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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. A Scanner Darkly
    With everything this film has going for it - humor, intelligence and a splendid ensemble - Richard Linklater's nightmare drug movie, A Scanner Darkly, should be continually compelling. But it loses its fizz after a strong series of pops.
  2. The Limey
    A wonderfully complex character at the center of a gratifyingly satisfying yarn.
  3. Inland Empire
    Only David Lynch could make the incomprehensible so compelling.
  4. Down in the Delta
    By the time it's ended, past and present have fused inextricably to create a movie that, in its own down-home way, is nothing less than epic.
  5. Wordplay
    Near letter-perfect.
  6. I'm Not There.
    If any man should be more than the sum of his parts, it's an artist. But Todd Haynes' I'm Not There makes Bob Dylan less than the sum of his parts. It's like a tony art-school parlor game.
  7. The Son's Room
    The Son's Room is the anti-"In the Bedroom." I mean that as a compliment.
  8. Himalaya
    Himalaya does for yak caravans what "Red River" did for cattle drives: it sees them as the stuff of epic conquest.
  9. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Isn't serious enough to fulfill its ambitions, or funny enough to compensate for its failures.
    • Baltimore Sun
  10. The Bourne Supremacy
    Greengrass has a fine sense of pacing, keeping events moving. It's rarely hard to guess what's going to happen next, but events unfold with such gusto that there's barely time to notice that.
  11. The Proposition
    By turns grisly and hallucinatory, The Proposition is one of those grand, mythic Westerns, full of wide-open spaces and dank little hellholes, detestable bad guys and virginal women, laconic lawmen and wary natives.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Urbania
    Designed to shock and rock the viewer with disturbing imagery, the film misses the point once too often.
  13. Black Cat, White Cat
    The perfect film for anyone who finds the Keystone Cops a little too understated and I mean that as a compliment.
    • Baltimore Sun
  14. Spider-Man
    When the cast and their director are really cooking, they conjure a bipolar sense of high school-age emotion -- and use it to fuel outrageous fantasy.
  15. Meet the Parents
    De Niro and Stiller combine to bring on laughs you don't have to feel guilty about.
  16. I'm Not Scared
    I'm Not Scared presents an interesting picture of youthful innocence challenged, but not a truthful one
  17. Super Size Me
    Spurlock's movie is the real-life slapstick record of a kamikaze Mac attack. Schlosser's book is the contemporary equal of Upton Sinclair's classic meatpacking muckraker "The Jungle."
  18. Heading South
    Heading South is a hydra-headed love story, as dangerous as it is heated and complex.
  19. Cold Mountain
    The result is a flabby, episodic phantasmagoria.
  20. Rocket Science
    Fresh, funny and unfailingly observant, Rocket Science is a mood-swinging movie about adolescence that lifts audiences' spirits even when its hero is down in the dumps.
    • 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
  22. Titanic Town
    So understatedly good.
  23. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The blend of chic histrionics and ultra-bright daylight imagery make much of the movie resemble a network soap opera with an on-location interlude. It looks as cheap as life is held in Medellin.
  24. Space Cowboys
    Arrives as a balm to seared adult psyches that have endured all manner of assaults at the multiplex this season.
  25. L.I.E.
    One of the year's most unsettling -- and perhaps most illuminating -- films.
    • Baltimore Sun
  26. Gran Torino
    It's no compliment to say a movie is "all of a piece" if the piece is all worn out. For all its surface harshness, this movie is a star vehicle at once rickety and cozy.
  27. Cars
    Lasseter's inclusive, utterly distinctive sensibility makes Cars all that it can be. His embrace of the comic-dramatic friction between innovation and tradition infiltrates every aspect of the movie - the look, the characters, the story.
  28. Erin Brockovich
    The kind of movie that gives mainstream Hollywood star vehicles a good name.
    • Baltimore Sun
  29. The Lookout
    The way Frank structures and directs this film, it's too predictably "unpredictable."
  30. The Hangover
    The Hangover is like an infernal comedy machine. Surrender your soul to its foul mesh of cheap cleverness and vulgarity. and you howl like a delighted demon. Resist, and you feel all sense and sensibility being crushed in its cogs.
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