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For 17,760 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 2.3 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: 9,121 out of 17760
  2. Mixed: 7,003 out of 17760
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17760
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  1. Vertical Limit
    Remains exciting as long as it stays on the mountains.
  2. Dungeons & Dragons
    Stunningly bad sci-fi/fantasy hokum.
  3. Proof of Life
    A disappointingly routine thriller that prefers to lean on tired Hollywood conventions rather than to explore fresh dramatic and stylistic territory.
  4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun.
  5. Strippers
    Amateurish, undramatic and bereft of any sense of pacing.
  6. 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.
  7. Boys Life 3
    A typical grab bag of works of varying depth, all of them breezy and entertaining.
  8. 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.
  9. 102 Dalmatians
    A pale reworking of its predecessor.
  10. Unbreakable
    Possesses sufficient intrigue to hook audiences and keep them on board much of the way.
  11. Quills
    Lacks an edge of danger or excitement that might have brought the subject alive in more than a cerebral way.
  12. Lies
    Has nothing much to say.
  13. Bounce
    Simultaneously contrived and genuinely felt.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Billy Liar (re-release)
    An imaginative, fascinating film.
  15. One Day in September
    Never less than gripping as an account of what happened and what went terribly wrong.
  16. 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.
  17. The 6th Day
    A mostly standard-issue latter-day Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner spiked with a creepily plausible cloning angle.
  18. 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.
  19. Rebels with a Cause
    Encapsulates the turbulent times of the Students for a Democratic Society.
  20. Restless
    A winning look at cross-cultural romance.
  21. Red Planet
    As dull and arid as a hike through the desert.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Men of Honor
    Those in search of positive role models and films detailing little-known aspects of black and military history, or stressing the value of tenacity and hard work, pic has something to offer.
  23. Little Nicky
    Sandler turns the joke around on his detractors and manages to lead a devilishly energetic vehicle that contains about as many laughs as his previous features combined.
  24. You Can Count on Me
    A sensitive, intimate, enormously touching drama.
  25. Suzhou River
    A compelling story of love and obsession whose progress mirrors the sinuous flow of the Shanghai waterway that supplies its title.
  26. The Weekend
    Despite some memorable high points, pic plays like "Love! Valour! Compassion!" -- without the laughs.
  27. Kippur
    A cumulatively devastating and visceral insight into the horrors of war.
  28. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    A lightweight, modestly engaging yarn sporting reductive mystical and philosophical elements that are both valid and borderline silly.
  29. Charlie's Angels
    This entertaining confection possesses the substance of the TV show, the pacing of a Hong Kong actioner and the production values of a James Bond thriller.
  30. Once in the Life
    A film that ultimately feels stagebound and excessively talky, but which showcases an exceptional performance.
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