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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. The Musketeer
    Rollicks and rolls, thanks mainly to Roth's over-the-top depravity and Xiong's swingin', "Crouching Tiger"-style choreography.
  2. The Crimson Rivers
    Wants to be about life, death and the red liquid that flows beneath our skin. It ends up being more about stage blood and stupid plot tricks.
  3. Power Trip
    An instructive account of the perils of attempting to privatize decrepit public utilities in countries with stagnant economies.
  4. American Adobo
    Tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.
  5. Time and Tide
    The result is a cross between a hurricane and a tornado as run through a movieola dialed all the way up to 10.
  6. The Country Bears
    If you're looking to take your children to something harmless, that doesn't embarrass anyone, this light comedy (a gentle parody of those "Behind the Music" specials on cable TV) is your next outing.
  7. Maid in Manhattan
    This fairy-tale shtick, even when dressed up with a little class-war garnish, is hard to swallow.
  8. Biggie and Tupac
    Tends to speculation, conspiracy theories or, at best, circumstantial evidence.
  9. 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.
  10. A Perfect Murder
    The unsatisfying thriller A Perfect Murder is a triumph of style over substance, with style in this case winning only by default.
  11. Fantasia 2000
    Then as now, visually pleasant and (of course) musically wonderful but, all-in-all, a mixed bag.
  12. Love in the Time of Money
    Guaranteed-to-bum-you-out conclusion.
  13. Nicholas Nickleby
    Whether the entire production comes off as classy or cloying depends entirely on the viewer's mood.
  14. Hart's War
    Follows all these rules, which is why you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum. But not a whit more.
  15. Blast from the Past
    A mediocre comic romance.
  16. The Closer You Get
    Derivative dumpling of a romantic comedy about Irish sexuality.
  17. Domestic Disturbance
    Does a masterful job of building menace until about halfway through.
  18. The Tailor of Panama
    The rhythms excite expectations that go unanswered.
  19. Charlotte Gray
    Those who do go with the fantasy are probably hopeless romantics.
  20. Only the Strong Survive
    The film could use a little less of the gee-whiz commentary of co-producer/narrator Roger Friedman and more storytelling from the survivors themselves.
  21. Baby Boy
    You may or may not like what you see, but there it is, indisputably, right in your face.
  22. Dead Again
    Directing with an eye to "Rebecca," Branagh brings more mood than suspense to this apparent hommage to Hitchcock. Still, he raises no goose bumps.
  23. ABC Africa
    This slight but insinuating documentary by Abbas Kiarostami...will do nothing to advance or detract from the reputation of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker.
  24. Just an American Boy
    Decidedly low-tech and not always particularly coherent or cohesive.
  25. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    The story, which feels more like a sprawl of television episodes than a film, is a little tedious to sit through.
  26. Apt Pupil
    Scares, to be sure, which is certainly one promise on which it delivers. But the film offers little insight into what it seems to be saying is essentially a mundane fact of life: When one devil leaves the world, there is always another one waiting just outside the door.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hackers
    Separates the tech-savvy boys from the lost-in-cyberspace men. Really--the movie may be too fast and confusingly jargon-choked for everyone but Netsurfers and Webheads.
  28. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Defiantly sophomoric, often hilarious and crude as all get-out.
  29. Blue in the Face
    An unpredictable, occasionally amusing, wildly uneven portrait of a neighborhood struggling to hold on to its identity.
  30. Dark Blue World
    The movie's ambitions (to pay tribute to the Czech pilots who fought for their country only to be interned later) are not matched by the actual story.
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