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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. Me, Myself & Irene
    Funny as much of the action is, however, the approach feels rather less fresh, and the gross-outs seem more gratuitous.
  2. Praise
    A feature debut that packs a knockout punch.
  3. Chicken Run
    Technically superb and witty in an old-fashioned, veddy British way that will delight many adults but will sail over the heads of young audiences.
  4. Boricua's Bond
    At the most basic level, Boricua's Bond is at war with itself.
  5. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Engrossing despite its chaotically fragmented form.
  6. Titan A.E.
    Despite occasional awkwardness in character motion, viewers will be swept away by the luxuriant creation of alternate universes.
  7. Shaft
    Samuel L. Jackson instantly takes the mantle from Mr. Shaft himself, Richard Roundtree, and runs with it on pure style and charisma.
  8. Boys and Girls
    As generic as its title.
  9. Jesus' Son
    An intermittently compelling and occasionally hilarious road movie.
  10. Sunshine
    Well-intentioned but never entirely engaging chronicle.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Perfectly dreadful in every respect.
  12. Big Momma's House
    The sight and sound of Lawrence in fat-lady drag remains engaging throughout; script may often let him down, forcing him to keep things afloat almost single-handedly.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Running Free
    A profoundly disappointing attempt to reinvigorate the animal movie genre with the classic ingredients of physical poetry and mythical storytelling.
  14. American Virgin
    Ambitious but flawed comedy.
  15. Passion of Mind
    This small-scale, chamber piece, which boasts good acting from Moore, Skarsgard and Fichtner, has a strong built-in appeal for women but may experience harder times in going beyond the specialized arthouse circuits due to the narrowly-scoped, undernourished script.
  16. Shanghai Noon
    This enjoyable East-meets-Western likely will succeed on its own terms as a sure-fire, long-legged crowd-pleaser.
  17. Mission: Impossible II
    Even more empty a luxury vehicle than its predecessor, M:I 2 pushes the envelope in terms of just how much flashy packaging an audience will buy when there's absolutely nada inside.
  18. Small Time Crooks
    Breezy, enjoyable romp gratifyingly zigzags in directions that aren't apparent at the outset and features some intriguingly personal subtext for longtime Woody watchers.
  19. Road Trip
    Be forewarned: After you see Road Trip, it may be months, if not years, before you can order French toast with a straight face and a settled stomach.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Tech elements, including music, lensing, costumes and production design are blazingly impressive and strikingly evocative on all levels.
  21. Dinosaur
    An eye-popping visual spectacle that serves up a vivid picture of what the planet might have looked like when reptiles ruled the Earth.
  22. Held Up
    A shoddy vehicle for Jamie Foxx to ride into the summer season on.
  23. Center Stage
    Unfortunately, Center Stage is directed and shot (by Geoffrey Simpson) in a way that doesn't let the audience feel the exhilarating pull of the dance world.
  24. Hamlet
    This slacker prince (Hawke) comprises a sinkhole at the center of adaptor-helmer Michael Almereyda's otherwise compelling contempo update.
  25. Screwed
    Latenight cable TV filler disguised as a feature film.
  26. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Yet the overall look, though derivative ("The Matrix," "Blade Runner," "Waterworld," etc.), rates as Battlefield's one non-guilty pleasure.
  27. Gladiator
    John Mathieson's widescreen cinematography is magnificent, and the pacing across 2½ hours is well modulated.
  28. I Dreamed of Africa
    Visually gratifying but dramatically weak, the film falls short of its aspiration to be a sweeping romantic epic.
  29. Up at the Villa
    This least affected of their (Haases) movies is also the most dramatically and emotionally convincing.
  30. Human Traffic
    Well cast, engagingly played and directed with a stylistic pedal to the metal, Human Traffic is a lot of energy adding up to very little.
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