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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 Tao of Steve
    Outside of the leads, the acting is uneven, but The Tao of Steve has an unquenchable playful spirit.
  2. Saving Grace
    Has that same air of silly innocence, a rarity in today's movies.
  3. The Tic Code
    Has the schematic feel of a disease-of-the-week TV movie, but the connections made between jazz and the minds that produce it turns the film into something much more intimate and compelling.
  4. Better Living
    Made in 1998, the picture sags beneath the leaden weight of its pre-millennial theme.
  5. Psycho Beach Party
    Smart, fun and mildly subversive, but it rides the wave of its joke a little too long.
  6. Space Cowboys
    The joy of Space Cowboys is in spending quality time with some favorite old actors who obviously enjoy working together.
  7. Coyote Ugly
    Completely false, manipulative, exploitative and insulting.
  8. Hollow Man
    Might have worked as a sex comedy, certainly as porn. But as a suspense thriller, it's creepy for all the wrong reasons.
  9. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    It's just like Paul McCartney's first solo album after the Beatles broke up; he played all the instruments himself -- because he could.
  10. Girl on the Bridge
    Hand-held cameras give their surface showbiz relationship a sense of immediacy that, like love itself, has more than a hint of danger.
  11. Wonderland
    That (cinéma-vérité) feel is absolutely convincing, as are the performances.
  12. The Wind Will Carry Us
    A brilliant if slow-paced movie about one man's unwitting journey into adulthood.
    • New York Daily News
  13. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Something of a mess.
  14. Loser
    Feels like a college knockoff of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment."
  15. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Only the most hardhearted would fail to be swayed by Messner's surprising strength, and -- dare I say it -- irresistible charm.
  16. Two Women
    A daring feminist movie that, while straightforward to a fault, is a rare opportunity to sample a female point of view from Iran, where such a thing is usually a veiled subject.
  17. Alice et Martin
    With its intriguing relationships and sacrificial acts, Alice is a good alternative to happily-ever-after fluff.
  18. What Lies Beneath
    There is one good, legitimate scare in Robert Zemeckis' quasi-ghost thriller What Lies Beneath, and that's just not enough for a movie that lasts more than two hours.
  19. Les amants criminels
    "Grimm's Fairy Tales" were pretty grim, but Criminal Lovers crosses the line and sexualizes your worst fears.
  20. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Good or bad, it's either a must-see in your house, or not even on the radar screen.
  21. Benjamin Smoke
    It feels as though we're on a journey with Benjamin, who proves to be a wryly funny, passionate and complex traveling companion.
    • New York Daily News
  22. Fear of Fiction
    So clumsy and unfocused that not getting it isn't half as bad as sitting through it.
  23. The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
    On film, and eight years after they were written, his urgent re-creations of an awkward first date, or a Village People obsession, feel both overly familiar and almost embarrassingly earnest.
  24. The Five Senses
    Most of the film is so purposefully bound by its construct that it feels more like a creative-writing project (sure, give it an A) than a movie (B-).
  25. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    With all the brooding, stylized closeups of blood, crosses and cigarettes, the overall effect is fashion-mag chic -- not, as intended, intellectual thriller.
  26. Shadow Hours
    A cheaply voyeuristic story whose "twist" is hardly worth the wait.
  27. X-Men
    A solid action story with inventive battles (one on the Statue of Liberty) and satisfyingly gooey special effects.
  28. Chuck & Buck
    A reverse male-bonding tale unlike anything you've ever seen. And it's not the easiest good movie to sit through.
  29. The Kid
    Neither can I imagine many sane adults wanting to put themselves through this movie.
  30. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Overwhelmingly powerful.
  31. Shower
    Intimate, deeply affecting family drama.
  32. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Amusing and good-natured, but necessarily thin.
  33. Scary Movie
    The jokes are wild, raunchy, surreal and dead-on.
  34. The Perfect Storm
    Petersen's speculative reenactment makes for gripping summer entertainment -- if you don't mind a little corn floating in your brine.
  35. Trixie
    Trixie has "cult favorite" written all over it. That is to say, the general public is likely to say ixnay.
  36. The Patriot
    Far from the smart historical epic some might have expected, is just another feisty summer shoot-'em-up.
  37. Praise
    Unrelentingly, admirably committed to its own grimness.
  38. Me, Myself & Irene
    Carrey's performance is a tour de force of physical mime.
  39. Boricua's Bond
    If you haven't had enough of the Central Park rampage videos showing human nature at its worst, you could always pay to see Boricua's Bond.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Chicken Run
    Funny, even thrilling.
  41. Titan A.E.
    The real star of the movie is the background work.
  42. Shaft
    Violent, cool and street-smart, Shaft supplies everything you want in a summer movie.
  43. Jesus' Son
    Movies about junkies are often brutal to watch, but Jesus' Son has such a light touch, you have little to fear. Little to gain, too.
  44. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    A long sit for those unfamiliar with Proust's literary quest and output, but the view is sensational.
  45. The Woman Chaser
    An only intermittently amusing genre parody.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Humanité
    Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité.
  47. Boys and Girls
    Stays firmly, depressingly, inside the lines.
  48. Groove
    If you're a rave virgin, it'll more likely make you feel like the guest nobody invited. And why would you pay nine bucks for that?
  49. Sunshine
    The saga might have worked better as a novel, where we could cast the characters with our imaginations, and keep them straight.
  50. Love's Labour's Lost
    The leaden bits do bring the proceedings to a screeching halt too many times, but the costumes are breathtaking, and the details (like color-coordinated martinis) are dazzling.
