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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Saving Grace
    Blethyn's solid-gold charm turns Saving Grace into a comic high.
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  2. Space Cowboys
    The plot is too implausible to rank with "Unforgiven," but, oh, what a fun ride.
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  3. Coyote Ugly
    It's soft-core pap for horny boys and their hornier dads.
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  4. Hollow Man
    Verhoeven, who inflicted "Showgirls" on us, skips the provacative questions raised by invisibility and goes straight to rape and murder.
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  5. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    The "Citizen Kane" of flatulence.
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  6. Girl on the Bridge
    Paradis sizzles in a star-making role that gleams like one of Gabor's blades. She's a spellbinder.
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  7. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Eyes sees what it wants to see, but it's a riveting glimpse.
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  8. What Lies Beneath
    The scares are Hichcock hand-me-downs.
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  9. Chuck & Buck
    One of the year's best and most provocative films.
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  10. The Kid
    The comic screenplay...pivots on a toothless premise: Russ needs to get in touch with his inner child.
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  11. Shower
    Yang turns this heartwarmer into a feat of delicate magic.
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  12. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Too limp to deliver.
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  13. Scary Movie
    Would it be asking too much if the hit-and-miss jokes could maybe nudge an inch beyond the obvious?
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  14. The Perfect Storm
    It's shocking, considering the talent involved, the The Perfect Storm looks and feels fake.
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  15. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    It's sledgehammer whimsy, and it's not talking to me.
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  16. The Patriot
    A thunderous spectacle.
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  17. Me, Myself & Irene
    Irresistibly deranged.
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  18. Chicken Run
    It may sound silly, but Lord and Park conjure up a world of visual miracles.
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  19. Shaft
    Shaft scores by lacing ba-da-boom action with social pertinence.
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  20. Jesus' Son
    A mesmerizing film spinning from hilarity to heartbreak.
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  21. Humanité
    It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.
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  22. Love's Labour's Lost
    Branagh's take on the play comes right up to the edge of disaster but stubbornly refuses to leap in.
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  23. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    A product that will delight car junkies and drive cinephiles to swear off film until fall.
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  24. Big Momma's House
    How special.
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  25. Shanghai Noon
    Wilson is flat-out hilarious, playing this cowboy like a surfer dude zapped back in time.
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  26. Passion of Mind
    An indigestible chunk of romantic marshmallow.
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  27. Mission: Impossible II
    Keeps the pulse pounding without sacrificing laughs or logic.
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  28. Dinosaur
    In story terms, Dinosaur lays an egg.
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  29. Small Time Crooks
    The Woodman has recovered his common touch. On him, it looks good.
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  30. Road Trip
    As long as Green is onscreen, which is not nearly enough, Road Trip is easy to get revved up about.
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  31. Center Stage
    The cliched script by Carol Heikkinen plays like "Dawson's Creek" in toeshoes.
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  32. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    With this kind of epic ineptitude -- hell, the flick is set in the year 3000 -- you go for "worst of the millennium."
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  33. Hamlet
    Thou wilt be dazzled.
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  34. Up at the Villa
    It's fun to see Sean Penn portray a playboy, like Bogart in "Casablanca," who hides his true heart behind a layer of cynicism.
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  35. I Dreamed of Africa
    Plods along in the Oscar-winning, yawn-inducing tradition of "Out of Africa," making me yearn for something less "National Geographic."
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  36. Gladiator
    Glorious, a colossus of rousing action and ferocious fun.
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  37. Committed
    It's a one-joke premise that ultimately wears thin, but Krueger works some playful variations on a theme.
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  38. Frequency
    The time shifting raises questions the movie never answers, but it's hard not to enjoy the ride.
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  39. The Idiots
    With shocking humor and surprising grace, Von Trier creates something unique and memorable.
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  40. Timecode
    Even with sex, drugs, hip-hop and a murder, these four stories are dull, dull, dull, dull.
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  41. Croupier
    Taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as it protagonist.
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  42. U-571
    A rip-roaring action adventure.
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  43. The Virgin Suicides
    Coppola gives Suicides a haunted quality that is undeniably affecting, a feeling intensified by a wonderfully funny and touching Dunst.
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  44. Keeping the Faith
    A funny and touching date movie that dares to celebrate decency.
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  45. American Psycho
    An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.
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  46. 28 Days
    Count this rehab a success.
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  47. Where the Money Is
    With Newman, the movie emerges as a lively character piece with flashes of humor and grace.
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  48. East Is East
    Get your titles straight -- this is the good one, and a roaring good time.
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  49. Est - Ouest
    Director Regis Warginer ("Indochine") lets his film degenerate into a turgid melodrama.
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  50. The Filth and the Fury
    A kickass documentary.
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  51. Joe Gould's Secret
    It's a tall order that Tucci is not up to filling. But don't discount the pleasure of watching him try.
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  52. Rules of Engagement
    Friedkin turns on the juice and Jones and Jackson let it rip.
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  53. Return to Me
    A top cast, guided by actress Bonnie Hunt in her directing debut, mixes comedy and corn with savvy.
