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For 4,219 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Radio Days
Lowest review score: 0 Teen Wolf Too
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,423 out of 4219
  2. Mixed: 1,074 out of 4219
  3. Negative: 722 out of 4219
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  1. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Documentary of riveting personal stories.
    • Miami Herald
  2. Bait
    A competent but not extraordinary action-comedy.
    • Miami Herald
  3. Duets
    Simply creaks with contrivance -- particularly in its overwrought finale.
    • Miami Herald
  4. Paragraph 175
    It's an eye opener to how quickly a society can switch from being open and tolerant to pointing fingers -- and worse -- at those deemed different.
    • Miami Herald
  5. Almost Famous
    A rich, marvelous movie -- the kind that enchants on so many different levels, it leaves you feeling giddy.
    • Miami Herald
  6. The Way of the Gun
    Sporadically engrossing in a pulpy kind of way.
  7. Nurse Betty
    It feels like three movies stitched together.
  8. Solas
    Digs deep into the roots of female fortitude.
  9. The Watcher
    A shockingly, unbelievably bad movie.
  10. Turn It Up
    This misguided gangster rap movie had every strike against it from the start.
  11. The Art of War
    Silly, overplotted conspiracy thriller.
    • Miami Herald
  12. Bring It On
    A movie of marginal ambition and multiple cute young faces.
    • Miami Herald
  13. Solomon & Gaenor
    Bogs down in a deep muck of inevitability.
  14. Orfeu
    It's the slum, the favela, that emerges as Orfeu's most compelling character -- criminally poor yet rich in life.
    • Miami Herald
  15. Love & Sex
    Isn't riveting, but it's diverting enough.
  16. The Crew
    Amiable, sporadically amusing farce.
    • Miami Herald
  17. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    A long overdue look at the man's art and an unself-pitying and unsparing exploration of her (his daughter's) relationship with him.
    • Miami Herald
  18. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Exuberant, often hilarious.
  19. The Cell
    A high-tech freak show, a gallery of grotesqueries that are fascinating and repellent.
    • Miami Herald
  20. Bless the Child
    The whole thing's grotesque as a gargoyle and ugly as sin.
    • Miami Herald
  21. Cecil B. DeMented
    Shrill and sloppy film.
    • Miami Herald
  22. The Replacements
    So lazy and rote, it feels like a rerun the first time you watch it.
  23. The Opportunists
    The movie is small and familiar, but this time, those turn out to be strengths.
  24. Psycho Beach Party
    While there is archival value in permanently recording this work on celluloid, the best way to really enjoy it remains live on stage.
  25. Space Cowboys
    Enjoyably preposterous, old-guys-are-cool-too plot.
  26. Coyote Ugly
    The bar scenes do make for a great, although brief, package.
    • Miami Herald
  27. Hollow Man
    Turns resoundingly dumb in its last 40 minutes.
    • Miami Herald
  28. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Has some very funny moments, it is weighed down by gooey sentimentality.
  29. Girl on the Bridge
    As the sexual tension builds -- and it becomes intense, culminating in a highly suggestive knife-throwing scene more erotic than if the actors had been having explicit physical contact -- Girl takes you on a thrilling ride.
    • Miami Herald
  30. Wonderland
    There's enough here to make anyone who enjoyed -- if that's the right word -- "Happiness" or "Magnolia" splendidly unhappy.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Skip the movie and pick up the videos at Toys R Us.
  32. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    But even if the film is short on analysis and skepticism, Tammy makes for a fascinating subject anyway.
    • Miami Herald
  33. Alice et Martin
    A mess, but a fascinating one.
    • Miami Herald
  34. What Lies Beneath
    An uncommonly playful fright machine -- a fun house factory of scares.
  35. The Five Senses
    It manages just to be pleasant.
    • Miami Herald
  36. X-Men
    The most enjoyable piece of pop fantasy of the summer; sleek, elegant, exciting and wildly, outrageously imaginative.
