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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. Les amants criminels
    Both the leads are scarily good, and Ozon imbues his troubling tale with jarring blasts of light and the sun-dappled beauty of the natural world.
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  2. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    I could make a joke here about the new Pokemon movie.
  3. The Five Senses
    Thoughtfulness and artistry ...raise this small, quiet picture to moments of pure epiphany.
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  4. Shadow Hours
    A pointless modern morality play set in various sleazy locales that offer sex, drugs, assorted perversions, bare-knuckle fights, and even Russian roulette where lives are wagered for money.
  5. X-Men
    Doesn't match up against the new millennium martial artistry of "The Matrix," nor do the special effects - but he knows how to establish characters and relationships.
  6. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    You can feel the world closing in, which, I would venture, is exactly how Fassbinder wanted you to feel.
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  7. The Kid
    There's nothing Disneyesque about this bomb except the forced levity of its musical score.
  8. I'm the One That I Want
    (Director Lionel Coleman) wisely opts for a straightforward approach with long takes that capture Cho's kinetic rhythm and rely on her talent and honed timing to carry the evening.
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  9. Shower
    Told in a leisurely though concise 92 minutes, Shower is a purifying and refreshing spray of hope that family and lifestyle differences can be reconciled. Lovely.
  10. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Repetitive and tedious.
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  11. Scary Movie
    Its grossness knows no bounds, and you'd have to be dead not to laugh.
  12. The Perfect Storm
    The problem with The Perfect Storm is that while its roiling collision of weather systems is pulled off with cinematic deftness, the actors who stand there getting lashed and splashed don't have anything terribly interesting to say.
  13. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    The whole affair has a painfully self-conscious, self-referential air. Jokes land with a thud, and so, alas, does Rocky, who seems to have forgotten how to fly.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  14. Trixie
    Wastes an A-list cast in a sorry send-up of B-movie private-eye cliches.
  15. The Patriot
    If Emmerich had any sense, he would have ceded the direction of the battle scenes to his star.
  16. Me, Myself & Irene
    Utterly charmless - there's not even a glimmer.
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  17. Chicken Run
    It's aimed at adults as much as children, with jokes that work on multiple levels, and contraptions.
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  18. Titan A.E.
    Plunges into a void created by a stale and incredibly derivative plot.
  19. Shaft
    Shaft is still enormously involving. It's popcorn, but very fresh.
  20. Jesus' Son
    Floats before your eyes like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The surprise is that, fitted together, these pieces make a completed picture.
  21. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    The film only occasionally comes to life - it's too literal (and literary), too studied, too still.
  22. Humanité
    While Dumont's movie has its striking scenes, it is doomed to a sense of lethargy and inertia by the kind of people it ponders and the context in which they are placed.
  23. Butterfly Tongues
    Manages the rare feat of being both bleak and deeply rewarding.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  24. Boys and Girls
    It's nothing if not predictable.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Groove
    Unfortunately, it lacks a compelling story or characters of any complexity.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  26. Pop & Me
    An entertaining, occasionally illuminating autodocumentary.
  27. Sunshine
    A powerful film.
  28. Love's Labour's Lost
    Has its moments of charm, but it's ultimately a fascinating failure that surely looked better on paper than it does on the screen.
  29. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Proves a theory first advanced in the movie "Repo Man": The more you drive, the stupider you get.
  30. Grass
    A spirited, smart-alecky look at the ongoing conflict between a government that wants to eliminate pot and a public that wants to smoke it.
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