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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. Psycho Beach Party
    It is surprisingly timely.
  2. Coyote Ugly
    Looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial.
  3. Hollow Man
    Endure the long, slow, unraveling of this movie, which can't even muster the intelligence to be pretentious or the bravado to be amusingly bad.
  4. Space Cowboys
    One of the best entertainments this season has yet offered.
  5. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Isn't quite as much fun as it could be.
  6. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Half a movie at best. The broad humor at times derails Mr. Murphy's performances, but the movie provides a vehicle for him to display his reach.
  7. Girl on the Bridge
    Leconte's visual instincts are so impressive that they outstrip his story, leaving us flushed and dazzled, but also, as after a long night of champagne and baccarat (to say nothing of other irresponsible pleasures), hungry, tired, and homesick.
  8. Wonderland
    As well done as it is, Wonderland feels predictable. There is no sad turn in these characters' lives that you cannot see coming about an hour before.
  9. The Wind Will Carry Us
    Its effects seem more like those of a poem or a piece of music than a movie. Requires the reverent darkness and communal solitude of a theater.
  10. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Mr. Baldwin's attack -- there's no better way to put it -- is unforgettable. He's the first shrunken narrator with a serial killer's swagger.
  11. New Waterford Girl
    A freshness and intensity that recall the television series "My So-Called Life."
  12. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    It's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that.
  13. Two Women
    Impressive, unsettling, deeply felt film.
  14. Benjamin Smoke
    The film has a richer, more various visual texture than most documentaries, combining still photographs, black-and-white video and Super-8 film, sometimes with wild sound or none at all.
  15. Les amants criminels
    Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.
  16. $pent
    By the end the most vivid figure on the screen is the lovable doggie who goes wherever dangling fingers are waiting to give the happy pooch a scratch.
  17. Alice et Martin
    Your attention is rewarded by a film of surprising depth and a few deep surprises.
  18. Loser
    In the end, Loser disappoints.
  19. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    As good as cut-rate animation that seems to consist of screen savers can be.
  20. What Lies Beneath
    Glazes over faster than a Krispy Kreme doughnut, and neither is very flavorful after sitting around for a while.
  21. The In Crowd
    The only people who could be surprised at this movie will be those who wandered into the wrong multiplex theater by mistake.
  22. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Mr. Law doesn't disgrace himself here, though he doesn't have much to do, and the director, Po Chih Leong, is deft at creating atmosphere, but it's an atmosphere we've all seen before.
  23. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    A brilliant satire of emotional politics.
  24. The Five Senses
    By interweaving several stories, the movie suffers from a peculiar multiplier effect: it deepens its shallowness.
  25. Chuck & Buck
    Strange, intense and moving -- one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year.
  26. Shadow Hours
    Tedious descent into cinema hell.
  27. X-Men
    Clumsy when it should be light on its feet, the movie takes itself even more seriously than the comic book and its fans do, which is a superheroic achievement.
  28. The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
    Mr. Drake can be rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching.
  29. Fear of Fiction
    A washout.
  30. All the Rage
    Like a ham-fisted high-concept public service announcement, directed with stagy deliberateness and written with tin-eared vernacular speechiness.
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