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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 Majestic
    A real sentimental journey -- and luckily they've got both the right director (Darabont) and the right actor to squeeze our heartstrings.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. How High
    Like Ice Cube's "Friday," How High probably will survive as an underground classic, until it's pushed further underground and forgotten by the next disposable "cult classic" to hit video.
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    An extraordinary work, grandly conceived, brilliantly executed and wildly entertaining. It's a hobbit's dream, a wizard's delight. And, of course, it's only the beginning.
  4. Joe Somebody
    If "American Beauty" were a bland comedy, it would be Joe Somebody.
  5. Iris
    It's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings.
  6. Lantana
    More intent on engaging the heart as it explores the mysteries contained within - mysteries that, as Lawrence and his spot-on cast demonstrate, are far more compelling than simple murder.
  7. The Royal Tenenbaums
    More flat-out funny than "Rushmore," but in neither film is the humor joke-based. What you're laughing at is the behavior of characters who are so fixed in their idiosyncratic worldviews that they can't help but careen into each other like out-of-control bumper cars.
  8. Kandahar
    Watching this film wakes you up; it is a window on an Iran and an Afghanistan we should have taken account of long ago -- seen though a master's eye, felt through a poet's touch.
  9. Vanilla Sky
    Crowe's chilliest movie. In part this is by design. Like "Open Your Eyes," to which Crowe is mostly faithful, Vanilla Sky is a head trip that merges thriller, romance and science-fiction elements while playing with our notions of dreams and reality.
  10. Piñero
    It wisely lets us hear Pinero's words for ourselves, and in the end, they echo louder than the images that accompany them.
  11. Not Another Teen Movie
    It can't help but fall prey itself to a final deadly genre cliché: Its soundtrack outsparkles the movie.
  12. Behind the Sun
    When a culture offers little more than death upon death, appreciating life's everyday beauty is as good an answer as these characters -- and this filmmaker -- can provide.
  13. Segunda piel
    The gay sex in Second Skin is vividly displayed and erotically charged, while the heterosexual material is presented discreetly.
  14. Baran
    A film that uses beautiful tableaux and convincingly raw actors to build to a climax of shatteringly understated poignancy and power.
  15. Last Orders
    A movie I loved on first sight and, even more important, love in remembrance. Taken all in all, there's only one last thing to say about it. Go.
  16. No Man's Land
    In the remarkable, ferociously intelligent new film No Man's Land, Bosnian writer-director Danis Tanovic gives us a movie portrait of the Bosnian War, a conflict that has devastated his country, friends and neighbors -- and found in it both shocking humor and searing, relentless tragedy.
  17. Ocean's Eleven
    Good, expensive, easygoing fun. It's no masterpiece, but why should Soderbergh -- or anybody -- get three in a row?
  18. Tuvalu
    It is filled with imposing and beautiful imagery, though it becomes increasingly monotonous.
  19. The Business of Strangers
    This is a movie that really has little to offer but performances and ideas. For a while, that's enough.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. The Affair of the Necklace
    Rife with wrong people in major jobs, which leads to a movie that lacks the requisite verve to make to it sparkle.
  21. Texas Rangers
    I can only hope that this film was a lot of fun to make. That way, someone will have enjoyed the experience.
  22. Behind Enemy Lines
    A pumped-up, flag-waving, outrageously hokey and ridiculous -- but sometimes incredibly exciting -- war movie.
  23. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    Code Unknown is a film you think more than feel. Though each scene is executed close to flawlessly, the cumulative effect is often oppressive. But at the center of the film -- the real reason it was made -- is Binoche, one of the genuinely radiant presences in movies today.
  24. The Independent
    May be the only movie in recent memory unworthy of its own genuinely hilarious Web site, www.finemanfilms.com.
  25. Bangkok Dangerous
    Always watchable and cinematically lively, but it never quite engages the emotions -- despite torrents of sentimentality and would-be heart-tugging scenes interspersed with the carnage.
  26. In the Bedroom
    It sneaks up on you and shakes you: a tale of the cold hell surging up beneath that windy, sensuous Wyeth landscape.
  27. Sidewalks of New York
    It's by far the best cast Burns has assembled -- so much so that, unlike his other films, he doesn't come near dominating it.
  28. Così ridevano
    This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.
  29. Spy Game
    If you like Redford, Spy Game will be a real treat: a fast electric thriller full of the old Sundance charm and pizzazz.
  30. Black Knight
    But in the end everything comes down to Lawrence, who has yet to develop a truly distinct comedic sensibility.
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