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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. Charlie's Angels
    The gals are fab. And so's the movie.
  2. Sex and Lucia
    It's still pretty darn good, despite its smarty-pants aura.
  3. The Sweet Hereafter
    The chronological looseness is part of the pleasure of the piece, which magically reassembles in the last reel into something strong, lucid and compellingly powerful.
  4. Guinevere
    Affecting, gloriously acted.
  5. Two Girls and a Guy
    Cerebral, frenetic and funny, this chamber piece from filmmaker James Toback provides a timely if inconclusive comment on monogamy.
  6. A Fish Called Wanda
    It'll keep you amused enough to sit still and even remember it fondly.
  7. Il Postino: The Postman
    An enchanting Italian serio-comedy about the most unlikely of cinematic subjects-the origins, structure and reach of poetry.
  8. Antwone Fisher
    Blessedly free of the self-righteous histrionics and sentimentality that so often cheapen powerful personal stories.
  9. Love Liza
    Hoffman's touchingly fractured performance gives the picture a warm dimension.
  10. Blue Car
    Certainly no feel-good flick of the summer. But it's always tough and honest.
  11. Japanese Story
    Like a haiku, it is not what is said, but what is unsaid, that leaves the most lasting echoes.
  12. Monster
    An okay movie made nearly great by one great thing: the bravura, mercilessly watchable performance of Charlize Theron.
  13. Reconstruction
    It is a fascinating dance between style and substance.
  14. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    It gets frenetic, in the French way, but it never stops getting amusing. This is what happens when you let grown-ups make movies.
  15. What Time Is It Over There?
    The story that emerges has elements of romance, tragedy and even silent-movie comedy.
  16. Lone Star
    The most enjoyable John Sayles movie in recent memory.
  17. Sunshine State
    Part of the joy of watching a John Sayles film is to see how he knits together so many people and stories into a densely layered, always absorbing whole.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Fast and the Furious
    Along with the cast's charm, they provide enough fuel for a fun one (movie).
  19. Divided We Fall
    Based on a true story, the movie takes us through some harrowing times.
  20. Central Station
    A touching and unusual road movie-cum-buddy film.
  21. Pecker
    It's also sweet, sentimental, rather funny and, as John Waters films go, surprisingly gentle.
  22. Lilo & Stitch
    Fresh and rainbowy as a midday Hawaiian sun shower.
  23. Drumline
    Shakes, rattles and rolls the house, building to a climax that makes you almost forget you're in a movie theater and not a football stadium at halftime.
  24. The Exorcist
    A museum piece, something to be enjoyed for its historical value. [2000 re-release]
  25. Aberdeen
    It's clean and transparent, with no movie director tricks. The characters, not the montages, speak the loudest.
  26. Con Air
    Preposterous, predictable, but excessively entertaining, this frenzied thriller draws both story and characters from such action classics as "The Fugitive," "Die Hard," "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Silence of the Lambs."
  27. Mean Creek
    That rare movie that manages to be not only an adroit, carefully observed study in character and suspense, but important.
  28. Black Hawk Down
    You're drawn in, like it or not. You can't get away from the immediacy. Or the feeling that you're getting sucked in, too.
  29. The Devil's Backbone
    This film is much more atmospheric; it builds, not so much logically as viscerally, until you feel you can't escape. Lurid and overdone as it is, it's still a real disturber of the peace.
  30. The Rainmaker
    Coppola, who both wrote and directed this entertaining adaptation, follows the well-thumbed scenario, but with the help of his winning cast he disguises the absence of invention.
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