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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. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    Paints an often grave but sometimes hilarious picture of a hugely powerful network.
  2. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    I can't recall the original, or even if I saw it or not. But this variation certainly makes its points effectively, in what must be a more superheated milieu.
  3. Gattaca
    Gattaca may be all done up in new-fangled notions, but underneath all the guff about designer babies, it rests on a notion that was a staple of the original "Star Trek" series.
  4. Tuck Everlasting
    Rather than sparkle and dance, it plods.
  5. Private Parts
    Private Parts, lifted from Stern's best-selling autobiography, is a choppy amalgam of "Revenge of the Nerds," "Father Knows Best" and "Network."
  6. Very Bad Things
    When it is good, the film by "Chicago Hope" actor Peter Berg is very, very good, but when it is bad it is horrid.
  7. Vanity Fair
    Unfortunately, Nair's film doesn't so much end as fall off a cliff, the ultimate victim of viewers' heightened expectations that this briskly paced story will take them someplace -- other than around the block in a horse-drawn carriage.
  8. Anna and the King
    Fails as the big-screen romance it wants to be. The main problem: There's only one heart between the principals, and it beats solely in Chow's chest.
  9. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    The tart, often jauntily profane dialogue and sharp interactions of the present-day relationships give Divine Secrets its occasional zip; when Khouri takes us back in time, especially to the Ya-Yas' early childhood, the movie flags.
  10. The Time Machine
    Weirdly disjointed and uncertain as to tone.
  11. Gloomy Sunday
    It's a piquant story but unfortunately the movie creaks with European-style artifice. It tells its story in a rather cinematically stilted style, and some of the dramatic moments come perilously close to unintentional parody.
  12. Dirty Dancing
    Unfortunately, the idea for Dirty Dancing exceeds the execution...and the story resolves itself all too conveniently in that final scene.
  13. In the Cut
    At once belabored and muddled movie, whose dreamy visual style and daring sexual material can't elide glaring inconsistencies in tone, plot and logic.
  14. Paycheck
    A fun if dumb movie.
  15. Runaway Bride
    Fans of Gere and Roberts may not care about the movie's many implausibilities and other shortcomings because the stars do indeed sparkle like the bubbles in wedding champagne. But the rest of us will find the vintage too sweet.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Happy Accidents
    The actors make a good team in this film, and they're playing well-defined characters, but the script is so repetitive that we get mighty impatient for the mystery to be resolved.
  17. Pay It Forward
    It's too bad about the ending because, until then, Pay It Forward... is Hollywood feel-goodism at its best.
  18. A Slipping-Down Life
    As it plays, it simply feels like a kind of cop-out. Nobody changes that much.
  19. The Thirteenth Floor
    Rusnak, who was the second-unit director of "Godzilla," brings plenty of style to this ambitious yet utterly anticlimactic thumb-sucker.
  20. Pretty in Pink
    Hughes seems to be plugged into teens' view of their own teenness, and moment by moment the movie can be touchingly real. But movies are more than moments, and in the end Pretty in Pink is as fraudulent as the junk it's supposed to transcend.
  21. Clerks
    Amateurishly acted, clumsily edited and slapped together out of what looks like surveillance camera footage, the thing bumps along not so much on talent as on audacity.
  22. Daredevil
    Like Affleck himself, the film is perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying.
  23. Dudley Do-Right
    Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.
  24. In the Bedroom
    Short of good, better than awful, it opens brilliantly, then just goes on, toward self-negating absurdity.
  25. Mallrats
    I'm guessing even die-hard "Clerks" fans will find this only-in-America stuff only partially satisfying, like something they gorged on at the Eatery, then wished they hadn't.
  26. The Recruit
    It's nothing but style and noise, threadbare of content, empty of ideas. Is it anything? Not really.
  27. Seven Years in Tibet
    An overextended, episodic disappointment.
  28. Wag the Dog
    So insidey it's almost parochial.
  29. The Ladykillers
    Will appeal most strongly to viewers who think Tom Hanks, who plays a thief and a potential murderer, can do no wrong.
  30. The Brown Bunny
    This bizarre little diversion will soon scamper into the wild grass, never to be seen again.
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