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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. 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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  2. Songcatcher
    A good subject has been ill-served by Ms. Greenwald's cliched script and clumsy direction.
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Divided We Fall
    Bears no resemblance to the smarmy fraud that Roberto Benigni perpetrated in "Life Is Beautiful."
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  6. Swordfish
    An ugly exercise in big-budget carnage.
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  7. 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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  8. The Anniversary Party
    Like so many parties, this one goes on too long.
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. The Animal
    If this adds up to a full-fledged feature film, I'm a monkey's uncle.
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  12. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Certainly grows in its own right, into a coarse-grained summer vaudeville that could have been much smarter and sharper without losing its target audience.
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  13. The Road Home
    The result is an enchanting story of love from an idealized past that endures in the mundane present.
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  14. Pearl Harbor
    Littered with low points -- lame comedy, dubious history, fumbling drama and a love story so inept as to make a pacifist long for war.
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  15. Our Song
    Directed with such a confident, delicate touch. Nothing is insisted on, yet whole lives are discovered and revealed in vignettes that seem as spontaneous as a laugh or a gasp.
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  16. Shrek
    This beguiling fable, with its darkly distinctive look, does DreamWorks proud.
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  17. Moulin Rouge!
    A movie you can't readily get out of your head.
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  18. Startup.com
    A thrillingly, thoroughly wonderful film.
    • Wall Street Journal
  19. The King Is Alive
    A deeper problem in The King Is Alive is an almost total absence of spontaneity.
    • Wall Street Journal
  20. A Knight's Tale
    A Knight's Tale wasn't made for people like me. It was made for the kids of summer.
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  21. About Adam
    I might have liked About Adam more if its supposedly irresistible hero -- and the movie itself -- hadn''t been so smirky.
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  22. Eureka
    Eureka demands active attention, but rewards it with emotional resonance, thematic complexity and a succession of images that take up permanent residence in our brains.
  23. The Mummy Returns
    This frenzied sequel has all of the clank but none of the swank of the previous version.
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  24. One Night at McCool's
    I took it as a pretty piece of ephemera, and I must confess that I laughed a lot.
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  25. Town & Country
    Ragging on Town & Country is like shooting a school of fish that's already belly up in a fetid barrel, but the movie's ineptitude is almost incomparable.
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  26. The Golden Bowl
    The team's (Merchant-Ivory) best adaptation yet of a Henry James novel.
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  27. Harry Is Here to Help
    I did enjoy the movie's mercurial moods -- anxiety, terror, whimsical horror -- and I welcomed its confirmation that the work of the devil includes SUVs.
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  28. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    A rube's-eye view of Hollywood, but the rube is weary, and those around him seem to be suffering from terminal torpor.
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  29. The Luzhin Defence
    An attractive, intelligent film that's intractably at odds with itself.
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  30. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The worst part of Ms. Zellweger's plight is that she, along with others in the cast, has fallen victim to a first-time feature director whose vocabulary doesn't seem to include the word "simplicity."
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