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For 720 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Brigham City
Lowest review score: 0 Dude, Where's My Car?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 339 out of 720
  2. Mixed: 241 out of 720
  3. Negative: 140 out of 720
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  1. The Bone Collector
    One of our very few consummate movie star actors, Washington can't quite elevate this dismal material as he's been able to do in the past, but he retains his dignity.
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  2. Bully
    Oddly, Bully's only moments of power come at the film's end, after the crime takes place.
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  3. Proof of Life
    Proof of Life won't hold your heart hostage for very long after it's over, but here's looking at Russell Crowe -- he's the real deal, sweetheart.
  4. Life as a House
    There's really nothing more to this by-the-numbers, ailment-of-the-week fodder dressed up with a classy cast.
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  5. The Little Vampire
    A generally likeable cast atones for the underwritten script with fine comic spirit.
  6. Just Looking
    At best a vaguely Semitic episode of "The Wonder Years."
  7. The Kid
    Every time the movie seems poised to veer into watchability, however, Turteltaub is there, like a beat cop for the Fun Police, reminding us to laugh, sigh, or tear up.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Rules of Engagement
    Pearce is shot in such distorting closeups that he looks like an overdeveloped athlete who's been getting steroid injections in his cheeks.
  9. Bootmen
    "Footloose" meets "The Full Monty" in Bootmen, a cliché-ridden tap dance drama.
    • Mr. Showbiz
  10. Boys Life 3
    A modestly entertaining ride.
    • Mr. Showbiz
    • 44 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    The Ninth Gate
    The once-talented Mr. Polanski is hard to spot.
  12. Committed
    There's a sense of life to Committed that's unpredictable and sweet, but too much of it is cluttered with lazy shortcuts.
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  13. The Closer You Get
    An amiable but contrived bit of blarney.
  14. Love & Sex
    Love & Sex is nothing but pain and suffering.
  15. Pearl Harbor
    What comes before and after the sound and fury of the bombing raid are reams of banal dialogue.
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  16. Vatel
    Joffe's latest is a formless, inanimate lump.
  17. The Center of the World
    Offers nothing but tired "Red Shoe" Diaries-style sexploitation for the art-house crowd.
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  18. Kikujirô no natsu
    The film has a standard trajectory, but the details are unpredictable: Kitano fluctuates between goofy pratfalls. . . and elliptical pathos.
  19. Plunkett & Macleane
    A cross between a Hogarth painting and an MTV video, Plunkett & Macleane cuts quite a swath.
  20. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Strives for folksy charm but ends up just lying there like a plate of kippers.
  21. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Hicks is far less interested in resolving dramatic conflicts than in framing shots.
  22. America's Sweethearts
    It's dull, two-dimensional, and totally toothless.
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  23. Dudley Do-Right
    You'd think creating confusion during something as woodenly simpleminded as Dudley Do-Right is no easy task, but you'd be wrong.
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  24. Under Suspicion
    For many, the enticement of seeing two old pros smartly step through their pressurized pas de deux might be reason enough to buy a ticket.
  25. The Animal
    The worst thing about The Animal -- is how frequently it becomes boring.
  26. The Mexican
    The plot that propels them (Pitt, Roberts) along separate story lines is both unusually character-driven and a hoot.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    The Beach
    The movie is an experience, of a sort they had a name for in the '60s: bummer.
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  28. Light It Up
    A shovelful of silly manure from the get-go.
  29. American Pie 2
    Pie 2 has neither undercurrent, and hence what was passably cute the first time seems much more puerile and shrill here.
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  30. The Last Castle
    It's good enough, smart enough, and people will like it. It's also a high-concept cop-out, a convention-strangled genre movie that never zigs when your every instinct is screaming that it's about to zag.
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