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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. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A parade of incongruities, with performances ranging from the sublime to the you-know-what.
  2. Tea with Mussolini
    Once you accept the notion that Tea With Mussolini aspires to be little more than a kind of British-Italian ''Steel Magnolias,'' with a patina of World War II-movie uplift, it becomes a pleasure to watch its stars shamelessly hamming it up.
  3. After Life
    After Life becomes a quiet, extraordinarily moving and sometimes funny meditation on the meaning and value of life. It intimates that whatever happiness we may find in life comes from within and is self-created.
  4. The Mummy
    This version of The Mummy has no pretenses to be anything other than a gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen.
  5. Pusher
    Mr. Refn may yet have justification for boasting about his natural talent. There is one magnificent scene in Pusher... Maybe Mr. Refn's next film will take us into that emotional territory.
  6. Idle Hands
    Even pretensions toward the humorous and hip cannot save this blood-drenched film from its innate tastelessness.
  7. The Winslow Boy
    Mamet's handsome, stately adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy does not embellish upon its source material. Instead it skillfully pares the play down to its essentials, arriving at a faithful but tighter version of this drama.
  8. Entrapment
    Combine two stars of this wattage with a lot of techno-talk and elaborate heist plotting and you get plenty of good reasons to pay attention.
  9. Pushing Tin
    Newell's ensemble timing and breezily sardonic style make it work better than might be expected.
  10. Lost & Found
    A rancid little nothing of a movie that baldly recycles plot elements of "There's Something About Mary."
  11. eXistenZ
    Its name, the film's title, is pronounced "eggs is tense" and meant to have a whiff of the philosophical, even if its intellectual ambition seems mostly limited to spelling affectations.
  12. Election
    Election is a deft dark comedy with a resemblance to "Rushmore." It's smart no matter what.
  13. Life
    Lawrence and Murphy make an entertaining team. And they are surrounded by a supporting cast that makes the prison setting more pleasant than it has any right to be.
  14. SLC Punk!
    Likable for its outlandishness, less so when it shows a self-important streak.
  15. Shuang long hui
    High-spirited entertainment .
  16. Go
    He (Liman) creates a film that lives up to the momentum of its title and doesn't really need much more.
  17. Never Been Kissed
    So hopelessly cartoonish and wrongheaded in its details that there's not even a semblance of reality.
  18. Metroland
    Its strongest assets, aside from a performance by Ms. Watson that pierces through the nonsense, are Mark Knopfler's fine, expressive score and the attractiveness of its star.
  19. Cookie's Fortune
    Captivating.
  20. The Out-of-Towners
    Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin are appealing performers, but none of the energy, professionalism and gameness they display -- can surmount the mess that surrounds them in this misguided comedy.
  21. Following
    The usual elements of scheming and deception are well represented here, but they are made all the knottier by shifting time frames.
  22. 10 Things I Hate About You
    If it's all very clever for a teen-age film, it also feels terribly forced.
  23. The Matrix
    The martial arts stunts that are its single strongest selling point.
  24. Edtv
    With down-to-earth comic instincts, it simply invests its story with a loud ring of truth.
  25. The Mod Squad
    Torturously boring.
  26. A Walk on the Moon
    Even when it turns turbulent, the film sustains its warm summer glow, and makes itself a conversation piece about the moral issues it means to raise.
  27. Forces of Nature
    The film shows off Ms. Bullock to amusing if overly frenetic advantage. It also leaves Affleck without enough of a Cary Grant aura to play his wimpier character with style.
  28. Ravenous
    A potentially strong cast makes its way in deadly earnest through material that's often better suited to a Monty Python skit.
  29. The King and I
    The animation is done in rich, jewel-like colors, but it seems strangely flat. The overall film does, too, although the glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein music makes up for a lot.
  30. True Crime
    Directed by Eastwood with righteous indignation and increasingly strong momentum.
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