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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. 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.
  2. Texas Rangers
    I can only hope that this film was a lot of fun to make. That way, someone will have enjoyed the experience.
  3. Behind Enemy Lines
    A pumped-up, flag-waving, outrageously hokey and ridiculous -- but sometimes incredibly exciting -- war movie.
  4. 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.
  5. The Independent
    May be the only movie in recent memory unworthy of its own genuinely hilarious Web site, www.finemanfilms.com.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Così ridevano
    This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.
  10. 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.
  11. Black Knight
    But in the end everything comes down to Lawrence, who has yet to develop a truly distinct comedic sensibility.
  12. Out Cold
    This sophomoric little gimmick picture -- although at times, serving as no more than a showcase for daredevil snowboarding -- provides enough powder power to keep the audience laughing, even over the rocky parts.
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  13. The Devil's Backbone
    Fine ensemble performances and a tight balance of the supernatural against the historical make The Devil's Backbone a well-crafted, white-knuckled cinematic journey.
  14. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    Too full of worship and the culture of celebrity to ever pose the questions that should be asked.
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  15. Novocaine
    The absurd meets the violent meets the droll, and we just watch from the outside, never having been drawn in by anything resembling believable feelings or behavior.
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  16. Bombay Eunuch
    A short film with a unique subject matter. But you won't soon forget its people, its places or its sad, surprising revelations about all the sexes.
  17. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Does it immerse the uninitiated into a new, fabulous world? Yes. To the book's many readers, does this feel like the real "Harry Potter"? For the most part, yes.
  18. Shallow Hal
    So intent on driving home its worthy if not mind-blowing message that it becomes surprisingly conventional.
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  19. Heist
    Mamet takes exactly those qualities that we most prize in genre movies -- characters, cleverness and high style -- and refines them to a high shine.
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  20. Everything Put Together
    Takes a couple of curious turns that you will either applaud or hiss at, depending on the type of film you are looking for.
  21. Happenstance
    The movie is funny, but it's also touching and poetic -- and Bertin's scenes are devastating.
  22. Monsters, Inc.
    The climax, featuring what's essentially a suspended roller coaster of closet doors, is as thrilling as it is imaginative.
  23. Amélie
    This is the Paris -- and the mad, beautiful young Parisienne -- we look for in dreams.
  24. Tape
    Tape may not be a great movie, but it's a great demonstration of creativity within severe limitations.
  25. Domestic Disturbance
    There's almost no reason to see the movie, unless you have no qualms about wasting your time.
  26. The One
    Hits the ground running and never lets up.
  27. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Like all the Coens' movies, "Man" is supremely self-aware and darkly, hellishly funny. It's also brilliantly written and acted to a fare-thee-well by an outrageously good cast.
  28. K-PAX
    The images are lustrous, the cutting is brisk and the acting of the two leads is right on the money.
  29. The Town Is Quiet
    The movie may not be as toxic and ultimately hopeless as Todd Solondz's "Happiness," but it also fails to find humor, dark or light, in anything.
  30. Life as a House
    This movie lets you feel something. Like George's house, if not his life, it's built well and full of heart.
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