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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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  1. American Pimp
    Unfortunately, you really only hear about prostitution from the side of the pimp.
    • New York Post
  2. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Her star billing notwithstanding, Jolie has perhaps the ninth-largest part in the movie (behind seven humans and a dog), playing Cage's ex-girlfriend.
    • New York Post
  3. Running Free
    Suffers from terminal hoof-in-mouth disease.
  4. American Virgin
    A bad film with some oddly charming moments.
  5. Thirteen
    Watching Thirteen is like spending an hour and a half with a poker-faced teen who's obviously unhappy but refuses to talk about what's wrong.
  6. Grass
    Strident, unrepentantly one-sided but often entertaining.
    • New York Post
  7. Big Momma's House
    Intermittently funny, often vulgar.
    • New York Post
  8. Shanghai Noon
    The most enjoyable western comedy since "Blazing Saddles."
  9. Better Living Through Circuitry
    It's not much fun to watch people go to raves. And it's even less fun to listen to people talk about how much fun it is to go to raves.
    • New York Post
  10. Passion of Mind
    A shallow, stilted romantic thriller.
  11. Kikujirô no natsu
    Beautiful camerawork, some interesting scenes, but extraordinarily slow.
  12. 8 ½ Women
    More prettily photographed pretentious rubbish from the ridiculous Peter Greenaway.
    • New York Post
  13. Mission: Impossible II
    Check your brains at the popcorn stand and hang on for a spectacular ride.
  14. Dinosaur
    An expensive demonstration that all the spectacular effects in the world aren't enough to make a great film - but it's worth seeing for that stunning half-hour alone.
    • New York Post
  15. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    The ugly, witless pair of clowns who flit through the movie are emblematic of everything that is wrong with this dull, monumentally pretentious mess.
    • New York Post
  16. Luminous Motion
    Has its moments, but overall it's depressing.
    • New York Post
  17. The Well
    A heartfelt, beautifully acted film that suffers from its similarity to countless other movies.
    • New York Post
  18. Young Dr. Freud
    A stunningly intelligent look at how the founder of psychoanalysis and modern psychiatry developed his ideas.
  19. Small Time Crooks
    Petty larceny - but Allen's fans won't want to miss this lowbrow caper.
  20. Road Trip
    A cheerfully crude, well-cast (and frequently uproarious) campus comedy in the tradition of "There's Something About Mary."
  21. Held Up
    This is a cheap-looking lowbrow comedy that likely would have gone straight to home video.
    • New York Post
  22. Shadow Boxers
    A compelling and beautifully photographed documentary.
  23. Center Stage
    The best dance movie since "Flashdance."
    • New York Post
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Screwed
    The real disappointment is Danny DeVito as a creepy coroner.
  25. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Goes from being tediously terrible to downright gigglesome.
    • New York Post
  26. Coming Soon
    Too crude for serious audiences and too serious to be good exploitation, Coming Soon is a teen sex comedy that's predictably getting a token theatrical release prior to its imminent debut on home video.
    • New York Post
  27. Hamlet
    May well be the dullest and most pointless version ever filmed, thanks to a stunningly bad lead performance by Ethan Hawke.
    • New York Post
  28. Human Traffic
    Though it contains some very funny, cleverly written comic sketches, Human Traffic shares with other drug movies the problem that watching other people on drugs is not interesting.
    • New York Post
  29. Dream of Light
    To paraphrase that old quip about slow-paced art films, it literally is watching paint dry.
    • New York Post
  30. La Nouvelle Ève
    Unpretentious and often witty, it's emotional punch is weakened by spotty performances, especially from Karin Viard in the lead role.
  31. Up at the Villa
    There are a few interesting moments, but basically Up at the Villa is dangerously short of sympathetic characters.
  32. I Dreamed of Africa
    Ends up a nightmare of a star vehicle.
    • New York Post
  33. Michael Jordan to the Max
    Just as spectacular as seeing the view from Everest or other natural wonders caught by the IMAX technology.
