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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. The One
    The problem in The One isn't the black holes in the universe, to which the characters refer at periodic intervals, but the black hole on the screen. The One is a zero.
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  2. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Lacks the requisite sense of dread.
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  3. On the Line
    In the end, it's much ado about not very much, certainly not enough to catapult Bass into a film career, but probably enough to satisfy 'N Sync fans.
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  4. K-PAX
    It would be gratifying to report that there's a lot more to K-Pax than Spacey at the top of his form, but there isn't.
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  5. Life as a House
    This one is nearly as bad as it gets, suggesting that all the wrong people were wielding the sledgehammers here.
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  6. Better Than Sex
    There are many things that Better Than Sex is better than, although sex is not among them. It is better than a root canal, an IRS audit, or a rained-out ballgame.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Thirteen Ghosts
    A formulaic script, a tired plot -- and uninspired dialogue all point up the real star. It's the house,
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  8. Donnie Darko
    The debut feature from 26-year-old director Richard Kelly shows plenty of promise, but it's somewhat self-involved and won't appeal to audiences who like a straightforward -- even if fantastical -- narrative.
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  9. Bones
    You'll laugh at Bones a lot more often than you'll be scared by it, assuming you'll be scared at all.
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  10. Trembling Before G-d
    Examines this dilemma with compassion and sensitivity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cool and Crazy
    Jensen's charming film, is perhaps one of the first in which the actors are credited not by the size of their salaries and egos, but by their vocal ranges.
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  12. Focus
    Seems embalmed in its own time, an earnest and handsomely crafted museum piece, not an urgent transposition of Miller's moral outrage to the new century.
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  13. Riding in Cars with Boys
    As a flawed but lovably lionhearted woman, Barrymore triumphantly comes of age as an actress.
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  14. Intimacy
    Sometimes gets bogged down in its own wordiness.
  15. The Last Castle
    The kind of movie you can enjoy easily enough, as long as you don't think about it much.
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  16. From Hell
    What the Hughes brothers have come up with is, to borrow another phrase from that bygone age, a penny dreadful.
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  17. Burnt Money
    Hopped up on standard action riffs, most of the film feels like hand-me-downs purchased from the John Woo outlet.
  18. Waking Life
    Intriguing, arresting, delightfully refusing to be pigeonholed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    Juxtaposes slice-of-life tales with hints of worldly conflict to delightfully comic effect.
  20. My First Mister
    Risks seeming too earnestly therapeutic for its own good. But what makes My First Mister a successful feature directing debut for Lahti is the emotional veracity it summons.
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  21. Iron Monkey
    They're as special as special effects get.
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  22. Corky Romano
    The most dumbed-down mob comedy in years. It's the kind of movie you tie around the ankles of a stiff you're tossing into deep water and never want to see again.
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  23. Bandits
    Isn't awful, but neither is it the tangy entertainment it could have been.
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  24. Mulholland Dr.
    It's flawed, but it's also rich. And how many films make you feel that you and the filmmaker are following the course of a dream?
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  25. Fat Girl
    Uncompromising and unforgiving, but ultimately more self-destructive than any of its characters.
  26. Grateful Dawg
    The pure joy of music-making is what this gem of a film is all about.
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  27. Joy Ride
    It's a snazzy, smartly made, and even hip little scarefest. As a jump-start to Halloween, it's all you could hope for.
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  28. Serendipity
    Serendipity returns us, if only for a couple of hours, to the Manhattan of our dreams.
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  29. Training Day
    Even when it falls back excessively on coincidence and contrived set pieces, even when it gushes irretrievably over the top in its final act, Washington makes Training Day sizzle.
  30. La Ciénaga
    The triumph of La Cienaga lies in Martel's way of fashioning the kind of ensemble performance that draws us in by convincing us we're watching behavior, not acting.
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