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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. Audition
    Brazen shocker is never less than compelling -- even when you feel compelled to shut your eyes.
  2. Original Sin
    The lead performances are very strong -- few actors possess as much sheer physical presence as this pair -- but their dialogue is stilted, as though lost in transit from a Victorian hothouse.
  3. Under solen
    This modest drama is the art-house equivalent of comfort food: satisfying in its familiarity.
  4. Rush Hour 2
    If there's going to be a "Rush Hour 3," the filmmakers need more of the Ziyi/Sanchez women warriors to punch up the sagging cross-cultural buddy humor of the Chan-Tucker partnership.
  5. The Princess Diaries
    The extent to which The Princess Diaries succeeds is the result of how pretty Hathaway at first mimics, then internalizes, Andrews' essential majesty.
  6. Apocalypse Now Redux
    It's an occasion for welcoming a restoration that transforms a flawed movie, one that was touched by greatness, into a masterpiece. [10 Aug 2001, p.W3]
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  7. Planet of the Apes
    Offers a primal vision of the primate order turned topsy-turvy. It is provocative. It is frightening. It is a mess.
  8. Bread and Tulips
    Actresses such as Maglietta are why movies were invented: You never get tired of her mercurial personality or of her infinitely compelling face.
  9. Jackpot
    Filled with bleak, beautiful Hopperesque tableaus and strange characters whose lives intersect.
  10. Greenfingers
    Between Owen's quiet intensity and Mirren's showy color, they make a complementary pair for screen or garden.
  11. Brother
    When it works, which is often, Kitano's movie is an anthropology of the distinctions between Japanese yakuza and American gangsters.
  12. America's Sweethearts
    Christopher Walken has the best moments in the whole thing, portraying the wacked-out auteur of the Gwen-and-Eddie vehicle. Sadly, he's only in America's Sweethearts a few hilarious minutes.
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  13. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    This drag-queen melodrama, like its star, perseveres.
  14. Ghost World
    There's a loneliness at the heart of this world, and Ghost World, that's really touching -- and a bit scary, too.
  15. Jurassic Park III
    Has to be the sorriest excuse for a reprise since "Highlander — The Final Dimension."
  16. The Score
    A jazzy, immensely absorbing thriller.
  17. Made
    Favreau and Vaughn have chemistry to kill: comic, combative and engagingly goofball.
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  18. Legally Blonde
    Smart screwball comedy that upends the stereotype of the airhead towhead.
  19. Bully
    Clark denies his audience the catharsis, resolution and renewal of classical tragedy. The film reduces its viewers to helplessness, and I'm not sure that's its intent.
  20. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Is Final Fantasy decent sci-fi? Yes, more than decent.
  21. Everybody's Famous!
    A good-natured comedy of errors from Belgium, should elicit smiles, if not belly laughs.
  22. Kiss of the Dragon
    Kiss of the Dragon is a straight-ahead star vehicle for the trim and terse Li, whose steady gaze and fist-flying ways are tempered by a gentlemanly mien.
  23. Lost and Delirious
    Perfectly cast, if insufficiently dramatized.
  24. Jump Tomorrow
    A light and extremely likable comedy -- just what the doctor ordered right now.
  25. Cats & Dogs
    For its first hour, it's a delightful cloak-and-dagger comedy starring a brave Beagle James Bond and a depraved Persian Dr. Evil.
  26. Scary Movie 2
    Scary Movie 2 has something for potheads and the potty-mouthed alike. Anyone looking for a true sequel, however, will be disappointed.
  27. The Closet
    It's a bright and breezy piece, and a refreshing alternative to the gross-out Hollywood comedies.
  28. Crazy/Beautiful
    An intelligent romance that cuts against the grain of the youth-pic genre, crazy/beautiful boasts a scarily good performance from Dunst.
  29. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    A fascinating but flawed work that demonstrates that, contrary to popular wisdom, great minds do not think alike.
  30. Come Undone
    A delicately managed piece that is by turns intimately detailed and elliptical, and that's an approach that suits the tangled emotions of its two protagonists.
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