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For 9,303 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,160 out of 9303
  2. Mixed: 2,657 out of 9303
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9303
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  1. The Piano Teacher
    Powerful and outrageous.
  2. Time Out
    "Human Resources" was a good, straightforward tale, but Time Out is better. It's haunting. It's like a poem.
  3. Death to Smoochy
    The spectacle is nothing short of refreshing.
  4. Panic Room
    Jodie Foster stars, and it's a pleasure, for once, to see her in something entertaining and mindless.
  5. No Such Thing
    An uneasy mixture of tragedy, satire, monster yarn and David Cronenberg creepiness, No Such Thing can't decide what it wants to be or how it needs to get there.
  6. Clockstoppers
    The result is mixed bag, an intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort.
  7. Lola
    Soft, evanescent and bittersweet.
  8. Sorority Boys
    This comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative.
  9. Very Annie Mary
    Pryce is very good, but Very Annie Mary is a bit too eager to please.
  10. Son of the Bride
    Manages to be affectionate without drawing too deeply from a well of sugar and schmaltz.
  11. Blade II
    Duller than first version.
  12. Pauline and Paulette
    van der Groen, described as "Belgium's national treasure," is especially terrific as Pauline.
  13. Harrison's Flowers
    Melodramatic take on love and war.
  14. Showtime
    A disgrace to the talents of Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy, but it's not enough just to say that. It's also a disgrace to the talents of Rene Russo and whoever drove the coffee truck to the set every day.
  15. Y Tu Mamá También
    Frank, funny and true as "Ghost World."
  16. Promises
    Extraordinary.
  17. Resident Evil
    There's a psychological undercurrent. The movie occupies a zone where science fiction and nightmares collide and intertwine.
  18. Ice Age
    Comes closer than any other recent animated film to the Looney Tunes ideal. Just as Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny entertained without either condescending to kids or lobbing adult jokes over their heads.
  19. All About the Benjamins
    The strange case of a movie that clunks in every possible way but the ultimate way -- it entertains.
  20. Festival in Cannes
    Wry and sometime bitter movie about love.
  21. The Time Machine
    There's something wrong with a time-travel movie that allows an audience's interest to drift so that we have time to worry over where he's parked, and whether he remembered to take his key.
  22. Stolen Summer
    It would be a mildly lovely thing to be able to say the movie isn't bad. But it is.
  23. Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    It turns out that Pepe Le Moko is even better than "Algiers."
  24. Borstal Boy
    The result is a film that will probably please people already fascinated by Behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration.
  25. We Were Soldiers
    One of the best war movies of the past 20 years.
  26. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    Builds up comic force in its first half. But then it blows it, leaving the audience feeling unsatisfied.
  27. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Gets most of the big things wrong and almost all the little things right. For two-thirds of its running time, it's a nasty little delight with an amusing and curmudgeonly central character.
  28. The Cherry Orchard
    Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling are the brave stars of this pretty but sterile adaptation of the Anton Chekhov stage classic.
  29. Big Bad Love
    Brown, is a good enough actor and director to keep the film afloat for long stretches.
  30. Maryam
    Forget the sometimes stilted acting. Forget the occasional scenes that are borderline cliched. Instead, focus on the message and the raw emotion.
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