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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. Hamlet
    A darkly interesting distraction but not much more.
  2. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.
  3. Gladiator
    Friends, Washingtonians, countrymen, I come not to praise Gladiator but to bury it.
  4. I Dreamed of Africa
    The story the film tells ruins the movie.
  5. Up at the Villa
    Moderately pleasing adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella.
  6. Adorenarin doraibu
    A pleasure because of zany developments like this, and a healthy dose of amusing characters.
  7. Human Traffic
    I'd rather sit in bumper-to-bumper hell on I-495 for two hours than get caught in Traffic again.
  8. Frequency
    It's like a chick flick for men--and the women who love them, sniff-sniff.
  9. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    It's zany. Actually, it's so zany it's almost creepy.
  10. Bossa Nova
    Unromantic, nonsexual and hellaciously dull.
  11. Where the Heart Is
    Tries to put your tear ducts in a headlock with a litany of catastrophes.
  12. Timecode
    A brain-cramping and eye-straining experiment in digital filmmaking.
  13. Committed
    Should have never made it up the distribution aisle.
  14. The Big Kahuna
    The movie isn't about anything except acting, and although the acting it shows is brilliant, it makes exactly the point that is the opposite of the point it thought it was making: Acting isn't enough.
  15. The Last September
    More interesting for the world it evokes rather than the drama that unfolds.
  16. U-571
    The real star of U-571 is its sheer visceral atmosphere.
  17. Croupier
    Demonstrates that a movie need not be good to be cool.
  18. The Virgin Suicides
    While not exactly a cop-out, Virgin may leave some viewers who crave traditional closure with the same hollow ache described by the narrator as follows: "What lingered after them was not life but the most trivial list of mundane facts."
  19. Love & Basketball
    This one has crossover hit written all over it.
  20. Where the Money Is
    The bad news? The story, which rumbles along like an unattended wheelchair on a gently sloping sidewalk.
  21. Keeping the Faith
    May be the most ruggedly decent film to come along in a couple of decades.
  22. East Is East
    An edgy, irreverent, thoroughly winning comedy.
  23. American Psycho
    There's nothing beyond the bloodshed and gallows humor, just intellectually secondhand implications about materialism, conformity and misogyny.
  24. Return to Me
    So phony it makes your gums ache.
  25. Southpaw
    If Southpaw leaves you hungry, this much is also true: The "food" was good in the first place.
  26. Rules of Engagement
    It is the verdict of this court that it be led to a stockade reserved exclusively for cheap, pandering movies and duly shot.
  27. Est - Ouest
    The two-hour film never feels a minute too long.
  28. Joe Gould's Secret
    A brainy, superbly acted buddy movie.
  29. Ready to Rumble
    Bizarre yet popular.
  30. Price of Glory
    Smits can't wrench free of this tangle of cliches.
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