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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Relentlessly offensive.
  2. The Kid
    So rich in processed sugar, canned sentiment and schmaltz, I thought I was going to throw up.
  3. Scary Movie
    The only thing that's truly scary about the movie is the escalating vulgarity of the latest in a string of skanky comedies by filmmakers determined to out-gross the other.
  4. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Never asks its target audience of self-referential baby boomers and their littles bundles of joy to take it more seriously than it takes itself.
  5. The Perfect Storm
    As a movie, this is exciting stuff.
  6. Trixie
    Although the hallmarks of Rudolph movies can be found everywhere -- they don't add up to the usual magic this time.
  7. The Patriot
    Mostly, the movie is riveting, well-done fare -- the stuff of Hollywood epic adventure.
  8. Me, Myself & Irene
    If you choose to see this puerile tripe, check your dignity at the door.
  9. Chicken Run
    The visual comedy is brilliant.
  10. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    It's the sort of movie that can make normally well-read and intelligent viewers feel stupid.
  11. Titan A.E.
    It continually crashes and burns on its own banality.
  12. Shaft
    Shaft? Not in this splashy-but-empty remake he isn't.
  13. Boys and Girls
    An adolescent romance that isn't smart enough to mirror "When Harry Met Sally" or crudely amusing enough to get close to "American Pie."
  14. Butterfly Tongues
    The film's climax was only one of several moments that left me utterly verklempt, without ever knowing that my buttons were being pushed.
  15. Jesus' Son
    Crudup gives a performance that is by turns scary, heartbreaking, grotesque and funny as hell.
  16. Love's Labour's Lost
    KEN, KEN, KEN, not another Shakespeare, pleeeeeeez.
  17. Groove
    The best thing about this movie? It's short.
  18. Sunshine
    It's a brilliant, profound movie, but it's almost no fun at all.
  19. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    There were moments when I thought Gone in 60 Seconds might be a passably entertaining movie. I figure those moments, strung end-to-end, would total 30 or 40 seconds.
  20. Big Momma's House
    If you're not rolling in the aisles, you're definitely in the wrong theater.
  21. Grass
    It has as much of an ax to grind as the humorless and misguided bureaucrats it mocks.
  22. Passion of Mind
    You won't feel enlightened, just let down
  23. 8 ½ Women
    Intentionally defies categorization and explication.
  24. Shanghai Noon
    Childishly simple, but extremely funny.
  25. Kikujirô no natsu
    The episodes are too convoluted to get into.
  26. Mission: Impossible II
    Such a feast of outlandish pleasures it'll send you home steam-cleaned and shrink-wrapped.
  27. Small Time Crooks
    Diverting and provides a satisfying alternative to teen-oriented summer comedy.
  28. Road Trip
    It satisfies your appetite for totally tasteless but deliciously flaky boy movies.
  29. Dinosaur
    The occasional big moments are stunning, and kids from the ages of, say, 6 years to 6 years and 3 days will love it. Anyone younger will be scared; anyone older, bored.
  30. Center Stage
    All dancing and hugging and no good.
  31. Hamlet
    A darkly interesting distraction but not much more.
  32. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.
  33. Gladiator
    Friends, Washingtonians, countrymen, I come not to praise Gladiator but to bury it.
  34. I Dreamed of Africa
    The story the film tells ruins the movie.
  35. Up at the Villa
    Moderately pleasing adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella.
  36. Adorenarin doraibu
    A pleasure because of zany developments like this, and a healthy dose of amusing characters.
  37. Human Traffic
    I'd rather sit in bumper-to-bumper hell on I-495 for two hours than get caught in Traffic again.
  38. Frequency
    It's like a chick flick for men--and the women who love them, sniff-sniff.
  39. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    It's zany. Actually, it's so zany it's almost creepy.
  40. Bossa Nova
    Unromantic, nonsexual and hellaciously dull.
  41. Where the Heart Is
    Tries to put your tear ducts in a headlock with a litany of catastrophes.
  42. Timecode
    A brain-cramping and eye-straining experiment in digital filmmaking.
  43. Committed
    Should have never made it up the distribution aisle.
  44. The Big Kahuna
    The movie isn't about anything except acting, and although the acting it shows is brilliant, it makes exactly the point that is the opposite of the point it thought it was making: Acting isn't enough.
  45. The Last September
    More interesting for the world it evokes rather than the drama that unfolds.
  46. U-571
    The real star of U-571 is its sheer visceral atmosphere.
  47. Croupier
    Demonstrates that a movie need not be good to be cool.
  48. The Virgin Suicides
    While not exactly a cop-out, Virgin may leave some viewers who crave traditional closure with the same hollow ache described by the narrator as follows: "What lingered after them was not life but the most trivial list of mundane facts."
  49. Love & Basketball
    This one has crossover hit written all over it.
