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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. State and Main
    State and Main is a Hollywood satire as cynical and thickheaded as its supposed targets.
  2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    The art direction is impeccable, but this is a pop-up book that I was impatient to slam.
  3. Cast Away
    While "Robinson Crusoe" was a paean to the practical middle-class virtues that allowed its industrious hero (and the nation he represents) to re-create civilization out of nothingness, Cast Away is a far less triumphalist peek into the nothingness at the heart of civilization.
  4. The Family Man
    It's an easier movie to tolerate than it should be if, like me, you're in love with Téa Leoni, who, as a lithe, lusty, strangely patient firecracker Superwife in a shag, rescues the movie from the tar pit of irrelevance. With some decent lines, she could be the new Myrna Loy.
  5. Finding Forrester
    At times you can feel Van Sant trying to loosen the movie's windpipe-folding collar, but he doesn't get far, except with Busta Rhymes, as Jamal's gone-nowhere big brother.
  6. The Gift
    A creepily effective button-pusher that owes a bit to the original "Cape Fear" both in Sam Raimi's ruthless direction and Keanu Reeves's unexpectedly robust performance as the most violent redneck peckerwood in a steamy Georgia town.
  7. Pollock
    The movie's best moments evoke the thrill of doing something new. Pollock convincingly retails the beauty and originality of the painter's best work -- it may not be an intellectual adventure, but it does represent one.
  8. The Visit
    The last scenes contain so many moral and spiritual turnarounds that Alex (Harper) -- and the film -- are all but buried in the uplift. Harper, in a fierce, nuanced performance, deserves better.
  9. What Women Want
    Gibson has never lacked chemistry with his leading ladies, from Sigourney Weaver in "The Year of Living Dangerously" to Julia Roberts in "Conspiracy Theory," but faced with the awkward Hunt -- Hollywood's bland antidote to the Lolita syndrome -- he doesn't even try.
  10. Dude, Where's My Car?
    My friend even supplied a blurbable quote: "The best dumbass-buddy comedy I've seen since "Wayne's World!"
  11. Chocolat
    Airy, pseudo-folkloric gibberish at best.
  12. The Day Silence Died
    Agazzi's movie rather provincially hints at sexiness, humor, and satire without actually manifesting them.
  13. Vertical Limit
    Vertical Limit's real problem is its digitized sheen. Every shot seems to have been CGI-enhanced, so the movie has an overpasteurized, Velveeta-like glow -- processed movie food.
  14. Dungeons & Dragons
    At once laboriously expository and defiantly incomprehensible.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Art of Amália
    De Almeida's latest hagiographic effort diminishes Amália's legend by purifying it.
  16. Proof of Life
    It's Rambo with a split hero -- Morse absorbing punishment and Crowe wreaking vengeance.
  17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger's dramatic line is so blurry that the central character is only a bystander to the climactic fight between forces of good and evil.
  18. Hillbrow Kids
    Utterly necessary film.
  19. Strippers
    One of a barely acknowledged sub-breed of indie: howling-vanity amateur-work.
  20. Moon Shadow
    If Moon Shadow does sometimes overcome its sentimentalism and faulty parallels, it's because the film is altogether unburdened by cynicism.
  21. A Good Baby
    Made with intelligence and formal sophistication.
  22. Boys Life 3
    French director David Fourier's six-minute mock-instructional free association, "Majorettes in Space," is alone almost worth the price of admission.
  23. Spring Forward
    The sense of continuing life is quietly remarkable.
  24. The Trench
    The acting, by a large cast of little-known young Brits chewing on South London accents like dog bones, is uniformly splendiferous.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    102 Dalmatians
    Cruella is once again bent on collecting enough puppy skins to fashion the frock of her dreams. And once again, yawn.
  26. Unbreakable
    Soggy mysticism, nagging inconsistencies, and coarse horror-playbook jolts.
  27. Quills
    Kaufman's earnestly overblown celebration of the Marquis de Sade.
  28. Lies
    At once distanced and heedless, Lies manages to be lighter and less pretentious than any description suggests. The movie's playful aspect can't be denied.
  29. Bounce
    It's been smoothed over plenty, but this is one creaky, rigged contraption.
  30. La bûche
    By turns hilarious and wounding.
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