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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. Our Song
    It's more a collection of episodes that build to a complex, richly layered picture of these girls' lives. And the more time we spend with them, the more endearing they become.
  2. Fast Food Fast Women
    Fast Food Fast Women is "Sex and the City" in Payless shoes. An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.
  3. Angel Eyes
    The audience hasn't the slightest idea what is going on.
  4. Moulin Rouge!
    McGregor, the movie's most engaging performer, is convincing enough to sell the mutual attraction. The "Trainspotting" star is usually playing some kind of freak, and this is a nice stretch for him.
  5. Shrek
    A movie that appeals to the eye, mind, heart and funny bone; that's a pretty good quadruple for any movie.
  6. Startup.com
    Astute and entertaining documentary.
  7. The King Is Alive
    Becomes a strung-together collection of interesting, semi-interesting, boring and sometimes embarrassing (seemingly improvised) moments from the cast.
  8. Bread and Roses
    There's every reason to watch Bread and Roses for what Loach really does best: He involves us directly in the desperate lives of his characters, who are forced to live without security and who have to compromise to make ends meet. And, above all, who feel as real as moviemaking allows.
  9. A Knight's Tale
    The action scenes are beautifully mounted and photographed and offer a sense of the rigors of the sport.
  10. Pavilion of Women
    Bland as a fortune cookie and as trite as the message inside.
  11. Under the Sand
    Charlotte Rampling takes you so far inside the pain of Marie Drillon it leaves you stirred, shaken and a little in awe.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eureka
    The film's loveliness does much to modulate its often maddening pace.
  13. Time and Tide
    The result is a cross between a hurricane and a tornado as run through a movieola dialed all the way up to 10.
  14. The Mummy Returns
    Many of the visual effects are stunning, but others are downright cheesy -- especially an attempt to fuse the Rock's head onto a scorpion's body.
  15. Deuces Wild
    Propelled not by characters but caricatures.
  16. One Night at McCool's
    First-time feature director Harald Zwart has a real flair for farce, and he keeps the outrageous high jinks of the script lively yet grounded in reality.
  17. Driven
    Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.
  18. The Golden Bowl
    Its splendor cannot be denied, but then again neither can the emptiness of this Henry James adaptation.
  19. Town & Country
    The plot feels arbitrary and seems driven to invent new places for its protagonists to go, as if to justify a budget on which Woody Allen could have made six much better films.
  20. The Luzhin Defence
    Where it succeeds best is not in describing how Luzhin got broken but how love fixed him, albeit temporarily.
  21. The Low Down
    A well-acted first effort written and directed by Jamie Thraves.
  22. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Allegations of governmental double-talk and cover-ups are, unfortunately, boooring.
  23. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    This latest, utterly gratuitous chapter in the saga of the wisecracking reptile hunter will add nothing to the ever-dimming reputation of the Subaru pitchman.
  24. Harry Is Here to Help
    Very, very funny, in that morbid sort of way that makes you laugh even as you shudder with horror.
  25. Freddy Got Fingered
    The movie is simply not professional. It's not, even by the lowest standards of Republic B-westerns in the '30s or bad, cheap horror films in the '50s, releasable.
  26. The Center of the World
    Drowning in uncharted waters and way off-center in any world.
  27. The Circle
    In its brisk way, it's a devastating piece of work, and very brave too.
  28. Bridget Jones's Diary
    How can you celebrate a movie in which Zellweger doesn't soar but simply avoids disaster?
  29. Josie and the Pussycats
    The fat cats of Hollywood have coughed up a hairball.
  30. Kingdom Come
    You're hard-pressed to dislike the film.
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