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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. Confusion of Genders
    Quickly turns into an earnest talkfest (spiced with flashes of nudity and sexually explicit dialogue) that feels stiffly programmatic and ultimately false.
  2. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Emerges as just one more formulaic action film as the title character bounces around the globe in a deadly treasure hunt.
  3. Cinemania
    It is left for Mr. Heidbreder to offer the fanciest rationalization for their addiction. Asked whether the movies are a substitute for life, he rejects the suggestion that their behavior is pathological and declares that film itself "is a form of living."
  4. Ishtar
    The worst of it is painless; the best is funny, sly, cheerful and, here and there, even genuinely inspired.
  5. Finding Forrester
    The screenplay by Mike Rich is so far-fetched and riddled with holes that Mr. Van Sant's urban realist touches only underscore the falseness of what's on the screen.
  6. Fantasia 2000
    Not especially innovative in its look or subject matter.
  7. Blue Streak
    The buoyancy is only intermittent.
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  8. City by the Sea
    Stumbles from restrained, fine-edged realism into blunt and muddy melodrama.
  9. Legally Blonde
    The character as written is incoherent, but Ms. Witherspoon has the reflexes to make Elle both appealing and ridiculous. It's funny -- in that slightly queasy, un-P.C. Doris Day kind of way.
  10. On the Run
    There are some scenes that display impressive technical cunning, and others that show an astute regard for the emotional capacities of his able cast, but On the Run amounts to a sullen display of skill in a dubious cause.
  11. On_Line
    Acted with enough zest by its cast to give these not especially endearing people a poignant human dimension.
  12. The Million Dollar Hotel
    A mellow dream of a movie that's an acquired taste. It's attractive because of the oblique way that Mr. Wenders ambles through a murder mystery that's stronger on characterization than on plot.
  13. Hackers
    A lot of attention has gone into the film's video games, computer imagery and costumes, to the point where simply watching these artifacts is half the fun...But eventually Hackers turns tedious, perhaps not realizing that an audience can get tired of the same old equations floating in cyberspace.
  14. Big Eden
    The movie is as flat and plain as a television program, and most of the supporting characters (including Louise Fletcher as a kindly schoolmarm) seem equally two-dimensional, as if they had wandered in from the set of "The Andy Griffith Show."
  15. Mission: Impossible II
    Once the basic conflict is established, the story plods along, alternating between preposterous -- in a bad way -- speeches and even more preposterous -- but in a good way -- shootouts and slugfests.
  16. 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.
  17. Teknolust
    A minor addition to the tiny genre of feminist science fiction films
  18. Friday Night
    As much as the story, based on a novel by Emmanuèle Bernheim, has the irresistible earmarks of the kind of high-toned bodice-ripper at which the French excel, its cinematic realization is oddly gawky and tepid.
  19. When Harry Met Sally...
    Like the sitcom version of a Woody Allen film, full of amusing lines and scenes, all infused with an uncomfortable sense of deja vu.
  20. Deliver Us from Eva
    If Deliver Us From Eva is amusing, it is not uproarious.
  21. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Fitfully entertaining molehill of a movie.
  22. Green Card Fever
    An amiable but highly didactic romantic drama.
  23. Men of Honor
    Until its unbearably hokey ending, acquits itself reasonably well.
  24. Ghost River
    Expressive touches are finally inadequate. Ms. Huppert's hard work notwithstanding, they don't take the place of psychological texture and narrative weight.
  25. Human Nature
    Should have been more polished, and less tame.
  26. My Life Without Me
    Ms. Polley is a naturally subtle actress, and part of her appeal lies in an unusual ability to seem at once forthright and enigmatic, but this time she comes off as a bit smug.
  27. The Singing Detective
    Lurches when it should glide, shouts when it should whisper and mumbles when it should sing.
  28. Suspended Animation
    A sturdy, well-made piece that never quite overcomes its structural flaws.
  29. Possession
    Possession is in the end an honorable, interesting failure. It falls far short of poetry, but it's not bad prose.
  30. Crossroads
    Everything she (Spears) does seems diluted and secondhand and is never transformed into something original or indelibly self-expressive.
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