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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. Simpatico
    Far from being a typical Hollywood desecration of a difficult play, it stays true to the work's quirky, renegade spirit.
  2. Stuart Little
    Sustains a lovely balance between enchantment and playfulness.
  3. Topsy-Turvy
    One of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as "Shakespeare in Love."
  4. Anna and the King
    Has the rambling pace of an episodic 1950s costume drama.
  5. Magnolia
    It's astonishing to see a film begin this brilliantly only to torpedo itself in its final hour.
  6. The Cider House Rules
    The author's fantastical world of wonders and the director's tender-hearted compassion mesh into what is easily the finest film realization of an Irving novel.
  7. Cradle Will Rock
    Although Robbins might have drawn some of these characters with less obviousness and more satirical bite, he ably keeps this lively, complicated film on track.
  8. Miss Julie
    The dialogue may be crisply idiomatic, but there's finally nothing realistic about the speed with which the characters hurtle through their mood swings and power plays.
  9. The War Zone
    The actor Tim Roth makes a fierce, disturbing directorial debut with a film that treats incest as something worse than a terrible secret.
  10. Diamonds
    The only thing about the movie that isn't a transparent paste imitation is Douglas' hard, gleaming performance.
  11. Stir of Echoes
    Another thriller that packs a spooky wallop as it conjures an unseen world within reach.
  12. The Green Mile
    A film with a counterproductive tendency to take its time...but unassumingly strong, moving performances and Darabont's durable storytelling make it a trip worth taking just the same.
  13. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Juvenile comedy targets a gallery of imperfect women.
  14. Clouds of May
    The film's shapeliness and depth are not immediately apparent; for much of its running time, it feels diffuse and anecdotal, but in retrospect you appreciate the subtlety and heft of the story, as well as the tricky profundity of Mr. Ceylan's approach.
  15. Agnes Browne
    Has an episodic rhythm and little dramatic tension.
  16. Holy Smoke
    As Holy Smoke moves from its early mix of rapture and humor into this more serious, confrontational stage, it runs into trouble.
  17. The End of the Affair
    When it comes to holiday films worth swooning over, here's the one to see.
  18. Sweet and Lowdown
    This is one very tuneful labor of love.
  19. A Map of the World
    Something disturbing has happened to this story en route to the screen.
  20. Flawless
    So awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes.
  21. Tumbleweeds
    There are many moments when what is on the screen stops looking like acting and becomes life itself, and you're watching real people change and grow before your eyes.
  22. End of Days
    Two ridiculous blood-soaked hours.
  23. Ride with the Devil
    Dramatically skimpy, even though the movie stirs together themes of love, sex, death and war.
  24. Toy Story 2
    Making sure that computer-generated animation will never be the same.
  25. The World Is Not Enough
    In his third and most comfortable effort to model the Bond mantle, Pierce Brosnan bears noticeably more resemblance to a real human being.
  26. All About My Mother
    It weaves life and art into a rich tapestry of love, loss and compassion.
  27. Sleepy Hollow
    Turns the tale of the Headless Horseman into the pre-tabloid story of a rampaging serial killer.
  28. 42: Forty Two Up
    When this hugely ambitious project began, it was a longitudinal study of class divisions among English schoolchildren. But time and persistence have turned it into much more.
  29. Mansfield Park
    Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama.
  30. Liberty Heights
    If Liberty Heights is much too soft at its center, it still offers a deeper immersion in that old '50s feeling than any other Hollywood film in recent memory.
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