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For 16,522 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: 8,697 out of 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. The Tigger Movie
    Parents and older siblings...may grow impatient with the uneven execution that weakens the genuine charm the film sporadically exhibits.
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
  5. Scream 3
    Genuinely scary and also highly amusing.
  6. The Cup
    Charming, slyly comic and far from conventionally religious.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Eye of the Beholder
    It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Grizzly Falls
    Cinematographer Thom Best never captures the glory of the Canadian Rockies, and the uncredited editing is jarring and unconvincing in key action sequences.
    • Los Angeles Times
  9. Isn't She Great
    Ah, what glorious casting!
    • Los Angeles Times
  10. Santitos
    Has the same kind of humor, charm and sensuality that made "Like Water for Chocolate" the most popular foreign-language film until "Life Is Beautiful" came along.
  11. The Big Tease
    A cheerful and smart mock documentary about hairdressing and Hollywood that knows enough not to take itself too seriously.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
    Richly imagined, gracefully written and delicately realized. [10 Mar 2001, p.F15]
    • Los Angeles Times
  13. Down to You
    The best the makers of Down to You can hope for is that girls in their early teens--clearly the film's target audience--will be so carried away by its charismatic stars that they'll overlook the film's various flaws.
    • Los Angeles Times
  14. Wirey Spindell
    May be too heady for some tastes but can stir you deeply, if you're open to it.
  15. Supernova
    Supernova isn't so super.
  16. My Dog Skip
    A standard-issue Hollywood family film about a boy and his dog growing up in a Southern small town during World War II.
  17. Next Friday
    There is plenty of nasty patter and aimless jokes about hard-core sex, soft-core drugs, dog feces and flatulence to keep you occupied while you wait, in vain, for any reason to laugh out loud.
  18. Fantasia 2000
    Grainy as it looks in its massive Imax blowup, Mickey's misadventures with water and a broom still have the kind of magic even modern technology can't always manage.
  19. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
    An exciting, upbeat film, but not a very impressive example of the animator's art. [01 Feb 1989, p.8]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Close-Up
    Close-Up is perhaps the emblematic work of the so-called Iranian New Wave, summing up its methods and preoccupations and also bringing together two of its key figures, Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
  21. The Hurricane
    With power, intensity, remarkable range and an ability to disturb that is both unnerving and electric, it is more than Washington's most impressive part.
  22. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Mr. Death, which is shot through with one dark absurdity after another, emerges as a cautionary tale if ever there was one.
  23. The Third Miracle
    Has the gritty, intimate feel of an Eastern European film--and packs the power of a genuine revelation.
  24. Play It to the Bone
    A wonderfully entertaining, raunchy, hilarious and savage foray into the lives of a couple of beat-up middle-weight boxers who get a second chance.
  25. Titus
    More travesty than tragedy.
  26. Galaxy Quest
    Fast, light and funny, Galaxy Quest has a wide, generation-spanning appeal--and you don't have to be a die-hard Trekkie to enjoy it.
  27. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    A beautifully mounted and directed film that, despite the presence of Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow, is unexpectedly lacking in emotional impact.
  28. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Has to fight to hold our attention and it doesn't always succeed.
  29. Angela's Ashes
    If this beautifully made if flawed film sends people back to his book, it will have done good work for sure.
  30. Any Given Sunday
    This energetic and diverting sports soap opera throws a few head fakes in the direction of an iconoclastic examination of the dark side of professional football.
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