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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. Apocalypse Now Redux
    The movie offers one of the great lost pleasures, one we so seldom encounter at the bijou anymore. You watch this monster unreeling in its splendid vitality, its absurd ambition, its wobbly tone, its beauty, its stupidity, its immaturity, its tragedy, its grandeur, and before you know it, close to four hours has blasted by. And when you leave, you seize whoever is up close to you -- friend or foe, stranger or lover -- and begin to talk. You have opinions. You must express yourself. You must be heard. [5 Aug 2001, p.G1]
    • Washington Post
  2. Greenfingers
    Ought to have been called "The Sap Also Rises."
  3. Fever Heat [re-release]
    Great picture? No. Cool picture? Oui. Not as good, I must say, as the sort of thing we moron yanks were doing on our own over here – "D.O.A." is much better.
  4. Planet of the Apes
    The longer I take to review this movie, the more the absurdities loom. So let me finish before I think about the story's stupidly plotted structure or recall how tiring it was to watch apes perpetually pushing humans to the ground or sending them pirouetting into the air.
  5. Bread and Tulips
    A little too shopworn and pokey to be more than a respectable European diversion.
  6. Wet Hot American Summer
    This is supposed to be funny? It was so depressing I almost started to cry.
  7. Jackpot
    Nobody hits the jackpot here, certainly not filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish, whose audacious, empathic first film, "Twin Falls Idaho," showed such promise.
  8. America's Sweethearts
    The sparks don't fly -- they fall down and they can't get up.
  9. Brother
    Bewildering, tediously violent.
  10. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    The film's not only funny and weird, it's oddly poignant. I miss Hedwig already.
  11. Ghost World
    A character so real and poignant (yet hysterically funny), she'll linger for months or years.
  12. Jurassic Park III
    A serious been-there-done-that number.
  13. Made
    There are laughs -- lots of them, too -- but at some point the source of the laughs -- Vaughan's Ricky, a yammering loose cannon -- goes from entertaining to obnoxious.
  14. Legally Blonde
    Really nothing more than "Clueless" redux but without the edgy, knowing wit.
  15. The Score
    The best heist flick since "The Usual Suspects," a perfect 10 of a movie.
  16. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    As monotonous as Muzak, and when it comes to the plot, both bewildering and trite.
  17. Everybody's Famous!
    The more you lower your expectations, the more you'll learn to laugh.
  18. Kiss of the Dragon
    Too bad the filmmakers -- and here's where the American part comes in -- decided the movie had to have some heart, too.
  19. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    There are scenes that simply ask the audience to drink in the details, to enjoy the repast, just as much as follow the plot.
  20. Lost and Delirious
    Equally earnest and unconvincing.
  21. Cats & Dogs
    The premise is tragically flawed and politically incorrect. In fact, it is blatantly cat-ist.
  22. Scary Movie 2
    A pocket of infection on the skin of the American body cultural.
  23. The Closet
    The French originals are always much breezier, the characters more genuine and the actors subtler even if the situations are just as silly.
  24. The Crimson Rivers
    The French now proudly prove they can make a big stupid violent cop movie, just like our gifted Hollywood professionals.
  25. Pootie Tang
    A wretch-a-sketch, a two-minute character-based skit (an occasional feature on HBO's "The Chris Rock Show") stretched to a mind-boggling 82 minutes.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Crazy/Beautiful
    Surprisingly mawkish teen film.
  27. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Intriguing, inspired, flawed, misbegotten and fascinating -- all of these qualities apply to the movie, at one point or another.
  28. Lumumba
    The movie is visually stirring. And the locations, in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, imbue the story with eerie authenticity.
  29. Baby Boy
    The movie makes an over-long deal about Jody's immaturity and never seems to get beyond it.
  30. The Princess and the Warrior
    You don't have any idea what's going to happen next. You're not caught in a movie, so much as a narrative stratagem.
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