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For 16,520 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 16520
  2. Mixed: 5,806 out of 16520
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16520
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  1. Sleepy Hollow
    More creepy and flesh-crawling than overwhelmingly gory, it nevertheless takes pride in characters who get splattered with blood as often as take-out fries get doused with catsup.
  2. 42: Forty Two Up
    Time is truly on Apted's side because the passing of time not surprisingly brings a richer, deeper perspective with each new segment.
  3. Mansfield Park
    It's an interesting take, and it always holds our interest, but it's finally too ham-fisted to be a completely winning one.
  4. Liberty Heights
    A mature, accomplished piece of work, both funny and deeply felt, personal cinema of the best kind...Levinson has made the memory film we always hoped he would.
  5. Anywhere But Here
    While adapting accomplished fiction such as this is a lure Hollywood can never resist, some characters breathe better on the page, and that is the case here.
  6. The Hungry Bachelors Club
    An undernourished romantic comedy-drama that's especially short on that most essential ingredient: credibility.
  7. Where's Marlowe?
    The droll cast--especially Ferrer, who's exquisite as a tough-talking dunce--deserved something more fully realized than this.
  8. Felicia's Journey
    One of the year's riskiest yet most effective films.
  9. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Blends great cinematic energy with an awkwardly mixed multinational cast and aggressively over-modernized dialogue.
  10. Dogma
    A raucous, profane but surprisingly endearing piece of work.
  11. Light It Up
    A hostage drama, cliches intact, is what we get.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Pokémon isn't even good animation, unless the standard of measure is the crude LCD graphics of a Game Boy.
  13. A Moment of Innocence
    Finds the impassioned Makhmalbaf in a more contemplative, even whimsical, mood than usual.
  14. Rosetta
    Grabs you by the throat and won't let go.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    A flat-footed film.
  16. Train of Life
    Too much of the film is not inspired enough in its humor to overcome the queasy feeling that comes from watching a comedy-adventure involving Jews during the Holocaust.
  17. American Movie
    Although overly long at 107 minutes, American Movie is an incisive, largely absorbing work and a far more mature effort than Smith's "American Job."
  18. The Bone Collector
    A tribute to old-fashioned craftsmanship and skill both on and off the screen, it's as crisp and efficient as its law enforcement protagonists, able to make the best of its traditional genre elements.
  19. The Insider
    A dead-on tale of corporate power, courage, cowardice and how we live.
  20. Last Night
    A mordantly funny and shrewdly understated millennial fantasy.
  21. The Suburbans
    Goes into a tailspin after its impressive setup. Its dramatic tactics become so tangled and diffuse that, by the end, you get the feeling that everything gets tied up too hastily.
  22. Terror Firmer
    More entrails, more bare bosoms, more R-rated sex, more flatulence, more mayhem, more brutality and more violence. But it adds up to less and less.
  23. Beefcake
    An illuminating and engrossing look at the life and times of pioneer Los Angeles physique photographer Bob Mizer
  24. Music of the Heart
    A lot of heart and a lot of music. It just doesn't sing.
  25. The Legend of 1900
    Tantalizingly structured to intrigue us right from the start.
  26. Speaking in Strings
    An extraordinarily intimate, deeply affecting and revelatory documentary on how pain and passion can come together in a creative artist.
  27. Princess Mononoke
    Amore satisfying use of the medium would be difficult to imagine.
  28. Being John Malkovich
    A clever and outrageous piece of whimsical fantasy that is unique, unpredictable and more than a little strange.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    House on Haunted Hill
    Soon enough, it becomes clear how much this movie disrespects both the audience and the genre.
  30. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    A beautifully articulated and acutely perceptive work with impeccable, carefully shaded performances.
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