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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. Angela's Ashes
    Dramatic, massive in scale, at times very moving. And yet, somehow, it comes up short in terms of essential poetry.
  2. Man on the Moon
    Too conventional to capture Kaufman's insanity and too haphazard, too shapeless, to recapture Kaufman's energy in any meaningful way.
  3. Girl, Interrupted
    Always worth watching when Angelina Jolie steps to the fore. Somehow, she takes a thuddingly ill-conceived role and turns it into gold
  4. Stuart Little
    Highly amusing for grown-ups, too.
  5. Simpatico
    Warchus seems as at ease with the complexity of the style as he is with directing actors.
  6. Magnolia
    None of the characters in Magnolia feel as vividly imagined as the porn stars and filmmakers and hangers-on of "Boogie Nights."
  7. Cradle Will Rock
    Obviously influenced by the style of Robert Altman's multi-character extravaganzas, Robbins has seized on this incident as the centerpiece in a carnival about the conflicts among art, politics and commerce.
  8. The Green Mile
    Above all a cracking good yarn that earns its laughter, its wonder and its tears.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The End of the Affair
    I'd put The End of the Affair just beneath the top rung of Jordan movies or Greene-based films (it's no "The Fallen Idol" or "The Third Man"), with Moore the critical element that makes it necessary viewing.
  10. Holy Smoke
    Kate Winslet is a mesmerizing force in her own right, but too much of Holy Smoke turns out to be hot air.
  11. Sweet and Lowdown
    Undeniably pleasant, but British actress Samantha Morton quietly explodes it: Her performance is like nothing I've seen in recent years.
  12. Tumbleweeds
    A deeply and disappointingly conventional picture masquerading as a free-spirited one.
  13. Ride with the Devil
    Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way into the multiplexes.
  14. End of Days
    For the most part it's a blast.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Toy Story 2
    Just as good as the original. In fact, it might even be better. Not only is it just as visually stunning and witty as the first, but it's funnier, more thoughtful and more grown-up.
  16. Flawless
    You need a pair of huge, hairy ones to make a picture this bad and call it Flawless.
  17. The World Is Not Enough
    If Bond long ago became part of your fantasy life or your pop iconography, then the anticipation of a good Bond movie would probably survive even if The World Is Not Enough were worse than it is.
  18. Sleepy Hollow
    The look of Burton's Gothic dream landscape, both lulling and energizing, is vested with so much power that it could almost substitute for narrative drive.
  19. All About My Mother
    So intrinsically rich that it doesn't need any metaphors.
  20. Dogma
    Kevin Smith's comic-religious fantasy turns out to be the sweetest hot-potato movie imaginable.
  21. Felicia's Journey
    As is typical with Egoyan, the structure is complicated and the layers of cinematic technique and texture are even more so.
  22. Anywhere But Here
    Despite its stellar leading ladies, Anywhere But Here is still a predictable generation-gap drama.
  23. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    A truly vulgar movie.
  24. The Bachelor
    The only thing more disappointing than a truly awful film is a merely weak one that has some really fun moments.
  25. Portraits chinois
    Truly is an ensemble comedy.
  26. The Bone Collector
    There's only one good reason to see The Bone Collector, and her name is Angelina Jolie.
  27. The Insider
    A marvelous ensemble cast and all the visceral impact and moment-to-moment tension of a fine thriller, together with the distinctive visual style of an art film.
  28. American Movie
    Extraordinary.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Legend of 1900
    But it tries to be (many) things -- and fails at them all.
  30. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    Along with Sheryl Lee, Morton is probably the best actress to have emerged in this decade.
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