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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Shrek
    This beguiling fable, with its darkly distinctive look, does DreamWorks proud.
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  6. Moulin Rouge!
    A movie you can't readily get out of your head.
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  7. Startup.com
    A thrillingly, thoroughly wonderful film.
    • Wall Street Journal
  8. The King Is Alive
    A deeper problem in The King Is Alive is an almost total absence of spontaneity.
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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.
  12. The Mummy Returns
    This frenzied sequel has all of the clank but none of the swank of the previous version.
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  13. One Night at McCool's
    I took it as a pretty piece of ephemera, and I must confess that I laughed a lot.
    • Wall Street Journal
  14. 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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  15. The Golden Bowl
    The team's (Merchant-Ivory) best adaptation yet of a Henry James novel.
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  16. 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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  17. 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.
    • Wall Street Journal
  18. The Luzhin Defence
    An attractive, intelligent film that's intractably at odds with itself.
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  19. 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."
    • Wall Street Journal
  20. The Circle
    A stunning drama about the desperate state of women in Iran.
    • Wall Street Journal
  21. Joe Dirt
    Redefines the notion of a feature film another notch downward.
    • Wall Street Journal
  22. Blow
    A textbook case of a film that's befuddled by its subject.
    • Wall Street Journal
  23. Along Came a Spider
    Mr. Freeman, a superb actor, creates the illusion of drama even when there is none.
    • Wall Street Journal
  24. Beautiful Creatures
    Pretty bad, and pretty funny.
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  25. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Mixes whiffs of Woody Allen and Federico Fellini with Mr. Farmanara's distinctive, mordant wit.
  26. The Tailor of Panama
    Only Le Carre fans with tin ears and clouded eyes will fail to note the film's sour tone, crude performances and drab look.
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  27. Amores Perros
    One of the great films of our time, or any other.
    • Wall Street Journal
  28. Someone Like You...
    Another dim adaptation of a bright comic novel.
    • Wall Street Journal
  29. Too Much Sleep
    Mr. Maquiling's gotta learn more about dramatic arcs, but he has an infectious interest in how the world looks and works, and he can make you laugh unexpectedly. I look forward to his next film.
  30. Heartbreakers
    There's nothing wrong with the structure of Heartbreakers, but David Mirkin's direction is woefully clumsy -- and the movie's tone is nasty.
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