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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 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: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Pure nonsense is hard to sustain for an entire feature-length movie.
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  2. Trixie
    Eventually evolves into a murder mystery that isn't very compelling.
  3. 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.
  4. Me, Myself & Irene
    It's not dumb-good. It's dumb-stupid.
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  5. 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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  6. Titan A.E.
    Visually impressive but woefully dumbed-down.
  7. Shaft
    It's fast, easy on the eyes, full of funny putdowns and cast well enough to have two memorable villains.
  8. 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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  9. 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.
  10. Love's Labour's Lost
    Even at its best, the movie plays like a clip reel.
  11. 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."
  12. Running Free
    It's just too soon after those silly talking dinosaurs to put up with any movie about a talking horse.
  13. 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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  14. Shanghai Noon
    This one looks like a sure bet for seven weeks (at least) of audience good fortune.
  15. Passion of Mind
    Pretty hard to buy into at all.
  16. Kikujirô no natsu
    It's tough to think of another child-adult pairing in a long screen tradition with so little emotional kick.
  17. 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.
  18. Dinosaur
    Fossilized script spoils effects.
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  19. Small Time Crooks
    Though this is a tough movie to dislike, it plays more like a second draft than a final product.
  20. 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.
  21. Held Up
    Would not even make a decent five-minute TV sketch. At any length, it smells.
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  22. 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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  23. Screwed
    Clumsy on every level.
  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. Human Traffic
    Someone has seen "Trainspotting" too many times, and it's writer/director Justin Kerrigan.
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  27. 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.
  28. 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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  29. Gladiator
    Instead of the heat of humanity, what lingers on in the mind is the cool of the computerized effects.
  30. Frequency
    This surprisingly sentimental science-fiction thriller boasts enough fresh twists to satisfy time-travel junkies.
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