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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Murder by Numbers
    This is the kind of film where the audience has to sort through the sequences, like visiting the green grocer's: liked that bit, can do without those.
  2. Nine Queens
    Often more ingenious in appearance than fact. The hunter-gets-captured-by-the-game scenario is predictable and the sequence of shell games does not, when reconsidered, actually add up.
  3. World Traveler
    As beautiful to look at and as emotionally disconnected as its central character.
  4. Space Station 3D
    The film is a vertiginous experience of hanging 350 kilometres above the Earth.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Triumph of Love
    A gorgeous, witty, seductive movie.
  6. Human Nature
    Human Nature's zigzag ingenuity wears out some time before the farce bounces slowly to an uneven conclusion. For all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narrative, the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tale.
  7. New Best Friend
    Calls itself a movie. It has words and pictures like a movie, and will appear in theatres like a movie, and will damn sure charge admission like a movie. But, truth be told, that's pretty much where the resemblance stops.
  8. Changing Lanes
    Definitely erratic, this thing -- all in all, it's the sort of commercial vehicle you might want to stay well back of.
  9. Frailty
    This is a guy movie, a gothic creepshow.
  10. The Cat's Meow
    The result is good gossip, entertainingly delivered, yet with a distinctly musty odour, its expiry date long gone.
  11. The Sweetest Thing
    Pimenthal's script consists of the scantiest storyline, framed around a succession of strained Farrelly Brothers-style gags that feel as though they were peeled off the floor of the editing room for "There's Something About Mary."
  12. Lucky Break
    Isn't quite funny enough to make it as a comedy, or touching enough to make it as a romance. It's a pleasant effort that doesn't hit any of its targets.
  13. High Crimes
    This thing's got more plot than an Alliance convention. Unfortunately (to extend the comparison), not a whole lot of it makes a lick of common sense.
  14. Big Trouble
    A feature that suffers from the rarity of its wit yet benefits from the briskness of its pace.
  15. Crush
    In the future, as recorded in the bible of British cinema, it will be written that "Four Weddings and a Funeral" begat "The Full Monty" which begat "Billy Elliot" which begat way too many pale imitations struggling to peddle the same brand of sloppy sentimentality. Amen.
  16. The Rookie
    The embodiment of the very message it so modestly conveys -- it's the accomplished little guy we fervently root for.
  17. Time Out
    Skip work to see it at the first opportunity.
  18. Death to Smoochy
    Sporadically funny, twisted for sure, it risks becoming as repetitive and shrill as the kinds of programs it satirizes.
  19. Clockstoppers
    There's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed: Mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up; when the explosions start, they fall to pieces.
  20. Panic Room
    Generally makes good on its promise. There are shivers to be felt, especially in the early stages, and there's fun to be had, including the post-movie pleasure of detecting the soft spots in the plot. The result is an always-watchable picture from a director capable of more.
  21. Blade II
    Though superior to the original Blade, the superiority is mostly in the myriad ways the "suck-head" enemies can be blown up, melted and dismembered.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Sorority Boys
    The film's putrid sexism is subverted in a series of sharp and funny scenes that at least raise Sorority Boys to the level of "American Pie."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Son of the Bride
    What starts off as a possible Argentine "American Beauty" reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers.
  24. Pauline and Paulette
    What a graceful movie this is.
  25. Resident Evil
    While computer games can boast an abundance of nifty graphics and odious villains and plucky protagonists on long journeys, they're invariably a tad wanting in the cinematic essentials -- you know, stuff like plot and characterization and theme.
  26. Y Tu Mamá También
    "You're so lucky to live in Mexico," Luisa says. "Look at it -- it breathes with life." So does Y Tu Mama Tambien, both the pant of passion and shuddering sigh of regret.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Showtime
    It is, from beginning to end, a paint-by-numbers movie. There's a mildly entertaining climax, but most of Showtime is a layering of tired pop-culture tropes by actors who are not especially interested in what they're doing.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Harrison's Flowers
    A bizarre and flawed movie. It serves up the 1991 siege of Vukovar with a crazed Balkan bloodthirstiness that is shocking and sickening to watch, far beyond anything usually seen in an American movie.
  29. Ice Age
    There are too many moments in Ice Age when you find yourself thinking: less bonding and fewer anti-Darwinian life-lessons please; more of that anarchist Scrat.
  30. Festival in Cannes
    Festival in Cannes is definitely Jaglomesque, but can't get that tricky balance right -- the result is a picture as charmingly insubstantial as the world it invokes.
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