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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. Lumumba
    Betrayal is at the heart of this story, but also dreams of liberty and a life where all people are treated with respect.
  2. The Princess and the Warrior
    Lacks the gimmicky hook that made "Run Lola Run" an arthouse hit, but it doesn't lack for ideas, nor for images that will sweep you up in their boldness and have the resonance of dreams.
  3. Chain Camera
    Informative, funny, sad and intriguing.
  4. The Fast and the Furious
    A massive compendium of youth-movie/pedal-to-the-metal cliches. But man, is it fast!
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  5. Dr. Dolittle 2
    A tired, cobbled-together concoction.
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  6. Life and Debt
    What's frustrating for the viewer who wants to support the Jamaican economy is that "Life and Debt" does not suggest how Jamaica-lovers can help the island's citizens.
  7. The Adventures of Felix
    Poignant, funny and clear-eyed about some tough topics: homophobia, racism, AIDS.
  8. Down from the Mountain
    If the heart of the film is Hartford, who late in his struggle with cancer conveys the luminous colors of a man at his twilight, its soul is Welch.
  9. Songcatcher
    Greenwald's film is filled with an infectious love for the region's songs. It could hardly be otherwise, given the level of musical talent she recruited for Songcatcher.
  10. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    A by-the-numbers extravanganza that journeys from London to Venice to Siberia to Cambodia without ever really going anywhere.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  11. Sexy Beast
    Glazer has a daring sense of story structure that ratchets up the suspense, and his sense for sardonic black comedy is unerring.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  12. La grande strada azzurra
    A small, beautiful film exploding with big ideas.
  13. Divided We Fall
    The film treats the ensuing issues of conscience and compromise with subtlety and warmth.
  14. Swordfish
    It's hard to say with certainty whether it's insufficient plot or insufficient interpretation that's responsible for Travolta's waxwork performance.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  15. Evolution
    Evolution devolves to the sight of a colossal alien expelling flatus over Arizona. So that's why this movie stinks. Play that flatulent music, white boy.
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  16. The Anniversary Party
    Has a loose, improvisatory feel that rings true.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  17. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Unfortunately for Disney, the real obstacle confronting the submarine isn't the giant lobster. It's a foul-smelling ogre, and it's no contest.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  18. Bride of the Wind
    Stiff but handsome film, there's little sense of the conflict and complexities that drove Alma Mahler.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  19. Rape Me
    Strictly for adventurous moviegoers, a peculiar experience -- a polemic that is at once watchable and repellent.
  20. Big Eden
    Too cute by half (or maybe three-quarters).
  21. Himalaya
    It's human drama, high and mighty.
  22. The Road Home
    The Road Home takes a path few movies choose to travel these days, but it's a very affecting journey.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. Pearl Harbor
    A script with the most underdeveloped characters and spectacularly realized visuals since "Titanic."
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  24. The Man Who Cried
    Melodramatic and strangely moving.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  25. Our Song
    Heartbreaking? Sometimes. Involving? You bet.
  26. Fast Food Fast Women
    Painfully cute drama.
  27. Angel Eyes
    Lopez is so remarkably unaffected and guileless that she manages to carry the film through its mood swing, if not successfully to its conclusion.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  28. Shrek
    The humor of the script constantly confounds expectations, and yet Shrek still manages to say all the right things to children.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  29. Moulin Rouge!
    You get faux feelings -- but faux of the highest, giddiest order.
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  30. Startup.com
    This small story that tells the much bigger story of the New Economy's bubble and burst is less a documentary than it is breaking news.
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