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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. CyberWorld
    More about future potential than present achievement.
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  2. Yi Yi
    It may be the first meditative action movie.
  3. Taboo
    Ripe with homoeroticism, but also with what the director — who made the film after recovering from a stroke a few years back — calls "the scent of murder."
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  4. Bamboozled
    It's a film about dumbing down that has the effect of wising up its audience.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  5. Meet the Parents
    Blithely funny and on-the-money movie.
  6. Requiem for a Dream
    Aronofsky has fashioned a chilling vision that lives up to the caustic irony of its title and gives us a nightmare that is not lightly forgotten.
  7. Girlfight
    Rodriguez is riveting, with a drop-dead cynical charm.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  8. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    An undemanding and reassuring amiability that made it a crowd-pleaser at Sundance.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Barenaked in America
    Provide more than you ever wanted to know about the reigning kings of geekpop, but he (Priestly) does so without giving you much reason to care.
  10. Remember the Titans
    A conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale.
  11. Beautiful
    To do this kind of satire successfully, you need the kind of merciless and unrelenting wit of films such as Gus Van Sant's "To Die For" or John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor."
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  12. Best in Show
    A droll piece of deadpan played with mostly unerring pitch by a talented cast.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  13. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Has a dark, low-budget feel and an incongruous combination of self-consciously jokey patter and gross-out gore.
  14. Woman on Top
    Tries too hard to be playful and sensual, wacky and romantic, and comes away feeling fake and prefabricated instead.
  15. Dancer in the Dark
    A movie that by turns is wincingly awful and heartbreakingly fine. It boasts an unforgettable performance by Björk.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  16. Left Luggage
    An exceptional film -- unpacks long-buried suitcases, both figuratively and literally.
  17. Human Resources
    A fresh, striking and rewarding piece of work.
  18. Goya in Bordeaux
    Triumphs by taking an elliptical approach that still reaches directly into the very core of genius.
  19. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    A powerful and moving contribution to the cinema of the Holocaust.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  20. Urbania
    An edgy, disturbing drama.
  21. Duets
    Duets is to movies what karaoke is to pop: a spirited attempt by non-pros.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  22. Almost Famous
    Crowe is so good on mood and milieu that when Elton John's bubblegum ballad "Tiny Dancer" swells on the soundtrack, in this context it sounds like a hymn.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. The Way of the Gun
    So many characters to keep track of, so little time!
  24. Pola X
    Long and lugubrious.
  25. The Watcher
    Has its compelling moments, and its playfully inventive ones, too.
  26. Whipped
    Lewd, crude, blessedly brief.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  27. Titanic Town
    Violence ignites her passion, dividing her Belfast family.
  28. Madadayo
    A profound and deeply moving exploration of facing death with dignity.
  29. Dark Days
    Isn't as strong a film as it could have been: Only teasing slices of these people's lives are offered.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  30. Bring It On
    A likable, low-budget high school comedy.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
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