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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 Pledge
    A rare thriller - and a rare American film - that centers on both dramatic and moral issues, crises of conscience. And thanks to a superb central performance by Nicholson as detective Black, it's a film that compels, thrills and ends up coming very close to tragedy.
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  2. The Amati Girls
    All the obligatory plot elements are there. Love and loss, anger and forgiveness, illness and death. But they never flow together to make a coherent story. Instead, they just pop up whenever the script is in trouble. Which is all the time.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Snatch.
    The abundance of visual and verbal wit here ensures that the pleasure of watching Snatch need not be guilty.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Panic
    Graced by bleak, stylized direction and an insightful ending that suggests that nothing ever really ends, this first feature film by "Northern Exposure" and "Homicide" writer and producer Bromell is a promising debut.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Double Take
    We've since seen plenty of self-satisfied smart alecks, and Freddy, as written and played, brings nothing new to the party.
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Save the Last Dance
    Sure, you've seen some of these moves before, but Save the Last Dance triumphantly passes the audition.
  7. Antitrust
    A big techno-dud.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. The Claim
    I liked The Claim -- as much for its stark visual beauty and impassioned performances as its intelligent script and willingness to probe the tragic side of life.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Chunhyangdyun
    A spectacular, engrossing, big-hearted film based on one of Korea's great national epics and made by that country's top filmmaker.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Shadow of the Vampire
    His (Dafoe's) re-creation of Schreck is an Oscar-level performance, but more than that, it's an unforgettable one: great, scary, horrifically funny.
  11. Traffic
    It's a thriller that really thrills, a drama that really engages, a portrait of a world and system out of joint that is painfully convincing and totally engrossing from the first simmering minute to the last explosive second.
  12. Malèna
    No period of Italian history has produced more great movies than the WWII years . But, Malena romanticizes and even sentimentalizes those years.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Thirteen Days
    Even though the actors are good, their characters stay stock.
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. All the Pretty Horses
    Thornton and his excellent company summon up for us the long rides, dangerous companions, rites of passage, the mad love and, most of all, the special relationship between the man/boys that rode over the border and the horses that carried them there.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. An Everlasting Piece
    The movie isn't quite spry, warm or hip enough to carry out its very ambitious serio-comic agenda. Even for an ace like Levinson, Belfast is a long way from Baltimore.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Before Night Falls
    This is an art film in the true sense of the term, engaging the mind, senses and emotions in a way that only movies at their best can do.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The House of Mirth
    What the movie occasionally lacks is dramatic juice. A reader of the novel will have a greater sense of the obstacles keeping Lily and Lawrence apart than fresh viewers of the movie will.
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Cast Away
    An adventure movie of extraordinary simplicity and power.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A wildly original movie with astonishingly varied moods and influences.
  20. Dracula 2000
    By making concessions for a possible sequel, Dracula 2000 wilts when compared in the light with other Dracula films.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. The Family Man
    I didn't believe it, and I don't think the people who made The Family Man did either.
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    A flashy, splashy and violent chase thriller.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    State and Main
    Mamet's movie has its moments of wit and warmth, but here he's mostly behind, not ahead of, the curve.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Finding Forrester
    It's rare to see a movie that takes such joy in the power of words, not to create lofty works of art but to effect the simple, necessary translation of what's in one's heart and mind.
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. The Gift
    For all its craft and achievement, The Gift -- which has a script that may have needed more rewriting and deepening -- is a good, minor effort; it has some real conviction, even anguish. And it has Blanchett, whose gift as an actress is sometimes transcendent.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What Women Want
    Delivers on the promise of its playful premise, thanks to some sly gender role reversals and Gibson's willingness to play along.
  27. The Visit
    The very strong performances in this low-budget film deserve a better narrative structure to strut their stuff.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. Pollock
    Harris and Harden have real on-screen sympatico, in their nasty battles and good times alike.
  29. The Emperor's New Groove
    A bright and zippy, but alarmingly over-campy and lighter-than-fluff cartoon feature.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Chocolat
    It's tantalizing, delectable and randy, a movie of melting eroticism and toothsome humor.
    • Chicago Tribune
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