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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. Ready to Rumble
    Let's be real clear about this: You've got to be suffering from some major trash-culture brain damage to enjoy a movie like Ready to Rumble.
  2. Black and White
    Toback's method of presenting the evidence without judgment backfires, finally appearing just as shapeless as the movie's structure.
  3. The Skulls
    This one's a pile of crap that won't start.
  4. Beau Travail
    Claire Denis' baffling and exhilarating "Billy Budd" smolders with heat-blasted rhythms and supercharged acting.
  5. High Fidelity
    Every single actor here rises to the occasion.
  6. Romeo Must Die
    A canny, ingeniously crafted guilty pleasure.
  7. Erin Brockovich
    Surely one of the canniest and most accurate films about American working-class life ever.
  8. Mission to Mars
    Startlingly inept from start to finish -- it's atrociously written, poorly shot and edited and fatally unfocused.
  9. The Ninth Gate
    Amusing, ultra-deadpan entertainment. The director was lucky enough to have a cast who were in on the joke and tuned in to his wavelength.
  10. What Planet Are You From?
    Bening's prickliness is pure delight, but there's only so much she can do. It's a terrible fate for an actress to be upstaged by a humming p----.
  11. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Every minute he's on screen, Whitaker makes Ghost Dog worth watching.
  12. Drowning Mona
    The movie is flat-footed, and the pacing gives you time to rest between laughs.
  13. The Next Best Thing
    Takes so many wrong turns it's barely an also-ran. It isn't the next best thing at all. Not even close.
  14. 3 Strikes
    A dumb and sloppy movie.
  15. Wonder Boys
    With a cast this terrific and a story this rich and wry, Wonder Boys really can't miss, even if it thumps to an underwhelming and moralistic ending that undoes a fair amount of its goodwill.
  16. Reindeer Games
    Ben Affleck provides a charismatic star turn, but John Frankenheimer's out-of-season heist thriller is dead on arrival.
  17. Judy Berlin
    An almost perfectly realized poetic vision of people who continue in their everyday existence certain that life in a larger sense has passed them by.
  18. Pitch Black
    The movie of the season for sci-fi and horror fans.
  19. The Whole Nine Yards
    Stupid, empty and -- worst of all -- fantastically boring.
  20. Boiler Room
    Made with confidence that borders on bravado, and sometimes it shows more conviction than it does grace.
  21. The Beach
    Boyle's Beach lacks imagination and energy, two things that might have distracted us, at least occasionally, from the material's tepidness.
  22. Scream 3
    I enjoyed every moment of this densely plotted final chapter, and most other fans will too.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Big Tease
    As light as a squirt of styling mousse.
  24. Isn't She Great
    A cupcake of a movie, a sweet and lightweight little thing that's all but served up in a ruffled paper cup.
  25. Fantasia 2000
    There's some sort of gross egotism involved in linking great music to visuals that are so unabashedly kitschy.
  26. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    A strange piece of work, perhaps closer to an imaginative portrait or an experimental fiction that borrows elements from real life than a traditional documentary.
  27. Play It to the Bone
    Doesn't quite have the goods.
  28. Titus
    Like so many self-conscious directors, Julie Taymor wrecks Shakespeare's already disastrous play with her own horrific vision.
  29. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    It must be hard to misread the tone of a book as single-minded as Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, but Anthony Minghella manages somehow.
  30. Any Given Sunday
    Stone is an undeniably stylish director, and his talent for conveying intense emotion is well put to use here. But more often Stone's in-your-face technique is as exhausting as his steroid-enhanced players.
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