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For 3,942 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 2.6 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: 2,101 out of 3942
  2. Mixed: 1,197 out of 3942
  3. Negative: 644 out of 3942
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  1. Together
    Terrifically funny and remarkably wise, a comedy that speaks volumes, without a polemical word, about the tension between rigid politics of any stripe and the imperatives of life and love.
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  2. Ghosts of Mars
    A turgid recycling of Mr. Carpenter's remake of "The Thing."
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  3. Happy Accidents
    Fresh and flip and enjoyable, it's a sci-fi-tinged romantic comedy that I urge you to seek out.
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  4. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    The movie isn't terrible -- a few clever notions snap to life and pay off, at least modestly -- but it's dispirited and eventually dispiriting, a force-fed farce that falls far short of fascination.
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  5. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    I wish I'd brought a pair of peas to the screening. Then I could have taken in the glorious scenery without the dumb dialogue, which is delivered in a jangle of accents that makes a mockery of ethnicity.
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  6. Rat Race
    This ripoff, directed by Jerry Zucker, has a few funny moments, but it's a sad sad sad sad example of what Hollywood is currently serving up -- and what audiences are swallowing -- as summer entertainment.
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  7. American Pie 2
    Lacks both taste and flavor.
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  8. Osmosis Jones
    A genuinely eccentric comedy that explodes with funny ideas and expresses most of them in wildly original animation.
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  9. Session 9
    Pulls you in with smooth assurance, then holds you hostage to extremely creepy developments in the most awesome haunted house since "The Shining."
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  10. The Others
    You can't take your eyes off Ms. Kidman; she has never played a role with more focused energy.
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  11. The Deep End
    A thriller with a quietly sensational performance by Tilda Swinton.
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  12. Rush Hour 2
    The movie is counterfeit too, a coarse imitation of a stylish star vehicle for stars who deserve the real thing.
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  13. Apocalypse Now Redux
    Whatever thematic clarity the added footage may confer is prosaic or didactic and intrusive; this stuff hit the cutting-room floor the first time around for good reason.
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  14. Planet of the Apes
    My Homo sapiens brain was boggled by the movie's clumsiness, while my heart was chilled by the chance that otherwise mature members of my species might mistake this disjointed botch for summer entertainment.
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    America's Sweethearts
    Amusing enough, especially with its uniquely credible premise of a media fraud, to recommend.
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    This extraordinary flight from the humdrum is not to be missed.
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  17. Ghost World
    Smart, surpassingly odd, extremely funny and mysteriously endearing at the same time.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Jurassic Park III
    Exemplifies Hollywood's standard practice of stomping a brilliant concept beyond recognition.
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Score
    Lacks a crucial element of the heist subgenre: ingenuity.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Legally Blonde
    Thanks to Ms. Witherspoon's artful portrayal of a winning, if beachless, Gidget, I found Legally Blonde very enjoyable.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bully
    My problem is that the lack of narrative structure deprives the film of any suspense, and without suspense the film eventually collapses from its own heat like a soufflé that has been in the oven just a few minutes too long.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Although packaged as a movie, is in reality a clever 106-minute promo for Sony's PlayStation II games.
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  23. Everybody's Famous!
    The intentional and unintentional absurdities of the plot do pay off, with a happy ending that's outlandish enough to be entertaining.
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  24. Kiss of the Dragon
    Mr. Li is a master not only of martial arts, but of composure; no one does nothing better. The film itself is no great shakes.
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  25. Jump Tomorrow
    The silliness of Jump Tomorrow takes your breath away, and I mean that as high praise.
  26. Cats & Dogs
    Grindingly tedious.
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  27. The Closet
    An expertly developed farce that's very funny and surprisingly affecting in the bargain.
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  28. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    A grim disappointment for grown-ups, and far too violent for young kids. I found it to be clumsy, misanthropic and intractably lifeless.
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  29. The Princess and the Warrior
    Spellbinding on its own terms, a modernist fable with a madly romantic soul.
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  30. The Fast and the Furious
    Shrewdly conceived, confidently executed and outrageously entertaining.
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