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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. Gigli
    Put together enough pointless, random details, and you get Gigli, a movie that's less incompetent than bewildering.
  2. Buffalo Soldiers
    A well-told story. It pits a compelling central character against a formidable adversary in an intriguing setting while keeping you riveted to the cat-and-mouse strategizing, surprise turns and a few moments of actual warmth.
  3. Mondays in the Sun
    The tired and washed-out Spanish town is a fitting backdrop for these men - a place where life moves on around them at an uninspiring pace.
  4. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    The filmmaker's imagination is too rich for Spy Kids 3-D to be written off as a failure. But it's too bad that while the visuals have gained a dimension, the story has lost one.
  5. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times ridiculous, at least has a modicum of logic at its core. I still had to slap myself to stay awake.
  6. Seabiscuit
    A grand ride. Sleek, beautiful and packed with emotion, not too flashy but full of heart, this is a movie worthy of its unlikely yet glorious subject: Depression-era America's best-loved racehorse and the two races that made him a legend.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lucía, Lucía
    What a vivacious-looking, tartly-scored bore of a movie.
  8. Camp
    Does have heart and enthusiasm. But it might have worked better if it had been glitzed up and energized the way "Fame" was. It's not a script that can survive this kind of minimal, earnest, self-congratulatory treatment.
  9. Hotel
    Hotel might be best described as the art-house version of "Cannonball Run."
  10. Masked and Anonymous
    "Masked" is erratic and volatile, too, from scene to scene, moment to moment. The script is chaotic, but the top-flight actors play their hearts out.
  11. Dirty Pretty Things
    It's an exciting but brainy, cross-cultural thriller about modern London and life in a contemporary urban pressure cooker, and it depends more on plot, character and atmosphere than it does on chases and gunfire.
  12. Garage Days
    A lively little Australian rock movie hamstrung and sunk by one of the least successful story ideas I've seen recently.
  13. The Embalmer
    The movie, a keen look at the way passion unravels and obsession destroys, creates a black mood, a sense of truth and an enduring chill that stay with you.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Deal
    This is a movie whose title promises to show teenage viewers how to cope with the messed-up, grown-up world they are entering, not how to make it perfect -- or even how to make sense of it.
  15. Bad Boys II
    The kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name, even though, strangely enough, it's better than the 1995 hit that spawned it.
  16. This Thing of Ours
    The younger Provenzano, while under indictment for racketeering and tax evasion, made his contribution to our mob lesson by writing, directing and starring in This Thing of Ours, another installment in the long line of bada-bings and fuggetabouits.
  17. The Sea Is Watching
    The movie, done in a classic measured style, finally moves you almost as much as if it had stayed in Kurosawa's hands. Filled with love and melancholy, it's a fitting, fond epilogue to the "sensei" (the master).
  18. September 11
    An often brilliant, always revelatory, deeply interesting omnibus film.
  19. Johnny English
    An old-fashioned comedy. And in this case, "old-fashioned" means tired, out of date and so abominably blah that you'll fall asleep in your popcorn.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    If only they had allowed their characters to develop naturally after those first mismatched meetings, Km. 0 might have ventured into more intriguing territory.
  21. The Cuckoo
    It's an unabashed pacifist movie that really works, emotionally and dramatically.
  22. The Holy Land
    Gorlin's fiction, based loosely on his own life, must be better than that of "Frontline." And it's not.
  23. I Capture the Castle
    Smith's story is a charmer: touching, funny, romantic, perceptive, absorbing and full of color and character. And the movie, which has been respectfully and affectionately handled by people who obviously love their source, captures most of those qualities.
  24. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Outrageously vapid and overdone movie.
  25. Northfork
    It's a film that is mystifying and haunting -- a cool, brotherly vision of the last day and the coming flood, of American dreams and the vanishing frontier.
  26. A Housekeeper
    Whatever the final message of The Housekeeper, its love story engages both the heart and the head.
  27. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    At least the movie Pirates of the Caribbean is fun -- but only as long as you don't expect much. Take it from me: The ride is better.
  28. Tattoo
    While Tattoo borrows heavily from both "Seven" and "The Silence of the Lambs," it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in.
  29. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Neither sinful nor particularly bad, the movie nonetheless diverts us when it should transport us. Its heroes' hearts may lie out at sea, but its soul never leaves dry land.
  30. Swimming Pool
    Immersed here in both the fair, dreamy air and chilly, deeper waters, Rampling and Sagnier make Swimming Pool a fine sunlit noir, oozing sensuality and menace.
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