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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. Fantasia 2000
    Then as now, visually pleasant and (of course) musically wonderful but, all-in-all, a mixed bag.
  2. The Hurricane
    Brilliantly played by Denzel Washington
  3. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Extraordinary documentary.
  4. The Third Miracle
    I'd give this movie about half a miracle.
  5. Play It to the Bone
    As dull as the decor in a Motel 6.
  6. Titus
    There's something hideously pretentious about the whole thing.
  7. Galaxy Quest
    Funny without being flip.
  8. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Enter the world of the sociopathic killer and enjoy.
  9. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Never transports you to another place and time, as it intends to.
  10. Angela's Ashes
    In the translation from page to film, the life seems to have gone out of the story
  11. Any Given Sunday
    It's about as deep as electronic white noise.
  12. Man on the Moon
    All credit to Carrey, whose one-man performance is almost enough to redeem the movie.
  13. Girl, Interrupted
    Tired conventions, hoary themes and obvious conclusions.
  14. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    A stunner -- as big and messy as a war, as small and perfect as a diamond.
  15. Bicentennial Man
    A cold, protracted and unemotional affair.
  16. Stuart Little
    The tale is propelled by its characters and buoyed by the film's warm and loving spirit.
  17. Topsy-Turvy
    A 160 minute work of sustained brilliance and delicacy.
  18. Anna and the King
    Fails as the big-screen romance it wants to be. The main problem: There's only one heart between the principals, and it beats solely in Chow's chest.
  19. Magnolia
    As intoxicating as the flower it's named for, and its characters, most of them as flawed and fascinating as the film itself, seem intoxicated by the overpowering scent.
  20. The Cider House Rules
    The movie is pure pro-choice agitprop, as it tracks Homer's conversion to the cause of choice and posits the heroism of the abortionist. Pro-lifers will hate it on that point alone.
  21. Cradle Will Rock
    Cradle Will Rock is left in mid-rock, as it were, its energy squandered, its sense of history confused, its sound and fury ultimately signifying nothing.
  22. Miss Julie
    Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic
  23. Stir of Echoes
    There's visceral horror, too, including a grisly image -- a horror-in-miniature involving a fingernail -- that located an open nerve in my jaded ability to endure screen violence.
  24. The Green Mile
    From its deceptively easygoing beginning to the heart-wrenching finale, The Green Mile keeps you wonderfully high above the cynical ground.
  25. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    A considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other 'SNL' alums.
    • Washington Post
  26. Agnes Browne
    A generally well-made tale of humor and hard luck.
  27. Holy Smoke
    There's so much wrong with this movie.
  28. The End of the Affair
    Fails to capture the spiritual hallelujah of the novel.
  29. Sweet and Lowdown
    Penn's performance is the movie's ultimate grace note. As funny and ingenious as Allen's films can get, they are rarely known for depth of character.
  30. Flawless
    A coy seriocomedy distantly related to--but missing the sting of--"Kiss of the Spider Woman."
  31. Tumbleweeds
    Janet McTeer doesn't imitate Mary Jo Walker, and she doesn't act her. She becomes her. It's almost spooky.
  32. End of Days
    All fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting.
  33. Ride with the Devil
    In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.
  34. Toy Story 2
    A sequel that eclipses the original. The toys are back with even more hilarious vengeance. The story's twice as inventive as its predecessor.
  35. The World Is Not Enough
    The new Bond movie is pure nonsense art of the dadaist school; it follows the rules of the ridiculous as it turns narrative convention, thriller formula and special-effects set pieces into a manifesto of the purest gibberish.
  36. All About My Mother
    It's enough to make your head spin, but Almodovar, whose mastery of the medium has never been more assured, gives you plenty to think about, ultimately grounding the dizzy whirl of his idiosyncratic fictional world in a story that feels not just true but universal.
  37. Sleepy Hollow
    In Burton's hands, Washington Irving's spooky classic is reincarnated as an overripe, grisly Goth cartoon.
  38. Mansfield Park
    It isn't Austen, but it's delicious fun.
  39. Liberty Heights
    Demonstrates what writer-director Levinson does best: evoke the sights, smells and atmosphere of his youth with intelligence, humor and a keen sense of social perspective.
  40. Anywhere But Here
    So closely observed, so funny and so true to the junk that is everybody's real--as opposed to movie--life that it comes to feel like some kind of a miracle.
  41. Felicia's Journey
    So elegantly layered and emotionally restrained, it makes the horror at its center all the more disturbing.
  42. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Never was the case for psychotropic medication more acute than in Jovovich's performance.
  43. Dogma
    For a while, the film is screamingly funny, but the further it goes, the more muddled the narrative becomes.
  44. Light It Up
    Benefits from affecting performances from a gifted cast headed by R&B heartthrob Usher Raymond.
  45. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    An unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production that has been re-edited, rescored and rewritten for American tots and padded out to feature length with a plotless short called "Pikachu's Vacation."
  46. The Bachelor
    Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.
  47. Train of Life
    Less-than-scintillating spin on "Life Is Beautiful."
  48. American Movie
    As quintessential a story of American ambition as Welles' own "Citizen Kane."
