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For 927 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Big Night
Lowest review score: 0 Luminarias
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 524 out of 927
  2. Mixed: 227 out of 927
  3. Negative: 176 out of 927
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  1. The Great Beauty
    If you know Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," you'll be unable to watch The Great Beauty without thinking about it. This gorgeous Italian movie, like its predecessor, balances pungent satire and a more melancholy mood in portraying the dissolute world of the upper crust in contemporary Rome.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Second Skin
    An excellent human-interest documentary that unlike so many others has a genuine appeal beyond someone already interested in the subject matter.
  3. Stephanie Daley
    This is grim material, but director Hilary Brougher -- working from her own script that won a Sundance award -- examines the lives of these two suffering women without sensationalism or preaching.
  4. Starter for 10
    Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy.
  5. The Good Shepherd
    A remarkable study of the corrosive effects of fear and power on an establishment insider who puts duty above all else.
  6. My Country, My Country
    A sobering documentary.
  7. The Beautiful Country
    Quiet, moving and beautifully shot.
  8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Leave it to Ron Howard to turn a plaintive Dr. Seuss ditty into a C-grade Tim Burton psychodrama.
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  9. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    The journey's a kick.
  10. Non-Stop
    Simply an endurance contest, one almost worth staying the 82 minutes to see who wins.
  11. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    As entertaining, charming and conceited as other Robert Redford joints, but it's also insufferably obvious.
  12. Charlie's Angels
    So phenomenal that Bill Murray can't even steal it. And he tries. So excellent that Murray's MTV progeny Tom Green can't sink it.
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  13. Lucky Numbers
    An unsteady stab at noir.
  14. A Time for Drunken Horses
    The welcome hints at emotional excess are compromised by the blunt force of the movie's political point-making.
  15. Kirikou and the Sorceress
    Set in a vivid two-dimensional African village, the animated fable is jerky, odd but redolent somehow of Saturday morning and the night's sleep before.
  16. Sound and Fury
    In 80 minutes, the film accumulates a staggering gravity.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  17. Bedazzled
    The ending is a disappointment, a perfunctory upbeat gesture.
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  18. The Yards
    Classic in feel and loaded with sumptuous performances.
  19. Dr T and the Women
    A finely coiffed, cream-cheese "8 1/2" remix with Gere, a Marcello Mastroianni for Oprah Winfrey times.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  20. Billy Elliot
    An adrenaline-pumping, post-musical musical.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  21. Just Looking
    Too smitten with the Eisenhower-era nostalgia.
  22. The Contender
    The sort of smutty scandalmongering the average moviegoer can really get behind.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  23. Two Family House
    De Felitta has taken potentially overripe material and given it real heart.
  24. CyberWorld
    Some delightful surprises, but the sort of heavy-metal, high-definition sci-fi look that dominates the proceedings, plus the relentless pace and endless morphing, are somewhat tiring.
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  25. Bamboozled
    Collapses under its own contempt.
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  26. Meet the Parents
    What begins as unassumingly dull wanders into disarming chaos.
  27. Requiem for a Dream
    It's one of the most beautifully unpleasant movies ever made - its reverse charge being that it is no fun at all.
  28. Girlfight
    There's a sense of genuineness throughout Girlfight.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  29. Remember the Titans
    A proudly unsophisticated demonstration of racial progress.
  30. Best in Show
    Gets blue-ribbon results from its thoroughbred cast of improvisational comics.
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