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For 8,343 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% 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 Patriots Day
Lowest review score: 0 Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,334 out of 8343
  2. Mixed: 1,701 out of 8343
  3. Negative: 2,308 out of 8343
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Down from the Mountain
    If bluegrass were as static and dull as this concert film indicates, Nashville would have hustled all the hillbillies back to the Smokies long ago.
    • New York Post
  2. Songcatcher
    Essential viewing for anyone who cares about American popular music and its roots.
    • New York Post
  3. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    The effects are cheesy, the photography is murky, the sets look like leftovers from a Las Vegas stage spectacular -- and the flick appears to have been edited with a roulette wheel.
    • New York Post
  4. Dirty Cop No Donut
    It's a totally inept and unfunny parody of the TV show "Cops."
    • New York Post
  5. Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
    Marker's documentary, shot on video, uses interviews, film clips and shots of Tarkovsky on the set to examine the Russian's work.
  6. Sexy Beast
    A smart, funny, stylish and very violent British gangster movie.
  7. La grande strada azzurra
    iIt is clear that it would have benefited from black-and-white cinematography. And the melodramatic musical soundtrack is annoying and unnecessary.
  8. Divided We Fall
    Hrebejik directs with a sure hand, deftly balancing comedy and drama in a most involving and satisfying manner.
    • New York Post
  9. Swordfish
    It's a film that reeks of stupidity and cynicism, one that makes you feel soiled just to have sat through it.
  10. Dead or Alive
    I've seen three or four other movies by Miike, and I can tell you that he's one of the most exciting, versatile directors working today.
  11. Let It Snow
    James' character is a charmless, boring lump and it's very hard to care if he gets the girl or not.
  12. Evolution
    Somewhat refreshingly aspiring to be nothing more than a disposable summer popcorn movie, this is a flick that delivers more smiles than laughs and has some wonderful special effects.
  13. The Anniversary Party
    Energetic, often very funny comedy filled with sharp, vivid performances by a terrific ensemble cast.
    • New York Post
  14. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Disney's disappointing Atlantis, sadly, is a lot like much of the studio's recent animated output: eye-popping visuals and great vocal characterizations sunk by a dead-in-the-water script.
  15. Bride of the Wind
    Was Alma a masochist? Repressed? Neurotic? A pre-feminist? Don't look for insight here.
    • New York Post
  16. The Animal
    Isn't quite up to the comic standard of Rob Schneider's 1999 hit "Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo."
  17. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Dumbed down to the point where it's barely recognizable as coming from one of Donald Westlake's John Dortmunder novels.
  18. Farewell, Home Sweet Home
    Plot and dialogue take a back seat to a series of inventive sight gags that unspool with effortless charm. An ensemble cast of talented amateurs is in top form.
  19. A Real Young Girl
    A test of endurance, and not just because you need a rather stronger word than "explicit" to describe this long-unreleased, self-consciously provocative film.
  20. Rape Me
    Some may find it titillating; more will find it offensive and deeply disturbing.
  21. Big Eden
    But it's more than a crowd-pleaser shot at spectacular Rocky mountain locations -- it's almost revolutionary.
  22. A Love Divided
    Has precious little to add to the canon -- and does so in a highly melodramatic manner.
  23. Himalaya
    One of the most beautiful movies you're likely to see this year. And the cast members, all amateurs, are first-rate.
  24. The Road Home
    The lyrical The Road Home is less political and less flashy than some previous films by Zhang Yimou.
  25. Pearl Harbor
    Unfortunately, the bulk of the three-hour epic is third-rate schmaltz that pays only lip service to history.
  26. The Man Who Cried
    It's a thinly disguised lecture about intolerance, spotted with historical inaccuracies and groaning with dialogue so dreadful that it makes a fine cast look ridiculous again and again.
  27. Our Song
    A languid but refreshingly real depiction of female adolescence.
  28. Fast Food Fast Women
    Despite a script that occasionally calls for some embarrassingly awkward lines, Kollek's cast generally acquits itself well.
  29. Striporama
    Exploitation curiosity.
  30. Strange Fits of Passion
    The fresh-faced Noonan tries very hard to rise above the material, but it defeats her and her fellow cast members.
  31. Petits frères
    Disappointing.
