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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The Animal
    Judging by the audience reaction -- there is apparently something funny about the idea of a man trying to hump a goat in heat.
  2. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Mostly a lazy string of setups and sight gags, of tongue-in-cheek confrontations between the two stars that barely amount to sketches.
  3. Rape Me
    The sex may be real, but the violence and acting are comically phony, resulting in something that, while intended to shock, merely revolts.
  4. Big Eden
    Director Bezucha's eyes are as starry as Montana's sky, but it's pretty hard to resist such a determinedly utopian vision of love.
  5. A Love Divided
    If it weren't based on a true story, you might suspect Sydney McCartney's A Love Divided was created by a panel of militant Irish Protestants.
  6. Himalaya
    The plot is woven from minutely observed details that beautifully evoke a rarely seen world.
  7. The Road Home
    With so many cynical Hollywood romances cluttering theaters, Zhang Yimou's unabashed simplicity is most welcome.
  8. Pearl Harbor
    The 2,400 Americans who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor deserve a nobler memorial than this sentimental hogwash that reduces heroism to "Top Gun" antics and pretty cinematography.
  9. The Man Who Cried
    The result is a movie that talks big, even walks big, but has no scale whatsoever.
  10. Our Song
    That it all seems improvised on the spot (it was not) is testament to the power of a film that trusts its characters, its actors and its ultimate goal.
    • New York Daily News
  11. Fast Food Fast Women
    As usual, Thomson steers right into the heart of vulnerability, with a painfully true performance as a guarded, confused soul.
    • New York Daily News
  12. Strange Fits of Passion
    This rather limp Australian comedy shares "Bridget's" theme, but none of its panache.
  13. Petits frères
    Crushingly realistic.
  14. Angel Eyes
    A movie about healing that makes us want to scream out, ""Hollywood, heal thyself!"
  15. Shrek
    An adorable, infectious work of true sophistication.
  16. Moulin Rouge!
    An audacious, snappy visual and emotional feast of dishes both familiar and fresh. It's the first really good movie of 2001.
  17. Startup.com
    Some of the simplest shots give you the full picture of the price these guys paid for their dreams.
  18. The King Is Alive
    It's an excellent fusion of subject and style.
    • New York Daily News
  19. A Knight's Tale
    With its cheerful hailstorm of anachronisms and classic-rock soundtrack, there's nothing medieval about it.
  20. The Man Who Bought Mustique
    Funny, yet appalling.
  21. About Adam
    With few laughs and no real poignancy, the movie's success rests squarely on Adam's oft-naked shoulders.
  22. Ice from the Sun
    Stanze is to be congratulated on raising the bar for horror avant-garde filmmaking on a shoestring.
  23. Pavilion of Women
    Introduces American audiences to Luo Yan, a charismatic Chinese-born actress now living in Los Angeles. She single-handedly nurtured this project to fruition, serving as producer, co-writer and star.
  24. Eureka
    Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.
  25. Under the Sand
    A fascinating movie that explores grief from an emotionally truthful angle rarely seen in movies.
  26. The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    A fine example of how a character-based story can be so compelling you don't miss the frills.
  27. The Mummy Returns
    The movie resembles a video game in which each victory whisks you to the next level, with slightly different antagonists and a faster pace.
  28. Deuces Wild
    Deuces Wild is the worst thing to have happened to Brooklyn since the Ice Age severed it from the mainland.
  29. Green Dragon
    The Buis seem not to have complete confidence in their unique, imprecise style, which is too bad.
    • New York Daily News
  30. The Forsaken
    Vampire movies aren't what they used to be. How about a little mist, some shadows, some pale gray faces set off by stark red lips? Maestro, a little Transylvanian mood music, if you please.
  31. One Night at McCool's
    Zwart never gets the tone right in this very American comedy.
  32. Town & Country
    There is really nothing wrong with Peter Chelsom's Town & Country that younger stars would not have solved.
