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For 7,613 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    An exquisitely realized film; a little gem, it keeps its conflicting or varying themes of tranquility and violence, sacred and profane love, recklessness and wisdom, in almost perfect balance.
  2. The United States of Leland
    In his thoughtfully paced, well-acted film, Hoge doesn't set out to solve the "why" of Leland's ghastly crime. He's more interested in examining the reason why society needs to create and interpret a reason for horror.
  3. Jersey Girl
    Jersey Girl is an oddity, hard to dislike but impossible to buy.
  4. The Ladykillers
    Done with an enticing mixture of lacerating comedy, lush Roger Deakins cinematography, robust acting and juicy lines, the Coens' Ladykillers is often glorious fun to watch. It won't please everyone, of course.
  5. Dogville
    May be the most fascinating, richly accomplished screw-up you'll see all year. Von Trier, who has always had a talent for provocation, nails another heroine to the cross while playing his role to the hilt - a moviemaking rebel in his own dog days.
  6. Never Die Alone
    Purports to be literate film noir but comes off more like the overwritten project of a film school kid who just memorized his textbook on the style.
  7. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    It's a funny-sad portrait of fame and its junkies, and of an era and its music.
  8. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    To call this movie a dog would also be an insult to canines, so let's just say Scooby-Doo 2 is a Scooby-Don't.
  9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Always engaging, never boring. You constantly appreciate Kaufman's intelligence and Gondry's lively filmmaking.
  10. Dawn of the Dead
    Despite a big budget, lots of technical flair and a good cast headed by Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames, it's mostly a bloody mess.
  11. Intermission
    If Intermission isn't profound, it's got boisterous humor and energy, with U2's rollicking "Out of Control" leading the charge. Given the grimness of many Irish tales, Intermission represents less of a pause than a burst into a fresh direction.
  12. Bon voyage
    The story is engrossing, full of thrills and humor, the period re-creation wondrous and the pace intoxicatingly brisk. And the actors are all so good and their parts so well-written that we're engaged emotionally as well.
  13. Taking Lives
    Caruso, who showed flair in the Val Kilmer vehicle "The Salton Sea," has a penchant for the dark side. In this case, it's the plodding, predictable ZIP code of the dark side.
  14. The Gatekeeper
    Is it a political movie? Yes. A movie with strong ideas and issues? Yes. But propaganda with its heart in the right place is still propaganda, and seldom easy to watch.
  15. Distant
    A Chekhovian tale of major artistic power.
  16. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    It's a movie, and certain liberties are bound to be taken, but having Derek stop a moped-driving Brit on the street by pulling out some sort of identification and yelling, "CIA, I need your moped!" is not the way.
  17. Secret Window
    Koepp, an often ingenious writer, should have followed King's example and covered his tracks better. If he had, Secret Window might have been as good as "Stir of Echoes," and not simply a mini "Misery" and a not-quite "Shining."
  18. Spartan
    Mamet being Mamet, the story has far greater repercussions than whether the kidnap victim will be returned to safety. This is a tale of grand conspiracies, formidable forces, shadow warfare; the more that is revealed, the higher the stakes become.
  19. Knafayim Shvurot
    This young writer-director's film seems more real and more moving than many recent political dramas from the Middle East - on either side.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    True fans (i.e., the people who are most likely to buy tickets) probably know a lot of this stuff already, and they might be disappointed by the lack of drama and the brevity of 3-D racing action.
  21. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    Exceptional black dramatic comedy.
  22. Games People Play: New York
    99 minutes of excruciating "reality."
  23. Starsky & Hutch
    This is a profoundly unambitious movie, a '70s cop show spoof that aims to provoke a few giggles, and that's about it.
  24. Hidalgo
    A sometimes stirring, sometimes preposterous movie.
  25. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    This wise, clever Israeli film reintroduces the once-popular concept of film as allegory, as it follows a Christian pilgrim on his bumpy road to salvation.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    As its awkward subtitle suggests, the execution is more than a little sloppy.
  27. The Reckoning
    The notion that stories are the lies that tell the truth isn't new -- even Shakespeare knew that -- but the central conceit of "let's save lives by putting on a play" seems not only artificial, but also hollow.
  28. Club Dread
    The upside is that they're likable and play well together...The downside is that they're all still communicating roughly the same message, which lies somewhere between a wink and a nudge.
  29. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    A pelvis-gyrating, ponytail-releasing, shirt-unbuttoning good time.
  30. Twisted
    A neo-noir movie nightmare gone sadly wrong.
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