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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Men in Black II
    Here's an idea: Let's just take that same gizmo-packed alien-attack buddy-flick blockbuster from the summer of '97 ... and make it dumber!
  2. The Powerpuff Girls
    It's a universe invented for our delight and pleasure and nothing else, a world made up of colors not found in nature but in a little girl's sock drawer. In Powerpuff Girls, shapes, images and colors make up the most crucial part of the message. It's a hot-pink little movie.
  3. Lovely & Amazing
    Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival.
  4. Harvard Man
    Sure, sex and drugs can take you to a higher plane. But not if a movie crushes your will to live first.
  5. Mr. Deeds
    Utterly predictable, thoroughly sentimental and -- worse -- not all that funny. It makes your average episode of "Third Rock From the Sun" look like the edgy mutant offspring of John Waters and Ingmar Bergman.
  6. Sunshine State
    Sodden and glum, even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and light. It makes you feel trapped and flailing as the minutes tick by. If it encapsulates anything, it's the experience of drowning, not waving.
  7. Minority Report
    It's a dark and dazzling spectacle.
  8. Windtalkers
    Windtalkers is the best of Woo's American movies, and the one with the sturdiest and most direct links to his earlier pictures.
  9. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    Undone by simply trying too hard.
  10. The Emperor's New Clothes
    A trifle but an exceptionally civilized, charming trifle.
  11. The Bourne Identity
    Entertaining, handsome and gripping, The Bourne Identity is something of an anomaly among big-budget summer blockbusters: a thriller with some brains and feeling behind it, more attuned to story and character than to spectacle.
  12. Scooby-Doo
    No serious film fan could stomach the cheap gags and farting contests in this goofball tribute. I laughed myself stupid anyway.
  13. Bad Company
    This cookie-cutter spy thriller depends on the chemistry between Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock. Um, wait, there isn't any.
  14. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    Isn't so much a movie as a tract, a parable in which the charred wisdom of its characters is much more significant than the intricacies of their lives.
  15. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    It's a difficult film to follow and at 172 minutes is maybe a half-hour too long. But simply as a sensory experience The Fast Runner is amazing.
  16. The Sum of All Fears
    Isn't a serious attempt to deal with our vulnerability to terrorism, or to address how established channels of power can bring us to the brink. It's the same damn Tom Clancy picture that's been churned out since "The Hunt for Red October," as humorless and gray and dour as its predecessors.
  17. Undercover Brother
    A joyful mix of high and low humor, pulled off with style and an eye for glamour (Danielle Hollowell deserves special praise for her costumes; she's the high priestess of fitted snakeskin).
  18. CQ
    A frothy, sexy, '60s delight with a movie lover's heart.
  19. Enough
    I think you'd have to be comatose or mentally incompetent not to find Enough ludicrous.
  20. Insomnia
    Like the best thrillers it dives below the ordered surface of the genre into the coldest waters of the individual soul, where Hitchcock and David Lynch and Dostoyevsky have ventured. Does Christopher Nolan belong in that company? Not quite yet, but he's on the way.
  21. The Importance of Being Earnest
    This well-cast adaptation somehow feels obvious and overblown.
  22. About a Boy
    As close to mainstream perfection as I've seen all year. It gives us everything we want, need and deserve without batting an eye.
  23. The Believer
    A bad movie -- really a terrible movie -- with a daring idea behind it. And it's had the sort of crummy luck that, no matter what you think of it, can get you steamed.
  24. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.
  25. Unfaithful
    It's one of the fullest portrayals of sexual desire and pleasure and fear I've ever seen in a movie.
  26. The Lady and the Duke
    It's dull in a very tasteful way, with none of the reverberating tenderness and sometimes surly vigor that characterize Rohmer's best work, things like "Summer" and "The Aviator's Wife."
  27. Hollywood Ending
    No director in the history of moviemaking has expended so much effort in the service of drying up and blowing off the landscape.
  28. Spider-Man
    What holds the movie together is its modest, sweet spirit.
  29. Rain
    A character who triumphs over a clumsy story line is a very rare creature. It takes a smart director and a sensitive actor to bring him to life, and to keep him breathing all the way through.
  30. Sade
    If you're looking for thrills, you should know that you have to wade through a good seven-eighths of the movie before Sade does anything remotely disreputable, and even then it's a rather mechanical bit of business that would have been more effective (and more disturbing) if it had been handled with a bit of humor.
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