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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. Death to Smoochy
    Plays like a long TV sketch, but with an array of characters, themes, subplots and situations just clever enough to keep it moving, and to give cover to its underlying cynicism.
    • New York Daily News
  2. Clockstoppers
    After the first hour, it starts to convince you that time really can stand still.
    • New York Daily News
  3. Panic Room
    May actually appeal more to women than men because of the steely heroine, the pitting of love of family against love of filthy lucre -- and the mom-fights-back plot.
    • New York Daily News
  4. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Falls short of the mark, content to shoot fish in a barrel.
  5. Shot in the Heart
    As wide-ranging, and yet as sharply focused, as Mikal Gilmore's book.
  6. Blade II
    Del Toro ("Cronos") is a stylish horrormeister, and he has created an evocative, foreboding atmosphere. But only a fan of this kind of mayhem could find a way into the story.
    • New York Daily News
  7. Jim Brown: All American
    We never really learn what Lee thinks of this man, other than that he is worth every second of a 130-minute documentary.
  8. Sorority Boys
    Recycles the most obvious jokes from similar comedies that preceded it, such as "Tootsie," but with the most rudimentary characters.
    • New York Daily News
  9. Very Annie Mary
    Having mined England and Ireland dry, filmmakers are now turning to Wales for their quirkiness quota.
  10. Lola
    Jacques Demy showed up with the lightest touch with his 1960 Lola, a movie that has been called a musical without music.
  11. Son of the Bride
    Exquisitely moving story.
    • New York Daily News
  12. Margarita Happy Hour
    The production is as gaily colored as the margaritas, but the overall result is wan.
    • New York Daily News
  13. Pauline and Paulette
    Plumbs the issue of sibling love and family responsibility in quietly powerful ways, and the performances of the two stars surpass convincing to reach a level of biographical realism.
    • New York Daily News
  14. Promises
    The filmmakers caught the kids arguing their cases like adversaries on "Judge Judy," sticking to phrases they've memorized or absorbed only too well.
  15. Resident Evil
    The dialogue is nothing to speak of, but the movie has a dynamite opening sequence in which the corporation turns on its workers, leaving them, if not dead, then with "virtually no intelligence," like office workers everywhere.
    • New York Daily News
  16. Y Tu Mamá También
    Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.
    • New York Daily News
  17. Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
    Bogdanich turned in an exhaustively thorough document that sheds some light on a tragedy that remains shadowy to those outside its domain.
  18. Showtime
    A lame buddy-cop movie that squanders stars De Niro and Eddie Murphy as it races from one cliche to the next, blithely unconcerned with whether anything parses.
    • New York Daily News
  19. Harrison's Flowers
    The movie does have one very perplexing major flaw. It throws in some minor-character narration toward the end, as if test audiences had lost their ability to concentrate, and this was the filmmaker's only solution for getting us back on track.
    • New York Daily News
  20. Ice Age
    Its story, characters, dialogue, humor and voice performances are first-rate.
    • New York Daily News
  21. Asphalt Zahov
    More than the sum of its parts.
  22. Festival in Cannes
    The best of the lot are Greta Scacchi, as an actress trying to peddle her first screenplay (with herself attached as director), and Ron Silver.
    • New York Daily News
  23. Miss Wonton
    Earnestness is the primary appeal of Meng Ong's clumsy melodrama.
  24. The Time Machine
    Wells' vision of the distant future is cartoonishly simplistic without the subtext of British class consciousness that informed the novel.
  25. All About the Benjamins
    Those who need little more than a car chase, gunplay, pretty girls and a solid soundtrack will be entertained. And Ice Cube fans won't be disappointed. Everyone else may want to think twice before shelling out hard-earned dollars.
    • New York Daily News
  26. We Were Soldiers
    We Were Soldiers works. The action is well-staged and realistic. And Gibson is a commanding presence in a role that has more shadings and stature than his usual action heroes.
    • New York Daily News
  27. Esther Kahn
    A draggy shaggy-dog story about a poor Jewish girl's painfully slow emotional awakening. The movie is 145 minutes long, so by the time Esther's awake, the audience may not be as lucky.
    • New York Daily News
  28. Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    The movie elevated the basic gangster picture into what became known as the niche genre of poetic realism. And, aside from Garbo, never have key lights on a star's face caused so much swooning among fans.
  29. Borstal Boy
    The film moves briskly enough to be entertaining, but it can't escape the smothering hero worship that Sheridan infuses into every frame.
    • New York Daily News
  30. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    A curious entry in the current wave of raunchy youth comedies. It's refreshingly free of scatological humor, but even while aiming higher, it can't raise its focus above the belt.
    • New York Daily News
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