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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. Autumn in New York
    Turns into one long wallow.
  2. Bless the Child
    A schlocky thriller that might appeal to less discriminating members of the mall crowd.
  3. Cecil B. DeMented
    It's an audacious little comedy with bursts of hilarity and a certain giddy energy.
  4. The Replacements
    Just like a low-budget football comedy, only with money.
  5. The Tao of Steve
    A modest but charming romantic comedy.
  6. The Tic Code
    If it seems to have the ingredients of an after-school special, the performances take it to another level. Gut level.
  7. Saving Grace
    It tries to get by on charm. It doesn't.
  8. Psycho Beach Party
    If it doesn't always come off, enough headlong energy develops to carry it through.
  9. Coyote Ugly
    It's amazing how far a movie can go on nothing but speed and directness.
  10. Hollow Man
    Might be a blast of ridiculous fun -- the way truly bad movies tend to be -- if it weren't so noxious and reprehensible.
  11. Space Cowboys
    Best movie of the summer.
  12. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    A comedy of interracial wariness and misunderstanding marked by a refreshing lack of sappiness.
  13. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Frequently hilarious.
  14. Girl on the Bridge
    Paradis, an actress and pop singer, is sensational.
  15. Wonderland
    Loses steam only when it strays from the sisters and attempts to depict their parents' loveless marriage.
  16. The Wind Will Carry Us
    Film is often too subtle and languorous for its own purposes: At times, it's close to soporific.
  17. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    This land of sweetness and light may appeal to many, but to some it is going to seem like living hell.
  18. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Demonstrates, if nothing else, that there's a genuine person -- chastened by mistakes and more compassionate, perhaps, for all she's suffered -- beneath the war paint and the stardust.
  19. Les amants criminels
    Straddles a number of genres -- horror film, lovers on the lam, fairy tale -- and gives them all a cool, knowing spin.
  20. Alice et Martin
    Heartfelt and passionate and brave in what it attempts to explore.
  21. Loser
    Loser is just as it sounds.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Feels like an extended TV cartoon segment.
  23. What Lies Beneath
    Goes Hitchcock one better by imagining what it would be like if the master had the advantage of digital technology.
  24. The In Crowd
    A glossy piece of trash.
  25. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    This nasty, provocative comedy comes from a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
  26. The Five Senses
    A lot more than the sum of its delicately balanced parts.
  27. Chuck & Buck
    It becomes stronger and more honest than most character studies on film.
  28. Shadow Hours
    Cynical to an extreme, it doesn't illustrate its points but blasts them at us -- in italics, boldface and capital letters.
  29. X-Men
    This feast of fantasy is worth it.
  30. I'm the One That I Want
    A wickedly, punishingly funny movie.
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