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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Four Christmases
    Four Christmases works because of some genuinely funny setups, a pace that never dwells on one gag (or even one family) too long and a careful mix of slapstick and bawdy humor. But mostly, the film works because of the astonishing acting talent the filmmakers brought together to make it.
  2. Public Enemies
    Without ever telling viewers what to think or how to feel, it raises more questions about the corruption of crime and crime fighting than any expose or thesis.
  3. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    As the sequence builds, it accretes so many heroic and nightmarish associations it plays like a prelude to apocalypse, which of course will come in Episode III. Attack of the Clones is part soda pop, part witches' brew - and all visual ambrosia.
  4. X2: X-Men United
    Captures the feel of a first-rate comic book. It puts the pop back into Pop Art: It blows viewers away with a blast of kinetic energy.
  5. Croupier
    A marvelously subversive, slyly manipulative effort.
  6. Nobody Knows
    Kore-eda expresses the terror of the kids' predicament with a touch that's equally tender and dispassionate.
  7. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Absorbing, artfully executed.
  8. Mulholland Dr.
    A dizzying - sometimes frustrating - marvel of moviemaking instinct and ingenuity.
  9. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Disturbing, maddening, often confusing, but also charming, engaging and challenging in all the best ways.
  10. Amores Perros
    A headlong pastiche of lower-depth melodrama and absurd black comedy.
  11. Monsters, Inc.
    The movie may not be perfect, but it's jam-packed with goodies -- like a breakfast cereal fun-pack with a prize on every box-top.
    • Baltimore Sun
  12. Tadpole
    Has nearly perfect pitch.
  13. Erin Brockovich
    The kind of movie that gives mainstream Hollywood star vehicles a good name.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Beyond the Mat
    What the film does, brilliantly, is provoke the intelligent fan to wonder if there's a limit to how far the proceedings can go.
    • Baltimore Sun
  15. Imelda
    Remarkable documentary.
  16. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Guerrilla provides one huge compensation: the getting of historical wisdom.
  17. A Slipping-Down Life
    A Slipping-Down Life may be low-key, but if you enter its unique atmosphere, you will leave exhilarated.
  18. Flightplan
    For at least two-thirds of its length, all elements combine for a taut thriller, a Hitchcockian exercise in suspense pitting human frailty - can our minds be trusted? - against human resourcefulness.
  19. I've Loved You So Long
    This film teaches the rewards of patience for directors, for actors and for audiences, too. The compelling reality of Juliette's plight comes from how subtly and gradually she emerges from her carapace.
  20. Meet the Parents
    De Niro and Stiller combine to bring on laughs you don't have to feel guilty about.
  21. Mississippi Masala
    No American film this year can touch it. [28 Feb 1992, p.10]
    • Baltimore Sun
  22. Scratch
    Scratch will make even the uninitiated believe in the joy and propulsive power of hip-hop.
    • Baltimore Sun
  23. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    The outcomes of all the mini-dramedies are too messy and equivocal to produce morals; that's just as it should be in a farce about confusion. Co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath are most intent on completing the circle of comedy.
  24. Butterfly Tongues
    A movie of unforced nobility and quiet pleasures, Butterfly works on all sorts of levels.
    • Baltimore Sun
  25. American Splendor
    One genuine small triumph of American Splendor is that the title isn't ironic. The movie is a splendid, inventive piece of urban Americana about that hardboiled original, Harvey Pekar.
  26. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    The only thing missing from this rich production is an emotional charge, which Highsmith could create on the page but which Minghella doesn't quite capture on screen.
  27. The Emperor's New Clothes
    It's sometimes said that the greatest test of a chef is cooking something cheap and simple, like a piece of chicken or a hamburger. In a movie that testifies to simple pleasures, Taylor and company pass that test again and again.
  28. Religulous
    The results are often as surprising as they are funny.
  29. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    There's great action moviemaking here: You learn what it means to "carve" a pool, as you learn what it means to "close off" the boxing ring in Ali.
  30. Milk
    It's not a great movie, but it is an enlivening and unusual one: an effervescent political film that also packs a knockout punch.
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