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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. Big Momma's House
    My guess is that the film will appeal equally to broad-minded 10-year-olds and their grandparents.
  2. Shanghai Noon
    As irresistible as Chan is irrepressible. In a movie season in which, it seems, all the blockbusters boast wheels, it's a treat to see a movie that has legs.
  3. Passion of Mind
    It's too gauzy, and - with its Ron Bass script - too goopy by half.
  4. Kikujirô no natsu
    No one has done the journey quite like Takeshi Kitano in Kikujiro
  5. 8 ½ Women
    8 1/2 Women is a collage-y, self-reflexive sort of film that is designed to shock but more often just annoys.
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  6. Mission: Impossible II
    Never as much fun as (Woo's) old Chow Yun Fat-starring Chinese pics.
  7. Dinosaur
    An undeniable and, indeed, unprecedented technical feat that's a feast for the eye, Dinosaur is less easy on the ear.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  8. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    The troupe deserves every bit of its worldwide renown, and it makes this Imax trip one well worth taking.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  9. Young Dr. Freud
    It works beautifully and illuminates aspects of Freud that you might think beyond the reach of the the camera.
  10. Small Time Crooks
    Sunnier and sillier than most of Allen's recent work, makes its belly laughs heartwarming. It's a most winning movie about losers.
  11. Road Trip
    Not as consistently or uproariously funny as "American Pie," but it does have a Zen zaniness that gives it center as well as edge.
  12. Center Stage
    Modestly entertaining when it is engaged in such a celebration onstage, but it trips up when the action moves backstage, where bad dialogue ... lurks in the shadows.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  13. Hamlet
    Almereyda's smart, streamlined adaptation is full of such neat little ironies.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  14. Human Traffic
    Fast, funny.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  15. Up at the Villa
    It's low-grade Casablanca - an ill-fated love affair, rife with murder and deceit, with World War II as a backdrop and a farewell scene that has something to do with getting to Paris.
  16. I Dreamed of Africa
    Consist of little more than people arguing or clambering in and out of dusty Land Rovers.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  17. Gladiator
    It's a stunning Roman triumph.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  18. Adorenarin doraibu
    A high-energy chase, but in this spirited action comedy Yaguchi still finds time to allow the romance between lovers on the run to blossom at its own pace.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  19. The Big Kahuna
    Doesn't have the dramatic heft to warrant all its angst and anguish.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  20. Committed
    Krueger's comedy doesn't always spark, but its underlying intelligence - not to mention Graham's eyes - shines through.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  21. Frequency
    Smart, suspenseful, satisfyingly unpredictable.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  22. Bossa Nova
    Not only is Bossa Nova a lovely romance, but one can say, as one can about few films, that it is restorative as a vacation.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Lame and misguided homage, which reduces satire to vulgar silliness for kids.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  24. Timecode
    Gimmicky artifice.
  25. Croupier
    Croupier, immersed in a world of gambling, gamesmanship and crime, is a solid, seductive entertainment.
  26. The Last September
    Undeniable asset of an A list cast.
  27. U-571
    It's still a submarine movie, confined by the ship, the sea, and a convention-laden script.
  28. The Virgin Suicides
    There's a melancholy sweetness here, a gentle humor that speaks to the angst and awkwardness of girls turning into women, and the awe of boys watching the transformation from afar.
  29. Set Me Free
    Stands apart from the trite conventions of most coming-of-age drama chiefly through the originality of Pool's approach and the honesty and conviction of Karine Vanasse's portrait of Hanna.
  30. American Psycho
    A high-end version of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" set in the rarefied bistros, boites and brokerages of Yuppie Manhattan in the 1980s.
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