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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. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Monster's Ball
    A serious movie made by seriously talented people, and I never quite came 'round to it.
  5. Gosford Park
    It's a scintillating comedy-drama and one of Altman's most richly moving and entertaining pictures.
  6. 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.
  7. 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?
  8. Kate & Leopold
    An oppressively cute Manhattan time-travel romantic comedy that’s lost in time, space and cliches.
  9. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    Clever and funny, with a dense surface of ideas and moods.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Joe Somebody
    If "American Beauty" were a bland comedy, it would be Joe Somebody.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Piñero
    It wisely lets us hear Pinero's words for ourselves, and in the end, they echo louder than the images that accompany them.
  22. Not Another Teen Movie
    It can't help but fall prey itself to a final deadly genre cliché: Its soundtrack outsparkles the movie.
  23. 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.
  24. Segunda piel
    The gay sex in Second Skin is vividly displayed and erotically charged, while the heterosexual material is presented discreetly.
  25. Baran
    A film that uses beautiful tableaux and convincingly raw actors to build to a climax of shatteringly understated poignancy and power.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Ocean's Eleven
    Good, expensive, easygoing fun. It's no masterpiece, but why should Soderbergh -- or anybody -- get three in a row?
  29. Tuvalu
    It is filled with imposing and beautiful imagery, though it becomes increasingly monotonous.
  30. 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
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