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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Endurance
    The film is a pleasure, which the real thing was not. It's also a chilling adventure and a compelling story from beginning to end.
  2. Glitter
    I desperately wanted Glitter to be trashy and over-the-top, to be so courageously awful. As it is, it isn't nearly bad enough to be that kind of good. It's simply there, all dressed up with no place to go, and that's the most damning thing you could say about it.
  3. Haiku Tunnel
    The charm and the shoddiness of Haiku Tunnel stem from the same source. It's basically a San Francisco underground theater production that somehow escaped onto the movie screen without losing any of its eccentric, insular qualities.
  4. Hard Ball
    It may follow a formula, but sometimes formula equals comforting routine. And there are times, in the movies and elsewhere, when routine is exactly what you need.
  5. Two Can Play That Game
    Ultimately feels somewhat overprocessed, and its humor is a little too broad at times -- it probably crosses the acceptable threshold of penis and boob jokes.
  6. The Musketeer
    There isn't a frame of The Musketeer that's believable even as a Hollywood re-creation of a fantasy world. It's conventionally picturesque, except in the nighttime and interior scenes, which are dark to the point of glaucoma.
  7. Rock Star
    But even here, in a role that doesn't ask much of Wahlberg, I find plenty of evidence that he's among the finest actors of his generation.
  8. L.I.E.
    Though I admire much of what Cuesta does in L.I.E., the film didn't give me much pleasure. I didn't find it unpleasant or repulsive; it's just that I felt he was too much outside the story.
  9. O
    The film is a plodding, earnest adaptation that strips the source of its richness and ambiguity.
  10. Jeepers Creepers
    Gets off to a great start and then simply shuts down, like an awesome vintage car on an ambitious road trip.
  11. Together
    Together is the kind of picture that makes you feel that there are many good reasons to actually LIKE mankind.
  12. Ghosts of Mars
    It might be nice if Ghosts of Mars had more to offer than snappy repartee and shameless gore, or if it could borrow a little narrative tension from its Alien Chain Saw forebears.
  13. Maybe Baby
    Sabotages itself by trying too hard. The worst of it is that Maybe Baby feels very much like an Englishman's attempt to make a Nora Ephron movie, all warm and squishy in a decidedly American way.
  14. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    At times fun but mostly maddeningly uneven, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back feels less like a full-fledged movie than a side project Smith took on to amuse himself and his buddies.
  15. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Nothing but plot and production values, and there's barely a laugh in it that isn't quashed.
  16. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Sells ignorance as a refined evening's entertainment.
  17. American Outlaws
    No drama, no lyricism, just cornpone. It's too bad, because outlaws are, by their very nature, glamorous movie subjects.
  18. American Pie 2
    Of all the characters in American Pie 2, male or female, Michelle is the only one who feels completely rounded and whole. She moves with unerring grace and subtlety through this feeble minefield of a movie, unharmed by the tepid jokes that flop and fizzle around her.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Osmosis Jones
    Remains stubbornly one-dimensional. The gags are so resoundingly and innocently pre-adolescent that it's really hard to see how the film managed a PG rating.
  20. The Others
    An elegantly crafted entertainment, balanced between the psychological and the supernatural, that gets extra credit for not relying on computer effects.
  21. The Deep End
    The Deep End doesn't have a knotty message, but it's a much more meaningful picture than "Suture."
  22. Rush Hour 2
    Chan is still one of the most amazing -- and one of the most charming -- physical performers the movies have given us.
  23. The Princess Diaries
    Such weak medicine. Sure enough, it goes down. Keeping it down is another matter.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Apocalypse Now Redux
    I think Apocalypse Now Redux works better at the end now because it spells out the tension within Willard far more clearly than earlier versions did.
  25. Planet of the Apes
    Past the first third, Planet of the Apes is entertaining enough, but it stops far too short of being completely seductive.
  26. Wet Hot American Summer
    A thoroughly inept piece of moviemaking. You're more likely to find a ham sandwich at a Passover seder than to find a laugh in this picture.
  27. Greenfingers
    Certainly pleasant enough, and if you can put the preachiness out of mind it's entertaining, in its square, conventional way.
  28. America's Sweethearts
    It's mostly terrible. The movie has no sparkle, no charm, nothing to sweep us off our feet.
  29. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    The sight of Hedwig and his band transforming a trashy trailer into a glitter-rock stage during "Wig in a Box" was so exhilarating I almost leapt out of my seat. The movie is pure theater, as it should be.
  30. Ghost World
    Offers an exquisite tour of the twilight zone between high school and the so-called real world, as well as between bohemian subculture and the even stranger culture of America at large.
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