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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. My Dog Skip
    I had to beg my 8-year-old to stop laughing.
  2. Max
    Fascinating story.
  3. Intolerable Cruelty
    Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances.
  4. eXistenZ
    A triumphant return to the icky, otherworldly eerieness that graced such earlier Cronenberg works as "Scanners," "Videodrome" and "Dead Ringers."
  5. Next Friday
    Hilarious.
  6. Shaolin Soccer
    Shaolin Soccer is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with soccer balls, a touch of Sergio Leone and not one microsecond of seriousness.
  7. Gosford Park
    It's a very funny movie in that sniffy Brit way.
  8. The Original Kings of Comedy
    There's nothing stodgy about these court jesters or their humor, even though their act is a decidedly grown-up affair.
  9. Barbershop
    It's funny as hell, and I am proud to say that as a card-carrying white guy, I got three, or possibly even four, of the 239 jokes.
  10. The Rundown
    There've been dozens of shotgun movies, most of them directed by Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch," "The Getaway") but Berg is inventive...All this, and Christopher Walken too? What more could a fella ask for?
  11. Cruel Intentions
    The original was about social manipulation as blood sport. Amazing how easily it transports, themes intact, to our blighted decade, and to our children.
  12. Such a Long Journey
    There's a refreshingly unusual spirit at work.
  13. Panic Room
    The movie, which suggests a combination of "Wait Until Dark" and "Rear Window," not only takes your breath away on an aesthetic level, it eloquently evokes the mother's and daughter's vulnerability.
  14. S1m0ne
    Writer-director Niccol (who wrote and directed "Gattaca" and scripted "The Truman Show") uses disarming, but wicked lightness to damn the celebrity-worshiping culture and Hollywood's beyond-the-looking-glass filmmaking.
  15. Ride with the Devil
    In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.
  16. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    As a Coen brothers fan I hate to say this, but the movie's a collection of great bits and pieces rather than a complete work.
  17. Sense and Sensibility
    Lee, who made the upbeat "Eat Drink Man Woman," plays this double love story as brightly as possible. There's peppy social satire in the smallest of gestures.
  18. America's Heart and Soul
    This is Disney at its live-action best and brightest.
  19. Saving Private Ryan
    Its relatively minor imperfections seem more glaring when compared to the near flawlessness of the film's lyrical, scorching start.
  20. P.S.
    Even though the story ultimately doesn't match the intensity with which it began, the movie's extraordinary for its two main performances.
  21. Dirty Dancing
    It's a wonderfully corny story, performed exuberantly by Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. When these two get together, you practically have to get out the fire extinguishers.
  22. Spy Game
    With its cast of back-stabbing functionaries and desk jockeys, Spy Game makes the sport and hard work of espionage seem chillingly real.
  23. Blind Shaft
    Powerful yet ambiguous.
  24. Deconstructing Harry
    A provocative, but extremely profane work, it is surely Allen's bawdiest since "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex."
  25. Goya in Bordeaux
    The camera, freed to glide, flows as if through the old man's memory, discovering both the glory of his life and the tragedy.
  26. Spider
    An eensy-weensy movie sustained by two utterly gigantic performances.
  27. Next Stop Wonderland
    Shot with a shaky hand-held camera, Wonderland is a sentimental fairy tale with a gritty documentary feel.
  28. All the Real Girls
    It's a movie of deft impressions and telling human moments. Whether or not those impressions and moments add up to anything is almost beside the point.
  29. A Dirty Shame
    John Waters may not be a great filmmaker, but he's usually onto something, and A Dirty Shame is onto something big.
  30. Saved!
    Bears the unmistakable stamp of authenticity, even at its most outrageous.
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