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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Son of the Bride
    Crisply agreeable picture.
  2. Resident Evil
    Mildly grisly, assaultively noisy and tremendously boring.
  3. Y Tu Mamá También
    One of the most joyous movies I've ever seen, and one of the handful of great erotic films the movies have given us.
  4. Showtime
    Isn't particularly assaultive, but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase, explosion or gunfight again.
  5. Harrison's Flowers
    The fact that its sound and photography are gracefully crafted, or that fragments of a tolerable film are visible here and there, only makes its dumb-ass, romance-novel version of tragedy worse. This is one of the most badly botched mainstream movies I've seen in years.
  6. The Time Machine
    The Time Machine is, for the most part, a handsome, pleasant entertainment.
  7. All About the Benjamins
    The comedy is tepid, the action is dopey and even the violence is boring and occasionally cruel.
  8. We Were Soldiers
    Isn't a great movie; I'd say it's barely a good one. But it's a war movie that at least acknowledges the distinction between macho and masculinity, always putting the dignity of the latter over the bluster of the former.
  9. Borstal Boy
    As drama it feels forced and highly conventional.
  10. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    It's too mild to be crass; it's clumsy. Lehmann has made what amounts to an anti-sex sex comedy, the first youth sex comedy made to be enjoyed by those creepy abstinence teens.
  11. Stolen Summer
    Just slides off the screen and disappears.
  12. Big Bad Love
    It's made with an accurate and loving, but also wary and squinty-eyed, view of the South. If only the movie hung together better overall.
  13. Mean Machine
    I'm not sure Mean Machine is any worse than "The Longest Yard," but it lacks the nihilistic '70s background that lent the latter's combination of humor and brutality an air of (arguably bogus) social commentary.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Queen of the Damned
    Just as the author's characters suffer through their immortality, as they crave closure and a death to their blood-sucking madness, so Queen of the Damned demands an end to its own misery.
  15. Maryam
    This movie may not have the highest production values you've ever seen, but it's the work of an artist, one whose view of America, history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep.
  16. Monsoon Wedding
    Monsoon Wedding is going to be a big art-house hit because it's one of those movies that reassures audiences that people in other countries are just like us.
  17. Dragonfly
    Dragonfly wants desperately to be the spiritual heir to "The Sixth Sense," but it's not even as effective a thriller.
  18. Hart's War
    Put Bruce Willis and this bewildering World War II movie in front of the firing line.
  19. Crossroads
    The movie is a lumbering load of hokum, but unlike those other recent pop star white elephants -- it's at least watchable.
  20. John Q
    Leaves you feeling as if you've been alternately milked and bitch-slapped. Its manipulation is so clumsy and obvious -- and, ultimately, it goes so far astray from its original guiding principles -- that it leaves you feeling dangled and dazed.
  21. Collateral Damage
    Quickly plunges into boggy terrain from which it can never extricate itself.
  22. Scotland, Pa.
    This adolescent comic-noir trounces Shakespeare's "Macbeth," but Maura Tierney sizzles as a vengeful Lady Frycook.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Fat Liar
    Generally succeeds. But with just a bit more effort the movie might have been funnier and a lot more fun.
  24. Birthday Girl
    It's that sense of ardor that's missing from Ben Chaplin's performance in Birthday Girl.
  25. Slackers
    Slackers is supposed to be a gross-out comedy, but the tastelessness of its jokes is nothing compared to its sheer cluelessness.
  26. Storytelling
    Todd Solondz's newest debacle drips with contempt for his audience, his characters and his critics.
  27. The Son's Room
    Isn't bold or daring, but it is delicately distinctive; it's the kind of picture that stirs subterranean rumbles of empathy in us rather than flashy, gushing waves.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    To say the film doesn't quite recapture the thrill of the novel is like saying that soda pop doesn't really have the same kick as heroin.
  29. A Walk to Remember
    A vehicle for teen singing sensation Mandy Moore. As vehicles go, it's an Edsel.
  30. Orange County
    A feebly pleasant surprise: It's not as cheap, loud and sleazy as it might have been, but it's also too eagerly well-meaning and indistinct to really stick. It's a piece of mildly entertaining, inoffensive fluff.
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