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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. Full Frontal
    The only way a self-absorbed treatise like this can get any kind of audience (not to mention distribution) is to cast famous people in it.
  2. One Last Kiss
    It's not Fellini, by any means, but it's lively. Never stops moving, even though it crashes into cliches along the way.
  3. Signs
    Even though he shows some master touches throughout the movie, Shyamalan flits a little too lightly across the surface, like a pond skater.
  4. Gaza Strip
    Its one-sidedness flirts with propaganda.
  5. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    Every moment of the way, there is a delectable sense of subtle menace and, at the center of it all, Huppert's haunting expression, part sphinx, part grace and maybe part scary.
  6. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    Has to be one of the must-see films for any student of Hollywood fame and infamy.
  7. Swimming
    Absolutely refuse to make predictable patterns in the sand. Instead, they set their characters loose.
  8. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    The unexpected drama captured puts I Am Trying to Break Your Heart in the good company, if not quite the league, of "Let It Be" and "Gimme Shelter."
  9. The Country Bears
    If you're looking for some good family interspecies entertainment, take the little ones to see "Stuart Little 2" again; in the meantime, you might want to crawl into your cave and sleep through this one.
  10. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Cletis Tout is both in love with and able to laugh at the conventions it adopts, which is exactly where it goes wrong. It's just a little too self-satisfied.
  11. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    Mike Myers unleashes (or seems to unleash) the entire contents of his comic mind.
  12. Happy Times
    The film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of Hollywood heart-string plucking.
  13. K-19: The Widowmaker
    Despite drawing from one of the most powerful and true stories from the Cold War, K-19 is only moderately moving.
  14. Stuart Little 2
    It's a pleasant experience. But that's what it is: a sequel that replays every aspect of the original movie.
  15. Tadpole
    Doesn't need the passage of time to become a classic. It's one already.
  16. Eight Legged Freaks
    The actual movie is the cinematic equivalent of cheap Chinese egg rolls: all flour and cabbage shreds, maybe half a nibble of pork.
  17. My Wife Is an Actress
    Attal, who resembles a young Robert De Niro, seems as addled as a director as his character is as a husband, throwing all manner of distractions onto the screen in order to divert the audience.
  18. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    When I say this movie's a charm, I'm really talking about Irwin.
  19. Reign of Fire
    A disaster of a drama, saved only by its winged assailants. You know a picture's in trouble when you find yourself rooting for humankind to lose.
  20. Sex and Lucia
    It's still pretty darn good, despite its smarty-pants aura.
  21. Never Again
    A meet-cute whimsy set among divorced fifty-somethings in New York, it blunders on toward oblivion, excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic.
  22. Road to Perdition
    There's something impressive and yet lacking about everything.
  23. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    For the first time in 30 years, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars appear on the movie screen as Pennebaker intended. It's almost worth the wait.
  24. Me Without You
    Michelle Williams turns in a performance that is seamless, canny and artistically mature.
  25. Read My Lips
    Fascinating and transgressive love story.
  26. Like Mike
    The frightening myths about adoption that run through Like Mike make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy.
  27. Men in Black II
    Smith and Jones seem like superannuated company men: They're going through the motions, but the zip is gone.
  28. Songs from the Second Floor
    Want to see something strange, funny, twisted, brilliant and macabre? Sure you do.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Powerpuff Girls
    Offers cleverness and charm that are hard to come by in the summertime multiplex.
  30. Lovely & Amazing
    Warmhearted and slightly edgy seriocomedy, these sisters experience some pretty entertaining ups and downs. Entertaining, that is, for people who appreciate irony.
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