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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. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    A pleasant myth.
  2. Charlie's Angels
    An utter debacle.
  3. Loving Jezebel
    A joyous first feature by director Kwyn Bader, is a charmer.
  4. The Little Vampire
    The results are predictable and only mildly entertaining.
  5. A Room for Romeo Brass
    Goes downhill fast.
  6. A Time for Drunken Horses
    Presents us with characters of such humanity and dignity that it begins to seem obscene that until now we haven't exactly given all that much thought to the Kurds.
  7. Stardom
    What makes it interesting is the story that the viewer must put together, of a model who lives her entire life -- or at least what we see of it -- in front of the camera.
  8. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Worse than dull. It's parasitic.
  9. Lucky Numbers
    When Travolta plays, everybody has a good time.
  10. What's Cooking?
    A big-hearted celebration of the we're-all-in-this- together American way.
  11. George Washington
    Hardly perfect or fully successful, but it's strange and strangely beautiful -- a unique work of art.
  12. Kirikou and the Sorceress
    Kirikou and the Sorceress is definitely a sunny spot in the mire of frenetic, violent and often dopey cartoon films produced by Hollywood. It's also far more imaginative that most.
  13. Sound and Fury
    A documentary with the emotional power of the very best in narrative film. It has characters impossible to forget, moments impossible to shake and an ending that leaves the audience both moved and rattled.
  14. The Wolves of Kromer
    The wolf-homosexual analogy is well drawn, but Wolves ultimately feels slight, a tad unfinished -- as if it were conceived as a sketch and hadn't been fleshed out to feature length.
  15. The Yards
    Keeps sinking into its own grimness.
  16. Just One Time
    Darned if this film doesn't have some nice touches.
  17. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Among Chan devotees, it achieved cult status.
  18. Calle 54
    It is a spellbinding hour and 45 minutes of pure music, Latin jazz to be specific.
  19. Pay It Forward
    Has all the elements of a satisfying movie except knowing when to stop.
  20. Bedazzled
    Fraser and Hurley are terrifically matched for their interplay, and some of the writing is so smart it outclasses the film's cartoonish feel.
  21. Just Looking
    Pleasant, ultimately sweet but never quite inspired.
  22. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    It's a bitter pill to swallow, featuring a quartet of unsympathetic characters and an unrelenting air of misanthropy.
  23. Lost Souls
    While it's beautifully shot, it's way too slow.
  24. Dr T and the Women
    Provocative, audacious.
  25. The Contender
    Thoroughly engrossing.
  26. Billy Elliot
    People who see it may feel like dancing out of the theater afterward. Go for it.
  27. The Ladies Man
    An unblushing sex farce often so raw it might make even fairly open-minded people feel a bit uncomfortable.
  28. Ratcatcher
    When it's not awful, it's dull.
  29. One
    Visceral and strong.
  30. Taboo
    A further, captivating extension of Oshima's marriage of the oblique and the erotic.
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