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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. Miss Congeniality
    Supporting performances add comic spark to a movie that otherwise seems happily, deliberately second-rate.
  2. Come te nessuno mai
    Aiming for lighthearted, bittersweet charm, But Forever in My Mind slips into predictability and condescension.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Cast Away
    At its best, Cast Away, like "Titanic," awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance.
  6. The Family Man
    A piece of moldy wax fruit if ever there was one.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. The Gift
    The picture is saved from mediocrity by Mr. Raimi's smooth competence, and by the unusually high quality of the acting.
  10. 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.
  11. The Visit
    Shows so much intelligence and compassion that its tendency sometimes to overreach or underdramatize can surely be forgiven.
  12. The Emperor's New Groove
    Exhibits a cheeky effervescence and spunk.
  13. What Women Want
    Starts with a great idea, but the movie's potential drops faster than the tech stocks on the Nasdaq.
  14. Dude, Where's My Car?
    Tasteless at times, but where's the yuck?
  15. Chocolat
    So assured in its manipulative prowess that only afterward do you realize how fully you've been worked over.
  16. The Day Silence Died
    An easygoing exercise, impossible to dislike but not especially memorable, engaging but finally derivative:
  17. Vertical Limit
    A shallow yet empty action extravaganza.
  18. Dungeons & Dragons
    Take this as a warning: it's not much fun.
  19. The Art of Amália
    Only twice does the film give a tantalizing glimpse at the personality behind the voice.
  20. Proof of Life
    What ultimately sinks this stylish but heartless film is a flat lead performance by the eternally snippy Meg Ryan.
  21. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    The picture is more fun than it has a right to be.
  22. Hillbrow Kids
    The blithe cruelties of outdoor living mount up, but the filmmakers refuse to exaggerate or sensationalize their material.
  23. Strippers
    Cheesy, amateurish film.
  24. Moon Shadow
    A modest and thoughtful movie, and if it doesn't quite break new ground in addressing its difficult subject, it at least does not cheapen it.
  25. A Good Baby
    The characters' faces reveal more about them than any words that come out of their mouths.
  26. Boys Life 3
    Pallid compared with the flaming id of television's "Will and Grace," the happy swizzle stick Jack, who's all appetites. When series television is more entertaining than a series of short independent films, that's something to worry about.
  27. Spring Forward
    Two very fine actors, Ned Beatty and Liev Schreiber, engaged in an intense contest to see who can give the more understated performance.
  28. The Trench
    What lifts The Trench above the run of the mill is the intensity of its disgust.
  29. 102 Dalmatians
    May have had the unintended effect of obscuring the original it meant to honor.
  30. Unbreakable
    Mr. Shyamalan may be the only mainstream director hankering for success with a need to understate; he is like Shaq without the tattoos. The result is a mastery of craft that may leave some hungry for more.
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