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For 17,786 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: 9,137 out of 17786
  2. Mixed: 7,013 out of 17786
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17786
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  1. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Well positioned to slake the thirst of action fans for world-class, slam-bang rough stuff.
  2. Calle 54
    Looks and sounds wonderful, and while more information about these giants of African-Latin music might have been welcome, the music's the thing.
  3. Pay It Forward
    An unusual film that intelligently avoids numerous potential pitfalls even if its central earnestness is ultimately inescapable.
  4. Bedazzled
    The 2000 version is louder, broader and much, much bigger.
  5. MVP: Most Valuable Primate
    A lark gone utterly awry.
  6. Just Looking
    It goes down as easy as a cherry Coke.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
    The unsophisticated, even crude result is not likely to win over too many tots.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Lost Souls
    The hallucination sequences are among the pic's creepiest.
  9. Dr T and the Women
    Gere breaks through with what may or may not be his best performance.
  10. The Contender
    The large, talented cast elevates the film above the trappings of its loquacious debates, particularly Allen.
  11. Billy Elliot
    Strikes a delicate balance of comedy and pathos with an uplifting final act that delivers a resoundingly satisfying emotional payoff.
  12. The Ladies Man
    The question isn't where is the love but where are the laughs?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Factory
    In one of his best leading screen turns, Dafoe makes a potentially unlikely construct into a fascinating, full-blooded figure.
  14. Ratcatcher
    There’s a light touch in evidence, balancing the bleakness with odd lyrical moments and unexpected humor and tenderness that infuse the gentle drama with a bracing freshness.
  15. Taboo
    Walks the line between conviction and camp with a not entirely steady step.
  16. CyberWorld
    An OK mishmash.
  17. Mercy Streets
    No mere crime drama, but rather the latest in the recent resurgence of independently financed, spiritually themed pics that seek to couch religious dogma within the shells of B-grade genre entertainment.
  18. Two Family House
    For all the pic’s sentimentality, De Felitta refuses to back away from some unpleasantly realistic touches.
  19. Bamboozled
    Occasionally biting but excessively melodramatic.
  20. Get Carter
    A useless remake of Mike Hodges' 1971 British gangland cult classic.
  21. Bootmen
    Feel-good quality fare.
  22. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Voice work is weirdly awful and funny at the same time.
  23. Meet the Parents
    A flat-out hilarious mainstream comedy.
  24. Requiem for a Dream
    It’s technically striking filmmaking, to be sure, but what it’s presenting is nothing that many people will want to look at.
  25. Beautiful
    There's no particular reason to see this disappointingly trivial picture on the bigscreen.
  26. Girlfight
    Blends in a most satisfying manner the conventions of several genres, resulting in a coherent picture that is at once a poignant inner-city drama, a rousing sports movie, an emotional family yarn and, above all, a sweet romance.
  27. Remember the Titans
    Earnest and well-intentioned.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Barenaked in America
    An only occasionally interesting look at a rather ordinary bunch of musicians.
  29. Best in Show
    A barkingly funny new "mockumentary" that does for those canine pageants what the helmer's 1996 "Waiting for Guffman" did for smalltown theatrics.
  30. The Specials
    A vulgar, Z-grade variant on last year's "Mystery Men" for those who didn't get their fill the first time around.
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