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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. Cradle Will Rock
    Cradle Will Rock is left in mid-rock, as it were, its energy squandered, its sense of history confused, its sound and fury ultimately signifying nothing.
  2. Miss Julie
    Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic
  3. Stir of Echoes
    There's visceral horror, too, including a grisly image -- a horror-in-miniature involving a fingernail -- that located an open nerve in my jaded ability to endure screen violence.
  4. The Green Mile
    From its deceptively easygoing beginning to the heart-wrenching finale, The Green Mile keeps you wonderfully high above the cynical ground.
  5. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    A considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other 'SNL' alums.
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  6. Agnes Browne
    A generally well-made tale of humor and hard luck.
  7. Holy Smoke
    There's so much wrong with this movie.
  8. The End of the Affair
    Fails to capture the spiritual hallelujah of the novel.
  9. Sweet and Lowdown
    Penn's performance is the movie's ultimate grace note. As funny and ingenious as Allen's films can get, they are rarely known for depth of character.
  10. Flawless
    A coy seriocomedy distantly related to--but missing the sting of--"Kiss of the Spider Woman."
  11. Tumbleweeds
    Janet McTeer doesn't imitate Mary Jo Walker, and she doesn't act her. She becomes her. It's almost spooky.
  12. End of Days
    All fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting.
  13. Ride with the Devil
    In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.
  14. Toy Story 2
    A sequel that eclipses the original. The toys are back with even more hilarious vengeance. The story's twice as inventive as its predecessor.
  15. The World Is Not Enough
    The new Bond movie is pure nonsense art of the dadaist school; it follows the rules of the ridiculous as it turns narrative convention, thriller formula and special-effects set pieces into a manifesto of the purest gibberish.
  16. All About My Mother
    It's enough to make your head spin, but Almodovar, whose mastery of the medium has never been more assured, gives you plenty to think about, ultimately grounding the dizzy whirl of his idiosyncratic fictional world in a story that feels not just true but universal.
  17. Sleepy Hollow
    In Burton's hands, Washington Irving's spooky classic is reincarnated as an overripe, grisly Goth cartoon.
  18. Mansfield Park
    It isn't Austen, but it's delicious fun.
  19. Liberty Heights
    Demonstrates what writer-director Levinson does best: evoke the sights, smells and atmosphere of his youth with intelligence, humor and a keen sense of social perspective.
  20. Anywhere But Here
    So closely observed, so funny and so true to the junk that is everybody's real--as opposed to movie--life that it comes to feel like some kind of a miracle.
  21. Felicia's Journey
    So elegantly layered and emotionally restrained, it makes the horror at its center all the more disturbing.
  22. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Never was the case for psychotropic medication more acute than in Jovovich's performance.
  23. Dogma
    For a while, the film is screamingly funny, but the further it goes, the more muddled the narrative becomes.
  24. Light It Up
    Benefits from affecting performances from a gifted cast headed by R&B heartthrob Usher Raymond.
  25. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    An unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production that has been re-edited, rescored and rewritten for American tots and padded out to feature length with a plotless short called "Pikachu's Vacation."
  26. The Bachelor
    Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.
  27. Train of Life
    Less-than-scintillating spin on "Life Is Beautiful."
  28. American Movie
    As quintessential a story of American ambition as Welles' own "Citizen Kane."
  29. The Bone Collector
    You may have as much fun tearing it apart in its aftermath as you do watching it, but the fun is still genuine.
  30. The Insider
    A well-orchestrated nightmare that keeps you on edge until the very end.
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