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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Death to Smoochy
    Williams, going full throttle as the desperate deposed kiddie icon Rainbow Ralph, is, well, simply exhausting.
  2. Panic Room
    Works the basics with style and intelligence.
  3. Son of the Bride
    It's a wise and endearing little film.
  4. Margarita Happy Hour
    Stunning, beautifully observed character study.
  5. Pauline and Paulette
    Simple, poignant and leavened with humor, it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship.
  6. Y Tu Mamá También
    That rare thing, a Hollywood teen flick transfigured into something like pubescent scripture: In the beginning, there was lust; in the end, there is knowledge.
  7. Showtime
    A flat-out cynical attempt to launch a new Lethal Weapon-like franchise.
  8. Harrison's Flowers
    MacDowell brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role. She's strong stuff in a movie that is likewise gripping and powerful.
  9. Ice Age
    Diverting, if undistinguished.
  10. Festival in Cannes
    It isn't a good movie, but it is diverting, a showcase for Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi and Ron Silver, and a peephole on behind-the-scenes moves.
  11. The Time Machine
    The film, in its early going, also has a nice light humor about it, and an engaging, albeit tragic, love story.
  12. All About the Benjamins
    Ice Cube possesses real screen presence, and it's a shame to see him squander his talents here. He and Epps made me laugh in "Next Friday." They made me squirm here.
  13. We Were Soldiers
    One admires Wallace's intentions while despairing at his execution. Yet as clumsily directed as his film is, it inspires compassion for Moore, his men and their foes. And in that, there is merit.
  14. Borstal Boy
    The film's intimations of bisexual romance have a certain innate drama that no amount of bad acting or cornball rugby matches can completely erase.
  15. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    It's rare that a movie is so graceful and so gross.
  16. Stolen Summer
    Even when his technique is amateurish, Jones' belief in the material is refreshing. Pollak's gentle humor is well balanced by the blunt wit of Bonnie Hunt as the O'Malley matriarch.
  17. Big Bad Love
    Too long (and it sure ain't taut), but it brims with passion.
  18. Mean Machine
    A likably energetic star vehicle for English sports god Vinnie Jones.
  19. Queen of the Damned
    At its best, Queen is campy fun like the Vincent Price horror classics of the '60s. At its worst, it implodes in a series of very bad special effects.
  20. Monsoon Wedding
    A feast for the eyes and ears as its story is a banquet for the heart.
  21. Dragonfly
    A syrup-thick New Age ghost story of the same sappy stripe and mawkishness as another Costner foray, "Message in a Bottle."
  22. Hart's War
    The plot is canny, but it would be little more than an ingenious springloaded device were it not for the performances by Howard and Iures.
  23. Crossroads
    This is a star vehicle that stalls.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scratch
    Filled with wildly inventive sound, as records are cut up and recombined on the spot.
  25. Super Troopers
    The thing about stoner comedy is that, well, it helps to be stoned.
  26. John Q
    This is an A-list cast toiling on a C-list screenplay.
  27. Wendigo
    A thriller fusing the primal elements of "Bambi" with those of "The Blair Witch Project."
  28. Collateral Damage
    The best that can be said about Collateral Damage is that it offers a fleeting fantasy of American invincibility at a time when we desperately crave the reality. It functions as a movie narcotic.
  29. Swiri
    Compelling, kinetic, fast and furious.
  30. Scotland, Pa.
    That very curious thing, a Shakespearean happy meal.
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