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  54. Me Myself I
    Karmel delivers feminist fun even a guy can get.
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  55. Black and White
    This lively mess proves that when Toback loses his head, he does it with style.
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  56. Beau Travail
    Unique and unforgettable.
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  57. High Fidelity
    All the pieces hang together. You can't say that about many movies.
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  58. Waking the Dead
    Gorden teases out some affecting scenes, but not enough to carry a film that promises more than it delivers.
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  59. Romeo Must Die
    Who needs iambic pentameter when you have Jet Li around?
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  60. Erin Brockovich
    Outrageously, even shamelessly, entertaining.
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  61. Mission to Mars
    What DePalma has never made is a dull movie. Until now.
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  62. What Planet Are You From?
    This comedy is packed with p---- jokes, the cruder the better.
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  63. Drowning Mona
    Tries for deadpan laughs but is merely lifeless.
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  64. The Next Best Thing
    Essentially an old-fashioned weepie gussied up for Y2K.
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  65. Wonder Boys
    Michael Douglas digs deep and delivers one of his best performances in Wonder Boys -- a comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity that is driven by characters, not jokes.
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  66. Reindeer Games
    It bristles with the brute force he brought to 1986's underrated "52 Pick-Up."
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  67. Judy Berlin
    Some movies are too good to miss. Judy Berlin is one of them...It works like magic.
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  68. Beautiful People
    Fierce, funny and vividly moving.
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  69. The Whole Nine Yards
    The film falls short; only Peet goes the whole nine yards.
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  70. Boiler Room
    The idea of the boiler room as a Y2K gladiator ring for disenfranchised youth provides a proactive new twist.
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  71. The Beach
    Colorful and exciting, as far as it goes. But Boyle and Hodge pull back on their usual wit and grit.
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  72. The Big Tease
    Irresistibly silly.
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  73. Isn't She Great
    Just isn't enough.
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  74. Eye of the Beholder
    Elliot fails to make the needed connection between the audience and a peeper who has lost his moral balance.
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  75. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
    A delicate gem.
  76. Play It to the Bone
    (Shelton) knows how to write pungent dialogue that covers a multitude of sins when the film goes off the rails.
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  77. Titus
    Taymor's visual and visceral flair makes Titus a grabber.
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  78. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    The talented Mr. Minghella has made an imperfect movie but not an impersonal one. His morality tale means to get under the skin, and does.
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  79. Man on the Moon
    You won't forget the way Carrey transcends mere impersonation to find the roots of Andy's torment.
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  80. Topsy-Turvy
    The year's most beguilling and touching surprise. Bravo.
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  81. Simpatico
    A promise unfulfilled.
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  82. Magnolia
    One of the best movies of the year--startling, innovative, hugely funny and powerfully, courageously moving.
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  83. Diamonds
    Isn't much of a movie, but it's worth a look just to see screen legend Kirk Douglas, Michael's eighty-three-year-old father, kick ass.
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  84. The Green Mile
    But just watch Hanks, with the effortless grace of a Jimmy Stewart, turn the loony into something sweetly logical. Now that is magic.
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  85. Stir of Echoes
    Compared with ("The Sixth Sense"), there's no contest. Stir of Echoes has been outrun and outclassed.
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  86. Tumbleweeds
    McTeer and Brown make magic ina film that is wonderfully funny, touching and vital.
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  87. Ride with the Devil
    A meditation on the racial and class conflicts at the heart of the American character.
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  88. Sleepy Hollow
    Gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with funhouse thrills and ravishing romance.
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  89. All About My Mother
    Pedro Almodovar's transfixing tragicomedy -- the best foreign movie of the year -- is also the best showcase for actresses in ages.
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  90. Liberty Heights
    I could have done more with the edgy humor of "Diner" and "Tin Men" and less of the mythmaking of "Avalon."
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  91. Dogma
    The first commandment of Dogma: Thou shalt not stop laughing.
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  92. Anywhere But Here
    Formula mother-brat stuff...It's only the deft teamwork of Portman and Sarandon that keeps the triteness at bay.
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  93. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    For the 148 minutes it takes "The Messenger" to deliver its message, being John Malkovich or Milla Jovovich is really no fun at all.
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  94. The Bone Collector
    Abandon all hope of logic, you who enter here.
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  95. The Insider
    With it's dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, The Insider offers Mann at his best -- blood up, unsanitized and unbowed.
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  96. Man of the Century
    A lighter-than-air comedy than runs on pure fizz.
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  97. Music of the Heart
    If "Mr. Holland's Opus" made you puke, you'd better bring a bucket to this true-life weepie about the importance of teaching music in schools.
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  98. Being John Malkovich
    The crazy-ass imagination at work in Being John Malkovich hits you like a blast of pure oxygen...this movie of constant astonishments will make you laugh hard and long.
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  99. Three to Tango
    The kind of movie that TV stars do when they're on hiatus and trying to squeeze one in.
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  100. Body Shots
    Trash.
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