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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. Pearl Harbor
    It expertly capitalizes on the emotional associations Americans have with Pearl Harbor and renders the battle scenes with an excellence that goes beyond proficiency and into the realm of art.
  2. Our Song
    The movie's soul isn't its plot but the relationships among the girls.
  3. Fast Food Fast Women
    Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.
  4. Strange Fits of Passion
    Mediocre-TV-drama-load of formulas.
  5. Angel Eyes
    Angel Eyes is the rare film that presents a family dynamic as demented as ones we know from life.
  6. Moulin Rouge!
    A movie so cheeky, aggressive and bursting with vitality that it can't help being annoying and exhilarating at the same time.
  7. Shrek
    As innocent as a Disney movie -- and a lot more entertaining.
  8. Sordid Lives
    The laughs come in all the wrong places when they come at all.
  9. Startup.com
    An eye-opening documentary.
  10. The King Is Alive
    Builds into a shapeless riff on the existentialist misery of company.
  11. Bread and Roses
    Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms. The good guys are pure and spunky, the bad guys bellicose and one-dimensional, the conflicts stripped of nuance.
  12. A Knight's Tale
    More often than not, it's fun.
  13. Pavilion of Women
    This version is a well-meant but corny distillation -- a whole lot of bombast and phony exaltation in the name of entertaining enrichment.
  14. Under the Sand
    This is Rampling's film, and she's never less than surprising, never less than a revelation.
  15. Time and Tide
    At its most compulsive, this is the only action flick you'll need this summer.
  16. The Mummy Returns
    Suffers from the bloat common to sequels.
  17. One Night at McCool's
    A shamelessly dumb movie.
  18. Driven
    Even if his (Stallone) own star may be fading, the popularity of car racing is enormous. These fans are not likely to be disappointed by Driven.
  19. The Golden Bowl
    Impeccably mounted, nicely scored and beautifully written.
  20. Town & Country
    The movie's not bad enough to be world-ending, merely clumsy.
  21. The Luzhin Defence
    When the film sticks with the eccentric comedy of a highborn woman attracted to a preoccupied genius, it works splendidly. When it strays into melodrama, it is as ill-equipped as Luzhin.
  22. The Low Down
    If the movie sometimes seems not to come to much either, it does have something to say to those patient enough to stick with it.
  23. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Damning.
  24. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    The no-sweat clunkiness of the detective plot becomes kind of charming.
  25. Harry Is Here to Help
    A steady undertow of sex gives this French thriller a scintillating surface.
  26. Freddy Got Fingered
    The film is like watching Ozzy Osbourne bite the head off a rubber bat -- it's only almost heinous.
  27. The Center of the World
    One pities poor Molly Parker, a fine actress who was somehow persuaded to disrobe for this degrading and dispiriting Wayne Wang film.
  28. Lakeboat
    A must-see for Mamet fans.
  29. The Circle
    It's a startling, speedy, gracefully executed indictment.
  30. Bridget Jones's Diary
    A triumph for all involved.
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