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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. That's the Way I Like It
    Light and innocuous.
  2. Julien Donkey-Boy
    A self-indulgent mess.
  3. The Story of Us
    The movie's most inexcusable failing is that, despite all the flashbacks, we never get a sense of what this relationship was like when it worked.
  4. L'ennui
    It's a movie about an idiot in the grip of something common place. He starts off as a garden-variety idiot and progresses to a big idiot.
  5. Joe the King
    This is a smart film, told in a minor key, that augurs well for Whaley's directing career.
  6. The Straight Story
    All the actors are good, but it's Farnsworth's brilliantly simple performance that brings The Straight Story so close to greatness.
  7. Fight Club
    Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.
  8. Random Hearts
    Hollywood hit-making at its efficient, formulaic worst.
  9. The Grandfather
    The film's constrained style keeps the drama from reaching a full boil.
  10. Beyond the Clouds
    It's that compelling sense of mystery, of the endless search and its undercurrent of loneliness, that sets this great filmmaker apart.
  11. The Limey
    A first-rate crime thriller and further proof that Soderbergh is one of our great contemporary film stylists.
  12. Superstar
    Delivers plenty of laughs and succeeds on a level that recent ``SNL'' movies (``It's Pat!'' and ``A Night at the Roxbury'') didn't.
  13. Boys Don't Cry
    There may not be a better- acted film this year.
  14. Plunkett & Macleane
    A repellent, stupid film.
  15. Mystery, Alaska
    Scores big as a study of small-town life where characters collide and are forced to get along for the good of the community.
  16. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Full of that wonderful junky, clunky, huggable smartness that has made "Sesame Street'' an enduring phenomenon.
  17. Happy, Texas
    Anybody with a soft spot for fakers, who either identifies with them or just admires their chutzpah, is going to get a kick out of Happy, Texas.
  18. Bandits
    Has a lot going for it -- but too much going against it to be a clear-cut winner.
  19. Drive Me Crazy
    Succeeds in its modest way because its stars, Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier, are pleasant to be around.
  20. Divorce Iranian Style
    Captures the emotions of spousal charges, countercharges, defenses and pleadings ranging from brutally sarcastic to despairing.
  21. Double Jeopardy
    There's something heartening about a film that aspires to do nothing but entertain -- and does.
  22. On the Ropes
    Exceptional, powerful new documentary.
  23. Out of Season
    A skillfully observed but never quite satisfying lesbian romantic drama.
  24. Mumford
    So wonderfully odd, even spiritual, that audiences won't be able to do anything but smile.
  25. Dog Park
    Half a good romantic comedy. Luke Wilson is the good half...The weak half is Natasha Henstridge.
  26. Guinevere
    Disarms with its sincerity and frankness.
  27. Het ondergrondse orkest
    Has an odd mix of quickly grabbed handheld shots and scenes of striking beauty.
  28. The Jaundiced Eye
    A terrific documentary.
  29. Splendor
    A menage a trois tale that aspires to the breezy screwball comedies of the 1930s -- but more often resembles a hip soap opera.
  30. Sugar Town
    Isn't vicious. It's just cheerfully mocking as it courses the canyons and flatlands of Los Angeles.
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