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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. Reindeer Games
    The movie is staged like a pit stop -- Reindeer Games goes from being fun to being laughable.
  2. The Closer You Get
    Another high-concept Irish Spring comedy.
  3. Wonder Boys
    With so much going for it, how could the movie be such a dud?
  4. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Simultaneously fascinating and vexing in ways that might tax informed devotees of both baseball and film.
  5. Beautiful People
    Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.
  6. Boiler Room
    Reflects the sensibility of the generation it holds up to critical scrutiny, and it's a cunningly ambiguous act of self-portraiture.
  7. Hanging Up
    A chilly machine-tooled comedy.
  8. The Whole Nine Yards
    Underwhelming, amusing only in fits and starts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not One Less
    A splendid, assured piece of storytelling.
  10. Pitch Black
    Shrewdly taps into the lurking primal terrors of anyone who ever had to sleep with a night light.
  11. Cotton Mary
    Forlorn melodrama, which is low on drama and high on mellow.
  12. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Sheds heat but insufficient light.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    Fails both as arrested-development farce and as teen-age romantic comedy.
  14. The Tigger Movie
    An adequate piece of children's entertainment, though it seems better suited for home viewing...than for the big screen.
  15. The Beach
    Not a terrible movie, just an insubstantial one. All of DiCaprio's charisma and the director's savvy are used to divert us from the fact that there's not much going on.
  16. Knockout
    One long, 1980s-style inspirational cliche.
  17. Gun Shy
    One of the most subtle and inspired comedies you'll see this year.
  18. Scream 3
    Funny and brisk, with enough good lines to make the comedy more satisfying than the somewhat routine but still unsettling jolts to the spine.
  19. Beloved/Friend
    Like its title, it's a clumsy contraption.
  20. The Cup
    A very funny movie, alive with a sense of absurdity and human foible.
  21. Eye of the Beholder
    Impenetrable mess of a movie.
  22. Grizzly Falls
    Combines old-fashioned boys' adventure with a heavy-handed modern lecture on parenthood. The film possesses a decent heart but suffers from a simple mind.
  23. Isn't She Great
    If you're looking for laughs, give "Valley of the Dolls" another read instead.
  24. Santitos
    Disarmingly endearing.
  25. The Big Tease
    As it rubs our noses in our own fascination with vanity and the silliest values in life, it's charming enough to make us like it.
  26. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
    Eloquent, understated film.
  27. Down to You
    Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Wirey Spindell
    To say that this movie is true to life is only to say that it's banal, boring and confusing.
  29. Supernova
    Light on originality and low on suspense though high on design and special effects.
  30. My Dog Skip
    Works best when it sticks with the gentle humor and pathos of its literary source.
  31. Next Friday
    Most of the principal female characters are either sexually voracious, sexually promiscuous, pregnant out of wedlock or angrily bent on revenge.
  32. Fantasia 2000
    Not especially innovative in its look or subject matter.
  33. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
    An interestingly wild hybrid of visual styles and cultural references.
  34. Close-Up
    It is Mr. Sabzian's poignancy that makes "Close-Up" much more than a clever reflection on film-versus-life as an endless hall of mirrors.
  35. The Hurricane
    Washington leans into an otherwise schlocky movie and slams it out of the ballpark.
  36. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Morris, instead of evoking the solemnity that surrounds most films that touch on the Holocaust, has directed Mr. Death as the blackest of comedies.
  37. The Third Miracle
    This intelligent, well-acted movie is not helped by the fact that its story in some ways parallels that of "Stigmata," the trashy supernatural spookfest that flared briefly at the box office earlier this year.
  38. Play It to the Bone
    Are they fools or heroes? Because the movie can't decide, neither can we. And without an emotional payoff, Play It to the Bone ends up stranded in serio-comic limbo.
  39. Titus
    Makes the best possible argument for a cautionary drama that contemplates the absolute worst in us.
  40. Galaxy Quest
    It keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek, offers a few genuine laughs, moves swiftly, if not at warp speed, and is led by a talented cast.
  41. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Carnal, glamorous and worth the price.
  42. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Admirably high-minded and visually gorgeous but fatally anesthetized by its own grandiosity.
  43. Angela's Ashes
    Not since the latest fashion layout flirted with arty desolation, has misery looked this fabulously pristine.
  44. Any Given Sunday
    For much of the movie, the kinetic furor of the game sequences helps camouflage the weaknesses of a screenplay that is a mechanically contrived series of power struggles.
  45. Man on the Moon
    What is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way?
  46. Girl, Interrupted
    A small, intense period piece with a tough-love attitude toward lazy, self-indulgent little girls flirting with madness.
  47. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Crammed with enough melodrama to fill several soap operas.
  48. Onegin
    Feels too cramped, indoorsy and bloodless to catch romantic fire.
  49. Bicentennial Man
    Except for Williams, the sitcom-meets-sci-fi acting throughout the movie is strictly of television caliber.
  50. Simpatico
    Far from being a typical Hollywood desecration of a difficult play, it stays true to the work's quirky, renegade spirit.
  51. Stuart Little
    Sustains a lovely balance between enchantment and playfulness.
  52. Topsy-Turvy
    One of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as "Shakespeare in Love."
  53. Anna and the King
    Has the rambling pace of an episodic 1950s costume drama.
