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For 2,129 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 One Battle After Another
Lowest review score: 0 15 Minutes
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,156 out of 2129
  2. Mixed: 747 out of 2129
  3. Negative: 226 out of 2129
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  1. X-Men
    It's a rich, impressive comic-book fantasy -- easily the summer's best "blockbuster."
  2. Chuck & Buck
    Might be the most perversely agreeable stalker picture ever made.
  3. I'm the One That I Want
    This is an amazing movie.
  4. But I'm a Cheerleader
    So sniggeringly one-sided that the picture has no tension.
  5. The Perfect Storm
    It's like a memorial service with killer special effects.
  6. The Patriot
    It's depressing that this first movie in years to dramatize the American Revolution has so little to do with the politics of secession and so much to do with pop-culture themes of vigilantism.
  7. Praise
    Not enough happens in it. And yet everything happens in it.
  8. Me, Myself & Irene
    A disgusting piece of work; I still can't believe how much I loved it.
  9. Chicken Run
    Poetry in motion: It's eggsquisite.
  10. Shaft
    A pretty good action flick -- twisty, marvelously acted, and energetically (if not always coherently) staged.
  11. Groove
    Groove offers the most wholesome vision of orgiastic oneness imaginable -- it's a raver's version of "The Love Boat."
  12. Love's Labour's Lost
    Unfathomably awful.
  13. Mission: Impossible II
    At his best (Woo)'s too promiscuous with the slow motion; and once those doves start fluttering in he enters a new dimension in self-parody.
  14. Small Time Crooks
    Sour and mostly feeble, with a depressingly curdled worldview. It bears no resemblance to Allen's surreal, open-ended comedies.
  15. Road Trip
    This isn't an objectionable movie, just a mild, obvious, and rather limp one, with plenty of little jolts but no ejaculatory payoff.
  16. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made.
  17. Hamlet
    A marvelous feat of re-imagination.
  18. Gladiator
    Gladiator's combination of grim sanctimony and drenching, Dolby-ized dismemberings left me appalled.
  19. Keeping the Faith
    A slick, not-too-thoughtful love story.
  20. American Psycho
    Nearly perfect for what it is.
  21. Return to Me
    Duchovny is rather endearing and Driver's absolutely enchanting.
  22. Black and White
    Gleefully pushes everyone's buttons...and that manages to exploit our own racial discomfort and envy in ways that leave us hungry for more.
  23. High Fidelity
    It's almost criminal the way the central relationship of High Fidelity has been left such a void.
  24. Erin Brockovich
    Roberts has her most galvanic role, and she's sensationally appealing.
  25. Mission to Mars
    He does gorgeous work, but in Mission to Mars he's only going through the motions.
  26. What Planet Are You From?
    Garry Shandling is poignant and hilarious as an alien stud.
  27. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Am I the only one who finds the substance of this movie repulsive?
  28. Drowning Mona
    The script plays goofy games, stopping the action for Tarantino-style small talk; piling on alternate, "Rashomon"-style flashbacks; and divulging its characters' secrets in no particular order.
  29. Mifune's Last Song
    Material so utterly conventional that you can predict every plot turn after the first half-hour.
  30. Wonder Boys
    Quite pleasant.
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