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For 8,778 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,774 out of 8778
  2. Mixed: 2,557 out of 8778
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8778
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  1. Trolösa
    As far as I'm concerned, the fact that Bergman is finally getting around to asking himself questions he now realizes he should have asked long ago is not sufficient enough premise for a movie. The answers may be news to Bergman, but the rest of us might just want to opt for divorce.
  2. Sugar & Spice
    For every zinger, there are two flat jokes around the corner.
  3. The Wedding Planner
    The blandness of The Wedding Planner burlap-sacks their appeal in an altogether dowdy outing for two stars who deserve much snazzier threads.
  4. The Pledge
    A surprisingly uneven and perhaps even mediocre character drama.
  5. Snatch.
    Snatch is nothing if not watchable: It has the insane, popcorn rhythms of a Road Runner cartoon, and for that reason alone it's a minor masterpiece.
  6. Panic
    Hopefully find the audience it deserves.
  7. Antitrust
    A storyline that makes less sense than the current state of tech stocks on the Nasdaq.
  8. Chunhyangdyun
    Some people might find Chunhyang a chore to sit through, including me. Despite all of its accumulated period gorgeousness, or perhaps because of it, the film moves at a snail's pace, telegraphing plot twists miles before we actually arrive at them.
  9. The Claim
    The characters in The Claim suffer under the weight of very big things -- betrayal, abandonment, disease, death -- but they do so quietly, stoically, until, by God, they just can't take it anymore.
  10. Shadow of the Vampire
    For all its stentorian performances, though, Shadow of the Vampire is a bit much, from the detailed period sets to the final, bloody scene.
  11. Traffic
    It's a thrilling, powerful movie, and one that certain people in certain quarters may have at one time called dangerous. Some of them may yet still.
  12. All the Pretty Horses
    The film's elegiac tone and honest heart come through.
  13. Thirteen Days
    A suspenseful breath of fresh air following on the heels of one of the dumbest Hollywood summers in recent memory.
  14. Malèna
    When the film changes gears from light coming-of-age comedy to ex-post-facto war parable midway through, it loses its focus and suddenly becomes a much darker beast.
  15. Before Night Falls
    It's huge and bewildering and it hurts to watch, but it hurts so good it's gorgeous.
  16. The House of Mirth
    Viewers unfamiliar with Wharton's novel may have a hard time, especially at first, deciphering all the characters since Davies presents them at a steady clip while providing little background or explanatory material.
  17. Dracula 2000
    A middling film through and through, despite the occasional shocks it tries to earnestly to achieve.
  18. Miss Congeniality
    A remarkably solid, streamlined, action-comedy in the ugly-duckling-to-gorgeous-swan genre that elicits more laughs and genuinely affecting moments than you might expect from its tepid ad campaign.
  19. State and Main
    Mamet does a shrewdly skillful job with these Tinseltown terrors.
  20. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A remarkable film. From its performances on down to director of photography Roger Deakins' sun-baked, dirty-ochre cinematography, the film is all of a piece.
  21. Cast Away
    A handsomely constructed and executed movie, the kind of effort that deserves appreciation, on its own terms, for what it both dares and accomplishes.
  22. The Family Man
    A holiday film Joe Lieberman could love, unembarrassed by its wholesome, sugary pro-family message.
  23. Finding Forrester
    A nice-looking, nice-feeling exercise in conventionalism that sure could use a couple of transvestites and maybe a house falling from the sky.
  24. The Gift
    So many logical questions go unasked in The Gift, which, ultimately, is the movie's downfall. Mark this package as Return to Sender.
  25. Pollock
    Pollock is that rare breed, a biopic that makes you want to learn more about its subject, as much as you can, as fast as you can.
  26. The Emperor's New Groove
    Suffers from a persistent case of narrative backsliding that only serves to make older members of the audience long for the days of the dwarves, beauties, and poisoned apples of Disney-yore, and younger ones squirm in their seats.
  27. What Women Want
    It's like 90 minutes of teasing foreplay, and then, just when it's about to get really good, your partner rolls over and goes to sleep.
  28. Dude, Where's My Car?
    Dude, your movie sucks.
  29. Chocolat
    Like its title implies, Chocolat tastes good in the moment but leaves behind little nutritional substance.
  30. Vertical Limit
    It's a huge, bloated, hulking movie.
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