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For 7,964 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Garden State
    A standard issue, first-movie navel-gaze whose cobwebs Braff meticulously sweeps away by directing the bejesus out of it. The photography makes loveliness out of the film's dank, hung-over atmosphere; the camerawork and editing lend the movie a luscious daydreaminess.
  2. Catwoman
    Watching [Berry] run around in that getup I felt embarrassed, the way I do for people who put on makeup before climbing a StairMaster -- it's too much.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
    The director's cut has been getting a much warmer critical reception than the original release, but not necessarily because it's significantly better.
  4. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    The ideas are generous and inclusive rather than divisive: Zinn wants history to be seen and to be experienced from every possible perspective.
  5. A Home at the End of the World
    Bobby marks a turning point for Colin Farrell, whose vulgarities and inelegance tend to get the better of his range.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    If there's a larger theme in Zatoichi, it's that nobody is quite who he or she seems.
  7. Ju-on: The Grudge
    Gets on your nerves.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bourne Supremacy
    The way Greengrass lets you feel the violence is impressive. Most movie heroes punch through armies without scraping their knuckles, but Bourne's a believable wreck by midpoint.
  9. Zhou Yu de huo che
    These are not the marks of true cinema; they're the makings of a droopy karaoke video.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Cinderella Story
    Deeply, proudly average..."Mean Girls" it's not; a plastic butter knife has more edge. But sometimes it's nice to know your kids won't cut their fingers.
  11. Maria Full of Grace
    Has a power that doesn't announce itself until it's over: You leave not wanting to give up on life, just resentful of the world we live in.
  12. Touch of Pink
    An hour and a half of cultural and sexual headaches only barely leavened by MacLachlan's performance.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I, Robot
    A stylish, watchable, very familiar future-cop action thriller. What was once original is now almost completely derivative.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Door in the Floor
    A stunningly well-acted drama for grown-ups.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    If you've seen the Beatles documentary "Let It Be," you know what four men who are heartily sick of one another look like, and in 2001, Metallica had been recording twice as long as the Fab Four.
  16. The Inheritance
    The actors give it their best, Thomsen and Werlinder in particular.
  17. Sleepover
    As an up-to-the-minute representation of the specifics of the teen universe, Sleepover lacks authenticity.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Sloppy, crude, pursuing the most far-flung tangents in hopes of a laugh, Anchorman still gave me more stupid giggles than I'd care to admit.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Riding Giants
    Giants has SO many insistent high points, in fact, that its breathlessness threatens to turn monotonous.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Arthur
    King Arthur does to this legend what "Troy" did to Homer, with one important difference: It's a better movie.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    ''Bonjour" is especially lucky in having Shlomi Bar-Dayan, the 16-year-old misfit of the title, played by a young actor named Oshri Cohen, who's able to convey the impossibility of ever making sense of the world with a single bruised gaze.
  22. America's Heart and Soul
    Schwartzberg does stumble upon some pretty fascinating people.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Clearing
    An opaque kidnapping drama that features three expertly crafted performances operating on three different planets.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Before Sunset
    That rose in the desert, a sequel that improves in every way upon its beloved predecessor and a romance that slowly builds a fire from embers thought dead.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    De-Lovely
    Turns out to be thoughtful, creative, and generally worthy of its subject, with sins that are more of ambition and miscalculation than of execution.
  26. Spider-Man 2
    Raimi seems more comfortable being his outlandishly jokey, B-movie self, letting entire sequences play on the line between carefree schlock and Hollywood blockbusting.
  27. The Notebook
    Considering the sunny, relatively pleasurable romantic business that precedes it, the elderly stuff seems dark, morbid, and forced upon us.
  28. Kaena: The Prophecy
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time of the Wolf
    Haneke has become known as a dour modern master of cinematic pain, and in this movie he scrubs civilization down to the root level.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Two Brothers
    Honors the power and beauty of these beasts even as it underscores the cultured savagery of the men who are crowding them out.
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