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For 17,777 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,133 out of 17777
  2. Mixed: 7,008 out of 17777
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17777
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  1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A charming, if lightweight, Coen brothers escapade flecked by plenty of visual and performance grace notes.
  2. Cast Away
    Meticulous, sumptuous production design, and striking visuals compensate for the lack of dramatic momentum in a film that arguably stretches narrative form to its limits.
  3. The Family Man
    A slickly produced slice of sentimental hokum that borrows freely from a half-dozen or so other, better feel-good fantasies.
  4. Finding Forrester
    Provides a platform for Sean Connery to deliver a definitive, career-summation performance.
  5. The Gift
    A good, old-fashioned suspenser.
  6. Pollock
    Distinguished by its quiet, intelligent, admirably restrained approach and by two finely wrought performances from Harris and Marcia Gay Harden in the leading roles.
  7. South of Heaven, West of Hell
    A quasi-metaphysical revenge Western that remains as elusive as a distant mirage on a long, dusty trail.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Visit
    The top-notch cast never hits a false note.
  9. The Emperor's New Groove
    Light, taut and compact, the zippy adventure is sometimes much too hip for the room.
  10. What Women Want
    Sheer energy and audience allure to burn, even if numerous speed bumps cause many of the comic possibilities to go tumbling overboard.
  11. Dude, Where's My Car?
    Aimed squarely at adolescents who might find "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" too intellectually taxing.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Chocolat
    The most satisfying epicurean feast since "Big Night."
  13. Vertical Limit
    Remains exciting as long as it stays on the mountains.
  14. Dungeons & Dragons
    Stunningly bad sci-fi/fantasy hokum.
  15. Proof of Life
    A disappointingly routine thriller that prefers to lean on tired Hollywood conventions rather than to explore fresh dramatic and stylistic territory.
  16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun.
  17. Strippers
    Amateurish, undramatic and bereft of any sense of pacing.
  18. Poor White Trash
    At its best, in its early, more subdued passages, Poor White Trash provides a couple of pristine comic moments. At its worst, it spirals uncontrollably into an unfunny void.
  19. Boys Life 3
    A typical grab bag of works of varying depth, all of them breezy and entertaining.
  20. The Trench
    Soberly and intelligently examines the fear, frustration, anxiety, animosity and boredom of waiting to advance into the terrifying other world that lies over the lip of the trenches.
  21. 102 Dalmatians
    A pale reworking of its predecessor.
  22. Unbreakable
    Possesses sufficient intrigue to hook audiences and keep them on board much of the way.
  23. Quills
    Lacks an edge of danger or excitement that might have brought the subject alive in more than a cerebral way.
  24. Lies
    Has nothing much to say.
  25. Bounce
    Simultaneously contrived and genuinely felt.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Billy Liar (re-release)
    An imaginative, fascinating film.
  27. One Day in September
    Never less than gripping as an account of what happened and what went terribly wrong.
  28. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Though animated sequels of popular kids' fare tend to perform lower than their progenitors, this one should buck the trend.
  29. The 6th Day
    A mostly standard-issue latter-day Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner spiked with a creepily plausible cloning angle.
  30. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Shrill, strenuous and entirely without charm, Ron Howard's attempt at a Christmas classic is an elaborately wrapped empty box that will fool many people into buying it but will not greatly please its recipients.
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