  34. The Basket
    Would be solid family entertainment if it weren't for the funereal pacing, which may kill its appeal among young audiences.
    • New York Post
  35. Gladiator
    An exhilarating, sweeping epic that begs to be seen on the largest possible screen.
  36. Adorenarin doraibu
    A witty and quietly charming road comedy.
    • New York Post
  37. Luminarias
    Comes off as nothing more than a TV soap opera, with overwrought acting, simplistic dialogue and a generic plot.
    • New York Post
  38. The Big Kahuna
    A flawed labor of love that's definitely worth a look.
    • New York Post
  39. Committed
    Graham is funny and adorable in this endearing little romantic comedy.
    • New York Post
  40. Frequency
    Had me watching through misty eyes, at least for the first half.
    • New York Post
  41. Bossa Nova
    Isn't great. But I had fun watching.
    • New York Post
  42. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Actually more entertaining than its 1994 predecessor.
    • New York Post
  43. Timecode
    In fact, for long stretches, especially during the first hour, it's as soporific as watching a bank of security cameras.
  44. Where the Heart Is
    Hard-core chick shlock, weakened by odd shifts in tone and a slack pace, but elevated by a luminous performance by Natalie Portman.
  45. Gossip
    A glossy, shallow thriller where not a single scene rings true.
    • New York Post
  46. The Last September
    Overall, The Last September is a real snooze.
  47. From the Edge of the City
    Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."
    • New York Post
  48. U-571
    A formulaic and predictable movie that combines minimal characterization with some irritating implausibility.
  49. The Virgin Suicides
    It's hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppola's brilliant The Virgin Suicides.
  50. Love & Basketball
    Strong cast is defeated by a labored, screenplay in this overlong, clunky love story.
  51. Keeping the Faith
    The ideal date movie for the Passover-Easter season and beyond, guaranteed to keep audiences rolling in the pews.
  52. The Girl Next Door
    Despite inadequate editing and overreliance on bad background music, The Girl Next Door doesn't disappoint.
  53. Set Me Free
    Tells its story so effectively through pictures it's barely necessary to read the subtitles.
  54. The Specialist
    It's a worthwhile film both for history buffs and people who are still learning.
  55. Third World Cop
    The acting, camera work and writing are all crude and amateurish, even by the standards of student films.
  56. American Psycho
    A misfiring black comedy oddly reminiscent of all those bad 1990s movies about strippers getting killed at bachelor parties.
    • New York Post
  57. 28 Days
    Much less mawkish and predictable than you might expect.
    • New York Post
  58. Where the Money Is
    The Coen brothers might have done something inspired with this, but director Kanievska... turns out a more modestly entertaining little low-budget movie.
  59. East Is East
    East Is East is "The Full Monty" of 2000, a fresh, funny and poignant film filled with sparkling performances.
    • New York Post
  60. Est - Ouest
    The movie that deserved to win the Oscar for foreign-language film, and one of the best movies ever made about life behind the Iron Curtain.
    • New York Post
  61. Southpaw
    Does not offer much in the way of exciting boxing footage.
    • New York Post
  62. The Filth and the Fury
    This bizarre, original and brilliantly crafted documentary about the Sex Pistols is funny and at times moving -- despite all the ugliness and stupidity it depicts.
    • New York Post
  63. Joe Gould's Secret
    An elegant, quietly comical but slightly constricted period piece whose stately pace is all but offset by several impressive performances.
  64. Rules of Engagement
    As mechanical and predictable as a cuckoo clock, it shouldn't work half as well as it does.
  65. Return to Me
    The cinematic equivalent of meat loaf -- comfort food that's reassuring in its utter lack of sophistication and surprises.
  66. Ready to Rumble
    Has its moments of interest, including two excruciating vocals by Arquette and Caan -- and a George Clinton score that contains a theme eerily similar to that of "American Beauty."
  67. Black and White
    At heart a cliché-strewn melodrama about a bunch of white, upper-class Manhattan kids who aspire to ghetto culture.
