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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 Last Castle
    The movie is exuberant, strapping and obvious -- a problem drama suffering from a steroid overdose.
  2. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A parade of incongruities, with performances ranging from the sublime to the you-know-what.
  3. Best Laid Plans
    Style overwhelms substance by default.
  4. Shooting Fish
    This aggressively whimsical fairy tale about a pair of grown-up orphans who rob from the rich to give to the poor (themselves!) and end up living happily ever after darts forward so quickly that several major plot turns are dispensed with in 10 or 15 seconds of babble.
  5. The Faculty
    This mediocre sci-fi horror film about an Ohio high school being taken over by thirsty space aliens intent on world domination breaks no new ground. But it has an engaging cast.
  6. Titus
    Makes the best possible argument for a cautionary drama that contemplates the absolute worst in us.
  7. Windtalkers
    We can only view Windtalkers with the same shaken detachment that characterizes Mr. Cage's Joe Enders, wishing that the codetalkers' real story, a little known and fascinating chunk of American history, had been given its true dramatic import.
  8. Saints and Sinners
    For an outside observer, Saints and Sinners doesn't make particularly compelling viewing, but Ms. Honor has given her subjects an excellent present on their big day: the ultimate wedding video.
  9. Agent Cody Banks
    This Frankenfilm comes lumbering out of the laboratory of the Danish director Harald Zwart, any trace of personality surgically removed and replaced by a fully road-tested cliché.
  10. What Women Want
    Starts with a great idea, but the movie's potential drops faster than the tech stocks on the Nasdaq.
  11. Cherish
    As a poky little character comedy, Cherish is enchanting in a small-scale way. But when Mr. Taylor tries to turn it into a genre thriller, Cherish deteriorates so quickly that it's unsettling -- but probably not in the way Mr. Taylor intended.
  12. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    All about bright colors and constant movement.
  13. Amy's Orgasm
    This movie is Ms. Davis's fourth film as a director, and she has a bright, chipper style that keeps things moving, while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race. Like someone who smiles too much, Amy's Orgasm seems rather sad at heart.
  14. Evolution
    The movie itself evolves in reverse, starting life as a moderately clever grab bag of high-concept noodling and half-witty badinage before descending into the primordial ooze of explosions and elaborate lower- intestinal gags.
  15. Bride of the Wind
    For all the talk of artistic and amorous passion, the film is trapped in snobbish inertia; its idea of period drama amounts to a kind of highbrow name- dropping.
  16. The Fifth Element
    As a yammering, swishy talk show host, Chris Tucker is flat-out incomprehensible, while Mr. Oldman preens evilly enough to leave tooth marks on the scenery.
  17. Amen.
    In the end Amen is neither as moving nor as illuminating as it should be. It suffers especially when compared -- as is inevitable, given the closeness of their release dates -- with "The Pianist," Roman Polanski's movie about a Polish Jew during the Nazi occupation.
  18. The Statement
    As much as these wonderful actors invest their performances with psychological nuance, their efforts go mostly for naught in a movie that gives character development a distant back seat to the grinding mechanics of its formulaic plot.
  19. High Crimes
    For his part. Mr. Freeman shows himself, once again, incapable of giving a bad performance.
  20. Out of Time
    Although it is briskly directed and enjoyably stylized, the film is shallow -- but empty.
  21. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Amusing but extremely derivative.
  22. Seaside
    While she (Lopes-Curval) portrays the brittleness of their lives with lovely splashes of generosity, the lack of condescension doesn't change the fact that there's not much drama to be found in those very limitations; her characters don't do much beyond getting on one another's nerves.
  23. The Art of Amália
    Only twice does the film give a tantalizing glimpse at the personality behind the voice.
  24. Suicide Kings
    What hip means in this uneven comic suspense film is maintaining the ironically distanced tone of a deadpan ''Married to the Mob'' or a tongue-in-cheek Coen Brothers caper.
  25. The Bone Collector
    A cinematic game that might be called Urban Creep Show, New York-style.
  26. The Mummy
    This version of The Mummy has no pretenses to be anything other than a gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen.
  27. Scream
    Wes Craven (of the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' films) is in the mood for parody.
  28. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Though it flies in the face of credibility and becomes downright silly by its end, I Know What You Did Last Summer knows its way around the rules of the popular horror-film genre.
  29. Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler
    Instead of deepening the material, however, the narrative twists feel like purely formal interventions, intended to keep the film moving toward its foregone, heavily moralistic conclusion. Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler is faultlessly professional but finally slight.
  30. The Bread, My Sweet
    Pretty much of a mess, full of narrative gaps and characters who arbitrarily appear and disappear. But it is at least a sweet, good-natured mess, with none of the overcalculation and condescending cynicism the same material would almost certainly bring out in a Hollywood production.
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