  49. The Bone Collector
    You may have as much fun tearing it apart in its aftermath as you do watching it, but the fun is still genuine.
  50. The Insider
    A well-orchestrated nightmare that keeps you on edge until the very end.
  51. Last Night
    An end-of-the-world movie like no other.
  52. Music of the Heart
    Another sentimental mushfest disguised as a movie.
  53. The Legend of 1900
    An enchanting, staggeringly beautiful epic at sea, is poetry in motion.
  54. Princess Mononoke
    As spectacular as it is dense and as dense as it is colorful and as colorful as it is meaningless and as meaningless as it is long.
  55. Being John Malkovich
    So full of creativity, so subversive, so alive.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Best Man
    Tapping into the Zeitgeist of young black professionals starving to see themselves on film, it hits all the right cultural touchstones.
  57. Three to Tango
    The movie's half over before it really starts to whack at the funny bone.
  58. Bats
    Hopeless rip-off of Hitchcock's "The Birds."
  59. Body Shots
    Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive.
  60. Crazy in Alabama
    Mark Childress, who wrote the screenplay based upon his book of the same name, would have been better off leaving this Southern Gothic between two covers.
  61. Bringing Out the Dead
    Doesn't pack the punch of Schrader and Scorsese's career-best collaborations ("Raging Bull," "Taxi Driver").
  62. Julien Donkey-Boy
    The stranger and more unusual the characters, and the less they're explained, the better.
  63. The Story of Us
    Folks, I really feel that seeing this one for you is the movie critic's equivalent of jumping on the grenade to save your lives. Send me medals.
  64. Joe the King
    Leads you through a miserable childhood without sentimentality or relief. The effect is torturous.
  65. The Straight Story
    Cuts a path directly to the heart.
  66. Fight Club
    A provocative experience that lights you up even as it brutalizes you. And I don't even like Brad Pitt very much.
  67. Random Hearts
    Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
  68. The Limey
    (Stamp and Fonda's) polar-opposition in acting styles and temperament, their cultural differences and their pop-cultural synergy come together with almost delicious cacophony.
  69. Superstar
    Endearing if slight, Superstar at least knows what it's doing the whole way.
  70. Boys Don't Cry
    The longest, hardest sit of the season -- you are stuck there, a single tube of puckered muscle, waiting for the extremely ugly violence to occur -- but it is driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart.
  71. Plunkett & Macleane
    No darn good.
  72. Mystery, Alaska
    We know the story will conclude with a crescendo of frozen-north hallelujahs. Cheering is endemic to Disney. They can't help themselves.
  73. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    This sweet little tale is as informative as it is entertaining for its target audience, the very youngest of the Muppet franchise's fans.
  74. Happy, Texas
    Along with a lot of 10-gallon laughs, Happy, Texas rustles up plenty of goodwill for its larcenous, sexually ambiguous leading men.
  75. Three Kings
    Enormously entertaining.
  76. Drive Me Crazy
    Enough to make any thinking person want to shoot a hole in the screen.
  77. Double Jeopardy
    Beginning with an intriguing premise, which it manages to squander in record time, it turns out to be a thinly imagined, thinly acted, silly exercise in car crashes, chases and nasty outbursts of generic violence.
  78. Mumford
    A sort of thinking-person's cornball movie.
  79. Fever Pitch
    If you don't operate on the premise that soccer is the most important thing in the universe, you might not go along with everything in Fever Pitch.
  80. Jakob the Liar
    But the best thing about Jakob the Liar is that it's not "Patch Adams at Auschwitz."
  81. Guinevere
    Affecting, gloriously acted.
  82. Sugar Town
    May not rock the joint. But then, it isn't trying to.
  83. Blue Streak
    A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives.
  84. For Love of the Game
    The baseball half of the story just slightly works. ... Nothing in [the other] half of the film works.
  85. American Beauty
    Hilarious, painful and brutally frank.
  86. Love Stinks
    This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
  87. Stigmata
    A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
  88. Outside Providence
    Fitfully amusing but nothing remarkable
  89. Chill Factor
    An irredeemably transparent... DIRECT RIPPING OFF OF "SPEED."
  90. The Muse
    The list of great moments is virtually endless.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    A beautiful, sad, spiritual story with joy and delicacy, visual chops and emotional depth.
  92. The 13th Warrior
    Too lightweight and streamlined to be memorable.
  93. Dudley Do-Right
    Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.
  94. In Too Deep
    Has a gritty authenticity to it … captures the spectacularly crazed quality of urban violence.
  95. Mickey Blue Eyes
    About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.
  96. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Lazily written and hopelessly miscast.
  97. Brokedown Palace
    This is not a fantastic movie. But there's more to it than just an MTV-slickified "Midnight Express" starring two young, photogenic stars.
  98. Bowfinger
    Lacks emotional depth and intellectual sincerity.
  99. Detroit Rock City
    Well, it could have been good. But this goofy homage to Kiss fans gets dry mouth pretty fast.
  100. Better Than Chocolate
    You'd think indie filmmakers would have learned by now that people tend to put on a sober face when addressed from the pulpit.
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