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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. Behind the Sun
    A powerful allegory.
  2. In July
    A picture so infectious it almost seems original.
  3. Princesa
    A sympathetic look at what it's like to be a Brazilian transsexual prostitute working in Milan.
  4. Baran
    Can and should be appreciated as a work of delicate and unmistakable beauty.
  5. Tuvalu
    A disappointment, a precious and grotesque exercise reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Delicatessen," only less amusing.
  6. Final
    The film is like watching a very bad play as presented by a very bad director.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Uprising
    A solid network effort about heroism in a most immoral world.
  8. Last Orders
    The actors do their best, particularly the impeccable Mirren, but Schepisi draws a shroud of chaste dullness over their scenes and lays on an energy- sapping score.
  9. The Business of Strangers
    Stettner approaches this material with a playwright's incisiveness and structural sense. His dialogue is cutting, often surprising.
  10. No Man's Land
    The film is exciting in two big ways: its simplicity of story (Tanovic does not get bogged down trying to give us an epic history) and the breadth of Tanovic's vision.
  11. Ocean's Eleven
    There's no joy and little playfulness about this caper comedy, which, despite a lighthearted script, has a sober undertone to it, almost a melancholia.
  12. Bay of Angels
    Great pleasures.
  13. The Independent
    Really is just an excuse to string together some silly fake-movie clips.
  14. The Affair of the Necklace
    Plays like the cinematic equivalent of a paperback bodice- ripper with embossed type.
  15. Behind Enemy Lines
    Behind Enemy Lines has a wretched script and a director (first-timer John Moore) who either has no taste or doesn't know what he's doing.
  16. Trouble Every Day
    Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better.
  17. Bangkok Dangerous
    Brothers Oxide and Danny Pang co-directed. What they lack in discipline they make up in razzle-dazzle, even if it sometimes is pointless.
  18. In the Bedroom
    A lot of actors are labeled "brave" for taking on difficult scripts like this, but Spacek is the real thing: an artist first, without vanity, and a movie star almost by default.
  19. Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
    Few who see it will be sorry. Sometimes being humane means not being squeamish.
  20. Black Knight
    Martin Lawrence finally gets to show what he can do as a screen comedian.
  21. Sidewalks of New York
    Burns has a hard time finding a central idea, some overall point that isn't borrowed or trite. Or both.
  22. The Devil's Backbone
    The film doesn't explore the nature of ghosts, as it promises to initially, but it's fun to watch Del Toro confront death and fear with such energy and humor.
  23. Spy Game
    Enormously satisfying and fun to watch.
  24. Out Cold
    A purposely inane mishmash of maudlin love story, gastrointestinal gags and shredding snowboard scenes, Out Cold has a couple of laughs but mostly wipes out.
  25. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    A lively, ultimately sad portrait.
  26. The Fluffer
    It's hard to give two hoots about any of these characters.
  27. Novocaine
    Spins an unconvincing, miscast noir tale.
  28. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Absolutely the best single moment, beautifully presented, comes when the orphaned Harry looks in a mirror and sees his parents there. It is brilliant in its simplicity and very moving.
  29. The Wash
    The picture itself seems stoned. Line readings and whole scenes are abandoned midstream, as if Pooh lacked the attention span to see his ideas through.
  30. Maze
    Well-intentioned but predictable romance.
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