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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. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    A caper film of such postmodernist pretense that it's almost a parody of itself.
  2. Rock Star
    Even though it's weak in the final stages, Rock Star has more than enough sparkle to last you. That's chiefly thanks to Wahlberg, the main firework of this movie.
  3. Scream
    Deftly mixes irony, self-reference and wry social commentary with chills and blood spills.
  4. Adorenarin doraibu
    A pleasure because of zany developments like this, and a healthy dose of amusing characters.
  5. The Horse Whisperer
    The movie is not only a better version of the book, it's a work unto itself.
  6. Air Force One
    Takes its absurd premise and keeps itself narrowly focused, pushing its heroic cast through obstacle after obstacle.
  7. Chopper
    Not everyone's cup of tea, but it's actually rather beautiful.
  8. Grazia's Island
    It's slight but in a haunting way, like a half-remembered dream.
  9. Shattered Glass
    In a sense, Shattered Glass is a parenthetical horror movie in which someone discovers (or worse, denies) the monster within themselves.
  10. Godzilla
    Its images of the destruction of the cities is far more powerful than in American films, where the cities are trashed for the pure pleasure of destruction, without any real sense of human loss.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hard Eight
    Paul Thomas Anderson shows off the same sort of quirky smarts that Joel and Ethan Coen did in "Blood Simple."
  12. Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Classy fare, with posh settings, gorgeous scenery and lots and lots of polishing from director John Madden ("Ethan Frome") and writer Jeremy Brock.
  13. Songcatcher
    The haunting beauty of the music, and the people who produce it – that's the chapter and verse of this story.
  14. Cats & Dogs
    Surprisingly witty and sophisticated spy movie spoof that will tickle adult pet lovers and still capture kids 6 and older with its boy-and-his-dog love story and pet slapstick.
  15. Bloody Sunday
    As a terrifying example of what can happen when too many angry people are crowded into too small a space, it's a gripper.
  16. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Wickedly clever.
  17. The Legend of 1900
    An enchanting, staggeringly beautiful epic at sea, is poetry in motion.
  18. Solomon & Gaenor
    Its pleasures aren't so much in the inevitable plot complications, but in the passion of the performances and the spare beauty of the elegant framing and photography.
  19. Sweet and Lowdown
    Penn's performance is the movie's ultimate grace note. As funny and ingenious as Allen's films can get, they are rarely known for depth of character.
  20. Punch-Drunk Love
    The outlandish story and exaggerated colors ... swirl together to create an ethereal, sometimes sinister dreamscape.
  21. Big Trouble
    This is, after all, the kind of movie in which traffic accidents not only mess up getaways but also liberate goats to wander through the airport. We need more of that stuff.
  22. Crimson Gold
    Unfolds with a marvelously understated humanism.
  23. Tupac: Resurrection
    The result isn't a fragmentary experience so much as an evocative collage.
  24. Harry Is Here to Help
    Very, very funny, in that morbid sort of way that makes you laugh even as you shudder with horror.
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