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For 3,961 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Les Misérables
Lowest review score: 0 The Limits of Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,111 out of 3961
  2. Mixed: 1,202 out of 3961
  3. Negative: 648 out of 3961
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Party Monster
    The distance between tawdry and tedious can be amazingly short. It is traveled with Concorde speed in the arch Party Monster.
  2. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    Goes down fighting, but it goes down just the same.
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  3. Marci X
    As the hilariously foul-mouthed, sweet-souled Dr. S, he (Wayans) slaps Marci X to life every time he's on screen.
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  4. The Medallion
    Mr. Chan proves yet again that he has the virtuosic grace -- and goofiness -- of any of the great clowns of the silent era, and a complete refusal to abide by the laws of gravity. Do let us be clear, however, that the movie's plot, minus a few roundhouse kicks, is straight out of the Scooby-Doo playbook.
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  5. My Boss's Daughter
    Moronic. idiotic. Insulting. Pathetic. But enough with the sweet talk.
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  6. Thirteen
    Walks a fine line between bold indie film, with the attendant in-your-face roughness, and sodden Lifetime Original Movie.
  7. Uptown Girls
    By the climax, the adult has finally become a responsible though still charming citizen; the child has become age appropriate and, yes, even cuter. Tsunami swell of music. Roll the credits. Minus the charm, that pretty much sums up Uptown Girls.
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  8. American Splendor
    Pirandello didn't have a patch on its complexities. Here's a popular entertainment with an eclectic soundtrack raising penetrating questions of identity in astonishing sequences that interweave live action with comic-book art.
  9. Open Range
    A fine, heartfelt film, sometimes harrowing in its violence but blessedly free of pretension or bombast, even though it aspires to -- and achieves -- the stature of a classic Western.
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  10. Le divorce
    A generally mirthless comedy of manners.
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  11. S.W.A.T.
    Looks like the deformed spawn of a development process gone awry.
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  12. The Magdalene Sisters
    See The Magdalene Sisters for its own sake; the performances alone are inspirational. But see it too as an example of how powerful a feature film still can be in the hands of an impassioned filmmaker.
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  13. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    The good news about Claude Lelouch's And Now Ladies and Gentlemen -- there's no bad news -- is that the man who made the sublimely superficial "A Man and a Woman" almost four decades ago has grown in wisdom and artistry, but hasn't lost his love of glossy surfaces.
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  14. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    This portrait of a failing marriage is one of the summer's great discoveries, and a marvel of mercurial intimacy.
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  15. American Wedding
    A gross-out saga that sentient adults should avoid like the plague.
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  16. Gigli
    The worst movie -- all right, the worst allegedly major movie -- of our admittedly young century. More stupefying follies may come, but it's impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension.
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  17. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    A surprise and a not-so-guilty pleasure.
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  18. Seabiscuit
    For all its pictorial splendor and carefully calculated drama, this film misses greatness by a country mile.
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Camp
    The film's examination of confused sexuality, psychic scars and unsupportive parents never moves a step beyond cliche.
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dirty Pretty Things
    The thriller aspect of this work, happily, doesn't overshadow its real beauty -- its stark portrayal of the nightmare despair of aliens, hunted, on edge, prepared to risk all for a new start.
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Garage Days
    What MTV's "The Real World" would be like if its characters admitted they were simply aspiring actors. Garage Days is more clever, more compelling and genuine.
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    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bad Boys II
    Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it.
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Johnny English
    The movie is, at times, funny enough to make you cry, and, when it's not, it moves nicely as a parody.
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    • 30 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Succeeds the same way the original comic books did: by making the conflicts and dilemmas basic enough for a five-year-old, while giving the heroes and villains glamorous outfits and layers of complexity, to thicken the broth.
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Housekeeper
    The effect is a haunting vision of neediness, age and rejection.
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Without Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush, who play two rival pirate captains, "Pirates" might have gone straight to video. The two are a pleasure to watch, rescuing an otherwise forgettable film.
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  27. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    What's missing is an emotional center. This Sinbad, with its flying ship and becalmed script, seems destined to be DreamWorks's version of Disney's "Treasure Planet."
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  28. Swimming Pool
    Charlotte Rampling is the best reason, though far from the only one, to see Swimming Pool, a mesmerizing mystery, plus a wonderfully sensuous fantasy.
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  29. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    One of the strongest arguments yet for making sequels illegal.
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  30. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    The brute force of Terminator 3 is relieved, I'm happy to say, by Claire Danes's winning performance as John Connor's reluctant accomplice (whom the production notes describe, not inaccurately, as an "unsuspecting veterinarian"); by many of the special effects, which don't seem obsolete at all, and, yes, by the sinister trix of the Terminatrix.
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