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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. Slackers
    Not only is Slackers painfully bad, but it's also about as morally unpleasant as a teen sex comedy can be.
  2. Domestic Violence
    Be forewarned: The movie lasts three hours and 16 minutes, and nearly all of it deals with subjects that polite society (and even rude society) tends to ignore or evade.
  3. Storytelling
    Almost as uncompromising, and sometimes as funny, as "Dollhouse" or "Happiness."
  4. Maelstrom
    Another of those excellent foreign films that sometimes slip though cracks, considered too strange or eccentric for domestic tastes. Strange it is, but delightfully so
  5. The Son's Room
    Moretti gives us something different but very important. He shows us how life goes on.
  6. The Count of Monte Cristo
    This seems to be a movie made by people who love the old classic movie swashbucklers but don't have a clue how to make or modernize them.
  7. The Mothman Prophecies
    A gaudy yet grim science-fiction horror movie of such surpassing silliness, humorless intensity and stylistic overkill that watching it may actually put you in a state of paranoia.
  8. Metropolis
    Here is a film of staggering technical and visual virtuosity, filled with utterly amazing images, that's also entertaining and engaging for children and adults on several levels.
  9. Escaflowne: The Movie
    Plenty of dramatic action, stunning imagery and an operatic score add weight to Escaflowne. It may not appeal to fans of traditional animation.
  10. A Walk to Remember
    Good performances in bad movies are nothing new, but it's sad that Moore's first major cinematic outing scrapes the bottom of the melodramatic barrel.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Beyond the Ocean
    Never quite measures up to Pemberton's reach, but there remains enough to be excited about to wonder what will follow this imperfectly made though valuable work.
  12. Ha-Hesder
    Hobbled with pedestrian direction, a dull visual style and a last act awash in obvious bang-bang melodrama.
  13. Italian for Beginners
    This is a movie that doesn't depend for its effects on star performers or stylized wish-fulfillment sexuality but on realism, sharp observation and honest humor.
  14. Snow Dogs
    Amiable Gooding still smiles through it all, weathering the cold, physical abuse and implied racism, doing his best to make his audience believe that Snow Dogs isn't offensive mush. But he can't bring it off.
  15. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    Avoid it if you object to seeing people devoured by wolves, but see it if you want to howl at the moon.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Orange County
    Black delivers the best line (“Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?”), and Lithgow scores a giggle for calling his ex-wife “coyote ugly” to her face, but neither of them can disguise this lemon.
  17. Impostor
    It's a Hitchockian "wrong man" story, but there's a twist.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    I know of no documentary on a contemporary artist that conveys so much about the artist's work so lyrically and directly.
  19. Black Hawk Down
    It's one of the most ferociously convincing physical re-creations of warfare ever put on screen.
  20. Charlotte Gray
    This is a movie that, for all its often high intelligence and skill, seems emotionally underdone, bogged down in tony literary and cinematic cliches.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. I Am Sam
    The role sounds like a sentimental trap, but Penn doesn't fall into it. It's a sensational performance, and he illumines a movie that sometimes seems in danger of descending into modish Hollywood political correctness.
  22. Dark Blue World
    The film mixes unashamed kitsch, thrilling airfight scenes and dark historical drama. But what gives it a special charge is its portrait of the Czech RAF group: what happened to them before, during and after the war.
  23. Monster's Ball
    A serious movie made by seriously talented people, and I never quite came 'round to it.
  24. Gosford Park
    It's a scintillating comedy-drama and one of Altman's most richly moving and entertaining pictures.
  25. Ali
    We've seen Ali as the charismatic star of the real-time drama of his life. "Ali," for all its flashy filmmaking, just doesn't compare.
  26. The Shipping News
    Beside its major virtues, it contains a vice: that one flat lead performance. Who would have thought Kevin Spacey would ever go dull on us?
  27. Kate & Leopold
    An oppressively cute Manhattan time-travel romantic comedy that’s lost in time, space and cliches.
  28. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    Clever and funny, with a dense surface of ideas and moods.
  29. A Song for Martin
    Viveka Seldahl and Sven Wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget.
  30. A Beautiful Mind
    Though the role might seem a real stretch for an actor who just won an Oscar for his Charlton Heston turn as Maximus in "Gladiator," he and the movie ace the test.
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