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For 878 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Big Night
Lowest review score: 0 Luminarias
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 488 out of 878
  2. Mixed: 227 out of 878
  3. Negative: 163 out of 878
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  1. The Great Beauty
    If you know Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," you'll be unable to watch The Great Beauty without thinking about it. This gorgeous Italian movie, like its predecessor, balances pungent satire and a more melancholy mood in portraying the dissolute world of the upper crust in contemporary Rome.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Second Skin
    An excellent human-interest documentary that unlike so many others has a genuine appeal beyond someone already interested in the subject matter.
  3. Dead Snow
    This splatter film is set in Norway, but rest assured, it sticks with the formula. The young people to be killed off are just as obnoxious as their counterparts in American gorefests.
  4. Stephanie Daley
    This is grim material, but director Hilary Brougher -- working from her own script that won a Sundance award -- examines the lives of these two suffering women without sensationalism or preaching.
  5. Starter for 10
    Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy.
  6. The Good Shepherd
    A remarkable study of the corrosive effects of fear and power on an establishment insider who puts duty above all else.
  7. Flyboys
    Besides some fine dogfight sequences, it often feels threadbare, just an exercise in recycling.
  8. My Country, My Country
    A sobering documentary.
  9. The Beautiful Country
    Quiet, moving and beautifully shot.
  10. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Leave it to Ron Howard to turn a plaintive Dr. Seuss ditty into a C-grade Tim Burton psychodrama.
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  11. Bounce
    If I wanted a Nora Ephron cuddle-ganza, I'd rent one.
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  12. The 6th Day
    Modestly better than last year's awful "End of Days," though it falls well short of Arnold's "Terminator" peak period.
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  13. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    The journey's a kick.
  14. Little Nicky
    Little Nicky is but a meek gross-out cousin of "The Waterboy."
  15. Non-Stop
    Simply an endurance contest, one almost worth staying the 82 minutes to see who wins.
  16. Red Planet
    Good-looking and empty.
  17. Men of Honor
    It's hard not to like a movie like Men of Honor, but it's entirely possible.
  18. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    As entertaining, charming and conceited as other Robert Redford joints, but it's also insufferably obvious.
  19. Charlie's Angels
    So phenomenal that Bill Murray can't even steal it. And he tries. So excellent that Murray's MTV progeny Tom Green can't sink it.
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  20. Lucky Numbers
    An unsteady stab at noir.
  21. A Time for Drunken Horses
    The welcome hints at emotional excess are compromised by the blunt force of the movie's political point-making.
  22. Loving Jezebel
    There's more gymnastic yammering in Loving Jezebel than in a season of "Dawson's Creek."
  23. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Cult shocker has been turned into throwaway megaplex fodder.
    • San Francisco Examiner
  24. Sound and Fury
    In 80 minutes, the film accumulates a staggering gravity.
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  25. Bedazzled
    The ending is a disappointment, a perfunctory upbeat gesture.
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  26. The Yards
    Classic in feel and loaded with sumptuous performances.
  27. The Wolves of Kromer
    Has no intention of taking a more sophisticated path to make its point.
  28. Just One Time
    Feels like an interminable pilot for a show to fill that deadly 8:30 slot between "Friends" and "Will and Grace."
  29. Pay It Forward
    There's the world-alteringly scary possibility that (Leder) might be trying to kill us with a star-studded "After School Special."
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  30. Dr T and the Women
    A finely coiffed, cream-cheese "8 1/2" remix with Gere, a Marcello Mastroianni for Oprah Winfrey times.
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