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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 5.3 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. Moulin Rouge!
    McGregor, the movie's most engaging performer, is convincing enough to sell the mutual attraction. The "Trainspotting" star is usually playing some kind of freak, and this is a nice stretch for him.
  2. The Yes Men
    Yes, The Yes Men is funny, but it's humor that hurts.
  3. The Shape of Things
    Packing a dizzying array of motives and tensions into his careful, densely layered round robin, LaBute orchestrates The Shape of Things like a suspense thriller, full of hidden agendas and emotional switchbacks.
  4. Casa de los babys
    If Casa de los Babys isn't necessarily a fully realized film, it's still a deeply felt glimpse into dizzyingly complex political and psychological forces that shape the most crucial decisions of a woman's life.
  5. Zelary
    For fans of old-fashioned European filmmaking, this may have its pleasing qualities.
  6. Latter Days
    Although the rest of the story plays out with melodramatic predictability, it's timely, not to mention refreshing, to see an affirmation of true love over hot sex, along with a reminder that the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
  7. Burn! (re-release)
    Pontecorvo's pointed 1969 drama of the politics of war feels surprisingly timely.
  8. La grande strada azzurra
    The film is nowhere near the level of Pontecorvo's masterpiece, or even his subsequent flawed allegory on Vietnam, "Burn!," but is clearly the work of a natural coming into the full range of his powers.
  9. Conspiracy Theory
    With it's many knotty connections and complex exposition, the movie is definitely something of a muddle, but for that matter so are most conspiracy theories.
  10. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Rather than the mad, kinetic video-game vigor you'd expect, the movie proceeds at a more leisurely and methodical gait. I rather liked that.
  11. The General's Daughter
    The movie, directed by Simon West isn't bad, although the repeated shots of Campbell lying spread-eagled on the ground, and the amount of detail we're forced to swallow about the horrors she underwent border on the offensive.
  12. Stateside
    So unexpected and unpredictable and so full of tiny grace notes that its ultimate collapse seems almost irrelevant.
  13. 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.
  14. Tying the Knot
    Jim de Seve's cogent pro-gay-marriage argument appeals equally to emotion and reason.
  15. The Good Girl
    It's tough, astringent, darkly funny and . . . well, it's also generic, untidy, condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning.
  16. Russian Ark
    For the truth is, given the audacity, the organization, the seriousness of purpose, the movie isn't nearly as provocative as you think it might be.
  17. Criminal
    The main reason to see Criminal isn't for the mental workout it might offer but simply to watch these two appealing performers act and act and act.
  18. The Ice Storm
    The decade has been fondly spoofed in capers like "The Brady Bunch," but Lee's film takes a much more searing, if initially hilarious look at the sexual revolution's migration to a New England suburb and the community's subsequent meltdown. [17 October 1997, p.D6]
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  19. Private Parts
    Unfortunately, the movie is likely to earn more money than praise. If it showcases him in all his glory, it also shows what little glory there is to celebrate.
  20. No Man's Land
    You want a happy ending? You want sunshine, sentimentality, a sense of justice and honor and duty? Me too. But you won't find it here.
  21. Vodka Lemon
    A thematically bleak yet subtly comic film.
  22. Go Further
    A warmly spirited travel diary of a movie.
  23. The Animal
    Genial rather than an affront to good taste. It's also pretty darn funny.
  24. Arlington Road
    Though a thematically ambitious and deftly acted thriller, the film is also shockingly coldblooded and not a little reactionary.
  25. Entrapment
    There's your intrigue. There's your romance. There's your x factor, by which I mean your willingness to give two appealing stars an incredible break throughout most of the major obstacles between them and a successful robbery.
  26. Hidalgo
    One rousing, if rote, adventure.
  27. The Golden Bowl
    Another handsome, dramatically moribund adaptation of a grand old classic.
  28. The Rundown
    Turns out he's infinitely more likable than Vin Diesel, who carries his sense of stardom through every movie like an insufferable Atlas. In fact, Dwayne Johnson is a gentleman, the kind of Rock who puts you in a very easy place.
  29. Mona Lisa Smile
    The movie, with its panorama of emotional epiphanies and its belief in the talent and grace of young women, is nevertheless bracing.
  30. Pumpkin
    An odd and oddly endearing romantic black comedy.
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