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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. Hearts in Atlantis
    A film with many redeeming qualities. Its heart is certainly in the right place, but its head makes some misjudgments.
  2. Vampire Hunter D
    A genre pastiche that's fun to watch, although it's also frustrating.
  3. The Endurance
    Makes for the most thrilling action movie of the year.
  4. Liam
    While there are similarities to the hardscrabble saga of "Angela's Ashes," Frears' film avoids the mawkish pitfalls of Alan Parker's screen adaptation.
  5. Glitter
    "Zis is not verking! Zee glitter cannot overpower zee artist!" That, in a sentence, sums up what is wrong with this picture.
  6. Haiku Tunnel
    However refreshing it is to see a movie about the secretary rather than the lawyer -- there is a long wait for the light at the end of the Haiku Tunnel.
  7. Two Can Play That Game
    A snappily fun Mantrap Movie, as films about husband-hunting gals are known, is that rare hybrid of romantic comedy and Super Bowl.
  8. The Musketeer
    What a stupefying thing it is.
  9. The Iron Ladies
    A goofy sports inspirational.
  10. Rock Star
    Rock Star sinks into a morass of melodrama.
  11. L.I.E.
    A disturbing and provocative study of adolescence and isolation.
  12. O
    Stripped of its poetry, some of the devices of the tragedy of the Moor come off here as woefully contrived.
  13. Jeepers Creepers
    A standard-issue, ineptly executed serving of the genre's staples, from skeptical cops to an all-knowing psychic.
  14. Fighter
    The film speaks to fundamental issues of history, truth, and the philosophical conflicts of humankind.
  15. Tortilla Soup
    Flavorful and fun. "Muy sabroso y divertido," as Martin might say.
  16. Together
    A mordantly funny, clear-eyed view of an extended family's mounting dysfunction in a changing society.
  17. Ghosts of Mars
    While this cheesy, heavy-metal melange of horror, space hooey and cowboy shoot-'em-ups isn't exactly dull, it isn't anything to write home about either.
  18. Happy Accidents
    Happy Accidents is romantic perversity in reverse.
  19. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Frisky, raunchy and frequently riotous.
  20. Summer Catch
    Fuzzy, feel-good movie about baseball, babes and believing in yourself.
  21. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    It's not fresh and irreverent, qualities we admire in Allen. It is recycled and irrelevant.
  22. Innocence
    If there's a more passionate love story out there, then I haven't had the privilege of seeing it.
  23. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    A handsomely staged and craftily constructed tearjerker.
  24. American Outlaws
    As a western, American Outlaws is an utter failure. As the basis of a "Mad TV" parody, it is an unintentional hoot.
  25. Rat Race
    Somnambulistic pacing, kerplunkingly unfunny jokes, and mugging thespians making fools of themselves. Truly torturous spectacle.
  26. All Over the Guy
    Davis, with a nicely turned and witty screenplay from Bucatinsky, freshens up the familiar predicament by having her two lovers recount the affair to a stranger.
  27. American Pie 2
    With the raunch quotient cranked up several notches, the sequel is calculated, cynical and, worse, not funny.
  28. Osmosis Jones
    Should you take the kids? Boys 8 to 11 are the target audience for this gross-out film. A better question might be, should they take the parents?
  29. The Others
    Beautiful to behold but lacking in any kind of palpable dread or suspense.
  30. The Deep End
    Remains rooted in the real world, which makes its story all the more satisfying -- and chilling.
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