  32. Angel Eyes
    During an endless, maudlin last act, it becomes more and more difficult not to laugh -- or barf -- as the protagonists tearfully come to terms with their issues.
  33. Shrek
    An unqualified triumph.
  34. Moulin Rouge!
    A sometimes glorious, sometimes disastrous folly.
  35. Startup.com
    An unforgettable portrait of a testosterone-driven era.
  36. The Trumpet of the Swan
    A brightly colored but terminally dull cartoon.
  37. The King Is Alive
    Tendency to pretentiousness.
  38. The Man Who Bought Mustique
    One of the more entertaining documentaries to come along in some time.
    • New York Post
  39. About Adam
    Thanks to Hudson and the other women, it's a moderately beguiling date movie.
  40. Ice from the Sun
    Every possible film student visual cliché (plus quite a few from the world of music video) gets a thorough workout.
  41. Pavilion of Women
    It's loaded with -- scenery-chewing melodrama, cornball pidgin dialogue and syrupy music.
    • New York Post
  42. Eureka
    Special note should be made of real-life sister and brother Aoi and Masaru Miyazaki, who give beautiful performances as the children.
  43. Time and Tide
    It proves once again that it doesn't matter if the camera is dancing a jig on the ceiling if the storytelling is no good.
  44. Under the Sand
    A sensitive and subtle meditation on aging, loss and bereavement.
  45. The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    It's a shame, because the actors are so much better than the threadbare material.
  46. The Mummy Returns
    Perfectly enjoyable swashbuckling, eye-catching entertainment.
  47. Deuces Wild
    Sort of "West Side Story" set in 1958 Brooklyn -- minus the music or competent storytelling -- is clearly not dealing from anything close to a full deck.
  48. Green Dragon
    Director Timothy Linh employs a delicate - but never sentimental - touch which, combined with strong performances from the principals and Kramer Morgenthau's vivid cinematography, makes for a transporting experience.
  49. The Forsaken
    Writer-director J.S. Cardone's low-budget mishmash offers precious little in the way of thrills and chills, much less coherent storytelling.
    • New York Post
  50. One Night at McCool's
    A strong, early candidate for the worst movie of the year.
    • New York Post
  51. Town & Country
    The film is clearly an unfinished work and one that feels like a ragged assemblage of parts from at least two entirely different movies all with the same cast.
    • New York Post
  52. The Golden Bowl
    But it is Thurman who stands out, with a marvelous, full-blooded performance, her best in some time, as tragic Charlotte.
    • New York Post
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The End of the Road
    While this is ultimately a tragic film, Meeske captures the joy in the paradise these Deadheads lost. Jerry would have liked this movie.
  54. Driven
    Embarrassingly bad - the kind of slapdash exercise that gives even Hollywood formula a bad name, while doing little justice to the sport.
    • New York Post
  55. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    This wacky former Andy Warhol superstar more than holds your interest in an offbeat documentary.
  56. Harry Is Here to Help
    Often darkly funny and very well acted, it's a pleasingly subtle, Hitchockian thriller with dark comic overtones.
    • New York Post
  57. The Charcoal People
    Raises an interesting question. Do you clamp down on corporations in order to protect the environment or do you let them go about their business because they help feed countless families.
    • New York Post
  58. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    The lackadaisical pace of CD3 is a disappointing surprise.
    • New York Post
  59. The Luzhin Defence
    One of our best actors, Turturro surpasses his past fine work as Alexander Luzhin.
    • New York Post
  60. The Low Down
    The whole thing is shot in an irritating, self-conscious way.
  61. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    This crude, deeply dishonest documentary does no such thing. David Russell's fictional "Three Kings" does a much better job.
  62. Freddy Got Fingered
    So awful it qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.
    • New York Post
  63. The Center of the World
    It certainly has its moments (erotic and otherwise), but there just aren't enough of them.
    • New York Post
  64. Lakeboat
    Though Mantegna can't quite lick the essential staginess of Mamet's adaptation of his play, even with lots of scenic shots of Lake Ontario, the performances are what one would expect with such a consummate actor in charge.
    • New York Post
  65. Brigham City
    Tries, with much less success, to do what "Witness" did in exploring an Amish town.
  66. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Warm and charming and often witty, it's as good a romantic comedy as has come out for some time, with an endearing, perfectly pitched central performance that's a four-square triumph for Zellweger.
