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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. The Last Shot
    Laborious and logy when it should be madcap and effervescent.
  2. Three Kings
    It isn't nearly as successful a showcase for this filmmaker's extraordinary talents.
  3. Big Daddy
    It's a flimsy sentimental comedy with more product plugs and fewer laughs than might have been hoped for.
  4. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    The movie turns into a cobweb of tricky spins and twists that seems like a hip-hop version of "Ruthless People."
  5. Who Killed Bambi?
    Watching it is like a slow injection of a numbing anesthetic. It may send a chill to your heart, but along with it goes a warning signal to your brain not to believe a word of this hooey.
  6. Van Wilder
    What's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.
  7. Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Artistry is not the inevitable outcome, and fluffy costumes and French location shoots are the only production elements that don't seem wholly amateurish.
  8. Jackass: The Movie
    Like a documentary version of "Fight Club," shorn of social insight, intellectual pretension and cinematic interest. It also offers a supremely literal-minded version of slapstick.
  9. The Alamo
    Thornton's performance is lost in a film that is more of a schematic success than a dramatic one.
  10. Dumb and Dumber
    A movie that knows much better than to try to make sense. It is essentially a strung-together series of gags, most of them thought up by Lloyd, an inveterate practical joker.
  11. Valentin
    The film feels authentic only during the scenes between Valentín and his selfish, angry father.
  12. The Matrix Revolutions
    There is very little that is tantalizing or suspenseful. The feeling of revelation is gone, and many of the teasing implications of "Reloaded" have been abandoned.
  13. The Hebrew Hammer
    Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch, flogs its premise for nearly an hour and a half, generating too few laughs to justify the enterprise.
  14. Dances with Wolves
    Mr. Blake's screenplay and Mr. Costner's direction of it are, with the exception of three memorable sequences, commonplace. The film is painstakingly composed of small details of frontier and tribal life that should be riveting. Most of the time they aren't.
  15. Grind
    Buried somewhere under the gross-out jokes and the wet-lipped ogling at an endless parade of jiggling bikini-clad flesh in Grind is the kernel of a cheerful little movie about the world of competitive skateboarding.
  16. Noel
    Though clearly meant as a heartwarmer in the longstanding holiday tradition, the film comes off as strange and sour.
  17. Gypsy 83
    This is a tiny, vulnerable, rather treacly film at heart, one that would probably float away were it not for Ms. Rue's generous presence.
  18. Zhou Yu de huo che
    Comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies -- or, at worst, a commercial Frankenstein's monster, sewn together to fill a perceived gap in the market.
  19. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    A high-minded, lethally dull biography of the legendary golfer Bobby Jones.
  20. The King and I
    The animation is done in rich, jewel-like colors, but it seems strangely flat. The overall film does, too, although the glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein music makes up for a lot.
  21. The Trumpet of the Swan
    A bland, well-meaning mishmash that never coheres into a dramatic whole.
  22. The Ring
    While impressively made, this impassive and cold feature fails, in a spectacular fashion, to deliver the thrills.
  23. Bubba Ho-tep
    There is a grungy high spirit during the first third of this film, but then it dissipates like a mist from an aerosol can.
  24. The Prince and Me
    A cream puff with a melted marshmallow inside it. As the temperature rises, the whole gooey thing starts to melt.
  25. Series 7: The Contenders
    Seems stranded in that nowhereland between irony and sarcasm.
  26. Vengo
    Seems held back by vestiges of an old-fashioned format that Mr. Gatlif has long since outgrown.
  27. Batman
    It's neither funny nor solemn. It has the personality not of a particular movie but of a product, of something arrived at by corporate decision.
  28. America's Sweethearts
    Like a bottle of lukewarm Champagne -- an expensive one, judging by the label -- America's Sweethearts opens with a promising burst of effervescence and quickly goes flat.
  29. Defying Gravity
    Plods along, never catching dramatic fire, sometimes suffering from amateurish acting and often relying on its intrusive and treacly music to impart mood and rhythm.
  30. Overnight
    Any movie that makes you root against the underdog, though, is cause for suspicion, and Mr. Smith and Mr. Montana, perhaps aware of this, try belatedly to restore Mr. Duffy's status as a victim.
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