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For 20,271 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,377 out of 20271
  2. Mixed: 8,430 out of 20271
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20271
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  1. The Bulls' Night Out
    The movie doesn't turn out to be as benignly right-wing as it initially suggests, though the plot turns can be spotted a mile away.
  2. Clouds
    Clouds is about the dumbest intelligent movie I've ever seen.
  3. Turn It Up
    Deteriorates into a gory shoot-'em-up gangster movie with a quick-fix ending that leaves many threads dangling. It could have been something more.
  4. Wildflowers
    A dreamy, impressionistic inquiry into the legacy of the 1960's, but it's less concerned with history than with mood.
  5. Madadayo
    It's not one of Kurosawa's great films.... But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect.
  6. Highlander: Endgame
    The action is the best thing in the picture.
  7. Whipped
    Bottom-feeding monstrosity of a comedy.
  8. Titanic Town
    In its harshly realistic scenes... it stirs your blood.
  9. Dark Days
    Dark Days illustrates even the worst nightmare can have descending levels of horror.
  10. The Art of War
    Ludicrous, impenetrable and headache-inducing.
  11. God's Army
    Eventually becomes preaching that is likely to tax the credibility of the unconverted.
  12. Orfeu
    Finds a sprawling, vivid middle ground somewhere between documentary and myth.
  13. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
    Never quite comes to dramatic or comic life.
  14. Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    A mildly amusing Japanese appropriation of 1950's American detective movies.
  15. Fastpitch
    Intelligent, insightful, touching.
  16. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Seems a little too desperate to be liked.
  17. The Crew
    Some of it is, I'll admit, pretty funny.
  18. Bittersweet Motel
    Bland, unrevealing.
  19. Solomon & Gaenor
    Does an almost dismayingly good job of conveying its characters' grim, bare-bones existence and the stultifying sexual and religious taboos that the lovers flout.
  20. Love & Sex
    Slight but bright and charming.
  21. Bring It On
    It is Ms. Dunst who carries the movie and unifies its disparate elements. She's a terrific comic actress.
  22. Chalk
    Finally fails to escape the conventions of the Hollywood cinema it so proudly deplores.
  23. Place Vendôme
    In spite of its many flaws, the film never loses its focus on its fascinating central figure.
  24. The Cell
    Mr. Singh may have an artist's temperament, and he shows signs of being a director
  25. Steal This Movie
    Likable but muddled screen biography.
  26. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Their comedy gives audiences that have never seen anything like it a hilarious window on a new world.
  27. Sunset Strip
    A youth comedy so relentlessly sordid and depressing that it's likely to send its audience straight into the arms of the nearest psycho-pharmacologist.
  28. The Opportunists
    This is one of the best-photographed pictures of the year, but not ostentatiously so; the look is organic to the less-than-glamorous badlands of Sunnyside, Queens.
  29. Intern
    Ultimately as sycophantic as it is needling.
  30. Aimee & Jaguar
    There is surprisingly little emotional amplitude in the film.
  31. An Affair of Love
    Clearly, this is an affair to forget.
  32. Autumn in New York
    Flagrantly old-fashioned, triple-hankie tear-jerker.
  33. Bless the Child
    A supernatural soap opera.
  34. Cecil B. DeMented
    Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies.
  35. The Replacements
    A desperate, broad comedy.
  36. Better Living
    Feels like an early rehearsal for a play where all the movement is being coordinated but the underlying emotional notes have yet to be set.
  37. The Tao of Steve
    Can't redeem the moves toward its predictable happy ending. But the movie has a protagonist who has a great time getting there.
  38. The Tic Code
    Like most movies that examine specific ailments, this gawky, occasionally touching film has the feel of a dramatized case history whose purpose is to educate as much as it is to tell a story.
  39. Saving Grace
    That they're English and elderly apparently makes their antics screamingly funny to people who would turn up their noses at similar humor in a film like "Scary Movie."
  40. Psycho Beach Party
    It is surprisingly timely.
  41. Coyote Ugly
    Looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial.
  42. Hollow Man
    Endure the long, slow, unraveling of this movie, which can't even muster the intelligence to be pretentious or the bravado to be amusingly bad.
  43. Space Cowboys
    One of the best entertainments this season has yet offered.
  44. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Isn't quite as much fun as it could be.
  45. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Half a movie at best. The broad humor at times derails Mr. Murphy's performances, but the movie provides a vehicle for him to display his reach.
  46. Girl on the Bridge
    Leconte's visual instincts are so impressive that they outstrip his story, leaving us flushed and dazzled, but also, as after a long night of champagne and baccarat (to say nothing of other irresponsible pleasures), hungry, tired, and homesick.
  47. Wonderland
    As well done as it is, Wonderland feels predictable. There is no sad turn in these characters' lives that you cannot see coming about an hour before.
  48. The Wind Will Carry Us
    Its effects seem more like those of a poem or a piece of music than a movie. Requires the reverent darkness and communal solitude of a theater.
  49. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Mr. Baldwin's attack -- there's no better way to put it -- is unforgettable. He's the first shrunken narrator with a serial killer's swagger.
  50. New Waterford Girl
    A freshness and intensity that recall the television series "My So-Called Life."
