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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. Black Knight
    The best thing about Black Knight is when it finally says goodnight.
    • Baltimore Sun
  2. Novocaine
    Novocaine is neither funny enough to be a comedy, nor dark enough to be a true film noir. Like the drug of the title, it just kind of leaves you numb and anxious to taste the good stuff once again.
    • Baltimore Sun
  3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    All it lacks are the crucial things an inspired director could have provided: spark, soul and magic.
    • Baltimore Sun
  4. Shallow Hal
    A one-joke movie. What makes it misfire is that its one joke clashes with its one idea.
    • Baltimore Sun
  5. Heist
    As a movie, Heist is merely an amiable time-killer. But it presents a terrific argument for federalizing airport security.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The One
    The One is all sound and fury, and nothing else.
    • Baltimore Sun
  7. 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
  8. Amélie
    Akin to being force-fed sugary confections from a bottomless bowl. At first the idea seems just grand, but after a while, all you want to do is scream, "Enough!"
    • Baltimore Sun
  9. Tape
    Despite its adrenalized actors, Tape is a tired return to the roots of the American indie movement's popular surge a dozen years ago. It could have been called "sex, lies and audiotape."
  10. Domestic Disturbance
    Sttrictly movie-of-the-week stuff. And not very good stuff, at that.
    • Baltimore Sun
  11. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Isn't serious enough to fulfill its ambitions, or funny enough to compensate for its failures.
    • Baltimore Sun
  12. K-PAX
    The casting in K-PAX is canny, but the picture as a whole is a clunky mix of the canny and the would-be uncanny.
  13. Life as a House
    Life as a House mounts a brutally insensitive attack on its audience's sensitivities.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Thirteen Ghosts
    As scary Halloween movies go, Thirteen Ghosts' "Oh, please" factor is pretty darn high.
    • Baltimore Sun
  15. Bones
    Regrettably, Bones is what passes for horror these days: Throw a lot of graphic, gore-filled, darkly lit stuff on the screen, and see what sticks. Discerning moviegoers should pass on the opportunity.
    • Baltimore Sun
  16. Trembling Before G-d
    Dubowski's movie is an act of hope that the basic human needs of the gay Orthodox will someday be reconciled with their faith.
  17. Focus
    A cautionary tale that's harrowing, heartbreaking and -- especially given the times, when Americans seem all-too-ready to once again judge people as a threat solely by their appearance -- disturbingly resonant.
    • Baltimore Sun
  18. From Hell
    A visionary sort of horror movie should ponder three words: "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
    • Baltimore Sun
  19. The Last Castle
    It's a mishmash of "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "From Here to Eternity" and "The Great Escape," with everything complex and entertaining siphoned off.
  20. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Barrymore gives a performance that's nuanced, assured and captivating.
    • Baltimore Sun
  21. Waking Life
    A beautiful display of celluloid bungee-jumping.
  22. Bandits
    Levinson's quirky caper is rich with laughs.
  23. Corky Romano
    The only way sober adults will keep awake is wondering how the lead mobsters on "The Sopranos" -- who also are amateur film critics -- will rank the movie next year on HBO.
    • Baltimore Sun
  24. Iron Monkey
    Viewers impressed by the fairly standard martial-arts action of "Crouching Tiger" will really be wowed after seeing this film.
    • Baltimore Sun
  25. Mulholland Dr.
    A dizzying - sometimes frustrating - marvel of moviemaking instinct and ingenuity.
  26. My First Mister
    It's a real shame the film gets mushy at the end. The result is an all too conventional ending on a film that should have been much better.
    • Baltimore Sun
  27. Fat Girl
    Like "Anais," the only surprises Breillat has in store for us are bad ones. In the willfully perverse final act, she delivers a sadistic blow to the audience -- with a sledgehammer.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Grateful Dawg
    This is a video stroll through a family scrapbook.
    • Baltimore Sun
  29. Joy Ride
    The potential for action never lets up; you never know what's coming around the next corner.
    • Baltimore Sun
  30. Training Day
    Denzel Washington does a cocksure turn in Training Day -- That may be enough to transform a shallow picture with delusions of grandeur into a crowd-pleasing hit.
    • Baltimore Sun
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