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For 7,599 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 1.5 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. De-Lovely
    Kline, though, does give one of the great movie performances of the year so far.
  2. Before Sunset
    This is a romance with minimal physical contact and sex--and that's part of what makes it work so well as a love story.
  3. The Clearing
    Just an OK thriller, full of standard scenarios and cookie-cutter characters.
  4. Spider-Man 2
    Until it develops a bad case of verbosity toward the end, it improves upon its predecessor in almost every way, delivering flashier thrills while digging deeper into its characters and adding an overlay of wit.
  5. The Notebook
    May be corny, but it's also absorbing, sweet and powerfully acted. It's a film about falling in love and looking back on it, and it avoids many of the genre's syrupy dangers.
  6. Two Brothers
    There's something simple yet miraculous about watching these beautiful animals interact with the wild and each other, even if their actions are being manipulated for the sake of drama. Annaud has taken his film's message to heart: He knows when to get out of nature's way.
  7. White Chicks
    Some film premises are so outlandish, so thinly worked out and so deep-down ridiculous that they wind up sinking the show -- and White Chicks collapses under a real doozy.
  8. Fahrenheit 9/11
    This movie, the subject of controversy, is a defiantly personal statement on what the war really is--laced with that now-familiar "Roger and Me" mix of homespun wit, pop culture playfulness, populist heart twisting and "gotcha" guerilla film-making tactics.
  9. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Stiller, a DodgeBall producer, is revealing an unfortunate craving for the cheese of his childhood.
  10. The Terminal
    The movie is a delight in many ways: an unabashed romantic comedy and Capraesque fable that takes Spielberg into realms he's rarely traveled before.
  11. The Hunting of the President
    Although the film presents plenty of compelling material, it suffers from the same weakness of "Fahrenheit 9/11": an utter lack of dot connection.
  12. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    What the Bleep Do We Know? is both modern science for dummies and a feisty extension of our ongoing religious debate.
  13. Facing Windows
    Ozpetek brings a straight love story and world politics into the mix, but it's his brilliant cast which completes the connection.
  14. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    It's not revolutionary filmmaking. But Seducing Doctor Lewis sails by on charm and confident character acting, even if it's navigating well-charted waters.
  15. Around the World in 80 Days
    Brightly colored, spiffily designed and easy to sit through in a harmless Disney sort of way, but the comedy never accumulates any momentum.
  16. The Chronicles of Riddick
    Despite being positioned as a mold-breaker, Riddick now blends in with a sizable crowd of reluctant loner cinematic heroes, just as the movie fails to convince that it's going where no movie has gone before.
  17. The Stepford Wives
    Trying to be more antic and cuttingly funny, it misses the premise's shivery tension. The story loses us at precisely the moment it should put us in the vise.
  18. Napoleon Dynamite
    It's fairly entertaining--but not the second coming of indie comedy some notices might lead you to expect.
  19. Garfield
    The cinematic Garfield: The Movie feels like an 82-minute commercial for Garfield, The Brand rather than cinematic dumb fun.
  20. Imelda
    When a filmmaker can get Imelda Marcos, once one of the 10 richest women in the world, to pull out a Sharpie and draw a Pac-Man, she's alright by me.
  21. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    With Cuaron leading the way, Harry has burst from the printed page to soar on-screen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The film is really just a documentary about nomads masquerading as a feature about camels. Which is why it's okay to be distracted by the details, and perhaps why its subtext--about the younger generation's real and inevitable loss to modernity--is more effective than the storyline about the camel.
  23. The Corporation
    It's good stuff: a non-fiction film on weighty issues that also manages to entertain.
  24. Deadline
    A prime example of advocacy journalism--a form often criticized but perfectly honorable. Most importantly, it gives you a chance to ruminate on some crucial questions of human error, justice and life-and-death.
  25. The Day After Tomorrow
    This often entertaining movie mixes grand, epic effects and amazing visualizations of catastrophe with a sappy family-in-crisis plot that would look hackneyed in a '60s Disney TV movie.
  26. Soul Plane
    Let's make this simple: If you spend money on Soul Plane, you've been played.
  27. Baadasssss!
    Overall, Baadasssss! succeeds marvelously at evoking the passion and frantic energy behind "Sweetback" and putting it all in the context of its politically charged era.
  28. Bukowski: Born into This
    Raw and defining documentary about the man--and the myth.
  29. The Mother
    Self-absorption is the vice of all these characters. That, not sex, is their sin--and Michell, Kureishi and their fine cast show this with a lucidity that cuts to the bone, a candor that draws blood.
  30. Saved!
    After bravely lampooning an institution so many consider beyond reproach, Saved! chickens out, imparting its most direct and lasting message in its disappointing conclusion: Don't Offend. Amen.
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