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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. Ghost Ship
    The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans.
  2. The Thirteenth Floor
    Things become almost too strange and convoluted to handle. The story's dramatic effectiveness starts to seriously malfunction. The fascinating and the mysterious become the silly and occasionally comical.
  3. Facing Windows
    There's something diverting but not wildly stirring about this Italian drama.
  4. 25th Hour
    It's the usual undisciplined, overextended Spike symphony: more fun than it is any good.
  5. The Cooler
    Had The Cooler stuck to its dark guns and not turned into a treacly, love-conquers-all fairy tale, this movie might have gone somewhere. In the end, you're only watching this with a sort of mercenary interest in the actors.
  6. Gods and Generals
    One doesn't come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human terms.
  7. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    A raunchy parody that's hip-deep in the mainstream it aims to rip, and sometimes does despite a glut of smug inside jokes.
  8. Waterworld
    Waterworld isn't "Fishtar," but Kevin Costner's pricey, post-apocalyptic sloshbuckler isn't a seafaring classic either.
  9. Seven Years in Tibet
    Unfortunately, Harrer's inner struggle isn't as grand as the sweep of Jean-Jacques Annaud's direction.
  10. Starsky & Hutch
    What modest pleasure the film affords is largely thanks to the charisma of its genial stars.
  11. Before Sunrise
    Sunrise feels more like an absorbing experiment than a supple success.
  12. The Bourne Identity
    As for Damon, this may not be a performance so much as an appearance. But he cares so utterly, it works.
  13. Antz
    Sorry, Antz has no show-stopping song and dance numbers, no catchy melodies and no love songs either. The score, made up of old standards, does, however, enhance one of the movie's wittier episodes.
  14. Rush Hour 2
    Nothing more or less than a moneymaking encore. The story is functional. The performers assume their marks with almost flippant ease.
  15. Monsters, Inc.
    Marvels of animation abound in Monsters, Inc. -- when it comes to irreverent humor and real heart, Monsters doesn't quite measure up.
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  16. Big Daddy
    Sweetly dopey, kid-friendly, if overly contrived comedy.
  17. Total Recall
    Actually, any fun you might encounter in Recall can be traced, most often, to director Verhoeven, who injects some of his "Robocop" camp into this mega-dumb project.
  18. The Sweetest Thing
    The movie is neither good nor bad, but in its clever packaging of boy fantasy and girl fantasy, extremely cunning. As for Princess Diaz, no force on Earth can stop her now.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    Though lacking in any particular narrative surprise, the film nevertheless takes the viewer completely by surprise several times.
  20. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Ultimately, the movie's too uneven to be totally satisfying.
  21. Alias Betty
    Makes for interesting, rather than emotionally compelling viewing.
  22. Robot Stories
    Most of the performances are excellent. The scripts, however, are slight and unsurprising.
  23. Payback
    That script – co-written by Terry Hayes and director Brian Helgeland – is almost too noir for its own good at times, but Gibson somehow manages to pull its implausibility off.
  24. The Count of Monte Cristo
    A mediocre production that nevertheless will strike a deep and resonant chord with viewers.
  25. A Home at the End of the World
    The film's first half is easily the best and brightest. As the movie moves into the more saddening sections, however, it loses most of its power.
  26. A Room with a View
    If amusing, A Room With a View is little more than a lark, a series of skits, a two-hour tribute to the rich British eccentric.
  27. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Guerrilla' is an engaging film, but it's a documentary and nothing more.
  28. Cachorro
    Has a refreshingly original attitude.
  29. Ali
    Watching Ali, you can be sure of experiencing two opposing things: a sterling performance from Will Smith as Muhammad Ali and a bewilderingly punch-drunk movie from Michael Mann.
  30. Jurassic Park
    The suspense and technical wizardry are the only reason to watch Jurassic Park. In a summer movie, that's more than enough, of course. But screenwriter Michael Crichton, adapting his popular novel with David Koepp, slashes almost everything that made the book an entertaining read.
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