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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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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 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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  6. 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.
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    • 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.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Jump Tomorrow
    The silliness of Jump Tomorrow takes your breath away, and I mean that as high praise.
  15. Cats & Dogs
    Grindingly tedious.
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  16. The Closet
    An expertly developed farce that's very funny and surprisingly affecting in the bargain.
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  17. 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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  18. The Princess and the Warrior
    Spellbinding on its own terms, a modernist fable with a madly romantic soul.
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  19. The Fast and the Furious
    Shrewdly conceived, confidently executed and outrageously entertaining.
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  20. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Ever so slightly defective in the area of coherence; it plays as if it should have been written by a committee but they didn't bother to convene one.
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  21. Songcatcher
    A good subject has been ill-served by Ms. Greenwald's cliched script and clumsy direction.
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  22. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Remarkably joyless, even though Ms. Jolie is a formidable presence with the potential for becoming a witty one.
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  23. Sexy Beast
    Appeal lies on the bright, shiny surface of its ostensibly simple plot, and in its rat-a-tat-tat language, which often sounds like Mamet-visits-Spyne.
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  24. Divided We Fall
    Bears no resemblance to the smarmy fraud that Roberto Benigni perpetrated in "Life Is Beautiful."
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  25. Swordfish
    An ugly exercise in big-budget carnage.
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  26. Evolution
    The special effects are variable, but even when they're good they don't have much impact because Evolution, with its self-trashing spirit, turns moviegoers into bemused bysitters.
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  27. The Anniversary Party
    Like so many parties, this one goes on too long.
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  28. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Qualifies as a pleasant time-killer, but it's 20,000 leagues beneath what it might have been.
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  29. Bride of the Wind
    Ms. Wynter's performance is only one of many failings in a heavily accented costume drama that Bruce Beresford has directed turgidly from Marilyn Levy's amateurish script.
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  30. The Animal
    If this adds up to a full-fledged feature film, I'm a monkey's uncle.
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