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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. Princess Mononoke
    As spectacular as it is dense and as dense as it is colorful and as colorful as it is meaningless and as meaningless as it is long.
  2. Basic
    Entertainment more suitable for the living room than the movie theater.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Human Traffic
    Wildly uneven--inventive and clever moments are interspersed with dull and predictable ones.
  4. Enemy at the Gates
    Still, if the movie is mediocre, the history it represents is not. For that correction to our collective Western amnesia, then, Annaud deserves some special award.
  5. The Salton Sea
    Adheres to the whacked notion that Hollywood does drugs so the rest of us don't have to.
  6. Dreamcatcher
    All in all -- well, there is no all in all. There are just parts. Some fit, some don't. Some are cool, some aren't. It's the craziest thing you ever saw.
  7. September 11
    Of the pieces, two are first-rate, a few more are amusing or provocative, and the rest are actively annoying.
  8. Fierce Creatures
    You leave Creatures with the unsettling sensation of being highly tickled yet greatly dissatisfied.
  9. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Intriguing, inspired, flawed, misbegotten and fascinating -- all of these qualities apply to the movie, at one point or another.
  10. Connie and Carla
    Broad and cheesy, yet it is not utterly without a kind of junk-food appeal.
  11. Van Helsing
    The effect for viewers is that of having inserted one's head in a kettledrum that is being pounded on by drunken monkeys.
  12. Beijing Bicycle
    Too simple for its own good.
  13. The Clearing
    Ultimately, we find ourselves looking for the wrong sort of clearing: a way out.
  14. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Potter-philes are sure to get what they want -- if what they want is, in fact, an exacting version of J.K. Rowling's charming children's fantasy. If it's enchantment they are after, that's quite another matter.
  15. The Lion King
    Shakespearean in tone, epic in scope, it seems more appropriate for grown-ups than for kids. If truth be told, even for adults it is downright strange.
  16. Never Been Kissed
    Predictable, slightly painful and as embarrassing as all get-out.
  17. Rush Hour
    A misbegotten marriage of sweet and sour.
  18. Signs
    Even though he shows some master touches throughout the movie, Shyamalan flits a little too lightly across the surface, like a pond skater.
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