  33. The Golden Bowl
    Nolte, at least, delivers his lines with laser accuracy, and gives The Golden Bowl the life that so much cogitation could have drained from it.
  34. The End of the Road
    We're left with virtually no insight into the appeal of a movement that lasted 30 years.
  35. Driven
    If all you want is sensory overload, hop in. Driven will get you there.
  36. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Doesn't probe quite as deeply as it should.
  37. Harry Is Here to Help
    Moll clearly has looked to Hitchcock and Clouzot for inspiration. There are sexual undercurrents between characters, psychological quirks and a murky veneer like the surface of the pool in "Diabolique."
  38. The Charcoal People
    Beautifully shot but overly spare documentary.
  39. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    He (Hogan) and the other backers of the movie are betting that Dundee has been gone long enough to make him seem fresh, or -- like that old uncle -- at least welcome.
  40. The Luzhin Defence
    Turturro's Luzhin is a cinematic soulmate of Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man and Geoffrey Rush's David Helfgott.
  41. The Low Down
    Here’s a British spin on the familiar struggle of the couch potato who plans any minute now to get off his duff.
  42. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Here’s a double-scoop for conspiracy theorists.
  43. Freddy Got Fingered
    Exhaustingly manic but curiously unfunny movie.
  44. The Center of the World
    It's only when he (Wang) slows down and allows the characters to connect emotionally that his movie's unflinching honesty takes your breath away.
  45. Lakeboat
    Students of acting will appreciate the relish with which the characters bite off juicy chunks of dialogue.
    • New York Daily News
  46. Bridget Jones's Diary
    A delightful and endearing romantic comedy with the shape and resonance of a Jane Austen novel.
  47. The Body
    Just about every race and creed come off badly in this small-scale thriller.
  48. States of Control
    The characters speak in Dialogue rather than English, the actors are so busy emoting they forget to act and the story feels like a first-draft college project.
  49. The Circle
    How dangerous it is to be a woman in Iran, especially one going against the wishes of her menfolk, is brought home time after time in these related vignettes.
  50. Joe Dirt
    Talk about waste products; think of the time, effort and money that went into this movie.
  51. Josie and the Pussycats
    One long camp joke, with vamped scenes strung together.
  52. Kingdom Come
    The cartoonish characters and outsize performances don't make a smooth transition from stage to screen.
  53. Chopper
    It's galling to see such a low-life canonized in a film, but it's also riveting drama.
  54. Blow
    Ends up a portrait through a rose-colored lens, turning a social parasite into a Greek hero.
  55. Along Came a Spider
    The script is so ridiculous that nothing rings true.
  56. Mau Mau Sex Sex
    This spirited documentary shows us the hazards of filming volleyball at nudist camps and the marketing possibilities of women mating with gorillas.
  57. Beautiful Creatures
    The movie veers so wildly between being zany and grim, we're left feeling more empty than entertained.
  58. The Day I Became a Woman
    This powerful, compact trilogy speaks volumes about women in Iran.
  59. The Girl
    This pretty trifle is a movie about gorgeous women having an illicit affair -- period.
  60. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    The heavy subject is tempered with gentle humor.
  61. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    All we get is mild platitudes before the shows, and one-song sets.
  62. Just Visiting
    There ought to be a law about transporting humor internationally.
  63. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Kids will love it.
  64. Shadow Magic
    A movie-movie about the movies.
  65. Faat Kiné
    Both politically intricate and genuinely hilarious, Faat-Kine is a story grounded in dichotomies.
  66. The Tailor of Panama
    The script gets so silly, the Monty Python troupe would reject it.
  67. Amores Perros
    Strong stuff, compelling drama.
  68. Spy Kids
    An adorable family movie.
  69. Tomcats
    An "American Pie" wanna-be that, in trying to be as tasteless as possible, sometimes succeeds.
  70. Someone Like You...
    Goes down easily only because Judd and Jackman are eye candy, and because Kinnear and Tomei provide solid comic support.