  50. Where the Money Is
    The bad news? The story, which rumbles along like an unattended wheelchair on a gently sloping sidewalk.
  51. Keeping the Faith
    May be the most ruggedly decent film to come along in a couple of decades.
  52. East Is East
    An edgy, irreverent, thoroughly winning comedy.
  53. American Psycho
    There's nothing beyond the bloodshed and gallows humor, just intellectually secondhand implications about materialism, conformity and misogyny.
  54. Return to Me
    So phony it makes your gums ache.
  55. Southpaw
    If Southpaw leaves you hungry, this much is also true: The "food" was good in the first place.
  56. Rules of Engagement
    It is the verdict of this court that it be led to a stockade reserved exclusively for cheap, pandering movies and duly shot.
  57. Est - Ouest
    The two-hour film never feels a minute too long.
  58. Joe Gould's Secret
    A brainy, superbly acted buddy movie.
  59. Ready to Rumble
    Bizarre yet popular.
  60. Price of Glory
    Smits can't wrench free of this tangle of cliches.
  61. The Road to El Dorado
    The movie itself may be a species of Montezuma's revenge.
  62. High Fidelity
    A guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love
  63. The Color of Paradise
    A heartbreaker, plain and simple.
  64. Here on Earth
    A moldy teenage tear-jerker.
  65. Whatever It Takes
    It's still got some panache.
  66. Such a Long Journey
    There's a refreshingly unusual spirit at work.
  67. Waking the Dead
    This wonderfully acted romance brings the touching fantasy "Truly, Madly, Deeply" to mind.
  68. Romeo Must Die
    Based on "Romeo and Juliet" the way a martini is "based" on vermouth.
  69. Erin Brockovich
    It is a rabble-rousing cheerfest, based on a true story.
  70. Final Destination
    Your own final destination just might be the box office, to demand your money back.
  71. Beyond the Mat
    You don't have to love WWF scrapping to appreciate this movie.
  72. Deterrence
    A surprisingly gripping experience.
  73. Mission to Mars
    I'm not sure if it was that or the cloying script, but after a couple of hours of spinning around listening to this drivel I felt like I was going to barf.
  74. The Ninth Gate
    Polanski, generally, has fallen farther than Lucifer, and into a more profoundly depressing hell, the hell of utter banality.
  75. The Next Best Thing
    Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.
  76. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's too bloody to be funny and too silly to be dramatic and too self-indulgent to be anything other than what it is, one more bad movie.
  77. Drowning Mona
    I watched Mona. I felt like drowning.
  78. What Planet Are You From?
    Has its sinfully funny moments. Funny, that is, if you appreciate a certain cynical clamminess -- or Buck Henry seediness -- to your comedy.
  79. Judy Berlin
    Something to get excited about.
  80. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    Extraordinarily poetic, suspenseful film.
  81. Reindeer Games
    Here's a film that so merrily thumbs its nose at propriety in exchange for visceral thrills, and at probability in exchange for the really cool plot twist, that it checks in as the guiltiest pleasure since "The 13th Warrior."
  82. The Closer You Get
    Derivative dumpling of a romantic comedy about Irish sexuality.
  83. Wonder Boys
    The sad truth is that Wonder Boys is little more than a sentimentalized encomium to the disheveled, childish life it ascribes to writers.
  84. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    A portrait of a hero.
  85. Beautiful People
    The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.
  86. Boiler Room
    As a piece of journalism then, Boiler Room is first class.
  87. Hanging Up
    Essentially an extended cutesy session.
  88. The Whole Nine Yards
    This Matt Perry vehicle is funnier than anyone could hope to expect.
  89. Not One Less
    At first, the picture is moving. . And suddenly charm turns to quasi-commie didacticism.
  90. Pitch Black
    You are allowed to come up with a monster we haven't seen before.
  91. Cotton Mary
    Serves as a fascinating exploration of racial and social prejudice; and an indictment of cultural miscegenation.
  92. Snow Day
    There's little here to offend anyone, and even less here to excite anyone.
  93. The Tigger Movie
    Feels more like an overblown TV special than a grand theatrical release.
  94. The Beach
    Relentlessly beautiful and wholly annoying.
  95. Scream 3
    It's plenty entertaining, but the ending is disappointing, given the buildup.
  96. The Cup
    A chalice of unpretentious delight, flowing over with goodwill, a cheeky love for soccer and, uh, Buddhist humor.
  97. Isn't She Great
    If it were the last videotape available in the only video store in the remotest corner of Alaska, I'd take one last slug of Jack Daniels and start walking directly into the howling snows.
  98. Down to You
    Neither character seems especially insightful, and their intense focus on the self and the terrific delicacy of their feelings comes to feel narcissistic and annoying.
  99. My Dog Skip
    I had to beg my 8-year-old to stop laughing.
  100. Next Friday
    Hilarious.
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