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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. CyberWorld
    This novelty film is little more than a strung-together product reel of animation pieces put to the 3-D and IMAX test.
  2. Two Family House
    It's the kind of small but amazing character study (think ``Marty'') that film lovers yearn for while griping that this type of picture no longer gets made. Turns out it does.
  3. Bamboozled
    Guaranteed to inspire, antagonize and divide his (Lee's) audience.
  4. Get Carter
    This noir mystery is murkier than it needs to be, through no fault of Stallone's.
  5. Bootmen
    The film's overburdened, silly plot renders it a disaster.
  6. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Has an unrelenting staccato quality. Some would say a jackhammer quality.
  7. Yi Yi
    Wise, delicate and impeccably performed, Yi Yi is a three- hour drama that looks at one middle-class family in transition -- and does so with such a kind and probing eye that we all see our lives reflected through Yang's lens.
  8. Meet the Parents
    It's a kind of "sex, lies and videotape'' in suburbia.
  9. Requiem for a Dream
    He (Aronofsky) has put together a phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace. Otherwise, we might not be able to bear it.
  10. Beautiful
    (Driver) is stuck in a mess of a movie that suffers from awkward writing, a plot with major disconnects in plausibility, an annoyingly screechy kid character and cheesy production values.
  11. Girlfight
    The movie belongs to Rodriguez: A gorgeous woman with a powerful body and the face of an Aztec princess, she's also a natural talent who instinctively understands the importance of economy in good acting.
  12. Remember the Titans
    Earns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along.
  13. The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story
    Moreover, what the film lacks in temporal credibility, it amply makes up for in sheer rawness -- the rawness being literal.
  14. Barenaked in America
    These guys are very normal off stage, making them easy to like and not very exciting to watch.
  15. Best in Show
    In terms of dramatic tension, Best in Show is more compelling than a lot of formulaic sports movies.
  16. Chutney Popcorn
    Her direction is weak, her dialogue is cliched, and her acting lacks energy and focus.
  17. The Fantasticks
    Has slow patches and requires a generous suspension of disbelief. But it's also sweet and optimistic -- a welcome antidote to gloom.
  18. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Schlock, but amusing schlock.
  19. Woman on Top
    Wants to be a brightly colored bubble but has trouble getting aloft.
  20. Dancer in the Dark
    A thrilling, audacious work.
  21. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    At its slowest, the film has value as a historical document. At its best, the film gives a human face to stories of unimaginable suffering and unexpected triumph.
  22. Duets
    Appealing, and ultimately moving.
  23. Urbania
    Rarely does a movie come along that captures an aspect of everyday consciousness that has not yet made it onto film.
  24. Human Resources
    A rare film about the class and educational divide that can happen even within families.
  25. Goya in Bordeaux
    The movie never catches fire with the emotions.
  26. Bait
    The action is difficult to follow.
  27. Paragraph 175
    An exquisite and powerful documentary -- one whose elegance only heightens its devastating impact.
  28. Almost Famous
    A sweet but curiously unfulfilling story.
  29. Pola X
    Carax, with Pola X, has become a parody of himself with a self-indulgent, overreaching style that many viewers will find a struggle to watch -- provided they can contain their contempt for pretentiousness.
  30. The Watcher
    A hodgepodge of half-baked visual styles can't disguise the fact that this dismal thriller is all situation and no story.
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