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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. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Best news: over in 87 minutes.
  2. The Fast and the Furious
    The Fast and the Furious is "Rebel Without a Cause" without a cause. The young and the restless with gas fumes. The quick and the dead with skid marks.
  3. Life and Debt
    After viewing documentarian Stephanie Black's dour exegesis of the wrecked Jamaican economy -- only the most insensitive vacationer will want to set foot anywhere near the resorts and beaches of Montego Bay.
  4. The Adventures of Felix
    This French film has a breezy, documentary air that belies the important issues is raises.
  5. Songcatcher
    The haunting beauty of the music, and the people who produce it – that's the chapter and verse of this story.
  6. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    It is the perfect modern product: loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.
  7. Sexy Beast
    In the end, I'm wondering what's so special about a film that has but one guilty pleasure and that's Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word into the atmosphere like anti-aircraft fire for 10 solid minutes.
  8. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    The result is cutesy but harsh, a hybrid of saucer-eyed anime and square-jawed angularity that brings to mind an edgier "Pokemon."
  9. Evolution
    Evolution is bad. How bad? Who cares? Do you ask how hot the fire is before running out of a burning building? No, you just run for safety.
  10. Bride of the Wind
    A fascinating premise. And yet, the movie, directed by Bruce Beresford, never quite blooms.
  11. The Anniversary Party
    A celebration of the actor's art – but not the dramatist's.
  12. Swordfish
    Nobody really cares about the plot, least of all the filmmakers.
  13. Divided We Fall
    Based on a true story, the movie takes us through some harrowing times.
  14. La grande strada azzurra
    The film is nowhere near the level of Pontecorvo's masterpiece, or even his subsequent flawed allegory on Vietnam, "Burn!," but is clearly the work of a natural coming into the full range of his powers.
  15. A Love Divided
    It's like a PBS version of a movie of the week about child abduction, complete with histrionic, spit-flecked speechifying in quaint Irish brogues.
  16. Big Eden
    The key to success: The audience must really like both characters and believe that they deserve a fairy-tale ending. That's definitely the case in this nicely acted love story.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Animal
    Let's face it, some people find butt and bathroom comedy funny. And some don't.
  18. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Now and then sputters to comic life but more usually wheezes along.
  19. Himalaya
    The dance between authenticity and storymaking works beautifully.
  20. The Man Who Cried
    The driving drama of such a desperate situation is lost in the movie's casting silliness.
  21. The Road Home
    A nostalgic paean to China's fading pastoral ways, might easily be taken for an audition tape for Zhang Ziyi.
  22. Pearl Harbor
    Perhaps they should have called this "Bore-a, Bore-a, Bore-a."
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