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For 4,670 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,963 out of 4670
  2. Mixed: 1,021 out of 4670
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4670
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  1. Dr T and the Women
    The movie's pleasures extend even to the visuals, which are more lustrous than in any other Altman movie.
  2. The Ladies Man
    This Paramount release doubles the insult because it rips off the title of one of the studio's best-remembered Jerry Lewis comedies.
  3. Billy Elliot
    You'd be hard-pressed to find a purer expression of rapture in a film this year than the one that opens Billy Elliot.
  4. Lost Souls
    It's a dated effort.
  5. The Contender
    Compelling and provocative -- though not memorable.
  6. Bamboozled
    On both technical and conceptual levels, Bamboozled is a movie that will leave Spike Lee fans bewildered.
  7. Meet the Parents
    With near-Swiss precision, director/producer Jay Roach and his writers make sure familiarity breeds hilarity.
  8. Girlfight
    A coming-of-age tale that truly floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
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  9. Remember the Titans
    Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in an atypically high-minded and low-budget frame of mind, manages to breeze through most of the gridiron genre's obstacles with his admirable, crowd-pleasing Titans.
  10. Beautiful
    Burdened with so many poky scenes that it approaches the level of the distributor's "Drowning Mona" and "Whipped," both candidates for the year's worst.
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  11. Best in Show
    This giggle does for dog shows what Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap" (in which Guest plays Nigel Tufnel) did for heavy metal.
  12. Woman on Top
    All coy and fey -- and painless to digest.
  13. Dancer in the Dark
    This is the kind of movie that has always polarized serious film folk, while the public usually elects to stay home and prune shrubs.
  14. Tigerland
    Worth a look. It's easy to overrate -- but just as easy to undervalue.
  15. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Proves there are Holocaust stories still to be told.
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  16. Bait
    Has less substance and depth than its title.
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  17. Duets
    The ensemble cast, struggling with wanly written characters, hits more clunkers than high notes.
  18. Almost Famous
    A movie that is easily likable.
  19. The Way of the Gun
    Gives new meaning to the phrase "not for the squeamish."
  20. Nurse Betty
    Observing Zellweger as she dispenses her brand of movie magic definitely is good for what ails you.
  21. The Watcher
    It's still the same sick story. Even the small touches seem stale.
  22. Whipped
    A cynical sex comedy that manages to be infantile and jaded at the same time.
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    • 21 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Highlander: Endgame
    Zealots flip over Endgame.
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  24. The Art of War
    Director Christian Duguay's gimmicky "thriller" demonstrates that he has not begun to master the art of suspense.
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  25. Bring It On
    It could be worse.
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  26. Love & Sex
    Flimsy little comedy unworthy of its portentous title.
  27. The Crew
    Often livens up stale material with disarming loopiness and zest.
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  28. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Both the material and the way it's delivered by the movie's comic quartet are so funny.
  29. Steal This Movie
    A film dealing fully with Hoffman's final years might have had a lot more punch.
  30. The Cell
    There's so little action or suspense that this Cell isn't too likely to multiply itself into a sequel.
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  31. Godzilla 2000
    May be dull, but the familiarity of it all makes it feel ceremonial, a reassuring ritual.
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  32. Bless the Child
    A cheesy crock of religious mumbo jumbo.
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  33. Cecil B. DeMented
    Where once Waters was brilliantly polluted, now he comes off diluted.
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  34. The Replacements
    One of those movies that goes for a jarringly new emotion every 30 seconds or so while the story's foundation is collapsing.
  35. Autumn in New York
    Gere has never seemed more squirrelly.
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  36. The Tao of Steve
    This quirky, winning sleeper from first-time director Jenniphr Goodman has its pokey moments, but it's no insult to say that it is as pleasantly easygoing as its slacker hero.
  37. Saving Grace
    Though not quite up to "The Full Monty" or "Waking Ned Devine," there's just enough left in that overseas whimsy stockpile to generate good buzz (the word-of-mouth moviegoer kind).
  38. Space Cowboys
    Preposterous to the extreme.
  39. Coyote Ugly
    As shallow as a shot glass.
  40. Hollow Man
    Ultimately the title is most revealing. It's hollow, man.
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  41. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    When have we seen the same performer playing both parts in a sexual situation? It happens here, not once but twice.
  42. Girl on the Bridge
    Paradis is a most striking subject, but the movie is a winner as well, starting with a story full of black-comic possibilities exploited fully by the great French director Patrice Leconte.
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  43. Wonderland
    If Wonderland is difficult to embrace, it is easy to admire.
  44. Loser
    What do you call a filmmaker who thinks imitating a screen benchmark can make up for emotions that are evading her actors -- Clueless.
  45. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    A largely irresistible puff piece.
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  46. What Lies Beneath
    Never reaches much beyond the surface, and what lies there is all too predictable.
  47. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    What do you have to smoke to understand this?
  48. The Five Senses
    The five stories in The Five Senses flawlessly and even artfully create a unified mood.
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  49. X-Men
    Missing are well-choreographed action scenes, likable characters and involving plot twists.
  50. Chuck & Buck
    Its premise is so promising that you long for more than Arteta's low-key approach can deliver.
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  51. The Kid
    This boomer-coddling comic fantasy, in which a callous adult on the brink of 40 has a chance encounter with his pudgy, lisping 8-year-old self, is an iffier what-if.
  52. Scary Movie
    Maybe I'm just too old to appreciate the startling sight of a phallus jammed into someone's ear.
