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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 Mothman Prophecies
    The movie goes after our dreams by dragging them through our Sept. 11 nightmares with an apocalyptic finale so ludicrous, overedited, and from out of nowhere that it's hard to follow, let alone to believe it's happening.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Metropolis
    Poetic, surreal, and curiously powerful.
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  3. Storytelling
    Cleverly mocks the modern chronicler, raising questions that linger long after the film is finished.
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  4. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Wolpert and Reynolds seem to be aiming for the ''Titantic'' audience at the expense of sophistication and historical relevance. It's too bad. The able cast, not to mention Alexandre Dumas, deserves better.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beijing Bicycle
    Hard, gleaming images and an oblique storytelling style come to Wang the way the bike comes to Jian -- secondhand.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Walk to Remember
    A movie where the miracles -- and treacly moments -- keep topping each other.
  7. Ha-Hesder
    Time of Favor, which boasts a haunting score, is an unflinching, complex portrait of a modern Israel that is rarely seen on-screen.
  8. Italian for Beginners
    It's the kind of romantic comedy that doesn't cheapen the word ''heartwarming.''
  9. Snow Dogs
    Harmless, if witless, stuff for the kids.
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  10. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    A zestful genre outing, and then some, right up its final overkill.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    May bring Goldsworthy's art closer than anything else to ''permanence'' in any traditional sense.
  12. Charlotte Gray
    Rarely has a movie that looked so good on paper fallen so flat as the aptly named Charlotte Gray. It's not a bad movie. Bad movies have more flavor.
  13. I Am Sam
    Ham-handedly manipulative film.
  14. Dark Blue World
    A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship.
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  15. Black Hawk Down
    Character is almost wholly subordinated to a blast-furnace rendering of the hell into which they're dumped. Seldom will you see so many US military body parts strewn around a movie screen.
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  16. Gosford Park
    Never has a film taken such relish in between-the-wars malice as Gosford Park.
  17. Monster's Ball
    The kind of film that could easily be undone by its own high-minded ambitions and dissolve in a pall of uplift. But it stays the course and gives the season two of its notable performances.
  18. The Shipping News
    The Shipping News is good news, but not as good as it could have been.
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  19. Ali
    Ali, in short, is far from a seamless success, but it does get the big things right and it respects a subject who commands respect.
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  20. The Majestic
    A sweet, visually handsome sermon, but it's too dramatically bland to convert even the converted.
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  21. Kate & Leopold
    It's a charmer.
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  22. A Beautiful Mind
    The film makes more apparent than ever that Howard is quite underrated as a filmmaker, possibly because he's been hidden in full view in the mainstream for so long.
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  23. How High
    The biggest problem, ironically, is that even though the plot and the action center on smoking pot, it's not enough of a stoner flick. The concept of getting stoned isn't amusing; watching stoned people is.
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  24. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    Mixes ''Jetsons''-style futuristic hijinks with a reliable story of a boy inadvertently whisked ''over the rainbow'' to another galaxy where his mettle is tested.
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  25. Joe Somebody
    The cop-out is mitigated by Allen's ability to impart a comfortable, lived-in quality to his roles, this one included.
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  26. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    Not since the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy has film dipped into myth and emerged with the kind of weight and heft seen in Peter Jackson's first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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  27. Kandahar
    A bleak road movie that often ambles. But its many moments of poetic grace make this haunting and harrowing journey a rewarding one.
  28. Lantana
    Haunting, powerfully acted, penetratingly written, it's about people coming home -- and not coming home -- to their marriages.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Not Another Teen Movie
    A clever satire that's layered like a breakfast club sandwich with sly in-jokes, sight gags, gross-out scenes, and, of course, requisite bathroom humor.
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  30. The Royal Tenenbaums
    There are laughs in it. But mostly you sit around waiting for it to be funnier, or at least funny more often. The problem is that it hasn't figured out a way to be funny while satisfyingly accommodating the pain in these characters.
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