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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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  1. Moulin Rouge!
    It's a mishmash of decoration, drapery and debauchery that's both deeply pleasurable and kitschy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Startup.com
    A story about risk, about hubris, about youth, about the old way and the new way, and about what happens when you trade everything for something that really isn't there.
  3. A Knight's Tale
    Works neither as an exuberant rock 'n' roll picture nor as a heroic fable. It will rock you --straight to sleep.
  4. Eureka
    You may find yourself spellbound or colossally irritated; it's a close call either way.
  5. The Mummy Returns
    Everything the first "Mummy" was fun for not being. It's loud and chaotic, jammed with effects that don't wow us precisely because they are trying so hard to wow us.
  6. Deuces Wild
    It's so uncomplicated you could go out for spaghetti after the first 10 minutes and slip back into your seat just in time for the last 10, and you wouldn't feel you'd missed a thing, save a rumble or two.
  7. One Night at McCool's
    Should have been a quick and dirty pulp tall tale. But it pokes along instead of accelerating, and though it isn't exactly smug it's rather too pleased with its own manufactured outrageousness.
  8. Town & Country
    It may be a haphazard mess, but it's actually pretty funny.
  9. Freddy Got Fingered
    It's a performance that screams "Look at me!" louder and bigger than an elephant dick. And every bit as subtle.
  10. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The script is teasingly, pleasingly raunchy in places.
  11. The Circle
    The picture is so dramatically textured that you feel something's happening every minute.
  12. Joe Dirt
    What makes it so disappointing is that the movie is just another sub-Farrelly-brothers collection of miscellaneous gags.
  13. Josie and the Pussycats
    Would be more fun if it were either more shameless or more principled in the bad-girl way, taking a stance on the value of artistry and attitude over commerce.
  14. Blow
    Depp aside, the movie is higher on style than it is on substance.
  15. Along Came a Spider
    A dreary, ludicrous thriller.
  16. The Tailor of Panama
    A sophisticated, subtle adult entertainment that is also a compliment to the audience.
  17. Amores Perros
    A feverish, breathtaking tour through Mexico City high and low, an explosive, mosaic-style portrait of our continent's largest city.
  18. Spy Kids
    One of those gentle surprises, a kids' picture made with enough thought and care to keep adults entertained too.
  19. Someone Like You...
    Another insulting women's comedy.
  20. Heartbreakers
    Mirkin hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.
  21. Say It Isn't So
    The movie is like a well-intentioned designer knockoff that doesn't know when to quit.
  22. Enemy at the Gates
    This is spectacle cinema made with individual flair; maybe someone in Hollywood will notice that it's still possible.
  23. Memento
    Whenever Harris or Tobolowsky come on-screen they stop Memento dead in its clever tracks. You want to tell Nolan to stop all the po-mo deconstructive game playing and pay attention to the two human beings in front of him.
  24. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Westfeldt and Juergensen keep Kissing Jessica Stein bright and funny and loose.
  25. When Brendan Met Trudy
    It's a movie almost doomed to be called "refreshing," in the way that the word is used to excuse the game but amateurish presentation of a quirky premise.
  26. 15 Minutes
    Less a movie for intelligent moviegoers than a suggestion that we're all brainless chickens.
  27. The Gleaners & I
    Something of an odd bird, a cross between a documentary, an art film and a personal reflection on aging.
  28. The Caveman's Valentine
    It hovers somewhere in that never-never land of movies that try to do too much and don't quite live up to any of their ambitions.
  29. Series 7: The Contenders
    I felt like dropping to my knees in the theater and praying for this smug, irritating fake-reality-TV show to go away, leaving these three terrific actors (and characters) in something resembling a real movie.
  30. See Spot Run
    How do you screw up a family movie that has a cute bull mastiff, a cute 6-year-old and David Arquette playing a mailman? Apparently by unleashing half a dozen writers to gnaw it to pieces and entrusting the result to a TV director (John Whitesell of "Cosby" and "Roseanne") with little sense of how to tell a story longer than six minutes.
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