    • New York Post
  67. The Body
    Antonio Banderas is unintentionally hilarious as Father Matt Gutierrez, a sort of Jesuit James Bond.
    • New York Post
  68. States of Control
    A sluggish and prototypically earnest little indie on the not exactly fresh theme of a woman undergoing a midlife crisis.
  69. The Circle
    This film is fighting the good fight, albeit in a rather heavy-handed way.
    • New York Post
  70. Joe Dirt
    Little more than a series of sketches, tied together by Joe's on-air interrogation by a nasty shock jock played by Dennis Miller.
    • New York Post
  71. Josie and the Pussycats
    More fun than you'd expect from an adaptation of a '60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon that was in turn derived from a comic book.
    • New York Post
  72. Kingdom Come
    The characters are tired stereotypes, the sentimentality nauseating and the situation comedy way below the standards of the very worst WB or UPN shows.
    • New York Post
  73. Chopper
    Pulls no punches - blood flows very freely (including the ear-cutting scene) and black humor abounds.
    • New York Post
  74. Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
    Unwatchably bad.
  75. Blow
    Rarely since the tale of the Corleones has a movie presented such a compelling, sympathetic portrait of a criminal lowlife.
    • New York Post
  76. Along Came a Spider
    But even that talent (Freeman) isn't enough to distract you from the general predictability of Spider or the absurdity of its elaborate last-minute plot twists.
    • New York Post
  77. Mau Mau Sex Sex
    Entertaining, if maddeningly superficial.
    • New York Post
  78. Beautiful Creatures
    Moves at a swift clip with pungent performances.
    • New York Post
  79. The Day I Became a Woman
    Slight but affecting triptych.
  80. The Girl
    May be the steamiest lesbian romp in recent memory.
    • New York Post
  81. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Deadly dull.
  82. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    More impressive than the sight of these acts on an eight-story screen is the excellent six-channel IMAX sound system.
    • New York Post
  83. Just Visiting
    Don't even think of visiting this French fiasco.
    • New York Post
  84. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Mind-blowing and headache-inducing. But the kids loved it.
    • New York Post
  85. Shadow Magic
    Often charming and sweet, and always prettily photographed.
    • New York Post
  86. Faat Kiné
    A youthful, and often funny, piece of filmmaking. You might never expect that its director is 73 years old.
  87. Butterfly
    The folks on "Survivor" have nothing on Julia Butterfly Hill.
  88. The Tailor of Panama
    Overall, it's a hand-tailored job in a marketplace filled with off-the-rack movies.
    • New York Post
  89. Amores Perros
    A sophisticated, stylish, fast-moving piece of work.
    • New York Post
  90. Spy Kids
    The most delightful family movie since "Stuart Little."
    • New York Post
  91. Tomcats
    Much of Tomcats is actually boisterously, crudely entertaining.
    • New York Post
  92. Someone Like You...
    Could hardly be more predictable.
    • New York Post
  93. Too Much Sleep
    Perfectly captures the cultural and emotional wasteland that is suburban Jersey.
  94. The Brothers
    Basically a Lifetime movie that somehow found its way into theaters.
    • New York Post
  95. Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution
    I was pleased by the forthright defense in Friendly Persuasion of Iranian cinema's use of children.
  96. Heartbreakers
    Despite its talented and/or attractive cast, Heartbreakers is an ugly movie: The kind that makes you feel slightly soiled afterwards.
    • New York Post
  97. Say It Isn't So
    Unfortunately, this version of the familiar formula lacks the inspiration, genuine wit and raunchy charm of 1998's outrageous "There's Something About Mary."
    • New York Post
  98. Exit Wounds
    This movie, cynically and patronizingly aimed at Seagal's predominantly "urban" audience, is sad, tedious proof that even violent exploitation isn't what it used to be.
    • New York Post
  99. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Story of Tobias Schneebaum, a gay New York artist famous for living with, sleeping with - and, gulp, eating with - cannibals in New Guinea.
    • New York Post
  100. Enemy at the Gates
    Enemy at the Gates, is no "Saving Private Ryan" - but thrilling, bravura stretches make it consistently entertaining, if less than profound, filmmaking.
    • New York Post
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