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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 1.7 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. Lost in La Mancha
    This documentary could have been a simple downer. Instead, it's a giddy, manic-depressive roller coaster - because it brings us eye to eye with Gilliam.
  2. Biker Boyz
    However you pronounce Bythewood -- I assume it's by-the-wood -- his work here is strictly by the numbers.
  3. The Recruit
    By contemporary standards, The Recruit is a halfway decent spy melodrama -- at least to the halfway point.
  4. Final Destination 2
    It ain't art. But as a cinematic house of horrors, it more than fills the bill.
  5. Chaos
    Chaos, in miring itself in the inequities (not to mention obscenities) of male-dominated culture, is after greater truths.
  6. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    Isn't an act of expiation but a gift of understanding.
  7. Darkness Falls
    Oh, this is all so terribly not good.
  8. National Security
    Fails to meld suspense and farce or to bring even the wildest pursuits and smash-ups any visual sense of comedy.
  9. City of God
    A razzle-dazzle lower-depths melodrama.
  10. Crimson Gold
    There's a subtlety to Crimson Gold that deserves applause.
  11. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    You won't believe the story director George Clooney and his goofball TV host are trying to sell. Really.
  12. Chicago
    Chicago is the zingiest, most inventive movie of its kind since "Cabaret."
  13. The Pianist
    Roman Polanski's new movie may be the greatest historical film centered on an enigmatic character since Lawrence of Arabia.
  14. Max
    The result is suitably upsetting and intriguing, despite a simultaneously tacky and too-neat climax.
  15. Nicholas Nickleby
    Plummer's performance is a miracle: In a movie as flat as a tablecloth, he suggests dimensions as wide, deep and curved as Cinerama.
  16. The Hours
    You have to grasp at straws to make even "poetic" sense of the narrative.
  17. Catch Me If You Can
    Spielberg's inchoate attempts at cultural observation stretch the movie out and dilute the giddiness instead of adding a pleasurable spike. When the movie doesn't feel inflated, it feels soggy.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Pinocchio
    The bottom line is that the studio's marketing strategy is just a tad incomplete. Instead of hiding Pinocchio from critics, Miramax should have hidden it from everyone.
  19. Two Weeks Notice
    The result may not make for a great adventure, but it's sure a fun ride.
  20. Narc
    Some might find the whole thing exhilarating, but exhausting is more the word that comes to this man's mind.
  21. Gangs of New York
    Unfortunately, it lacks emotional lift or folkloric fervor.
  22. Spider
    Spider as a character is a fantasizing detective, but the movie is no Singing Detective (the high-water mark of the sub-genre). This film rarely rises above a murmur.
  23. Antwone Fisher
    A good film that, with a little extra care, could have been great.
  24. 25th Hour
    Norton is brilliant in Lee's so-so 'Hour.'
  25. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    The result is harrowing and inspiring. As escapist entertainment, it's the movie of the year.
  26. Maid in Manhattan
    Unlike Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman," Lopez seems a little too comfortable in her new duds, which prevents the audience from rooting for her with passion, rather than just appreciation.
    • Baltimore Sun
  27. Evelyn
    There's way too much blarney in Evelyn.
    • Baltimore Sun
  28. About Schmidt
    Starts out as a barbed, poignant little movie and turns into an excruciating slow-motion car wreck.
  29. Star Trek: Nemesis
    Conventional wisdom has it that the best Star Trek movies are the even-numbered ones. Nemesis may keep that streak alive, but barely.
  30. Empire
    I know Empire is supposed to be a movie, but for a while, I thought I was listening to one of those talking books.
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