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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. Shaft
    Lean, fast and undeniably entertaining.
  2. Jesus' Son
    It has a nobility and modesty, along with a refreshing lack of cynical attitude, that you rarely find in independent films these days.
  3. Love's Labour's Lost
    Love's Labour's Lost is flawed, but Kenneth Branagh remains our greatest living interpreter of Shakespeare.
  4. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    A time-waster with some enjoyably empty zip.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grass
    A flashy, smoker-friendly documentary on the twisted history of the evil weed -- and the misguided drug war against marijuana.
  6. Big Momma's House
    Martin Lawrence, no Eddie Murphy, takes a reheated cross-dressing shtick and turns it into something to elate your inner fourth-grader.
  7. Shanghai Noon
    Jackie Chan's latest teams him up in 1880s America with Owen Wilson -- and gives a giddy glimpse of what he'll be doing after he gets too old to do his death-defying stunts.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Better Living Through Circuitry
    In this floor-level view of the rave scene, director Jon Reiss keeps it pumping, humming, buzzing and spinning.
  9. 8 ½ Women
    Some viewers may find this movie sexist or misogynist simply based on its premise, but it's a mistake to take Greenaway's symbolic narratives too literally.
  10. Mission: Impossible II
    Even the most spectacular things Woo unleashes here feel strangely impersonal.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dinosaur
    "Bambi" meets "Godzilla": Disney goes for the goo in a by-turns gory and sappy new epic of computer-generated images.
  12. Small Time Crooks
    The latest from Woody Allen is an enjoyable trifle -- but Tracey Ullman and Elaine May walk off with the picture.
  13. Road Trip
    Like last year's "American Pie," Road Trip crisply delivers the goods: vaguely rakish heroes, vaguely kinky sex and highly naked nubiles.
  14. Center Stage
    Grand, juicy fun regardless, tapping as it does into some archetypal pleasure center.
  15. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Shot after shot photographed at wobbly, off-center angles for no particular reason, weigh every action sequence down with super-slo-mo in lame imitation of "The Matrix" or end every single scene with a vertical wipe.
  16. Hamlet
    If this Hamlet weren't so perfectly conceived visually, it would probably stand solidly on the basis of its acting alone.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Up at the Villa
    Despite the prestigious talents involved, this is strictly "Minor Piece Theatre."
  18. Gladiator
    For all its grandeur, Gladiator is a canned experience, a film that flails around awkwardly trying to find a reason to exist, or at least a compelling story to tell.
  19. Where the Heart Is
    Portman and Judd aren't responsible for the mendacious and finally repulsive sentimentality of Where the Heart Is, but by the end their wholesome glow seemed contaminated by it, and that's a shame.
  20. Gossip
    Ludicrous trash, but it has style.
  21. U-571
    May be the shoddiest and most incoherent piece of big-budget action moviemaking since "Armageddon."
  22. The Virgin Suicides
    (Coppola) connects with the essential purity of Eugenides' story, stripping it down to its bare essentials and cutting straight to everything that's wonderful about it.
  23. Keeping the Faith
    Edward Norton's dopey directorial debut gives interfaith romance a bad name.
  24. Set Me Free
    Aside from the effectiveness of Set Me Free as a coming-of-age story, it's also one of the most poetic avowals of love for movies that I've seen in years.
  25. American Psycho
    (Harron) has made a passionless movie about a passionless man, and it's all supposed to add up to make us feel or even just think something, but what?
  26. 28 Days
    Not even court-ordered rehab could save this stumbling drunk of a picture.
  27. Where the Money Is
    Lacks any layers beyond its own amiable inconsequentiality. It needs the spark of the distinctively American slapstick craziness that has distinguished Frye's previous work.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Filth and the Fury
    A kinetic and unstoppable ride.
  29. Joe Gould's Secret
    Carefully made, respectful and dull.
  30. Return to Me
    Almost seems like a godsend in this age of romantic-comedy schmaltz.
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