  71. Too Much Sleep
    The film's slightly awkward self-consciousness is balanced by an appealing, gently deadpan performance from Palmieri.
  72. The Brothers
    A prime reason to see this, if you don't mind some really screechy acting by some of the supporting players and insipid metaphors for love and commitment, is its parade of fine flesh, both male and female.
  73. Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution
    A no-frills, homespun documentary that gives so much more than its humble technical credits would suggest.
  74. Heartbreakers
    Heartbreakers is too long by a half-hour, and there are entire sketches (including a horrid nightclub sequence with Weaver trying to sing in Russian) that could be mercifully sacrificed.
  75. Say It Isn't So
    It has incest, sweaty armpits, nipple rings, drool, an amputee, a stroke victim and an engagement ring stuck in a sticky place. And Heather Graham. All that, and it's not very funny.
  76. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    A fascinating story.
    • New York Daily News
  77. Enemy at the Gates
    The sniper's life is a lonely one, full of shallow breathing and delayed gratification. Solitary as it is, Jude Law manages to get a little action in the bunkers of wartime Stalingrad in the ambitious but sometimes inadvertently silly Enemy at the Gates.
  78. American Desi
    With a few exceptions, the Indian characters are two-dimensional buffoons whose traditions are presented as silly quirks meant for cheap laughs.
  79. Memento
    One of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since "The Usual Suspects."
  80. The Dish
    For all its folksy jocularity, the movie inspires a sense of global patriotism. In the big picture, every little dish counts.
  81. Kissing Jessica Stein
    A pitch-perfect gem.
    • New York Daily News
  82. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Trudy is really the only character with the "Barrytown" zest, and Montgomery throws herself into the role with unselfconscious abandon. She makes the screen crackle with energy.
  83. Simon Magus
    Unfocused and shrill.
  84. Biandan, guniang
    The Stockholm syndrome, that strange psychological malady by which hostages bond emotionally with their captors, is the central theme in this intimate melodrama.
  85. Get Over It
    A charmer with an attractive cast and an excellent soundtrack.
  86. 15 Minutes
    The Czech Republic and Russia, the respective homes of Emil and Oleg, should sue.
  87. The Gleaners & I
    Varda injects her sprightly personality into the film, a seasoning that sometimes overwhelms the stew.
  88. Blow Dry
    Rickman and Richardson are excellent actors put to ghastly waste.
  89. The Caveman's Valentine
    Offers a dazzling showcase for Samuel L. Jackson.
  90. Series 7: The Contenders
    There's no avoiding the fact that it's a one-joke movie, 86 minutes in the telling, and without any serious social underpinnings, it grows old pretty fast.
  91. Me You Them
    The most extraordinary thing about Me You Them is that no one behaves as though anything remotely out of the ordinary is going on.
  92. See Spot Run
    It's enough to encourage the aspiring film makers in the audience, no matter how wee in age, to yell "Cut!"
  93. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    Both a fan's dream and a moviegoer's nightmare: It ends up being all about those who remember and interpret Philip K. Dick and not about the man himself.
  94. Hit and Runway
    Does have a sort of endearing, earnest charm. But it would take much more than good intentions to save a film that rehashes cliches and concepts so unabashedly.
    • New York Daily News
  95. The Mexican
    Flails about desperately for a genre to call home.
  96. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    Showcased in 3,000 Miles are two of the longest, noisiest, bloodiest and most ludicrous shootouts ever staged.
  97. Monkeybone
    A shell of a romantic fantasy festooned with characters inspired by and resembling those in the bar scene in "Star Wars," the waiting room in "Beetlejuice" and the circus in "A Bug's Life."
  98. Last Resort
    A slice of life in the most profound sense.
  99. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    It doesn't get much more romantic than this.
  100. Rhythm 'n' Bayous: A Road Map to Louisiana Music
    Unpolished and clearly made on a low budget, the results seem a little like a home video by someone who spent an especially cool summer vacation.
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