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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red Dragon
    Red Dragon is merely the distant echoes of what we liked about "Lambs."
  2. Tokyo Godfathers
    Will probably appeal most to hard-core fans of Japanese animation and its wide-eyed style, both visual and philosophical.
  3. The Matrix Reloaded
    No, it's not great. No, it's not a disaster.
  4. Lost Highway
    In Lost Highway, David Lynch dabbles in spooky, chilly implication and a sort of hip incoherence.
  5. Working Girl
    A subplot involving Griffith and first boyfriend Alec Baldwin becomes the-subplot-that-wouldn't-go-bust, and comic scenes sometimes go bankrupt because they just hold their stock too long. Light entertainment like this should zip along like those financial quote boards.
  6. Enemy at the Gates
    As long as you focus on the central sniper-versus-sniper story -- and not the dreadful mishmash of jarring accents or the film's unconvincing romantic subplot or any of the personal relationships -- you'll enjoy it.
  7. Not One Less
    At first, the picture is moving. . And suddenly charm turns to quasi-commie didacticism.
  8. The Road Home
    A nostalgic paean to China's fading pastoral ways, might easily be taken for an audition tape for Zhang Ziyi.
  9. Time of the Wolf
    More than watchable, if less than compelling.
  10. Cop Land
    Unfortunately, while Stallone can carry the weight, the movie can't. Too much of it is too busy -- too many undeveloped subplots -- and some of the main plotting feels murky.
  11. Kiss the Girls
    The movie -- adapted from James Patterson's novel by David Klass -- operates on the crime-movie equivalent of automatic pilot. It takes off, flies and lands without much creative intervention.
  12. Scary Movie 3
    It's outrageous. It's obnoxious. It's offensive. And yes, it's also really, really, really funny. Or, at least, it is for the first 40 minutes or so.
  13. The Saddest Music in the World
    You're left, as with certain vivid dreams, filled with memorable images but not completely able to account for what you just experienced.
  14. Titanic
    This movie should have blown us out of the water. Instead we catch ourselves occasionally thinking the unpardonable thought: "OK, sink already."
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Powerpuff Girls
    Offers cleverness and charm that are hard to come by in the summertime multiplex.
  16. Schindler's List
    A ruthlessly unsentimental portrait of a German war profiteer's epiphany that inspires neither sorrow nor pity, but a kind of emotional numbness.
  17. Beijing Bicycle
    Beautifully filmed and very atmospheric in terms of evoking the sights and sounds of modern-day Beijing, this Chinese movie suffers a flat tire about halfway through.
  18. Bowling for Columbine
    The only thing wrong with Bowling for Columbine is Moore himself.
  19. Breaking the Waves
    Although it contains many visually compelling passages and some provocative moments, the movie is strangely banal and simplistic.
  20. Ed Wood
    Burton has evoked the surface of Ed Wood's life, but in a story about a man who loves angora and frilly panties, he has barely unbuttoned Wood's uniform.
  21. Luther
    It's just unfortunate that a movie about such a daring man ultimately takes few risks.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    The trouble with this art movie is that it's more a movie than it's art.
  23. Sleepy Hollow
    In Burton's hands, Washington Irving's spooky classic is reincarnated as an overripe, grisly Goth cartoon.
  24. Bottle Rocket
    Gets by on quirky charm and slacker chic-but just barely.
  25. Ararat
    Doesn't connect with its audience in the one place that matters most: the heart.
  26. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Unfolds as a series of meticulous tableaux vivants, but like those parlor pastimes, it lacks physical verve and a compelling emotional charge.
  27. Man on Fire
    The film as a whole, while possessing a kind of vicious beauty, feels as cold and as embalmed as a corpse.
  28. Waking Life
    It's a cult movie in search of a cult. It'll probably find one. It certainly looks and feels like no other movie ever made.
  29. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    Not about good storytelling, but it knows to turn up the volume, cut to dizzying closeups of driver's eyes as they negotiate dangerous bends and indulge its audience in the soul slaps, fanny grabs and head nods that govern this racing lifestyle.
  30. Flickering Lights
    It's funny and violent and fast and, er, Danish.
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