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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. Autumn in New York
    Not a bad picture, just utterly banal.
  2. Bless the Child
    Combines the most rudimentary of Catholic-inspired good vs. evil plots with visual effects that would barely pass muster in episodic TV.
  3. Cecil B. DeMented
    Diverting but uneven.
  4. The Replacements
    A frankly formulaic but agreeably funny comedy about has-beens, wannabes and never-weres.
  5. Paperback Hero
    Charismatic leads and a promising screwball-comedy premise are sadly frittered away by a weak second half in Antony J. Bowman's third feature, Paperback Hero.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Better Living
    Vibrant, snappy and surprisingly fresh.
  7. Saving Grace
    Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
  8. Coyote Ugly
    The latest and most calculated re-do on the formulaic fantasy of an innocent conquering Gotham.
  9. Hollow Man
    Pic's future as a cult item is a sure bet.
  10. Mad About Mambo
    Lacking the kind of fire and energy that the best youth movies demand, leads Ash and Russell display skills better tuned to the small screen.
  11. Space Cowboys
    Good escapist entertainment, and the effect is ingratiating.
  12. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Too mild-mannered and fuzzily focused for its own good.
  13. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Be prepared to laugh less at a lot more of the same thing in this overbearing but underwhelming sequel.
  14. Girl on the Bridge
    The gleefully assured tale of a professional knife-thrower who finds a quirky new target... hits the bull's-eye.
  15. The Wind Will Carry Us
    Takes the refined work of Iranian helmer Abbas Kiarostami up another notch to ever more metaphoric ground.
  16. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    All mish-mash.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    $pent
    Covers familiar territory unevenly, but Gil Cates Jr. directs his freshman feature with a mostly assured hand.
  18. Alice et Martin
    All the main characters make a telling contribution to the claustrophobic web of feelings the drama comprises.
  19. Loser
    This tepid comedy-drama is, lamentably, aptly titled.
  20. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    A much more intense action vehicle for hero Ash Ketchum and his band of pocket monster trainers than its leaden, sometimes claustrophobic predecessor.
  21. What Lies Beneath
    A thriller that tries aggressively, but not entirely successfully, to deliver the goods of three genres -- suspense, supernatural and horror.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The In Crowd
    Murky, unappealing The In Crowd is a femme-centered melodrama that makes an awkward stretch into thriller territory.
  23. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Starts intriguingly but ends up thrashing around as a toothless wonder.
  24. X-Men
    Plays like a so-so middle chapter of an epic series rather than a fitting kickoff.
  25. But I'm a Cheerleader
    A shallow, only mildly entertaining satire
  26. The Kid
    Director Jon Turteltaub's insistence upon hammering every point home with giant closeups and relentless musical underlining makes this insufferably cloying and sickly sweet.
  27. Scary Movie
    Manages an impressively huge score in the hit-or-miss gag ratio.
  28. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Scarcely seems worth the expenditure of time, money and talent.
  29. The Perfect Storm
    The yarn's emotional undercurrents never take hold, resulting in a picture that leaves one thinking less about the fates of the characters than about how the actors had to spend most of their working days soaking wet.
  30. The Patriot
    Has some emotional pull and isn't stuffy and dull.
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