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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. Equilibrium
    Not a picture that makes you think very much -- except to wonder why the studios keep making movies like this.
  2. Empire
    While Reyes seeks his own ambitious style, he can't quite step out from under De Palma's shadow and thematic choices. Everything from the voiceover narration to the final frame in Empire looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of "Scarface" or "Carlito's Way."
  3. Russian Ark
    Extraordinary film, one that, like the museum itself, captures and shows three centuries of Russian culture and history in all its beauty, confusion, terror and majesty.
  4. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Characters are so well-drawn, so human - that even in the harsh light of history - it remains difficult to understand how Australia allowed such inhumanity to become institutional, mechanized and accepted.
  5. Eight Crazy Nights
    Its humor stems precisely from our enjoying its lead character's rotten behavior.
  6. Solaris
    Solaris, an exploration of outer space and inner anguish, reminds us that science fiction can embrace adult ideas and human drama as well as technology and futuristic action.
  7. The Emperor's Club
    It's an extraordinary performance in an often brave and intelligent film that, unfortunately, tends to collapse around him in the end -- just as the world of Kline's character, tweedy but likable William Hundert, deconstructs around him.
  8. Die Another Day
    You leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing. The exercise ultimately is product placement, with Bond the biggest product of them all.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Friday After Next
    Ultimately, the lazy, cynical underpinnings of Friday After Next are as visible as the film's soundtrack is obnoxious.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Phantom
    A muddy, dreamlike Portuguese offering.
  11. Talk to Her
    Great filmmakers push their ideas and characters to the limit, unafraid of consequences - which is what Pedro Almodovar has done in Talk To Her, his latest film and, I think, his best.
  12. The Quiet American
    An instant classic and a dramatic beauty, a film that gets us to the core of Greene's chilly, dark and romantic view of the post-war world.
  13. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    The movie's title refers to a comment about how people grow at their own rates. Miller's movie has its moments of impressive velocity, but it never quite takes off.
  14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    It remains an expertly assembled companion piece to its source material, with charms you can't overlook. But the great Harry Potter should be casting a more powerful spell.
  15. Interview with the Assassin
    Neil Burger's sharply conceived, inventive movie is a highly involving piece of work.
  16. The Way Home
    Director Lee has a true cinematic knack, but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly, unabashedly on its sleeve.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bánk bán
    An operatic rarity worth catching even if you don't happen to be an opera fan.
  18. Ararat
    This toweringly ambitious picture confronts a brilliant director, Atom Egoyan, with a major historical event and a profound theme.
  19. Half Past Dead
    What we get, while rarely boring, is a succession of senseless scenes bathed in formula-thriller blue light, full of blazing Uzis, exploding helicopters and sentimental male bonding.
  20. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    Gordy barely is mentioned, even though he was the artistic leader who presumably profited most from the Funk Brothers' labors. Discussing Motown solely through the prism of the musicians is like assessing Picasso's works on the basis of the paint quality.
  21. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Carrera's style is hard-hitting, lucid and technically superior (if unimaginative). El Crimen del Padre Amaro eventually moves and stirs you, even if it often resembles those steamy Mexican TV dramas/soap operas called telenovelas.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    In her (Audrey Tautou) latest film, a quest for romantic and religious fulfillment called God Is Great, I'm Not, she stretches her range to encompass one more personality trait: annoying.
  23. 8 Mile
    Flaws and all, it really does show a star being born.
  24. The Bread, My Sweet
    Exactly the sort of personalized, non-assembly line treat some audiences are always trying, in vain, to find.
  25. Far From Heaven
    There's an incongruous but ravishing beauty in Far From Heaven, and in its three excellent central performances, that counteracts the seeming kitschiness of the story.
  26. Femme Fatale
    The film is De Palma's tribute to film noir, to Paris and to the cinema itself.
  27. Treasure Planet
    Combining cutting-edge computer animation with traditional two-dimensional characters, Treasure Planet pops off the screen, reviving Stevenson's adventure with surprising accuracy.
  28. The Santa Clause 2
    No question, the new movie is amiable family entertainment, and Allen is such an affable actor that maybe kids won't begrudge him seeking romantic fulfillment in order to remain their favorite Santa.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Santa vs. the Snowman
    The movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effects, including a bustling Santa's village, nifty "Jimmy Neutron"-type gadgets and "Stars Wars"-like igloo walking robots - and, of course, the requisite heartwarming happy ending.
  30. Daughter from Danang
    Brilliant documentary.
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