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For 20,324 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: 9,408 out of 20324
  2. Mixed: 8,449 out of 20324
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20324
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  1. The Rookie
    Scene by scene, The Rookie does a better job of capturing the rhythms and rituals of the playing field and the electricity that flows between a team and its fans than well-regarded baseball films like "Field of Dreams" and "The Natural."
  2. The Piano Teacher
    Has the feel of a clinical case study elevated into a subject of aesthetic and philosophical discourse.
  3. Time Out
    Recoing's performance is a sensitive portrayal of a man in the throes of an excruciating spiritual crisis.
  4. Death to Smoochy
    There are a few laughs, but I'm not sure that a comedy is supposed to make you recoil, which is what "Smoochy" does.
  5. Panic Room
    An above-average thriller.
  6. No Such Thing
    More abrasively quirky than a lesser Bjork B-side, though the hideous monster who co-stars hails from Iceland, too.
  7. Clockstoppers
    A competent, unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country.
  8. Shot in the Heart
    The director, Agnieszka Holland, and the screenwriter, Frank Pugliese, have created a scenario that unflinchingly captures the feverish and desperate intensity of Mikal's quest.
  9. Margarita Happy Hour
    Ms. Chaiken isn't much interested in melodramatic plot developments. Her talent lies in an evocative, accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively, convincing dialogue she creates for her characters.
  10. Sorority Boys
    A film that even a rabid lowbrow like Homer Simpson (or, when the mood strikes, this critic) would find beneath his dignity.
  11. Very Annie Mary
    As it lurches between mush and farce, Very Annie Mary churns up a few genuinely funny bits.
  12. Son of the Bride
    May be as exhaustive a study of one man's midlife crisis as has ever been brought to the screen. But as the movie lopes along, exhaustive becomes exhausting.
  13. Jim Brown: All American
    At its most provocative, the movie explores the masculine mystique and the myth of the black stud.
  14. Blade II
    Because of the movie's wonderful shamelessness, its mordantly funny chills and fights are huge turn-ons. A B picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness.
  15. Pauline and Paulette
    Rather than assaulting you with self-congratulatory tears, it leaves you with a bittersweet glow of wisdom and an appreciation of the small triumphs and difficult labors of love.
  16. Harrison's Flowers
    A stupefying mix of action, politics and melodrama.
  17. Showtime
    Plays every convention twice, once as parody and once by the book, but the movie, trying to be two things at once, fails at both.
  18. Sweet Smell of Success (re-release)
    Its pleasures are almost obscenely abundant.
  19. Y Tu Mamá También
    Director Alfonso Cuarón works with a quicksilver fluidity, and the movie is fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating.
  20. Promises
    Demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful, subjective filmmaking.
  21. Resident Evil
    The movie has a frantic staccato style that is more game-oriented than cinematic.
  22. Ice Age
    The blandly likable computer-animation extravaganza Ice Age actually seems like a fossil, a relic from another era.
  23. Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
    Does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background.
  24. Asphalt Zahov
    The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.
  25. All About the Benjamins
    This movie, a chaotic caper film at heart, wrecks its comic tone with some moments of gruesome violence.
  26. 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.
  27. The Time Machine
    This uninviting and pallid version, starring Guy Pearce, is intent on grinding all the sharp edges off the original story, in effect making the movie childproof, so no one can get hurt touching it.
  28. Miss Wonton
    The director has fallen into the common first-timer's trap of biting off more than he can chew, stitching together an unwieldy, disorganized story out of subplots and flashbacks, without paying enough attention to the basic requirements of character and narrative.
  29. Esther Kahn
    It is also possible that the problem lies not with Mr. Desplechin but with Ms. Phoenix. Her Esther is a fascinating mixture of passivity and ferocity, but it's not clear that she has the range to show both sides of the character.
  30. Stolen Summer
    Summer is like an episode of the religious children's series "Davey and Goliath," without the entertainment value of animation and a talking dog.
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