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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Starship Troopers
    Pretty actors, grisly critters, brains sucked out of skulls, buckets of green slime and a plot that is half beach blanket bingo, half Iwo Jima.
  2. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Given the stature and the presence that the entrepreneurial rappers-turned-film-moguls Ice Cube and Queen Latifah possess, the fizzle of their scenes is doubly disappointing.
  3. The Other Sister
    What redeems the film…are its three outstanding performances.
  4. Miss Congeniality
    Supporting performances add comic spark to a movie that otherwise seems happily, deliberately second-rate.
  5. Desperado
    Like "The Quick and the Dead," Desperado wavers uneasily between myth making and parody, so that too many scenes drag on long after they've lost their punch.
  6. Jeepers Creepers
    Works up a reasonably delicious tingle.
  7. A Dog of Flanders
    Difficult to swallow.
  8. The Ninth Gate
    About as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of "The Blair Witch Project," and not nearly as funny.
  9. Steal This Movie
    Likable but muddled screen biography.
  10. Nicotina
    While it demonstrates some formal ingenuity, it is for the most part a tasteless and derivative stew of overdone jokes, chronological tricks and labored shock effects.
  11. Jurassic Park III
    All it wants to do is scare a smile onto your face, and it often succeeds. After all, how can a movie that offers Michael Jeter as a mercenary not be fun?
  12. Kaena: The Prophecy
    Has no local cultural history behind it. Its secondhand imagery and ideas seem to have barely involved its makers; it definitely does not involve its audience.
  13. Chasing Liberty
    The lack of narrative sophistication allows an Ecstasy-like disposition to set in; "Liberty" becomes goo-goo eyed over itself. It lacks the discipline to define Anna sufficiently; rather, it portrays her as either a lovable naïf or a spoiled narcissist in desperate need of a lesson.
  14. Night at the Golden Eagle
    The visual intensity and the relentless degradation visited on the characters begins to feel prurient and dishonest.
  15. Laws of Attraction
    Laws of Attraction, like the somewhat better "Intolerable Cruelty," seems desperately unsure of itself at crucial moments.
  16. Maryam
    There's not much here; some of the shots feel so static that you wonder if they're being rehearsed before your eyes.
  17. Irreversible
    Though Mr. Noé; displays prodigious filmmaking technique, his punk-operatic meditation on life, love, anger and -- most important -- guilt is superficially inventive, but singularly adolescent.
  18. Close Your Eyes
    With such plodding dialogue, there's little the actors can do to surmount the falsity, although Ms. Shaw, in her brief appearances, almost succeeds.
  19. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    It is not really much of a movie at all, if by movie you mean a work of visual storytelling about the dramatic actions of a group of interesting characters.
  20. Come te nessuno mai
    Aiming for lighthearted, bittersweet charm, But Forever in My Mind slips into predictability and condescension.
  21. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Has the sweat stains of wasted energy; it's dreary, yet frantic.
  22. Bootmen
    Too much soap opera colors its love story, and the industrial- strength dancing by booted men that is its centerpiece falls short of exhilaration.
  23. World Traveler
    Neither the screenplay nor the film's visual vocabulary begins to evoke a charged spiritual tension between the protagonist and the world.
  24. State and Main
    A surprisingly unpolished piece of work that plays as though it were written for the stage and only slightly modified for the screen.
  25. Message in a Bottle
    Garret is played by Kevin Costner, who should avoid all future roles that call for overalls and goggles and who this time crosses the line from teasingly laconic to stodgy.
  26. Particles of Truth
    Tense and tiresome.
  27. The Jimmy Show
    The kind of movie that is a must to avoid on a bad day. Even on a good one, it could send you into a funk.
  28. The Big Kahuna
    If the movie looked any cheaper, you might think you were paying more to get into the theater than was spent on making the film.
  29. Head in the Clouds
    This pulpy, sex-drenched wartime epic seems frivolous, quaint and foolishly prurient.
  30. The Fast and the Furious
    Neither fast nor furious, this film belongs in the section of the supermarket where blah-white labels and big block lettering denote brandless cigarettes, vodka, crushed pineapple and, in this case, action picture.
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