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For 2,984 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,815 out of 2984
  2. Mixed: 939 out of 2984
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2984
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  1. Ocean's Eleven
    Doesn't offer much.
  2. The Affair of the Necklace
    You may not be able to follow the overall arc of their scheming, but scene by scene they are a delightful crew, hissing away behind their cloaks and fans.
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  3. Behind Enemy Lines
    The journey is never boring, and it's morally satisfying too. O.K., the movie is what Hollywood likes to call "a ride." But it's one worth taking.
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  4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    The film lacks moviemaking buoyancy -- the feeling of soaring in space that Rowling's magic-carpet prose gives the reader. The picture isn't inept, just inert.
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  5. Shallow Hal
    We [Farrellys'] mock, they say, because we care. But that doesn't make the film elevating or amusing.
  6. Heist
    The result is a well-tooled machine chugging coldly along a twisting road to nowhere.
  7. Monsters, Inc.
    "Shrek," this film's prime competition for the first Animated Feature Oscar, is a synoptic parody of fairy tales. In Monsters, Inc. the gags aren't as spot-on but the technique is miles ahead. The vision is grander and warmer.
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  8. Amélie
    You could get drunk, or ill, on the high dose of whimsy in Amelie.
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  9. The Man Who Wasn't There
    If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking -- hilarious yet hypnotic -- one would be tempted to see something Greek in the tragedy that Ed never comprehends.
  10. Life as a House
    Will the movie end in an orgy of sentiment? Why do we bother to ask?
  11. The Last Castle
    Redford underacts, Gandolfini overacts, and this movie is directed with the same air of unreality, the same grim passion for cliches, both cinematic and emotional, that Lurie brought to his first film, "The Contender."
  12. Riding in Cars with Boys
    It is somewhat repetitive, but it is also wonderfully acted, especially by Barrymore.
  13. Bandits
    Works as a sweetly loony ensemble piece, a sort of cracked romance that's typical of director Barry Levinson at his shrewd but unpretentious best.
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  14. Mulholland Dr.
    Viewers will feel as though they've just finished a great meal but aren't sure what they've been served. Behind them, the chef smiles wickedly.
  15. Training Day
    As long as Training Day stays tightly focused on the struggle between the two cops, the movie is first rate.
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  16. Serendipity
    Your affection for Serendipity may depend on how fascinated you are by a movie that is apparently going after the all-time record for delayed consummation.
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  17. Liam
    Unsparing but never unsympathetic, emerges as one of the year's best, most brutally honest movies.
  18. Our Lady of the Assassins
    Full of sacrilegious rant, absurdist affectlessness and pop social criticism, this film plays like an old B movie: narratively improvisational, delusionally pretentious, weirdly watchable.
  19. Rock Star
    This is a good-natured retro romp that is truer to Golden Age movies than to golden oldies songs.
  20. O
    On your already groaning Shakespeare for Teens video shelf, stack this one above "10 Things I Hate About You" (a.k.a. "The Taming of the Shrew") and quite a bit below "Romeo + Juliet."
  21. Together
    We are free to adore a sad, funny, always good-natured film that eccentrically, tolerantly explores that moment when revolutionary ardor commingled with bourgeois stolidity to form our present weirdly ambiguous culture.
  22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Corelli is a coffee-table movie: one leafs through the gorgeous vistas and nods through the narrative.
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  23. Rat Race
    It's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote.
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  24. The Deep End
    Elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting movie.
  25. Rush Hour 2
    Until a vigorous climax, the action scenes have little punch.
  26. Apocalypse Now Redux
    Apocalypse Now is about an American, perhaps a human madness. It searingly depicts, and finally embodies, the spiritual wounds men inflict on themselves and one another in the name of war. To gain the hearts and minds of a distant people, we lose our own souls.
  27. Planet of the Apes
    Mostly, the new film reminds us that swell production design is no substitute for a fresh, simple and startling idea.
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  28. Ghost World
    In this arid landscape, the edifice of Ghost World, with all its acute insolence, stands out like the Taj Mahal.
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  29. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    A.I. will beguile some viewers, perplex others. Its vision is too capacious, its narrative route too extended, the shift in tone (from suburban domestic to rural nightmare to urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe.
  30. Divided We Fall
    The result is a lovely movie, one that allows its characters unexpected spurts of growth and regression, darkness and grace.
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