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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. Turn It Up
    Patently absurd in both the details and larger aspects, the ultraserious pic is undermined by poor casting.
  2. Highlander: Endgame
    The sheer raggedness of the plotting -- and the pic's cynical disdain toward audiences -- is staggering.
  3. Whipped
    Grotesquely smutty and obnoxiously overbearing, this is a pitiful excuse for a comedy.
  4. Titanic Town
    Walters brings real heart to the role.
  5. Dark Days
    Intimate and engrossing.
  6. The Art of War
    Almost every element in Art of War is slightly off.
  7. 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.
  8. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Boasts a perceptive script, rich performances and date-movie appeal.
  9. The Crew
    The sentimentality is gently but firmly restrained in a potentially treacly subplot.
  10. Bittersweet Motel
    Well-made if not particularly insightful docu should be catnip to Phishheads, while the previously unconverted are likely to stay that way.
  11. 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.
  12. Bring It On
    Succeeds in displaying the physical drive and demands of cheerleading.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Godzilla 2000
    A classically low-tech monster mash.
  17. 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.
  18. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Consistently hilarious.
  19. 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.
  20. Autumn in New York
    Not a bad picture, just utterly banal.
  21. 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.
  22. Cecil B. DeMented
    Diverting but uneven.
  23. The Replacements
    A frankly formulaic but agreeably funny comedy about has-beens, wannabes and never-weres.
  24. 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.
  26. Saving Grace
    Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
  27. Coyote Ugly
    The latest and most calculated re-do on the formulaic fantasy of an innocent conquering Gotham.
  28. Hollow Man
    Pic's future as a cult item is a sure bet.
  29. 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.
  30. Space Cowboys
    Good escapist entertainment, and the effect is ingratiating.
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