USA Today's Scores

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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:
4677 movie reviews
  1. With his coolly objective moon's-eye view serving a story that's bizarre by even his long-established career standards, the great documentarian Errol Morris examines the perils of vanity - though others will understandably make more sinister interpretations.
  2. Another invigorating, extremely raunchy sports movie from Ron Shelton .
  3. There's a lot to talk about but so much outrageousness that the end effect is wearying and not a little absurd.
  4. Skirts dangerously close to being the thing it parodies: a second-rate space opera.
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  5. In a possible breakthrough role, Law would seem to be the big winner.
  6. Though there are helmets deeper than this movie, you do have to admire the level of screen showmanship .
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  7. True to the book's squalor but also finding honest humor where it can.
  8. A movie of moments whose ultimate legacy may be to get Carrey out of formula comedies forever.
  9. Compelling almost in spite of itself, thanks to the impressionistic imagery of cinematographer Robert Richardson.
  10. Ryder's commitment is impressive. If her movie only had her courage.
  11. One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise.
  12. The movie is something of a white elephant itself, a luxuriant, lumbering behemoth. It is pleasant, occasionally amusing - and often dull.
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  13. At least a few good things are found in this small package.
  14. It's an awkward jumble whose only value is as a forum for movie junkies to track the progress of half-a-dozen screen careers at once.
  15. The sad fact is Williams is at his best while trapped in Andrew's original sleek form. His performance is subtle, his reactions restrained. The more Robin is exposed, the more ham is served.
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  16. A quagmire that reportedly has undergone multiple edits to reach its current incomprehensible state.
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  17. The most imperfect of the year's best movies, Magnolia's flaws are easily forgiven because they are the result of go-for-broke ambition.
  18. This being Irving, the story straddles the sweet and the creepy.
  19. Rock actually rocks out as one of the year's most purely entertaining movies (just keep thinking: Bill Murray as a ventriloquist).
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  20. This road-trip piffle is basically a male version of a chick-bonding flick.
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  21. Well acted by an ensemble that leans toward equality for all, Mile carries its long running time extremely well.
  22. A pathetically dumb attempt to string a bunch of second-rate skits together like a garland of rotten cranberries.
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  23. August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis.
  24. The economical, fast-paced style and creepy mood are reminiscent of "The Twilight Zone."
  25. Great slabs of blarney are washed down with tears and Guinness in this yarn about a struggling Irish clan, and the resulting sentiment is blatant enough to wake Ned Devine.
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  26. This is the kind of movie in which even the sex scenes are soulless.
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  27. The movie Weaver has to carry has so many nagging imperfections that Academy Award attention looks like a long shot.
  28. Sexy, snotty, vulnerable and above all contentious, she's (Winslet) the catalyst in a movie that creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year.
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  29. It's all very slight and only sporadically amusing, and it makes Allen's "Celebrity" from last year look even more underrated than it already is.
  30. No, it isn't the slick and unfocused "Anywhere but Here," where mom and daughter choose Beverly Hills. Instead, it's the more modest and in most cases preferable Tumbleweeds.

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