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For 20,278 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: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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  1. Best in Show
    This comic jigsaw puzzle is crammed with deliriously funny little bits.
  2. Memento
    A brilliant feat of rug-pulling, sure to delight fans of movies like "The Usual Suspects" and "Pi."
  3. Mostly Martha
    Extremely enjoyable, though a few degrees shy of perfection.
  4. Wag the Dog
    Wag the Dog, the poison-tipped political satire that's as scarily plausible as it is swift, hilarious and impossible to resist.
  5. Sexy Beast
    He's (Kingsley) pure violence, a sociopath who radiates menace even while sitting perfectly still mouthing pleasantries.
  6. Rain
    The visual beauty of the film, rather than distracting from the troubling story, makes it more troubling still.
  7. Monster's Ball
    The raw intimacy of some of the scenes -- whether they take place at a diner, in the death house or in the bedroom -- is breathtaking.
  8. Toy Story 2
    Making sure that computer-generated animation will never be the same.
  9. A Bug's Life
    Makes jaunty, imaginative use of both extraordinary technology and bold storytelling possibilities within the insect world.
  10. Monsters, Inc.
    There hasn't been a film in years to use creative energy as efficiently as Monsters, Inc.
  11. The Straight Story
    Switching gears radically, bravely defying conventional wisdom about what it takes to excite moviegoers, Lynch presents the flip side of "Blue Velvet" and turns it into a supremely improbable triumph.
  12. The Boxer
    Mr. Day-Lewis, looking wearily rugged and battling his way through several plausible boxing matches, once again breathes fire into the character of a high-minded loner, and his vitality lends real force to the film's moral arguments.
  13. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Ms. Zellweger accomplishes the small miracle of making Bridget both entirely endearing and utterly real.
  14. High Fidelity
    Witty, exquisitely fine-tuned screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel
  15. Holes
    One of the few recent movies I have seen that plunged me into that rare, giddy state of pleasurable confusion, of not knowing what would happen next, which I associate with the reading and moviegoing experiences of my own childhood. But there is no reason that children should have a monopoly on this primal, wonderful experience.
  16. Lilya 4-Ever
    The most remarkable achievement of the film is its presentation of Lilya's story as both an archetypal case study and a personal drama whose spunky central character you come to care about so deeply that you want to cry out a warning at each step toward her ruination.
  17. Red Lights
    The brilliant, sinister French thriller Red Lights is a twisty road movie in which every sign points toward catastrophe.
  18. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    An exquisitely simple movie. Mr. Kim manages to isolate something essential about human nature and at the same time, even more astonishingly, to comprehend the scope of human experience.
  19. Alias Betty
    Such an accomplished piece of filmmaking that it interweaves enough characters and themes to fill three movies.
  20. This Is Spinal Tap
    ''It's such a fine line between stupid and . . . '' ''And clever,'' muse the band members collectively. It certainly is- and the delightful This Is Spinal Tap stays on the right side of that line.
  21. Good Will Hunting
    The script's bare bones are familiar, yet the film also has fine acting, steady momentum, a sharp eye and a very warm heart.
  22. Lightning in a Bottle
    Remarkable concert documentary.
  23. All About My Mother
    It weaves life and art into a rich tapestry of love, loss and compassion.
  24. A Room with a View
    As Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bonham Carter gives a remarkably complex performance of a young woman who is simultaneously reasonable and romantic, generous and selfish, and timid right up to the point where she takes a heedless plunge into the unknown.
  25. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Gathers riveting, rarely seen news clips from the era into a chronology that plays like a suspenseful police drama.
  26. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    The masterstroke of this small, heartfelt directorial debut (by Peter Care, from a screenplay by Jeff Stockwell) is its integration of animated sequences (by Todd McFarlane) in which action-adventure caricatures of the comic book characters parallel or comment on events in the boys' lives.
  27. Pieces of April
    Hedges's intelligent and touching farce, Pieces of April, makes an important contribution to a small and insignificant subgenre: Thanksgiving Day failure. It does so by raising the bar.
  28. Princess Mononoke
    A landmark feat of Japanese animation from the acknowledged master of the genre.
  29. The Triplets of Belleville
    May be the oddest movie of the year, by turns sweet and sinister, insouciant and grotesque, invitingly funny and forbiddingly dark. It may also be one of the best, a tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief and unlikely sublimity.
  30. A Woman Is a Woman
    It is the work of a master -- of more than one, for that matter. Mr. Godard, who once called it "my first real film," was showing the obsession with, and mastery of, cinematic technique that would make him one of the culture heroes of the 1960's.
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