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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. Flawless
    Save your breath, and your money.
  2. The World Is Not Enough
    That's what Bond is all about -- dazzle, some really bad puns and the kind of sexy fun that satisfies high-school urges while masquerading in tux and tails.
  3. Sleepy Hollow
    A feast of imagery.
  4. All About My Mother
    Almodovar is adept at weaving together strands you'd never guess would match.
  5. Mansfield Park
    O'Connor plays Fanny with an appealingly direct, unflinching gaze.
  6. Liberty Heights
    Levinson is so skillful at developing personalities, even among the story's would-be villains, that by the halfway point of the movie, every gesture and expression has unexpected depth and texture. The performances are across-the-board superb.
  7. 42: Forty Two Up
    I love this series; it's possibly the most exciting use of the documentary medium ever.
  8. Dogma
    A raunchy, irreverent, generally hilarious sendup of ritual and papal decree.
  9. Felicia's Journey
    Seems like a genteel "Psycho."
  10. Anywhere But Here
    An actress' dream.
  11. Where's Marlowe?
    Belongs to an intellectually stimulating subgenre that examines the thin line between documentary maker and subject.
  12. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Jovovich, Besson's 24-year-old ex-wife, hasn't a clue how to project shadings, interior emotions, character or personality. Everything's in a full screech.
  13. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    The favorable three-star rating I'm giving the animated Pokémon: The First Movie is based at least partly on the fact that I expected to dislike it and didn't.
  14. The Bachelor
    Out of place, out of time and out of its own cultural context.
  15. Portraits chinois
    The group in Portraits Chinois is a little too diverse and unwieldy to keep emotional track of.
  16. Rosetta
    An immensely uplifting movie whose final, unforgettable frames come as close as anything to answering the big questions about why we bother in a dog-eat-dog world.
  17. The Bone Collector
    Slick entertainment.
  18. Last Night
    Though the film is dark and the ideas run deep, it's perversely fun to think about.
  19. The Insider
    May be the best movie of the year.
  20. American Movie
    Smith's gleeful, touching documentary records the agony and the ecstasy of realizing your dream, and intangible ways that such dreams help keep people alive.
  21. Man of the Century
    Almost corny enough to be hip.
    • New York Daily News
  22. The Legend of 1900
    It doesn't strike a single note of authentic emotion.
  23. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    Most of the movie's rewards are in watching Morton.
  24. Beefcake
    This movie's attempt to reinvent Mizer as a First Amendment hero isn't as effective as its triumphant display of beefcake, which is, after all, the movie's raison d'etre.
  25. The Suburbans
    A desperately unfunny comedy that wastes a brand-name cast.
  26. Music of the Heart
    No actress of her generation inhabits characters as thoroughly and convincingly as she (Streep) does, and this performance carries the movie
  27. Speaking in Strings
    If it doesn't shed much light on the violinist's personal life, it certainly conveys how personally she relates to her work.
  28. Princess Mononoke
    A thing of beauty and imagination.
  29. Being John Malkovich
    Gloriously inventive, delightfully nutty comic treasure is unlike anything you've ever seen. It's lunatic.
  30. Three to Tango
    A thin, by-the-numbers romantic comedy that nevertheless features one saving grace: Matthew Perry.
  31. Body Shots
    Blunt, alternately prurient, funny and depressing.
  32. Crazy in Alabama
    Mismatch of tone and material.
  33. Men Cry Bullets
    The acting is more amateurish than Billy's diva act, and for all its ambitious editing, the film looks like something made in the Addams Family's attic.
  34. The Best Man
    Makes a fine date movie...thanks to its life-affirming view of friendship, love and honor.
  35. La Ciudad (The City)
    Sensational...as authentic as news footage, and far more intimate.
  36. Bringing Out the Dead
    It's a slice of life, with all the trimmings, and one of the strongest films of the year.
    • New York Daily News
  37. Show Me Love
    Grainy color stock and tight closeups give the film a realistic feel that's accentuated by natural performances from the able young cast.
    • New York Daily News
  38. Bats
    Unfortunately, it isn't until the final scene -- a spoof of the horror genre's false-ending cliché -- that Bats really takes wing.
  39. The Story of Us
    Overwrought comedy-drama.
  40. L'ennui
    Only mildly interesting.
  41. Joe the King
    The movie isn't a day in the park, but it manages to close on an existentially uplifting note.
  42. That's the Way I Like It
    Cannibalizes "Saturday Night Fever" for everything from structure to plot, but does it adorably.
  43. Julien Donkey-Boy
    I'd never seen anything like it, and can say that I hope to never see anything like it again.
  44. Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    A personal documentary on a family member. The question is, who -- outside of friends and family -- would want to watch it? The answer...is ... beyond me.
  45. The Straight Story
    If there is any justice in the world, Farnsworth will be remembered at Oscar time.
  46. Fight Club
    Grueling and bleak, but not unintelligent...although it's hardly groundbreaking just because everyone's face gets pulpy.
  47. The Grandfather
    Essentially conversations, confrontations, and an extremely pat -- and very verbal -- reconciliation.
  48. Random Hearts
    This ponderous romantic melodrama...passes like a day behind bars.
  49. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
    A one-joke idea...wears itself out almost instantly.
  50. Molly
    Derivative to the point of distraction.
