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For 17,771 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 2.5 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: 9,130 out of 17771
  2. Mixed: 7,005 out of 17771
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17771
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  1. Bait
    A B movie in A-grade clothing.
  2. The Price of Air
    Wallows in the deviant proclivities of the rich, wearing its rancor like a merit badge.
  3. Paragraph 175
    The definitive screen chronicle to date of homosexual persecution under the Third Reich.
  4. Almost Famous
    More gentle and modestly insightful than it is exhilarating or revelatory.
  5. Pola X
    An often intriguing, sometimes hypnotic work, but one that quickly starts to unravel in the final hour as it becomes clear there’s not much beneath the emperor’s clothes.
  6. The Watcher
    Emerges as a formulaic thriller that plays more like direct-to-video fare than a megaplex-worthy feature.
  7. Backstage
    Lacks sufficient appeal beyond niche aficionados of its featured performers.
  8. Nurse Betty
    Few actresses can convey the kind of honesty and humanity that Zellweger does here -- it's hard to imagine the film without her dominant, thoroughly credible performance.
  9. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    A warm, often invigorating and ultimately moving ode to community values.
  10. Anatomy
    A fantastical romp with a buoyant pace, exotic locations, a finger-popping score, appealing leads and spicy cooking demonstrations.
  11. The Way of the Gun
    Each of the talented thesps has some good moments, but, ultimately, none can rise above the limitations of the material and filmmaking.
  12. Turn It Up
    Patently absurd in both the details and larger aspects, the ultraserious pic is undermined by poor casting.
  13. Highlander: Endgame
    The sheer raggedness of the plotting -- and the pic's cynical disdain toward audiences -- is staggering.
  14. Whipped
    Grotesquely smutty and obnoxiously overbearing, this is a pitiful excuse for a comedy.
  15. Titanic Town
    Walters brings real heart to the role.
  16. Dark Days
    Intimate and engrossing.
  17. The Art of War
    Almost every element in Art of War is slightly off.
  18. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
    Though intermittently engaging and decently acted, the movie suffers from a repetitive format, with too many shifts in time that prove disruptive.
  19. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Boasts a perceptive script, rich performances and date-movie appeal.
  20. The Crew
    The sentimentality is gently but firmly restrained in a potentially treacly subplot.
  21. Bittersweet Motel
    Well-made if not particularly insightful docu should be catnip to Phishheads, while the previously unconverted are likely to stay that way.
  22. Love & Sex
    Valerie Breiman’s exceedingly slick feature is one of those cutesy items in which the characters talk about nothing but relationships and themselves.
  23. Bring It On
    Succeeds in displaying the physical drive and demands of cheerleading.
  24. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    An unbeatably colorful life story.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Place Vendôme
    Taut and nuanced from start to finish, with memorable, lived-in central characters and an appealingly melancholy tone, helmer/co-scripter Nicole Garcia’s third feature has what it takes.
  26. The Cell
    A slender story that's not particularly suspenseful or involving, resulting in a movie that's a feast to the eye but not much for the intellect.
  27. Godzilla 2000
    A classically low-tech monster mash.
  28. Steal This Movie
    A valiant but seriously flawed attempt to belie the notion that if you remember what you did in the '60s, you weren't there.
  29. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Consistently hilarious.
  30. Sunset Strip
    Interesting structure provides pic with plenty of opportunities for social satire, human comedy and chance encounters, but few setups are ever dramatically fulfilled.
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