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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. A Room for Romeo Brass
    An easygoing kitchen-sink comedy with an unsettling final act.
  2. A Time for Drunken Horses
    It is all the more heart-wrenching for being realistic. Its portrait of child labor brooks no sentimentality and no cliches.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Stardom
    The irony is that this film about the superficiality of celebrity-crazed Western society is itself somewhat superficial.
  4. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Disappointing in every aspect.
  5. Lucky Numbers
    Strictly a minor-league late fall entry.
  6. What's Cooking?
    Though often enjoyable, it’s an old-fashioned, feel-good movie whose significance is more sociological than cinematic.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Sculptress
    While good to look at, is devoid of psychological depth or credibility, and further marred by weak, often risible performances.
  8. The Yards
    Entombs its characters so thoroughly in a prison of palpably predestined tragedy that one knows from the outset that the very worst that can happen most certainly will.
  9. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Well positioned to slake the thirst of action fans for world-class, slam-bang rough stuff.
  10. 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.
  11. Pay It Forward
    An unusual film that intelligently avoids numerous potential pitfalls even if its central earnestness is ultimately inescapable.
  12. Bedazzled
    The 2000 version is louder, broader and much, much bigger.
  13. MVP: Most Valuable Primate
    A lark gone utterly awry.
  14. 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.
  17. Dr T and the Women
    Gere breaks through with what may or may not be his best performance.
  18. The Contender
    The large, talented cast elevates the film above the trappings of its loquacious debates, particularly Allen.
  19. Billy Elliot
    Strikes a delicate balance of comedy and pathos with an uplifting final act that delivers a resoundingly satisfying emotional payoff.
  20. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Taboo
    Walks the line between conviction and camp with a not entirely steady step.
  24. CyberWorld
    An OK mishmash.
  25. 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.
  26. Two Family House
    For all the pic’s sentimentality, De Felitta refuses to back away from some unpleasantly realistic touches.
  27. Bamboozled
    Occasionally biting but excessively melodramatic.
  28. Get Carter
    A useless remake of Mike Hodges' 1971 British gangland cult classic.
  29. Bootmen
    Feel-good quality fare.
  30. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Voice work is weirdly awful and funny at the same time.
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