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For 1,617 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Children of a Lesser God
Lowest review score: 0 Down to You
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 952 out of 1617
  2. Mixed: 532 out of 1617
  3. Negative: 133 out of 1617
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    X-Men
    For diehard fans, X-Men is full of in jokes and sly references -- For everybody else, there's the thrill of the unknown.
  2. The Kid
    But if the endpoint is a homiletic given, the journey itself is more charming, and less sentimental, than you might suspect.
  3. The Perfect Storm
    Impersonal Hollywood filmmaking at its most paradoxical. It keeps you glued to your seat, and leaves no aftertaste whatsoever.
  4. The Patriot
    There's no denying that Emmerich's film, though a good half hour too long, keeps us watching.
  5. Me, Myself & Irene
    This is a farfetched premise, and the movie pays a price for it.
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  6. Chicken Run
    It starts quietly, introducing its splendid gallery of fowl, rats and humans, then builds and builds until it achieves full comic liftoff.
    • Newsweek
  7. Groove
    Lively, likable and refreshingly unsensationalistic about the drugs and sex that come with the territory, this techno-propelled mash note to the rave spirit sticks to the surface.
    • Newsweek
  8. Love's Labour's Lost
    Labour teeters on the edge of the amateur. Yet it's hard not to root for its moonstruck spirit, or to succumb to the panache of the pastiche.
  9. Better Living Through Circuitry
    Fascinating but repetitious, Better Living Through Circuitry nevertheless does a good job describing the scene.
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  10. Center Stage
    The end is predictable after the first five minutes (two, if you're smart), but the film sucks you in all the same.
  11. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    The dialogue is inane, the acting wooden, and Roger Christian's directing choices are a lesson in sci-fi film cliché.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hamlet
    New York City has never looked so slick and shallow as it does in Hamlet, an innovative, contemporary adaptation.
    • Newsweek
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gladiator
    The fight scenes are dynamic, intricately choreographed, and downright exciting.
    • Newsweek
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Adorenarin doraibu
    Brims with youthful exhuberance, it just needs to cut to the quick a little quicker.
  15. The Big Kahuna
    It is an intense study of the human condition, and man's relationship with God, aka the Big Kahuna.
    • Newsweek
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frequency
    A touching thriller, a movie that's particularly hard to resist if there are things you never said to your own dad because you didn't have the chance, the inclination or the right ham radio.
    • Newsweek
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bossa Nova
    Sort of like a Jennifer Lopez video: pretty to look at, easy on the ears, but ultimately completely vacuous and lackluster.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Timecode
    You may leave the theater with a bit of a headache, but you'll feel amply compensated by the sense of having seen a master inventor at work.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Where the Heart Is
    Unfortunately, the strong ensemble cast is not able to hold together this often wayward and meandering story.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Croupier
    Watching Croupier is rather like watching a roulette wheel--utterly mesmerizing.
  21. Gossip
    Hampered by a silly plot and flat script.
    • Newsweek
  22. J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    Despite its bizarre intellectual project, Le Pecheur's film is seductive and shockingly sexy.
    • Newsweek
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    U-571
    The script is lame...but U-571 works, thanks to the jittery handheld-camera work, the great, visceral sound editing and a few sneaky plot twists.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love & Basketball
    While the first half showcases an impressive new directorial talent, the last two quarters fail to score.
  25. Keeping the Faith
    A fine film; as an Ed Norton picture, it's a disappointment.
  26. 28 Days
    This is a movie afraid of its own shadows.
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  27. Rules of Engagement
    Jones even manages to save this somewhat tiring film.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Return to Me
    In the second half the film meanders into all the danger areas one might expect: predictable plot twists, tearful separation scenes between the lovers, and even a joyful reunion in Rome.
  29. Black and White
    Maverick moviemaker James Toback has latched on to the most fascinating cultural phenomenon of the American moment.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Road to El Dorado
    May only be remembered for featuring the first homoerotic nude bathing scene in children's animated movie history.
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