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For 20,335 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: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. The General's Daughter
    Travolta again carries a film with enjoyable ease, even if this one remains badly diminished by its perverse streak.
  2. Festival in Cannes
    A good deal of anger washes through this acerbic portrait of the movie business in histrionically high gear. But so does a lot of sentimentality, and as the sentimentality quotient rises, it erodes the film's credibility.
  3. The Raspberry Reich
    Revolting and hilarious satire.
  4. Against the Ropes
    Some of the performances show flashes of idiosyncrasy and flair that are nearly snuffed out by the pedestrian script.
  5. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    A 1950's movie magazine fantasy dressed up just enough to pass for contemporary.
  6. eXistenZ
    Its name, the film's title, is pronounced "eggs is tense" and meant to have a whiff of the philosophical, even if its intellectual ambition seems mostly limited to spelling affectations.
  7. Go Further
    Mr. Harrelson seems appealingly goodhearted, but his naïve idealism leaves him always on the edge of self-parody.
  8. Such a Long Journey
    The main problem with Such a Long Journey is its storytelling. There is simply too much happening.
  9. Mona Lisa Smile
    Mr. Newell is master of the feel-good ensemble piece whose shallowness is partly masked by the expertise of a high-toned cast.
  10. Pumpkin
    The filmmakers try to balance pointed, often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness, with results that are sometimes bracing, sometimes baffling and quite often, and in unexpected ways, touching.
  11. Anna and the King
    Has the rambling pace of an episodic 1950s costume drama.
  12. Monsoon Wedding
    The agile handling of the soap-opera elements -- conventional plotting at best -- finally makes "Wedding" a pop, facile take on Capulet versus Montague stuff, likable but square.
  13. In the Cut
    A disjointed, sometimes fascinating mélange of moods, associations and effects.
  14. Stuck on You
    It's a much funnier movie than the trailer would lead you to believe; it would almost have to be. But it is just not as consistent as their previous trash wallows.
  15. Way Past Cool
    Unfortunately, its inescapable comparison is to David Gordon Green's "George Washington," made the same year as Mr. Davidson's film but with a far greater sense of style and a more profound grasp of the fragility of young lives. Way Past Cool can't stand up to that kind of competition.
  16. Runaway Bride
    More often, the film is like a ride through a car wash: forward motion, familiar phases in the same old order and a sense of being carried along steadily on a well-used track. It works without exactly showing signs of life.
  17. Town & Country
    What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces.
  18. The Replacement Killers
    The movie they have concocted has the feel of a visual sampler or an elaborate color swatch submitted for a design that remains largely unexecuted.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dr. Dolittle
    There is the language to consider, but despite the film's slow start, small children should take to the idea of communicating with animals.
  20. Farmingville
    Though it has the slight, informal feel of a made-for-television documentary shot on video, Farmingville is an unusually sensitive and sophisticated piece of investigative journalism.
  21. Facing Windows
    Despite its surreal touches and an improbable story that piles on the metaphors, the movie, which has a rich, honey-dripping score by Andrea Guerra, maintains a tone of refined heart-tugging realism.
  22. Dudley Do-Right
    Works well as family entertainment.
  23. Final Destination 2
    Has a ghoulish wit. It's not as cheekily knowing as the "Scream" movies or as trashily Grand Guignol as the "Evil Dead" franchise, but like those pictures it recognizes the close relationship between fright and laughter, and dispenses both with a free, unpretentious hand.
  24. Mallrats
    Mallrats mixes clever bits and an appealing quirkiness (which goes a long way) with gross-out practical jokes, needless repetition and obvious padding, since it has no real plot.
  25. The Other Side of the Bed
    A satire of contemporary sexual warfare that leaves you smiling but also stung.
  26. Walking Tall
    Walking Tall has no more fat on it than the Rock himself, a hulking yet curiously ingratiating presence who seems the most likely candidate to replace Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as America's favorite living comic book character.
  27. The Recruit
    Like Christopher Walken or Marlon Brando, Mr. Pacino frequently uses his gifts to make mediocre movies more interesting. Everything else in The Recruit may be tiresomely predictable, but he, at least, is not.
  28. Mind the Gap
    Mr. Schaeffer takes his time cryptically setting up his characters' situations in the film. When they finally start moving toward one another and revealing their secrets, the revelations flow like diet soda.
  29. 10 Things I Hate About You
    If it's all very clever for a teen-age film, it also feels terribly forced.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The movie is so completely absorbed in its own problems, its use of color and space, its fanatical devotion to science-fiction detail, that its is somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring.
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