  51. The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Nothing if not original.
  52. The Limey
    Stamp, whose ability to make Wilson simultaneously coarse and charismatic is irresistibly entertaining.
  53. Whiteboyz
    Despite its good intentions, Whiteboys -- a serio-comic examination of hip-hop's influence on suburban white youth -- comes off as little more than a fleshed-out skit.
  54. Superstar
    What's funny for 5 minutes doesn't make for a full-length movie.
  55. Boys Don't Cry
    A powerful, deeply moving tale, immeasurably facilitated by the performance of relatively unknown Hilary Swank as Brandon...smartly shot and edited, and the performances are dead-on.
  56. Bandits
    This self-conscious movie by Katja von Garnier is shot like a music video, stocked with quick cuts, lip-synching and fantasy performances.
  57. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Gentle, funny and full of the lessons one expects from the scions of the late Jim Henson.
  58. Happy, Texas
    The performances are first-rate, with the always inventive Macy a standout as the hopeful, tormented Chappy, and Zahn a scream as the lovably imbecilic Wayne.
  59. Mystery, Alaska
    Some terrific characters and some of the year's punchiest comic dialogue.
  60. Plunkett & Macleane
    Its noisily inappropriate pop-rock score overwhelms its meager subplots about British class conflict.
  61. Drive Me Crazy
    Isn't a movie as much as it is a feature-length screen test.
  62. Three Kings
    A daring, teeth-grinding experience that doesn't let the viewer rest easy.
  63. Divorce Iranian Style
    The tone is attentive and responsible.
  64. Double Jeopardy
    So riddled with plot holes and implausible actions, you can't help feeling insulted by it.
  65. Out of Season
    Manages to look very good for its limitations, and features solid actors doing their best with a very sketchy script.
  66. Mumford
    Among the funniest and most satisfying films I've seen in years.
  67. Jakob the Liar
    An awkwardly executed, tedious and -- a near impossibility for a Holocaust movie -- emotionally uninvolving bore.
  68. Fever Pitch
    A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Simon Sez
    Rodman makes former co-star Jean-Claude Van Damme look like Jean-Paul Belmondo.
  70. Guinevere
    Polley, the paraplegic incest victim in Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter," gives a mesmerizing central performance.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    If a movie smells like a dog and barks like a dog, well, then it must be a woofer.
  72. Taxman
    Brutal but somewhat endearing.
  73. Sugar Town
    A bad Altman impression of the L.A. rock scene.
  74. Romance
    No other mainstream movie has so openly tackled the subject of female sexual experience.
  75. For Love of the Game
    It could do without any kind of love story, let alone the one it got.
  76. Blue Streak
    The plot is formula all the way, but Lawrence has found a way to incorporate the physical techniques of the great silent stars with his standup comic's arsenal, and it's a pleasure to watch him at work.
  77. Get Bruce
    Offering often-hysterical testimony to Vilanch's talent.
  78. Lucie Aubrac
    Feels less like history than a bad episode of "Mission: Impossible."
  79. Breakfast of Champions
    Among the year's biggest disappointments.
  80. The Jaundiced Eye
    Both frustrating and instructive.
    • New York Daily News
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Splendor
    A fair amount of laughs and a spunky dose of charm from the three leads, which adds up to some meaningless, if perverted, fun.
  82. American Beauty
    A tart, funny and tremendously sobering movie about the deepest recesses of personal unhappiness.
  83. The Minus Man
    There are absolutely no psychological insights into sick minds in The Minus Man, a poky, opaque drama with a good cast and not much going on upstairs.
  84. B. Monkey
    A solidly crafted, entertaining melodrama.
  85. Love Stinks
    Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too.
  86. Best Laid Plans
    Sadly, a film about betrayal is ultimately betrayed by the film maker's own lack of conviction.
  87. Black Cat, White Cat
    The slapstick is broad to the point of overkill.
  88. Stigmata
    By the time the credits roll and a disclaimer informs us that there may, in fact, be a lost gospel of Jesus and that it is being suppressed by the Church, all we can think to say is, "Ah, shaudup!"
  89. All the Little Animals
    Hurt is slumming in an unchallenging role.
  90. Outside Providence
    It stands apart when it comes to its extravagant humor and non-judgmental '70s-era reality (smoking dope, hitching rides, playing Frisbee, hanging out).
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chill Factor
    Most of the action revolves around Ulrich's character, and the center cannot hold our interest.
  92. The 13th Warrior
    Silly supernatural Viking epic.
  93. The Muse
    No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
  94. Dudley Do-Right
    Mostly pitched at a new crop of children who will detect the movie's mildly sarcastic, audience-winking tone with no problem.
  95. In Too Deep
    A well-acted and surprisingly thoughtful treatment of the same old, same old.
  96. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Very much a freshman effort, lacking focus, edge.
  97. Mickey Blue Eyes
    It strains to hard for laughs, with stale jokes about unweildy corpses.
  98. Bowfinger
    One of the reasons the move is so funny is that it is only a few degrees away from real life.
  99. Autumn Tale
    One of Rohmer's more engaging slices of life. The acting is impeccable.
  100. Illuminata
    Beneath the noisy, farcical surface of John Turturro's Illuminata is a thoughtful and unusually mature meditation on love.
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