  51. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    It's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that.
  52. Two Women
    Impressive, unsettling, deeply felt film.
  53. Benjamin Smoke
    The film has a richer, more various visual texture than most documentaries, combining still photographs, black-and-white video and Super-8 film, sometimes with wild sound or none at all.
  54. Les amants criminels
    Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.
  55. $pent
    By the end the most vivid figure on the screen is the lovable doggie who goes wherever dangling fingers are waiting to give the happy pooch a scratch.
  56. Alice et Martin
    Your attention is rewarded by a film of surprising depth and a few deep surprises.
  57. Loser
    In the end, Loser disappoints.
  58. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    As good as cut-rate animation that seems to consist of screen savers can be.
  59. What Lies Beneath
    Glazes over faster than a Krispy Kreme doughnut, and neither is very flavorful after sitting around for a while.
  60. The In Crowd
    The only people who could be surprised at this movie will be those who wandered into the wrong multiplex theater by mistake.
  61. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Mr. Law doesn't disgrace himself here, though he doesn't have much to do, and the director, Po Chih Leong, is deft at creating atmosphere, but it's an atmosphere we've all seen before.
  62. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    A brilliant satire of emotional politics.
  63. The Five Senses
    By interweaving several stories, the movie suffers from a peculiar multiplier effect: it deepens its shallowness.
  64. Chuck & Buck
    Strange, intense and moving -- one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year.
  65. Shadow Hours
    Tedious descent into cinema hell.
  66. X-Men
    Clumsy when it should be light on its feet, the movie takes itself even more seriously than the comic book and its fans do, which is a superheroic achievement.
  67. The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
    Mr. Drake can be rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching.
  68. Fear of Fiction
    A washout.
  69. All the Rage
    Like a ham-fisted high-concept public service announcement, directed with stagy deliberateness and written with tin-eared vernacular speechiness.
  70. I'm the One That I Want
    Several times while watching the movie I laughed until the tears were running down my face.
  71. But I'm a Cheerleader
    So campy it reflexively sends an elbow to its own ribs.
  72. The Kid
    Surprisingly enough, it often soars to heights of not bad.
  73. Scary Movie
    If you're amused by jokes involving male genitals, female pubic hair, flatulence and dismemberment, it should be a big hit.
  74. Shower
    Uplifting, witty.
  75. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Best and most touching when it shows how willing punk is to eat its young.
  76. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Succumbs to its blockbuster ambitions and turns into a noisy, bloated mess.
  77. The Perfect Storm
    The Perfect Storm is no "Titanic."
  78. Trixie
    Despite its occasional flashes of brilliance (every Rudolph film has them), this unsavory stew never comes to a boil.
  79. The Patriot
    Shamelessly stirring, brandishing Mr. Gibson's anguished masculinity like a musket. It may be effective, but you leave the theater feeling used.
  80. Me, Myself & Irene
    The humor in Me, Myself and Irene is often outrageous but rarely cruel.
  81. Praise
    Praise will stick with you. It's more than worthy of its title.
  82. Chicken Run
    Doesn't try to cram messages of uplift down its audience's gullet. It's a great eggscape from banality.
  83. Boricua's Bond
    Suffers from a fatal lack of modulation. It paints a picture of inner-city life as an endless sequence of beatings and shouting matches, and in its glum cartoonishness insults the people whose strivings it means to honor.
  84. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Struggles under the burden of adapting such rarefied material.
  85. Titan A.E.
    Despite some gorgeous sequences. . . Titan A.E. is bland.
  86. Shaft
    This may be the first movie that runs under two hours and yet has no attention span. Characters are abandoned and picked up; narrative threads dissolve before your very eyes.
  87. Boys and Girls
    The best thing that can be said about Boys and Girls is that it is studiously inoffensive.
  88. Butterfly Tongues
    Delicate, quietly devastating.
  89. Humanité
    You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jesus' Son
    One of the pleasures of Jesus' Son is watching a filmmaker take risks and discover new resources of style.
  91. The Woman Chaser
    Strives desperately for a zaniness that is largely absent from the screenplay and from comic performances that are too blank and unfocused to register as parody.
  92. Pop & Me
    For a film devoted to celebrating intimacy and the breaking down of emotional barriers, Pop and Me is oddly withholding of information about the travelers.
  93. BookWars
    The movie is like spending an idle afternoon browsing, and not buying.
  94. Love's Labour's Lost
    Even though Love's Labour's Lost is, in showbiz terms, a turkey stuffed with chestnuts, you wouldn't trade it for a pot of gold.
  95. Groove
    The film's seductive lack of pretension will make a fan of you.
  96. Sunshine
    Leaves you with a sense of quiet, chastened grace.
  97. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    This new version is mindless hot-rodding fun, especially for those with a weakness for vintage cars hurtling down city streets, a group whose members include -- sigh -- me.
  98. American Pimp
    What we are left with is a mildly entertaining "man on the street" gloss, seasoned with fragments from blaxploitation movies and music by Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye and others.
  99. Big Momma's House
    Fitfully amusing.
  100. Running Free
    Vacillates between cutesy Disney-style anthropomorphism and "Born Free" exoticism.
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