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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. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Brings things to an almost cheesy conclusion. Given the gripping, dark elements that creator George Lucas introduced in the two previous films, the third movie’s outcome smacks of PG-rated populism rather than artistic fulfillment. But the experience is still highly entertaining. [Special Edition]
    • 34 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    The overall effect is highly entertaining for grownups, and, judging from the squeals of delight from the young audience at a recent screening, for kids, too.
  3. Bad Lieutenant
    Ferrara is clearly drawing an equation between the criminals' actions and The Lieutenant's, and as trite (and potentially shameless) as this may sound, it actually works.
  4. P.S.
    Somehow, wondrous acting holds things together.
  5. Sex Is Comedy
    By Breillat's usually dire standards, this is practically a laff riot, and if you want to see her funniest, most accessible movie, this is the one to watch.
  6. The Peacemaker
    Slick, gripping and largely believable.
  7. Bright Young Things
    Engaging, energetic film.
  8. Stuck on You
    The movie's sweeter than funny, but still has a fair share of guffaws.
  9. Blind Shaft
    Slow going, but it provides an absorbing glimpse of a rarely seen side of Chinese life.
  10. The Center of the World
    Wang is working on your mind, not your body.
  11. Clifford's Really Big Movie
    The movie's sweet, gentle nature may lack the subtle irony of the "Toy Storys" and "Shreks" of the world, but parents won't be bored.
  12. Next Stop Wonderland
    It's the individual characters, so carefully crafted, who count, as opposed to a tidy conclusion.
  13. Tears of the Sun
    This is an odd amalgam of bleeding-heart sentimentality and over-the-top guts-and-glory action. You're not sure how to feel. But you're certainly not as moved and stunned as you were in "Black Hawk Down."
  14. Cellular
    Its adroit use of suspense makes you overlook the silliness.
  15. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Documentary about rock history's biggest heavy metal band is -- variously -- serious, funny, frustrating and touching.
  16. Suspect Zero
    With its spooky atmosphere to spare and a riveting central performance by Kingsley, an actor who manages to elicit both terror and sympathy, I was able to forget all those things, basking in the pleasure of my own goose bumps. So, for an hour and a half, will you.
  17. Lost Boys of Sudan
    A touching documentary on the immigrant experience -- or at least one very tough slice of it.
  18. Braveheart
    A completely adequate modern facsimile of the classic romantic epic.
  19. Best in Show
    Just isn't as fresh, focused or uniformly funny as "Waiting for Guffman."
  20. Clerks
    Much of "Clerks" is extremely funny and dead-on—in terms of its intentionally satirical, Gen-X-istential gloom.
  21. The Girl Next Door
    An entertaining affair whose wild-card creativity never ceases to surprise.
  22. Final Destination 2
    Can't wait for the next sequel . . .
  23. Mostly Martha
    A sweet, even delectable diversion from the more explosive cinematic fare of the season.
  24. Narc
    This is a stirring movie, if relentless intensity, handheld camera work, cover-your-eyes violence and ear-splitting yelling matches are what you're craving.
    • Washington Post
  25. A Night at the Roxbury
    I will admit that this TV skit stretched out to a filament-thin 83 minutes is idiotic, but I mean that in a good way.
  26. The Punisher
    Unlike some of its recent ilk – "Spider-Man," for example – The Punisher is, no disrespect, a thoroughly morose and bilious affair. That is precisely what I like best about it.
  27. Road to Perdition
    There's something impressive and yet lacking about everything.
  28. The Recruit
    Compelling, if throwaway, drama.
  29. Waterworld
    If the story seems a little waterlogged, it's still big, loud, and fun to watch.
  30. The Ladykillers
    A amusing trifle that might fit somewhere between "The Big Lebowski" and "Intolerable Cruelty"; for those expecting "Fargo," it's no "Fargo."
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