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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    McAvoy does his best with this subpar, heart-tugging material. At times his mix of easy charm and inner demon pulls Rory out from under the tired script, but those pesky dramatic forces keep pushing him back in for every predictable plot development.
  2. Sunset Story
    You probably won't find two more fascinating camera subjects, two livelier conversationalists or two richer, more rewarding, more engaging and inspiring companions in any movie, fiction or non-fiction, this year.
  3. Alone in the Dark
    That this bit of pustulence is based on a video game of the same name is no surprise. It explains the thin plot, characters and abundant gunplay.
  4. Hide and Seek
    Surprises with its intensity and grip.
  5. Lost Embrace
    Seems small in subject and scope, but it's large in spirit and implication.
  6. Aliens of the Deep
    All in all, it's a fascinating, kid-friendly journey.
  7. Are We There Yet?
    Won't make your day, but it won't kill it either.
  8. Head-On
    It's a brutally convincing movie about two hell-bent young Turkish-German lovers dancing on the edge of destruction in a Hamburg underworld of drugs and casual sex. Yet it's also compassionate and even tender.
  9. Assault on Precinct 13
    The movie rips and roars.
  10. Machuca
    A fine, exciting film that makes a bloody historical event live all over again by showing it through the eyes of children on the edges of the conflict.
  11. Coach Carter
    A true story, feel-good parable and a respectable, uplifting descendent of "To Sir, With Love" and "Lean On Me."
  12. Elektra
    Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.
  13. Racing Stripes
    Endearing but predictable.
  14. The Chorus
    Like all good popular entertainments, the best of it sings.
  15. Appleseed
    Whatever is lost in translation can't keep Appleseed from feeling a decade late--and its animation from looking like a relic on arrival.
  16. White Noise
    In White Noise, Hollywood and Michael Keaton try to make a decent thriller out of ghosts in the machine but come up with lousy reception and static.
  17. Sky Blue
    Sky Blue slows things down, creating a ponderous, almost languid movie-going experience.
  18. In Good Company
    Grace and Quaid imbue what could have been caricatures--with heart, intelligence and great comic timing.
  19. The Merchant of Venice
    An important, timeless and sometimes troublesome classic has been filmed successfully and at long last.
  20. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    It's a tribute to Penn's talent and guts that he manages to bring it off--even if the movie doesn't.
  21. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Bobby Long can enchant you. It's a film that feels lived in, confident despite its conventions.
  22. Fat Albert
    Seems a little lightweight, even for a kids' movie.
  23. The Woodsman
    Melodrama triumphs. But here's at least some muted applause for a fine cast and filmmakers trying to confront the real world and its shadows.
  24. Meet the Fockers
    Though it's hard not to play it, the expectations game is a dangerous one, especially for sequels. And Roach's original, just like his overexposed star, set us up good.
  25. The Phantom of the Opera
    Depending on your predilection, the movie version of The Phantom of the Opera is about as good - or as bad - as its phenomenally successful stage original.
  26. Hotel Rwanda
    Not a striking film visually. It's deliberately plain looking, focused on the appalling events with an almost documentary immediacy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In the Realms of the Unreal
    If this documentary were about a serious painter, it would be judged a travesty not unlike commercials that goose up the couple in "American Gothic" or show the Mona Lisa laughing.
  28. The Keys to the House
    Though "Keys" is not Amelio's best, it has an emotional power almost equal to anything he's done.
  29. The Aviator
    Sumptuously exciting, glowing with expertise, seething with life, gorgeously designed and thrillingly articulated.
  30. Spanglish
    Only resonates when he (Brooks) strips it all away and focuses on parent and child.
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