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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. Running Free
    Vacillates between cutesy Disney-style anthropomorphism and "Born Free" exoticism.
  2. Grass
    With its pointed narrative, the film makes its case with a minimum of pushiness and a subtle nod to its crowd.
  3. American Virgin
    As tightly plotted as a standard French farce.
  4. Thirteen
    For all its narrative glitches and its homemade quality, Thirteen evokes the rhythm, texture and tone of Nina's world in a way that a more carefully scripted film never could.
  5. Better Living Through Circuitry
    The movie is essentially pro-Ecstasy. No matter how much the D.J.'s may claim that their electronic sounds produce the euphoria of a good rave, the movie clearly implies that Ecstasy is the key that unlocks it all.
  6. Passion of Mind
    It's hard to take Passion seriously because it brings to mind the kind of shallow psychology that wouldn't be out of place in a history short about Sigmund Freud on "ABC Schoolhouse Rock."
  7. 8 ½ Women
    Its message is quite simple and all too familiar: when it comes to sex, all men are little boys.
  8. Shanghai Noon
    A refreshing movie that's so good natured, so confident of its ability to provoke not queasy awe or numb exhaustion but pure delight.
  9. Kikujirô no natsu
    Dreamy touches can't compensate for the film's main flaw, which is that the relationship between the two main characters never really develops.
  10. Mission: Impossible II
    Once the basic conflict is established, the story plods along, alternating between preposterous -- in a bad way -- speeches and even more preposterous -- but in a good way -- shootouts and slugfests.
  11. The Well
    With a neck-snapping jolt, turns into the scariest exercise in cinematic sleight of hand since "The Blair Witch Project."
  12. Luminous Motion
    It's a bit like "The Sixth Sense," but without the melodramatic comfort of the supernatural.
  13. Small Time Crooks
    In this sweet, funny wisp of a movie, Mr. Allen shucks off his fabled angst and returns in spirit to those wide-eyed days of yesteryear, before Chekhov, Kafka and Ingmar Bergman invaded his creative imagination.
  14. Road Trip
    Bad taste is timeless. And sometimes it can be so funny that you can't help laughing.
  15. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    It conveys plenty of wonder while mostly avoiding any saccharine preachiness.
  16. Dinosaur
    As luxuriant and intoxicating as a theme park ride; more remarkably, it feels like a real movie.
  17. Shadow Boxers
    Upbeat.
  18. Held Up
    By the end, even the irrepressible Mr. Foxx seems tired and defeated, and we can only hope he perks up in time for his next movie.
  19. Coming Soon
    Its frank good humor stands in sharp contrast with the strange combination of timidity and exploitiveness of more widely distributed recent teenage comedies.
  20. Center Stage
    Sexy and infectious in spite of itself.
  21. Hamlet
    New York becomes a complex character in this vital and sharply intelligent film.
  22. Screwed
    A confusedly misconceived hybrid of interracial buddy comedy and imitation Marx Brothers farce.
  23. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but Battlefield Earth may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.
  24. Gladiator
    Grandiose and silly.
  25. Luminarias
    Easy to like and difficult to admire.
  26. La Nouvelle Ève
    But most of the movie's notes are appallingly right.
  27. Dream of Light
    The purity and breadth of this meticulous study are all the more gratifying in view of its unprepossessing style.
  28. The Basket
    Avoids succumbing to the preachiness that is the bane of so many family films, and for a movie like this, that's no small feat.
  29. I Dreamed of Africa
    Advance word of mouth has suggested that Ms. Basinger...turns in a performance comparable to Meryl Streep's in "Out of Africa." Would that it were so. Ms. Basinger certainly works hard at her role.
  30. Up at the Villa
    It reminds us that Italy is beautiful, that Fascism was a dreadful nuisance and that Sean Penn is a great actor, deserving of better vehicles than this vintage lemon.
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