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For 9,302 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 2.2 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 9302
  2. Mixed: 2,656 out of 9302
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9302
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  1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    By the end A.I. exhibits all its creators' bad traits and none of the good. So we end up with the structureless, meandering, slow-motion endlessness of Kubrick combined with the fuzzy, cuddly mindlessness of Spielberg.
  2. Come Undone
    The photography is strong, the performances sympathetic and the sex plentiful.
  3. Lumumba
    The film feels like bare- bones docu-fiction, though, resisting the attendant drama until the bitter, grisly end.
  4. Baby Boy
    It would have been enough that Singleton raise these difficult questions without trying to wrap them up, too, in the last five minutes.
  5. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    The film is built to quaver and buckle along with its victims and martyrs. In an almost soulful way, it bespeaks the reality lingering when the final fantasy ends.
  6. The Princess and the Warrior
    It's dreary and self-indulgent but has its crystalline moments.
  7. Dr. Dolittle 2
    It is the Eddie Murphy movie where Eddie Murphy has next to nothing to do. Do little says it all.
  8. The Fast and the Furious
    Something special about it. It's a formula movie, to be sure, but it's Formula One.
  9. Life and Debt
    It's an intelligent movie about economics. As such, it would probably make more sense to have it reviewed by economists than film critics.
  10. The Adventures of Felix
    It's a distinctly French feeling -- an air of caprice and light expectations -- and a perfect prologue to a delightful film.
  11. Auggie Rose
    One of those go-out-for-coffee-afterward-and-talk-about-it movies, and those are always welcome.
  12. Songcatcher
    Greenwald is fine at creating the texture of early mountain life but loses her footing by embracing several plot points at once.
  13. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    These are good moments, and there are a few others, that prevent Tomb Raider from being one of the worst films of the year. But they're not enough to make it worth seeing.
  14. Sexy Beast
    A vicious horror flick with an actual beast and someone who just acts like one.
  15. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    The emphasis here is less on cuteness and romance and more on the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"-style adventure.
  16. Evolution
    In a movie as hackneyed and as dull as Evolution, the small favors of Duchovny's performance stand out.
  17. Bride of the Wind
    The only performer who breathes any life into the proceedings is Vincent Perez.
  18. Dead or Alive
    This is no-holds-barred filmmaking. Some viewers will find it disgusting. Others will call the director's bluff.
  19. The Anniversary Party
    A caustic comedy of Hollywood manners.
  20. Erleuchtung garantiert
    It is a warm, closely observed satire of lived life, and it is a charmer.
  21. Swordfish
    This lurid thriller comes to life in fits and starts, and then sinks into the bog of its own cleverness once again.
  22. Divided We Fall
    Audiences will talk about how satisfying this movie is.
  23. A Love Divided
    An Irish drama that's a lot more sly and a lot less straightforward than it appears on the surface.
  24. Big Eden
    It's unlikely that the whole cowboy town would really applaud all the queer goings-on, but it's a lovely sentiment in a lovely movie.
  25. Rape Me
    It's a bizarre hybrid: one part feminist screed, one part French art film and one part skin flick.
  26. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    This sometimes funny but ultimately convoluted movie would have benefited enormously from letting Lawrence loose.
  27. Barking Dogs Never Bite
    Charmingly quirky.
  28. Himalaya
    They are naturals at acting, not because they're good at lying but because they can't be phony.
  29. The Man Who Cried
    It feels both big and little, concentrating as it does on the small movements in people's lives and the huge tides of history.
  30. The Road Home
    It's a simple story, reminiscent of the Iranian film "The Wind Will Carry Us."
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