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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. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    Lee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow.
  2. State and Main
    At its best, State and Main is fast and sharp, but when a movie like this goes off the rails, it's more disappointing than when a bad movie does.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Finding Forrester
    A farrago, with a few morsels of deft social observation and likable performances floating around in a conventional stew of overblown, bogus emotion and rigged catharsis.
  4. The Gift
    If you love actors, it's the sort of thing you might be tempted to see a second time, even after you've found out whodunit, just to examine more carefully the way the performers -- particularly the mesmerizing Cate Blanchett -- weave shining silken threads around what's essentially a pretty uninvolving narrative.
  5. What Women Want
    Aggressively offensive.
  6. Pollock
    As good as Harris is, though, it's Harden's performance that sticks with you long after you've seen the movie. She understands what Krasner must have known intuitively. Greatness comes not from cleaning up messes, but from allowing them to be made in the first place.
  7. Chocolat
    A cozy little ode to sensual and culinary pleasure.
  8. Vertical Limit
    Wants to be a dizzy, precarious thrill ride. Glenn provides the only gravity that doesn't seem dull, literal and earthbound.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Proof of Life
    Everything about Proof of Life is intriguing and a little off.
  10. Dungeons & Dragons
    This fantasy crap, fake-o effects and all, betrays princes of dice, masters of graph and wielders of bong.
  11. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    There's so much dreamy beauty in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that it's almost like a narcotic.
  12. 102 Dalmatians
    The whole movie is overbright, overloud, antic, telling us the characters and animals are endearing rather than allowing them to reveal themselves as such.
  13. Quills
    It's an unapologetic dazzler, which is why it's never overwhelmed by its themes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unbreakable
    For its perilous ambitions, Unbreakable has to be admired, but any ending that succeeds only in pulling the rug out from under a credulous, trusting audience has to be laughed at and called out for the extravagant nonsense that it is.
  15. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    You will not like it on the screen, you will not like it -- not one scene!
  16. Bounce
    A pallid, mediocre tale that treacles its way through well-worn channels.
  17. Little Nicky
    Sandler deserves to be damned to the pits of hell for this witless masturbatory comedy.
  18. You Can Count on Me
    A subtle and often surprising study of the relationship between damaged adult siblings, full of mordant humor and dramatic invention.
  19. Red Planet
    Isn't particularly offensive, except in its total mediocrity.
  20. Men of Honor
    In its quest to create "wholesome" entertainment, the movie industry is furiously turning back the clock four decades or so, to the days when men were men, girls were cute but knew their place and pencil-necked Poindexters stayed out of your damn face.
  21. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Redford glances too lightly off the story's racial questions. You could call that approach "eminently tasteful" if you're looking for a nice substitute for "wimpy."
  22. Charlie's Angels
    Who cares about the fate of privacy, of all things, when you can watch three sexy babes stamp out crime in zip-off suits and high-heeled boots?
  23. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Lets you indulge your taste for soapy heartache without leaving you feeling that you have to wash the bubbles out of your mouth.
  24. Lucky Numbers
    There's something refreshing about the way it invites us to splash around in its little wading pool of amorality.
  25. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    There's nothing scarier than a group of hormone-crazed 20-somethings, but this sequel isn't much more than a footnote of a footnote.
  26. Bedazzled
    It might not measure up to the 1967 original, but now Satan's got sooty pussycat eyes and a kitten-cruel smile.
  27. Calle 54
    Calle 54 doesn't have that coherence or vision of the "Buena Vista Social Club."
  28. Pay It Forward
    No wonder Arlene (Hunt) keeps a bottle of vodka in the chandelier. You would too with this demonic, passive-aggressive, New Age munchkin (Osment) trying to run your life.
  29. Dr T and the Women
    Almost all of the movie's romantic lunacy is too calculated and sly; the picture never quite sweeps us away.
  30. Animal Factory
    You come away with the sense that you should have come to care (or at least to know) more about its central characters than you do.
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