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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. 8 ½ Women
    A surreal comedy about sex that comes as close to charming as Greenaway ever gets.
  2. Shanghai Noon
    This is almost Mel Brooks territory: The frontiersmen think the Chinese are Jews, while the white settlers think it's the Crow Indians who are. Whoosh!
  3. Kikujirô no natsu
    The comic drama is refreshingly anti- sentimental but will break your heart anyway.
  4. Mission: Impossible II
    Woo's aggressive, cartoony attack in the film, which makes for its biggest delights, also wipes out whatever chance it might have had of making an emotional impact.
  5. Small Time Crooks
    A delicious comedy that starts out promisingly as a pleasant gag comedy but then turns unexpectedly into a bright social satire.
  6. Road Trip
    The film's real find is D.J. Qualls, who is very funny as a jug-eared nerd who blossoms into a wild man after three days on the road.
  7. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    The big screen -- with that 3-D depth charge -- captures the strange magic of the "big top" Cirque in visual gulps.
  8. Dinosaur
    For all the eyepopping splendor and in-your-face reality, this film leaves the viewer unsatisfied and feeling a little cheated out of compelling drama.
  9. Shadow Boxers
    Could use more background and personal detail on Rijker, but Bankowsky's tight, no- frills approach is always compelling.
  10. Kadosh
    Slowly unfolding but liberating film, which is also a rare look inside a circumscribed community.
  11. Center Stage
    The strained romantic plot is a slow fizzle.
  12. Hamlet
    It commits the only crime that can be committed against Shakespeare: It makes him boring.
  13. Screwed
    Gives stupid, vulgar comedy a bad name.
  14. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Is it worth seeing once? Sure.
  15. Gladiator
    At 2 1/2 hours, Gladiator is a long ride, but it doesn't drag.
  16. Luminarias
    An occasionally charming, sometimes amateurish film .
  17. La Nouvelle Ève
    It's fascinating.
  18. The Basket
    Amiable though slow-going.
  19. I Dreamed of Africa
    Surprisingly dull and predictable in its characterizations.
  20. Up at the Villa
    In the most extreme moments, Thomas hits her career pinnacle.
  21. Adorenarin doraibu
    A goofy genre-buster that takes its amateur criminals as seriously as ``Pulp Fiction'' or ``Run Lola Run'' did theirs.
  22. Human Traffic
    This British film also mocks the rave culture it celebrates, and it's charming in a way that is hip but surprisingly down to earth.
  23. Michael Jordan to the Max
    Monotonous.
  24. The Idiots
    Fascinating, obnoxious and poignant.
  25. Frequency
    A fairly wonderful movie about fathers and sons and the mystery of time.
  26. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Fast falls from interestingly loopy to tiresome.
  27. Bossa Nova
    Does have a certain classy charm because of its upscale setting. One could wait for the video.
  28. Where the Heart Is
    Sloshes between comedy and drama, never quite hitting stride as either.
  29. Timecode
    Story pitches are made. Coke is snorted. There is lesbian sex. Fellatio. An earthquake. A murder. Just another day in Hollywood.
  30. Committed
    It's a fizzle as as comedy. Still, the film has character.
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