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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Interview with the Assassin
    Neil Burger's sharply conceived, inventive movie is a highly involving piece of work.
  5. 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.
  7. Ararat
    This toweringly ambitious picture confronts a brilliant director, Atom Egoyan, with a major historical event and a profound theme.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  12. 8 Mile
    Flaws and all, it really does show a star being born.
  13. The Bread, My Sweet
    Exactly the sort of personalized, non-assembly line treat some audiences are always trying, in vain, to find.
  14. 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.
  15. Femme Fatale
    The film is De Palma's tribute to film noir, to Paris and to the cinema itself.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  19. Daughter from Danang
    Brilliant documentary.
  20. I Spy
    An overblown clunker full of bad jokes, howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences.
  21. The Weight of Water
    Despite the deftness with which Bigelow handles the transitions, the modern story never attains the intrigue and tension of the period tale.
  22. Roger Dodger
    Revives the art of smart, scathing movie conversation as it skewers Manhattan's singles scene while providing a goodly number of laughs. Like its subject, the movie may have its prickly moments, but it's awfully fun to watch.
  23. Waking Up in Reno
    Its jokes aren't funny. Its sloppy direction comes courtesy of Jordan Brady, who made "The Third Wheel," another reportedly failed comedy gathering cobwebs at Miramax.
  24. The Truth About Charlie
    Demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his "Charade" remake, but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh.
  25. Frida
    The film seems a mad mix of staid PBS bio-drama, flamboyant musical comedy and surreal cartoon nightmare.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Bank
    Like the film itself, Jim Doyle is smart enough to be engaging and lovely to look at, but he's too one-dimensional to be satisfying.
  27. Paid in Full
    It's good, hard-edged stuff, violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done, morally alert and street-smart.
  28. All or Nothing
    The acting in All or Nothing is superb. Everyone creates a character we can immediately register and recognize as true.
  29. All the Queen's Men
    The British intelligence operation at Bletchley Park that cracked the Enigma code is truly the stuff of great drama. But that story doesn't offer Matt LeBlanc in a wig and heels.
  30. Ghost Ship
    An adequate horror movie for the Halloween season, but it too easily sinks into haunted-house-film conventions, even if the haunted house is decked out as an Italian luxury liner.
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