  51. American Pimp
    Genuinely entertaining and, thanks to a well of self-deluded quotes from the men, shockingly funny.
  52. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    A mindless, cliche-riddled action-cartoon, a blur of metal and fire and screeching tires, with bad dialogue, cardboard characters and a volume set so high, it makes the Indianapolis 500 sound like chamber music.
  53. Big Momma's House
    Big Momma's got game, but she doesn't have much else.
  54. Shanghai Noon
    A silly buddy caper that should delight the adolescent at heart, even if some of the jokes have been sitting too long in the desert sun.
  55. Passion of Mind
    Leaves the viewer exhausted, jet-lagged from the effort of investing equally in competing story lines.
  56. Kikujirô no natsu
    When Kikijuro goes soft, the film falls apart, with him becoming a slapstick clown, mugging shamelessly to entertain Masao and the audience.
  57. Mission: Impossible II
    There's solid chemistry between Cruise and the stunning Newton, a superb actress previously restricted to such ethnic roles as Sally Hemings in "Jefferson in Paris" and the title role in "Beloved."
  58. Dinosaur
    For sheer bravura film making, for creating a cartoon world with real air, flesh, blood and the exhilarating cycle of fear and escape, Dinosaur is tops.
  59. Luminous Motion
    An ambitious film that sticks with you long after you have left the theater -- because of both what it achieves and what it does not.
  60. Small Time Crooks
    Allen was out of his element in creating characters who feel like East Coast cousins of the Clampetts, and his dialogue has never been more banal or forced.
  61. Road Trip
    The jokes, fast and furious enough to satisfy both teens and intrepid parents, are far funnier than they are raunchy.
  62. Shadow Boxers
    Savvy, unflinching, often bloody documentary.
  63. Kadosh
    A poetic and somber film that underscores the bum deal women usually get in any restrictive society.
  64. Center Stage
    Don't like archetypes? Wait till you meet the cliches.
  65. Screwed
    You've got to give Norm Macdonald credit. When he cheats his audience, he warns them first.
  66. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen.
  67. Coming Soon
    A deadly script.
  68. Hamlet
    Some of the contemporary winks are questionable, but others are undeniably sharp.
  69. Human Traffic
    Funny and masterfully inventive.
  70. Dream of Light
    Gorgeous, fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful.
  71. Into My Heart
    Though Morrow and Forlani are fine actors, they can't even fake a physical attraction between their characters, let alone orgasms.
  72. La Nouvelle Ève
    Viard plays one of the most intriguing female characters in recent film from either side of the Atlantic.
  73. Up at the Villa
    All of Haas' movies have an air of weirdness and dread, and this one is no exception. But it's romantic as well.
  74. I Dreamed of Africa
    Despite the movie's dramatic weaknesses, I was spellbound by the images.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Michael Jordan to the Max
    We get zilch on what kind of human being he is.
  76. The Basket
    You have no idea how determined director Rich Cowan is to suck the last drop of sap out of this tree.
  77. Gladiator
    If there's a soft spot in your heart for the sword-&-sandal epic -- and from the star rating above, I think you can guess where I stand -- then you'll swoon with giddy delight over Gladiator.
  78. Adorenarin doraibu
    Feels like any number of forgettable American teen comedies in which the nerd gets the girl and/or the money.
  79. Luminarias
    There are so many small, satisfying moments when the women are allowed to be real that it's a jolt each time they become superficial symbols.
  80. The Big Kahuna
    The dialogue often sounds like arch Mamet, and John Swanbeck's direction is as spare as the hotel-room decor.
  81. Committed
    Graham is lots of fun to watch, but it's hard to reconcile the split halves of her character.
  82. Frequency
    One of the most skillful, mesmerizing, tense and satisfying time-warp thrillers ever made.
  83. Timecode
    Is the story being told worth a movie on its own merits? No way. Time Code exists as an esthetic event -- either a trick or a treat, depending on your expectations.
  84. Croupier
    There are certainly glimpses of his underused talent. But there aren't enough of those moments to elevate Croupier above the level of routine melodrama.
  85. Gossip
    Truly depressing commentary.
  86. The Last September
    Saga too arty for own good.
  87. From the Edge of the City
    Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
  88. J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
  89. U-571
    The action is tightly focused and well-paced.
  90. The Virgin Suicides
    Has a great deal of empathy for that excruciating limbo that is female adolescence.
  91. Love & Basketball
    Makes hoops look like the sexiest game in town.
  92. Keeping the Faith
    A mostly accomplished first film, with precise comic timing and some hilarious moments.
  93. The Girl Next Door
    A fascinating fly-on-the-wall documentary.
  94. Set Me Free
    A slice of life that adds up to exactly the sum of its parts, no more, no less.
  95. The Specialist
    The Specialist allows Eichmann to convict himself, not of complicity in the Holocaust -- to that he pleads guilty, by reason of nationalism -- but as a man unfazed by his own inhumanity.
  96. American Psycho
    The real highlight is when Bateman and his co-workers compare custom business cards in a grueling, ego-shattering game of one-upmanship that is so linked to their sense of self it might as well be Russian roulette.
  97. 28 Days
    Not without missteps and the occasional mouthful of sugar, but it grows on you.
  98. Where the Money Is
    The film makers are so anxious to please their audience that they turn the last act into a preposterous cat-and-mouse game that nullifies the integrity of the story.
  99. Est - Ouest
    Feels like an old-fashioned movie in the way it deals with bold sacrifices made in the name of love, while its setting and chary view of the era's political machinations mark it as distinctly modern.
  100. Southpaw
    Less a complete story than a work-in-progress.
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