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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. Where the Money Is
    Leaves you in no doubt of where the talent is in what would otherwise be a throwaway picture.
  2. Southpaw
    Refreshingly gritty and hard-nosed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Filth and the Fury
    This time around, Julien Temple gets it right.
  4. Rules of Engagement
    A casualty of its own clumsy storytelling.
  5. Return to Me
    She (Hunt) is perfection even when her movie falls a little short.
  6. Price of Glory
    Hollywood keeps turning out boxing movies. Price of Glory is the latest to step into the ring and face an increasingly no-win situation
  7. High Fidelity
    With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, is like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  8. Here on Earth
    Nothing wrong with the syrupy romance Here on Earth that a megadose of insulin couldn't fix.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  9. The Color of Paradise
    The film's climax involves a father and son reunion that is tense, tragic and, finally, as transcendent as Mohammad himself.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  10. Such a Long Journey
    Gunnarsson crams his movie with subplots from the novel and then abandons them for lack of room but Seth calibrates the stages of Gustad's journey with infallible judgement and conviction.
  11. Whatever It Takes
    You haven't heard anything until you've heard "Play That Funky Music" on the accordion.
  12. Final Destination
    As full of terrible acting as it is devoid of suspense.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  13. Mission to Mars
    It's low-energy, and it's also depressing to know that people are still listening to Van Halen 20 years from now.
  14. The Ninth Gate
    Begins to take on a striking resemblance to the infamously bad "Eyes Wide Shut."
  15. Drowning Mona
    It can be broadly funny when it does not lapse into lazy "Dukes of Hazzard" caricature, which is often.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  16. The Next Best Thing
    Contrived story lines and an altogether phony resolution erase whatever energy and wit the film displayed, leaving the viewer with an empty, disappointed feeling.
  17. Mifune's Last Song
    With the filmmaking techniques pared to the bone, it is left to the actors to bring the scenes alive - and they do, often brilliantly.
  18. Wonder Boys
    Lovely performances from McDormand, Downey and Richard Knox, who looks uncommonly like Little Richard, as a bar owner named Vernon Hardapple.
  19. Reindeer Games
    Some movie-goers will be more annoyed than surprised by the finale.
  20. Judy Berlin
    Laced with magic-realist bittersweetness.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  21. Pitch Black
    The "Alien" recipe with a little imagination.
  22. Beautiful People
    When Dizdar hits, he hits big.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. Hanging Up
    Imagine "King Lear" art-directed by Martha Stewart and you have Hanging Up.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  24. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Scrupulously made and deeply affectionate.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  25. Not One Less
    Has a slow-burning emotional power.
  26. The Tigger Movie
    A yawning affair that would be a perfectly fine video rental but doesn't really require the big screen.
  27. Snow Day
    A light-as-powder family comedy.
  28. The Beach
    Whether he's smacking into an iceberg or flopping topless onto a sandy beach, DiCaprio is still maddeningly lightweight.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  29. Scream 3
    At 116 minutes, this third installment lumbers along like a serial killer in shackles.
  30. The Cup
    An improbably funny and transcendent account of soccer-mad Tibetan monks in exile at a Bhutan monastery.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
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