  37. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    Very French and at times threatens to dissolve into a steamy sex farce.
    • Miami Herald
  38. Chuck & Buck
    An oddity, but a remarkably intriguing and original one, and in Buck ... it also has the most unforgettable movie character of the year.
    • Miami Herald
  39. The Kid
    Deadly dull.
  40. I'm the One That I Want
    It's hard to connect with long minutes of self-pity by a temporarily has-been celebrity.
    • Miami Herald
  41. Shower
    Shower is also a comedy -- but it's the movie's melancholy streak that is its strongest asset.
  42. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Tedious and trite.
    • Miami Herald
  43. Scary Movie
    Does serve up an inspired gag every once in a while.
  44. The Perfect Storm
    The movie is "Twister" on the high seas, a spectacular-looking, spectacularly hollow tale about foolhardy men vs. imperious nature.
  45. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    The movie's attempts at zaniness are flat, almost embarrassing.
    • Miami Herald
  46. Trixie
    Every character is quirky, and each has a schtick.
  47. The Patriot
    It's big, exciting, ambitious, and it makes you cry in all the right places.
  48. Me, Myself & Irene
    Hilarious, but it isn't much of a movie.
    • Miami Herald
  49. Chicken Run
    The package is perfectly irresistible.
    • Miami Herald
  50. Titan A.E.
    Never feels like anything more than a Saturday morning cartoon pumped up to big-screen dimensions.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Shaft
    It's not easy to forgive a movie that so ungratefully wastes its potential with such a poorly structured plot, but Shaft has a few redeeming moments up its sleeve after all.
  52. Jesus' Son
    Grim stuff, filled with great sorrow and tragedy, but it's never maudlin or weepy.
  53. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Time Regained is not really worth the time it takes to see it.
  54. Butterfly Tongues
    An exploration of how fear and mob rule can poison even the purest of souls.
    • Miami Herald
  55. Boys and Girls
    May be among the most excruciating mainstream movies to spew forth from Hollywood in years.
    • Miami Herald
  56. Groove
    But there's nothing in this amateurish movie that the opening credits of last year's "Go" didn't do better.
    • Miami Herald
  57. Sunshine
    For filmgoers not interested in history, Sunshine might be a three-hour investment they may not want to undertake.
  58. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    In the end, for all its auto-erotic flair, Gone in 60 Seconds is missing a money shot.
    • Miami Herald
  59. Big Momma's House
    The kind of stupid-funny movie that should only be seen in a crowded theater.
    • Miami Herald
  60. Shanghai Noon
    Chan's string of chop-socky films were never boring. Shanghai Noon is.
  61. Better Living Through Circuitry
    While Circuitry has its pleasures, it's not as intelligent as "Modulations," a previous documentary on the subject, and its focus is a bit skewed.
    • Miami Herald
  62. Passion of Mind
    Berliner deserves something better, as do all the actors -- even Moore, who's starting to look very interesting and European.
  63. Kikujirô no natsu
    This genial, lyrical little movie seems guaranteed to broaden Kitano's fan base in the United States.
  64. 8 ½ Women
    With its convoluted pretentiousness, heavy use of metaphors and obscure references to art, fails to maintain interest.
    • Miami Herald
  65. Mission: Impossible II
    Suggests that Cruise the actor may have outgrown this kind of stuff.
  66. Dinosaur
    Unfortunately, disappointingly dull, a lumbering Bore-us-saurus of a movie.
    • Miami Herald
  67. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Too bad Journey of Man, as a whole, is never as consistently compelling as that one visually arresting scene (with Yves Décoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage)
    • Miami Herald
  68. Small Time Crooks
    Allen's most amiable, breeziest comedy in years.
  69. Road Trip
    Plot? There is no plot. You want plot, go read "War and Peace."
  70. Kadosh
    It moves slowly, but you suspect that is the way of life in Mea Shearim, the closed quarters of a group that triggered Gitai's respect and our curiosity.