    • New York Post
  68. Price of Glory
    Price of Glory isn't an embarrassment on the order of the last major boxing movie, "Play It to the Bone," but it's not especially worth intercepting on its way to the video racks.
  69. The Road to El Dorado
    Ends up taking enough detours to keep DreamWorks' latest animated epic from striking cinematic gold.
  70. Beau Travail
    So minimalist in characterization and dialogue that the plot all but evaporates -- and so does any dramatic power.
    • New York Post
  71. High Fidelity
    The quirky High Fidelity really deserves being called the first must-see movie of the century.
    • New York Post
  72. Here on Earth
    Hokey, inept tear-jerker.
    • New York Post
  73. Waking the Dead
    Structurally flawed, occasionally shlocky, but written with unusual intelligence and subtlety.
  74. The Color of Paradise
    Doesn't have the emotional heft of his "Children of Paradise," but it's still moving.
    • New York Post
  75. Such a Long Journey
    An unusually well-written and satisfying multilayered drama that conveys the feel of urban India with more vivid accuracy than anything made in the subcontinent in recent years.
  76. Buddy Boy
    First-time writer-director Mark Hanlon lands only glancing blows in this grim black comedy.
  77. All I Wanna Do
    You have to sit through 90 minutes that feel like three hours.
    • New York Post
  78. X
    Ignore the furiously overplotted, headache-inducing story -- derived from a series of comic books -- and focus on the exquisitely drawn Japanese animation.
  79. Whatever It Takes
    An assembly-line high-school comedy that flunks miserably in all three subjects.
  80. Winter Sleepers
    A cold, emptily stylish exercise -- and one that sorely lacks the speed and vigor that made "Lola" run.
  81. Erin Brockovich
    The kind of stand-up-and-cheer movie Hollywood is supposed to have forgotten how to make.
    • New York Post
  82. Beyond the Mat
    Doesn't shy from the ugly side, though it's far from the no-holds-barred exposé being touted in the ads.
    • New York Post
  83. Babymother
    Writer-director Julian Henriquez does a great job staging the lively musical numbers.
  84. Final Destination
    OK premise quickly deteriorates into a silly, badly acted slasher movie -- minus the slasher.
    • New York Post
  85. Soft Fruit
    Honest but also derivative and crude.
  86. Les convoyeurs attendent
    Delightfully quirky.
  87. The Disappearance of Finbar
    Part of the problem is that the Finbar character is both underdeveloped and unattractive - you don't get a sense of why anyone would miss him, let alone go searching for him in the snow. [17 Mar 2000]
    • New York Post
  88. Mission to Mars
    It features well-below-par writing, acting, direction, special effects and music, while oozing a nauseating New Age sentimentality that undermines any tension in the underlying story.
  89. The Ninth Gate
    A non-thrilling occult thrillersolame and unoriginal that it would be an embarrassment for any director, much less a talent like Roman Polanski.
  90. Deterrence
    A triumph of low-budget filmmaking.
    • New York Post
  91. Condo Painting
    Might have made a tolerable five-minute "mockumentary," but it's apparently meant seriously.
  92. What Planet Are You From?
    It's still easily the funniest movie of the year.
  93. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    So filled with amusing, idiosyncratic touches and unexpectedly charming characters that you mostly don't mind its excesses.
    • New York Post
  94. Drowning Mona
    Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy.
    • New York Post
  95. The Next Best Thing
    If the movie were funny, the implicit sermonizing would be more tolerable, but apart from four or five good one-liners, The Next Best Thing is a thudding failure as a comedy.
  96. 3 Strikes
    A criminally slow, all-but-laughless blaxploitation comedy.
    • New York Post
  97. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    Visually gorgeous despite its low budget, The Terrorist is a haunting film.
  98. The Closer You Get
    Goes down as smoothly as a pint of Irish ale.
  99. The Waiting Game
    Annoying.
  100. Claire Dolan
    Simply not as involving or moving as it should be.
    • New York Post
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