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For 4,670 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: 2,963 out of 4670
  2. Mixed: 1,021 out of 4670
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4670
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  1. Man on the Moon
    A movie of moments whose ultimate legacy may be to get Carrey out of formula comedies forever.
  2. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Compelling almost in spite of itself, thanks to the impressionistic imagery of cinematographer Robert Richardson.
  3. Girl, Interrupted
    Ryder's commitment is impressive. If her movie only had her courage.
  4. Topsy-Turvy
    One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise.
  5. Anna and the King
    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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  6. Stuart Little
    At least a few good things are found in this small package.
  7. Simpatico
    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.
  8. Bicentennial Man
    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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  9. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    A quagmire that reportedly has undergone multiple edits to reach its current incomprehensible state.
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  10. Magnolia
    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.
  11. The Cider House Rules
    This being Irving, the story straddles the sweet and the creepy.
  12. Cradle Will Rock
    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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  13. Diamonds
    This road-trip piffle is basically a male version of a chick-bonding flick.
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  14. The Green Mile
    Well acted by an ensemble that leans toward equality for all, Mile carries its long running time extremely well.
  15. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    A pathetically dumb attempt to string a bunch of second-rate skits together like a garland of rotten cranberries.
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  16. Miss Julie
    August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis.
  17. Stir of Echoes
    The economical, fast-paced style and creepy mood are reminiscent of "The Twilight Zone."
  18. Agnes Browne
    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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  19. The End of the Affair
    This is the kind of movie in which even the sex scenes are soulless.
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  20. A Map of the World
    The movie Weaver has to carry has so many nagging imperfections that Academy Award attention looks like a long shot.
  21. Holy Smoke
    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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  22. Sweet and Lowdown
    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.
  23. Tumbleweeds
    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.
  24. Ride with the Devil
    Jewel is more like an acting zircon because she just can't project, but at least she looks the part, and her novelty value isn't unwelcome.
  25. End of Days
    The actors take a back seat to computer-generated demonic images and apocalyptic special effects.
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  26. Toy Story 2
    What's most amazing is the finely nuanced performances these bits and bytes deliver.
  27. Flawless
    Worth stumbling into on cable not all that far into next year.
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  28. The World Is Not Enough
    Fans will appreciate not only that the film is predictably solid and surprisingly sharp but that parts of it are just plain bad.
  29. Sleepy Hollow
    This is a very bloody fantasy (reds do eke their way into the black-and-blues), but it's hard to think of another film with as many severed heads whose overall tone is so sweet.
  30. All About My Mother
    Mothers definitely get their due here: Birth mothers, adoptive mothers and mothers-to-be - with the only men in sight (save for one young fatality and one old eccentric) being those who wear flashy makeup and sport breasts
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