  71. Center Stage
    Comes off as an episode of "Beverly Hills, 90210" where, instead of spoiled rich kids, the characters are all ballet stars in the making.
    • Miami Herald
  72. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A sluggish, soporific dud, the dreariest big-budget science-fiction adventure since "Dune."
    • Miami Herald
  73. Human Traffic
    Its lingering hangover, however, is decidedly pleasant.
    • Miami Herald
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Up at the Villa
    A refined, tasteful film about pure, hard lust.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Dreamed of Africa
    A wisp of a movie that dissipates the moment you leave the theater.
    • Miami Herald
  76. Michael Jordan to the Max
    What makes this documentary worth seeing is the sensational courtside footage taken with IMAX cameras, which bring a whole new way of seeing the game to fans who don't get to sit in Jack Nicholson's section.
    • Miami Herald
  77. Gladiator
    Lacks emotional depth and sweep -- but the movie still delivers the type of rousing, large-scale adventure that marked the best films of its kind
    • Miami Herald
  78. The Big Kahuna
    Spacey, whose precise command of enunciation and diction, along with his wicked, reptilian charm, are strong enough to carry the show.
    • Miami Herald
  79. Frequency
    A very complicated movie. It is also pretty wonderful.
    • Miami Herald
  80. Bossa Nova
    Romantic comedy that softens your date into giving you that first kiss. It's not much more than that -- it's flawed and somewhat unfocused.
    • Miami Herald
    • 27 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Look beyond the perfunctory dinosaur flatulence jokes, and Viva Rock Vegas is really quite sweet and clever.
    • Miami Herald
  82. Timecode
    This is a big, audacious stunt of a movie -- pointless, perhaps, but incredibly fun to play with.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Where the Heart Is
    Everything that cynical moviegoers despise and the tender-minded adore.
  84. Croupier
    Don't let it slip out of town without getting a look at it.
  85. The Last September
    Sad confusions and emotional disconnections are what the story is all about.
  86. U-571
    It''s loud and flashy and fun to look at, but you''ll grow tired of it very quickly.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love & Basketball
    Never really more than an amiable Cinderella story, but it leavens its subject with such heart, such idealism and such pure eroticism that it's nearly a total success.
  88. Keeping the Faith
    Does more than pay lip service to its subtexts.
  89. Set Me Free
    Sports a cool, early '60s soundtrack of hit-radio pop. But, make no mistake, this is no "American Graffiti."
  90. American Psycho
    Has the feverish intensity of a bad dream, leavened with a subversive sense of humor that is both sophisticated and cracked.
    • Miami Herald
  91. Where the Money Is
    The unrelentingly dull Where the Money Is tests his (Newman's) legendary charisma in a way no actor could overcome.
  92. East Is East
    O'Donnell has a fine eye for the small details of life and the movie feels rich, warm and real .
    • Miami Herald
  93. The Filth and the Fury
    It's just as voyeuristically enjoyable as those VH-1 has-been bios but without the soft-focus star shots and with far more edge, energy and originality.
    • Miami Herald
  94. Rules of Engagement
    It's bottom-feeder entertainment wrapped up in high-minded airs.
  95. Return to Me
    As light and fluffy as it is, Return to Me still proves surprisingly inviting.
  96. Price of Glory
    Moves too slowly, running out of gas in the later rounds of the plot.
  97. The Road to El Dorado
    Proves there are some things cartoons can't do better than live action after all.
  98. Beau Travail
    If only Beau Travail had a more dramatic edge, this nicely done film wouldn't have felt so long.
    • Miami Herald
  99. High Fidelity
    Ultimately too slight for its own good: It's a genial little doodle, light on plot and heavy on quotable, pithy observations.
    • Miami Herald
  100. Here on Earth
    Corny? You bet. But it also proves surprisingly inviting -- for a while, anyway.
    • Miami Herald
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