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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. Lost Souls
    It's the central story that's lacking.
  2. The Red Stuff
    Sublime in its involvement with the yearning of mankind to explore the heavens.
  3. Dr T and the Women
    The movie's sexual politics are as contrived as its plot, which veers off into one of the surprise endings of which Mr. Altman is so fond.
  4. The Contender
    A cast that chews the scenery with such obvious enjoyment that you're happy to put up with its tin-eared oratory and preposterous plot turns for the sake of a good ride.
  5. Billy Elliot
    Anchors its melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism.
  6. The Ladies Man
    Has some funny, dirty-minded jokes, a few amusing cameos (including Julianne Moore in clown makeup) and a soundtrack loaded with juicy cuts of mid-70's vintage soul and funk.
  7. Animal Factory
    Willem Dafoe steals the picture with his comic timing.
  8. Ratcatcher
    The power of Ratcatcher comes from its hushed lyricism and Ms. Ramsay's talent for conveying emotional complexity.
  9. Followers
    Suffers from clumsy exposition and uneven acting, except in the case of Eddie T. Robinson.
  10. One
    The film's spareness and lack of words seem affected and ultimately unrealistic. At such moments, its refusal to put things into words and its crushing sense of gloom turn self-defeating.
  11. Taboo
    Illustrates the underlying fear that when energies that should be directed toward warfare are diverted into passion, unity is impossible.
  12. CyberWorld
    Unabashed, and often quite diverting, technological overkill.
  13. Two Family House
    Experience filmgoing joy.
  14. Bamboozled
    Spike Lee has grabbed a tiger by the tail in his scabrously risky new comedy, Bamboozled. The wonder is how long he succeeds in hanging on.
  15. Get Carter
    So minimally plotted that not only does it lack subtext or context, but it also may be the world's first movie without even a text.
  16. 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.
  17. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Comes off as noisy and ill conceived, long on morphing monsters, short on storytelling talent and uneven in its efforts at animation.
  18. Yi Yi
    In exchange for three hours of your time, Yi Yi will give you more life.
  19. Meet the Parents
    This is a high-concept comedy, and none of the jokes are forced, which makes Meet the Parents a singular achievement.
  20. Requiem for a Dream
    Be warned: it's a downer, and a knockout.
  21. Beautiful
    Teeters from a noisy sitcom (only one step removed from "The Beverly Hillbillies") to brickbat satire until it collapses in a pool of redemptive mush.
  22. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    Emerges as an engaging if occasionally hokey inspirational melodrama about the importance of community in the face of life's disappointments.
  23. Girlfight
    The movie belongs to Ms. Rodriguez. With her slightly crooked nose and her glum, sensual mouth, she looks a little like Marlon Brando in his smoldering prime, and she has some of his slow, intense physicality. She doesn't so much transcend gender as redefine it.
  24. Remember the Titans
    If Remember the Titans is corny, it's unabashedly, even generously so.
  25. The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story
    In a very real way, The Great Dance constitutes an act of preservation and a requiem.
  26. Barenaked in America
    May not be dispassionate filmmaking, but it is certainly entertaining.
  27. Best in Show
    This comic jigsaw puzzle is crammed with deliriously funny little bits.
  28. The Specials
    Terminally whimsical, it generates a steady current of humor, much of it off-color.
  29. Prince of Central Park
    Remains a sadly earthbound thing, mired in a dismal realism that lies far from its natural environment.
  30. Chutney Popcorn
    Because Chutney Popcorn knows its characters deeply enough to let them determine events, it rises above formula. It is also unusually well acted.
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