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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. Proof of Life
    In Proof of Life it's the same old story, a fight for love and glory, except that time goes by . . . slowwwwly.
  2. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    This is a sophisticated movie, but one whose sophistication is surprisingly simple-minded.
  3. Equilibrium
    Just because it's a good idea doesn't mean it's easy to do well. Screenwriter-turned-director Kurt Wimmer has a hard time keeping his actors from, well, acting a lot of the time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Training Day
    A taut, high-velocity film that departs from the action flick template by having actual ideas.
  5. Tea with Mussolini
    Watching Tea with Mussolini is probably a lot like having tea with Mussolini would be: never dull but neither, I imagine, an entirely pleasant experience.
  6. Rush Hour 2
    It's about half as much fun as the original.
  7. Contact
    The best moments occur when -- as in reality -- we're still in the dark. As soon as the movie gets to its version of a punch line, it turns into another Hollywood vehicle spinning aimlessly in space.
  8. A Bug's Life
    It's an infusion of zip that's sorely needed, because the chief deficiency of A Bug's Life so far is its blandness….The film's other weakness is the low-octane vocal performances of its leading cast.
  9. The Haunted Mansion
    Eddie Murphy is less offensive than Dr. Seuss.
  10. Spun
    It's like the longest just-say-no commercial in history, only you'd say no not because drugs are evil but because you don't want to get a serious foot fungus.
  11. The Usual Suspects
    Nothing more than an over-designed lobster pot. After following the beckoning twists and turns, you're left trapped and more than a little disappointed for getting in so deep.
  12. Rain Man
    Hoffman blows costar Cruise right off the screen...Instead of playing off or with Hoffman (a greenhorn's smartest strategy), Cruise tends to play at him, flailing and swearing like a spoiled, grounded pilot in "Top Gun II."
  13. Envy
    One of those cinematic curiosities that almost always fade quickly, but that will usually find a devoted cult audience once it hits that peculiar Elysian Field known as the aftermarket.
  14. Along Came Polly
    Firmly ensconced among the forgettables in Stiller's career, a generic romantic comedy of the one-from-column-A, one-from-column-B variety.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Kids should be reasonably diverted for a couple of hours, but odds are they'll have forgotten the whole thing by the next morning.
  16. Brother to Brother
    Works far better as an idea than its execution; this has to do with the difficulties of making profound statements with limited budgets and technology, and also grappling with the still-growing sensibilities of an emerging writer.
  17. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Preaches most effectively to the converted.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Independence Day
    Cruises to an upbeat ending but furnishes no more of the wicked thrills of the initial hour. Particularly disappointing is the human contrivance employed in the defeat of the vastly superior enemy.
  19. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    At its best, Woman Thou Art Loosed conveys the unfathomable meaning behind those words.
  20. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    It has great mood and a sense of the toughness of the London underworld, but it never really gets into gear.
  21. Masked and Anonymous
    A fascinating, vexing, indulgent, visionary, pretentious, mesmerizing pop culture curio.
  22. Gozu
    Miike's fans, those used to his strange ways, will certainly find Gozu an amusing addition to the oeuvre. All others will be bewildered beyond expression.
  23. White Chicks
    But it's not what the Wayans brothers do, it's how they do it. They do it funny.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sleepover
    Not overwhelmingly original or funny.
  25. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    It isn't that Bobby Jones is especially bad. It's just not especially good, either.
  26. Instinct
    A sloppily structured, snoozily paced psychodrama about living in harmony with nature and all the rest of that tree-hugging hooey.
  27. Save the Last Dance
    Takes its cues from the musical dramas of the '70s, but this otherwise engaging young-adult romance never quite catches Saturday night fever.
  28. The Ring
    Has its creepy moments, but also its cliches.
  29. Bubba Ho-tep
    A leisurely paced, subtly funny, though verbally crude chamber piece.
  30. A Man Apart
    While you're enduring the usual formulaic yada yada -- at least there are yuks to enjoy.
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