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For 20,323 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 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. All the Pretty Horses
    The movie, for all its prettiness, manages to be shallow and portentous at the same time.
  2. Vatel
    The movie wants desperately to function as a romantic tragedy, with passions glancing off the thoughtless pursuit of satisfaction. But Vatel can't really define the differences between the two; it settles into a period funk, as shallow as the court popinjays it seeks to expose.
  3. Thirteen Days
    Kevin Costner is suitably flinty in 13 Days, a competent, by-the-numbers recreation of the events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
  4. An Everlasting Piece
    The director serves up a nice helping of blarney, but he seems to have left his schmaltz in Baltimore.
  5. Malèna
    What begins as a blushing, priapic opera buffa about coming of age turns into a verismo shocker, before softening into something mellower.
  6. Before Night Falls
    Like a deathbed dream it leapfrogs through Arenas's life, reconstructing crucial moments as a succession of bright, feverish illuminations.
  7. Exhuming Mr. Rice
    Someone deserves the grand prize for persuading David Bowie to participate in this minor drama .The movie is bland and ordinary.
  8. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
  9. The House of Mirth
    Almost in spite of itself, The House of Mirth is powerful, at times even moving.
  10. Dracula 2000
    It's a little sad to see actors of the quality of Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller struggling straight- faced to dignify this sewage.
  11. Miss Congeniality
    Supporting performances add comic spark to a movie that otherwise seems happily, deliberately second-rate.
  12. Come te nessuno mai
    Aiming for lighthearted, bittersweet charm, But Forever in My Mind slips into predictability and condescension.
  13. 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.
  14. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    It is, all in all, a rambunctious and inspired ride in which the Coen brothers' voracious fascination with the arcana of American popular culture and their whiz-kid inventiveness reach new heights of whimsy.
  15. Cast Away
    At its best, Cast Away, like "Titanic," awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance.
  16. The Family Man
    A piece of moldy wax fruit if ever there was one.
  17. My Neighbors the Yamadas
    Mr. Takahata’s broad, cartoony family comedy whose smeary watercolor washes and Peanuts-like line drawings don’t follow Ghibli’s house style. The family’s misadventures are standard stuff, but the art is continuously inventive.
  18. 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.
  19. The Gift
    The picture is saved from mediocrity by Mr. Raimi's smooth competence, and by the unusually high quality of the acting.
  20. Pollock
    May be the first movie about a painter to transcend the gushy clichés found in movies that try to unravel the mysteries of artistic creation.
  21. The Visit
    Shows so much intelligence and compassion that its tendency sometimes to overreach or underdramatize can surely be forgiven.
  22. The Emperor's New Groove
    Exhibits a cheeky effervescence and spunk.
  23. What Women Want
    Starts with a great idea, but the movie's potential drops faster than the tech stocks on the Nasdaq.
  24. Dude, Where's My Car?
    Tasteless at times, but where's the yuck?
  25. Chocolat
    So assured in its manipulative prowess that only afterward do you realize how fully you've been worked over.
  26. The Day Silence Died
    An easygoing exercise, impossible to dislike but not especially memorable, engaging but finally derivative:
  27. Vertical Limit
    A shallow yet empty action extravaganza.
  28. Dungeons & Dragons
    Take this as a warning: it's not much fun.
  29. The Art of Amália
    Only twice does the film give a tantalizing glimpse at the personality behind the voice.
  30. Proof of Life
    What ultimately sinks this stylish but heartless film is a flat lead performance by the eternally snippy Meg Ryan.
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