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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. Sweet November
    Nice to look at but too calculated and clichéd to resonate beyond its surface slickness.
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  2. Journey to the Sun
    Though the final journey drags at times, the early expository scenes in the shadows of Saint Sophia and assorted mosques are impressive and quite moving.
  3. Saving Silverman
    The movie drags down everyone involved, regardless of their apparent talent.
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  4. Hannibal
    Hannibal, riding the malicious wit of Hopkins' sophisticated fiend, is a gorgeous, wild, sometimes sick thriller, a feast for enraptured eyes and strong stomachs.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. The Taste of Others
    The storytelling is episodic, and the film takes a little while to get going, but it hits its stride.
  6. In the Mood for Love
    Shimmers and glows. But it also stings a little -- like the lovely flame that dies and the smoke that, in yet another Cole song, gets in your eyes.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The Invisible Circus
    When a movie is structured around the unveiling of secrets, you ought to care what the answers are. But writer-director Adam Brooks (Almost You), never offers any compelling reason to do so.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Nico and Dani
    While Nico and Dani presents itself as a no-frills coming-of-age tale, its soundtrack seems lifted from a teen comedy like "American Pie."
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Head Over Heels
    This otherwise predictable romantic comedy does have several genuinely funny scenes, thanks to Monica Potter's comic delivery and charm.
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  10. Trolösa
    82-year-old Ingmar Bergman takes one of the most painful, shameful episodes of his own life and, writing for director Liv Ullmann, transmutes it into magical, brilliant artistry.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. The Wedding Planner
    Stumbles from cliche to cliche:
  12. 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.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. 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
  14. Snatch.
    The abundance of visual and verbal wit here ensures that the pleasure of watching Snatch need not be guilty.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Save the Last Dance
    Sure, you've seen some of these moves before, but Save the Last Dance triumphantly passes the audition.
  18. Antitrust
    A big techno-dud.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. Thirteen Days
    Even though the actors are good, their characters stay stock.
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  29. Cast Away
    An adventure movie of extraordinary simplicity and power.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A wildly original movie with astonishingly varied moods and influences.
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