  54. Magnolia
    It's astonishing to see a film begin this brilliantly only to torpedo itself in its final hour.
  55. The Cider House Rules
    The author's fantastical world of wonders and the director's tender-hearted compassion mesh into what is easily the finest film realization of an Irving novel.
  56. Cradle Will Rock
    Although Robbins might have drawn some of these characters with less obviousness and more satirical bite, he ably keeps this lively, complicated film on track.
  57. Miss Julie
    The dialogue may be crisply idiomatic, but there's finally nothing realistic about the speed with which the characters hurtle through their mood swings and power plays.
  58. The War Zone
    The actor Tim Roth makes a fierce, disturbing directorial debut with a film that treats incest as something worse than a terrible secret.
  59. Diamonds
    The only thing about the movie that isn't a transparent paste imitation is Douglas' hard, gleaming performance.
  60. Stir of Echoes
    Another thriller that packs a spooky wallop as it conjures an unseen world within reach.
  61. The Green Mile
    A film with a counterproductive tendency to take its time...but unassumingly strong, moving performances and Darabont's durable storytelling make it a trip worth taking just the same.
  62. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Juvenile comedy targets a gallery of imperfect women.
  63. Clouds of May
    The film's shapeliness and depth are not immediately apparent; for much of its running time, it feels diffuse and anecdotal, but in retrospect you appreciate the subtlety and heft of the story, as well as the tricky profundity of Mr. Ceylan's approach.
  64. Agnes Browne
    Has an episodic rhythm and little dramatic tension.
  65. Holy Smoke
    As Holy Smoke moves from its early mix of rapture and humor into this more serious, confrontational stage, it runs into trouble.
  66. The End of the Affair
    When it comes to holiday films worth swooning over, here's the one to see.
  67. Sweet and Lowdown
    This is one very tuneful labor of love.
  68. A Map of the World
    Something disturbing has happened to this story en route to the screen.
  69. Flawless
    So awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes.
  70. Tumbleweeds
    There are many moments when what is on the screen stops looking like acting and becomes life itself, and you're watching real people change and grow before your eyes.
  71. End of Days
    Two ridiculous blood-soaked hours.
  72. Ride with the Devil
    Dramatically skimpy, even though the movie stirs together themes of love, sex, death and war.
  73. Toy Story 2
    Making sure that computer-generated animation will never be the same.
  74. The World Is Not Enough
    In his third and most comfortable effort to model the Bond mantle, Pierce Brosnan bears noticeably more resemblance to a real human being.
  75. All About My Mother
    It weaves life and art into a rich tapestry of love, loss and compassion.
  76. Sleepy Hollow
    Turns the tale of the Headless Horseman into the pre-tabloid story of a rampaging serial killer.
  77. 42: Forty Two Up
    When this hugely ambitious project began, it was a longitudinal study of class divisions among English schoolchildren. But time and persistence have turned it into much more.
  78. Mansfield Park
    Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama.
  79. Liberty Heights
    If Liberty Heights is much too soft at its center, it still offers a deeper immersion in that old '50s feeling than any other Hollywood film in recent memory.
  80. Anywhere But Here
    Wang once again works splendidly with actresses, and boy, does he have a lot to work with this time.
  81. Felicia's Journey
    Visually, and in its soundtrack of overlapping voices, the film sustains a mood of heightened consciousness.
  82. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Though Ms. Jovovich's performance dominates the film, she remains pedestrian and underwhelming.
    • The New York Times
  83. Dogma
    Smith makes a big, gutsy leap into questions of faith and religion. He miraculously emerges with his humor intact and his wings unsinged.
  84. Light It Up
    Turns out to be a pretentiously righteous drama that drowns any claim to serious attention in a sea of superficial characters.
    • The New York Times
  85. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    But the animation, with its rich colors and stylized angles, is fun to watch and at times does seem like a psychedelic "Sesame Street."
  86. A Moment of Innocence
    Almost forbiddingly austere.
  87. Portraits chinois
    The characters...are well cast, well directed and skillfully acted, if not a particularly admirable lot.
  88. Rosetta
    Instead of feeling universal, the movie feels claustrophobic.
  89. The Bachelor
    Its satire is too broad to carry much of a sting.
  90. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Serves as an eloquent coda to their unforgettable creative partnership.
  91. Train of Life
    What saves Train of Life from sinking into sudsy Holocaust kitsch is its sustained comic buoyancy.
  92. American Movie
    The rare documentary that combines a wildly charismatic subject with an elegant structure...not-to-be-missed.
  93. The Bone Collector
    A cinematic game that might be called Urban Creep Show, New York-style.
  94. The Insider
    Is still sleek, gripping entertainment with a raw-nerved, changeable camera style that helps to amplify its meaning.
  95. Last Night
    Softening that apocalyptic undercurrent is a counter-strain of quiet nobility.
  96. Some Fish Can Fly
    Given genuine life by the dimpled enchantress Nancy St. Alban, Nora makes palpable the bittersweet love at the honest heart of Some Fish Can Fly.
  97. The Suburbans
    It's cute and jokey and has no particular edge.
  98. Terror Firmer
    Couldn't be more artless.
  99. Beefcake
    A fascinating double-edged portrait of 1950s Los Angeles.
  100. Music of the Heart
    An affirmation of the power of music to provide beauty, pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.
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