  53. The Perfect Storm
    So much water. Such a dramatic washout.
  54. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Pure nonsense is hard to sustain for an entire feature-length movie.
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  55. Trixie
    Eventually evolves into a murder mystery that isn't very compelling.
  56. The Patriot
    Emmerich might have had a masterpiece, but he'll have to settle for what comes close to being a must-see movie today.
  57. Me, Myself & Irene
    It's not dumb-good. It's dumb-stupid.
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  58. Chicken Run
    A little slapstick, a little action, rich characters and a whopping serving of wit. All baked to near-perfection.
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  59. Titan A.E.
    Visually impressive but woefully dumbed-down.
  60. Shaft
    It's fast, easy on the eyes, full of funny putdowns and cast well enough to have two memorable villains.
  61. Boys and Girls
    As the couple stand on the bluffs overlooking San Francisco Bay, you may find yourself wishing Forlani would push Prinze in.
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  62. Sunshine
    This movie doesn't make you think you are watching art. It's closer to a high-end TV movie with lots of familiar faces.
  63. Love's Labour's Lost
    Even at its best, the movie plays like a clip reel.
  64. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    It's a pretty good ride even if it blatantly steals some of its best stunts from "American Graffiti" and "Grease."
  65. Running Free
    It's just too soon after those silly talking dinosaurs to put up with any movie about a talking horse.
  66. Big Momma's House
    There's something about a plus-size floral housedress that brings out the best in many male comics, and Lawrence is no exception.
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  67. Shanghai Noon
    This one looks like a sure bet for seven weeks (at least) of audience good fortune.
  68. Passion of Mind
    Pretty hard to buy into at all.
  69. Kikujirô no natsu
    It's tough to think of another child-adult pairing in a long screen tradition with so little emotional kick.
  70. Mission: Impossible II
    There's also a nice cheekiness to the material written by Robert Towne ("Chinatown"), and the usual cool high-tech toys are deployed.
  71. Dinosaur
    Fossilized script spoils effects.
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  72. Small Time Crooks
    Though this is a tough movie to dislike, it plays more like a second draft than a final product.
  73. Road Trip
    We all know grossly moronic behavior can, in the right situation, generate hearty guilty-pleasure guffaws - at least until overkill wears out the welcome.
  74. Held Up
    Would not even make a decent five-minute TV sketch. At any length, it smells.
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  75. Center Stage
    It's so predictable, you can set your watch to when the bulimic will sneak away to the bathroom.
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  76. Screwed
    Clumsy on every level.
  77. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    The script, based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, is deeply dumb, depressingly derivative (ripping off "Planet of the Apes" the most) and just plain nonsense.
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  78. Hamlet
    But all the devices and upgrades do little to bring the poetry's meaning into clearer and more relevant focus for today's audiences.
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  79. Human Traffic
    Someone has seen "Trainspotting" too many times, and it's writer/director Justin Kerrigan.
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  80. Up at the Villa
    For novelty value, you can do worse than seeing Sean Penn in a rare chance to don evening-wear on screen, but this isn't a sight to sustain a two-hour haul.
  81. I Dreamed of Africa
    While Basinger admirably invests her role with deep passion and looks splendid in her Kenya khakis, the true story she stars in is disappointingly tame and dramatically inert.
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  82. Gladiator
    Instead of the heat of humanity, what lingers on in the mind is the cool of the computerized effects.
  83. Frequency
    This surprisingly sentimental science-fiction thriller boasts enough fresh twists to satisfy time-travel junkies.
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  84. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Now and again, the bizarre occurs, such as when Fred and Barney don showgirl outfits and seem to be doing their version of "The Birdcage." But mundane is more the norm.
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  85. Where the Heart Is
    The Wal-Mart of cinematic soap operas. One-stop shopping for your emotional movie needs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Croupier
    A tiny treasure: grown-up, tight, sexy, suspenseful and with a mildly ambiguous wrap-up that stimulates the mind rather than confusing it.
  87. Gossip
    A glossy wisp of a cautionary tale.
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  88. U-571
    One would be hard-pressed to name another submarine movie that lingers so little in the memory two days after seeing it.
  89. The Virgin Suicides
    In contrast to big-screen bummers we see every week, this movie conveys genuine sorrow.
  90. Love & Basketball
    One wishes producer Spike Lee had stepped in to give the dialogue some sass.
  91. Keeping the Faith
    Even surly moviegoers may discover how pleasant it can be to actually like movie characters.
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  92. American Psycho
    Exceedingly well cast and assembled with flashy visuals and pacing by Harron, this period piece is diminished by its relative pointlessness.
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  93. 28 Days
    Far too familiar.
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  94. Where the Money Is
    Easygoing and easy to take, the movie isn't much.
  95. East Is East
    A robust family comedy that saves its wildest moments for a climactic "get-together."
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  96. The Filth and the Fury
    Irritates in the early going when many of the current-day interviews are so intentionally underlighted that we can't see what the group members look like.
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  97. Rules of Engagement
    The sentiments here are thoroughly semper fi, but the result occasionally works at cross-purposes.
  98. Return to Me
    But there is a satisfying, old-fashioned "Moonstruck" sensibility at work, one that will be appreciated by folks who like their beef corned and their movies cornier.
  99. Ready to Rumble
    Here's ringside entertainment for those who think TV wrestling is too intellectual and restrained.
  100. Black and White
    Sometimes laughably incoherent.
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