plot.
  7. What Planet Are You From?
    Sporadically funny, often strange and almost never poignant.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    3 Strikes
    The bad news is that it's also vile, not to mention sophomoric and unfunny.
    • Los Angeles Times
  9. Judy Berlin
    A comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection.
  10. Brown's Requiem
    An uncommonly satisfying private-eye mystery that is at once classic in form and deeply personal in feeling.
  11. Mifune's Last Song
    A pow-in-the-kisser kind of movie.
  12. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    A wonder several times over.
  13. Reindeer Games
    Its twisty film noir world of down-on-their-luck men and unfathomable women is vintage B-picture material, but, in the grand B tradition, the games it plays are more ambitious than successful.
  14. The Closer You Get
    A droll, hearty Irish comedy with a serious undertow all the more effective for its unexpected candor and depth.
  15. Wonder Boys
    A handsomely mounted, graceful production that is well-played across the board.
  16. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Aviva Kempner's warm and intelligent mash note to a man who clearly deserved it.
    • Los Angeles Times
  17. Beautiful People
    Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Boiler Room
    Tries to make larger points, but it trips over itself just trying to make the small ones.
  19. Hanging Up
    All the ingredients of a success--a stellar cast, a promising premise, a strong production team--but nothing comes together in satisfying fashion.
  20. The Whole Nine Yards
    A peppy affair that works in fits and starts but is unable to put its successful moments together in any consistently satisfying way.
  21. Not One Less
    Has a warmth and sweetness that is especially hard to resist.
  22. Pitch Black
    A routine sci-fi/horror action-adventure, takes us where we've been countless times before.
  23. Cotton Mary
    Not only is it Merchant's best directorial effort to date but also is among the finest films the Merchant Ivory company has ever made.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    Isn't for teens, it's for the kids who aspire to be teens.
  25. The Tigger Movie
    Parents and older siblings...may grow impatient with the uneven execution that weakens the genuine charm the film sporadically exhibits.
  26. The Beach
    As (DiCaprio's) character heads for The Beach's predictable heart of darkness denouement, only die-hard fans will have the heart to tag along.
  27. Knockout
    This story of an East L.A. Latina determined to follow in her father's footsteps to the boxing ring does pack a punch.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gun Shy
    What use is journeyman acting, quality set design and a kicky, eclectic score in a movie that's so ineptly scripted?
  29. Scream 3
    Genuinely scary and also highly amusing.
  30. The Cup
    Charming, slyly comic and far from conventionally religious.
    • Los Angeles Times
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