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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
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  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. On the Line
    On the Line would like to be ''Serendipity'' for the Oxy-and-Skechers set, but it feels more like the worst movie Michael J. Fox never made.
  2. K-PAX
    I rather like the whole mystic- crystal-revelations aspect of K-PAX, and the idea that even a psychiatrist of Jeff Bridges' handsome, American substantiality is open to notions of cosmic improbability.
  3. Life as a House
    No worse than any disease-of-the-week TV movie, and no more moralistic than any Lifetime drama. But it's no better, either, and it ought to be.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Thirteen Ghosts
    The result is a Halloween movie in horror limbo.
  5. Ginger Snaps
    A ferocious, funny, gory, and astute Canadian horror parable.
  6. Donnie Darko
    Kelly, the 26-year-old writer-director of this excitingly original indie vision, shares more artistically with Wes Anderson or Paul Thomas Anderson than he does with Spielberg or John Hughes, but the point is, he's out on his own here. He swings big -- with flair.
  7. Bones
    Snoop invests snarling meanness with as much authority as Clint Eastwood used to. As an actor, does this Dogg know any more tricks? At this point, he may not have to.
  8. Trembling Before G-d
    While the compiled testimony is strong, some larger context is missing.
  9. Focus
    Has a topsy-turvy sense of injustice.
  10. Riding in Cars with Boys
    When Barrymore finally gets mean, the movie finally gets good. Then comes another sing-along, dammit.
  11. The Last Castle
    This is, after all, not just Robert Redford. It's Redford in the nobly burnished self-mythologic perfection of his late-middle-aged golden god-ness.
  12. From Hell
    Sensational and accomplished.
  13. Waking Life
    An amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursues the logic-defying (parallel) subjects of dreaming and moviegoing.
  14. My First Mister
    Brooks guards the movie from overheating in a surfeit of warmedy.
  15. Iron Monkey
    Gravity-defying kung fu choreography.
  16. Corky Romano
    It might be courting hyperbole to call Corky Romano the single worst movie ever to feature an ''SNL'' cast member (Dan Aykroyd hit some pretty arid valleys), but I'm willing to go out on a critical limb and rank it among the all-time bottom dozen.
  17. Bandits
    A comedy that might have made Butch and Sundance jump off a cliff.
  18. Mulholland Dr.
    Rapt and beautiful and absorbing.
  19. Fat Girl
    With the pitiless, devastating Fat Girl, Catherine Breillat puts men and women, boys and girls on notice: When fantasy, hypocrisy, and manipulation mix in a wet, sandy place, you dive into sex at your own risk.
  20. Joy Ride
    Zigzags across the conventions of genre, occasionally driving on the shoulders of black humor -- it's a road movie for the way we process suspense today.
  21. Serendipity
    Serendipity has no business working, but it does. And by the way, Eugene Levy has no business almost stealing the show, but he does, too.
  22. Training Day
    There's no denying that Washington can play a rococo villain with flip ebullience, but I fervently wish he were doing it in a movie that paid more than lip service to the real world.
  23. Max Keeble's Big Move
    Garish, squeal-pitched preteen comedy.
  24. La Ciénaga
    It sounds churlish to argue that a movie can have too much integrity for its own good, but that's exactly the problem with La Ciénaga.
  25. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    It's all very French, very intricate, and -- this is Rivette's magic -- seemingly as light as air.
  26. Hearts in Atlantis
    Too poky and contrived to be a good movie, but its lushly serene atmospherics, given current events, make it a pure slice of sentimental comfort food.
  27. Zoolander
    In theory, Zoolander is ''Pret-à-Porter'' on laughing gas. In practice, however, the movie is an ill-fitting suit of gags, too long in the crotch even at 90 minutes.
  28. Don't Say a Word
    If there's such a thing as joyless competence, it's exemplified by the grimly sensational kidnap thriller Don't Say a Word.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Extreme Days
    One quarter ''True love waits,'' three quarters ''Cowabunga!,'' all pretty clumsy.
  30. Go Tigers!
    Beautifully edited, Go Tigers! is an enthralling look at the drama that can transpire in the autumn of one small town on any given Friday.
  31. Glitter
    It's doubtful that even a real actress could have triumphed over the rusty tinsel of Glitter, a hapless, retro-'80s ''Star Is Born.''
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Glass House
    As the supporting cast gets winnowed away, though, we're left with a cat-and-mouse game between girl and murderous faux-dad that's simply boilerplate.
  33. Hard Ball
    The movie is so littered with clichés of genre, as well as clichés of artifice in Reeves' pained performance, that any semblance of social reality goes foul.
  34. Two Can Play That Game
    Along comes Two Can Play That Game to demonstrate that antifeminist silliness is color-blind.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Musketeer
    Musketeer's fight scenes are underlit, overmiked, and appallingly edited, with none of the spacious grace that even routine Asian action flicks get right. Worse, the narrative scenes make less sense.
  36. L.I.E.
    You know you're in the hands of a born filmmaker when he floods a scene with danger and excitement and, at the same time, tempers it with something more delicate -- a languor of the everyday.
  37. Soul Survivors
    The only possible reason to see this otherwise average afternoon waster is Sagemiller.
  38. Rock Star
    This movie is as packed with flashy bogusness as a lead singer's tight leather trousers. On the other hand, there's nothing bogus about the charisma and tough sweetness of Wahlberg.
  39. O
    To an astonishing degree, O gets the tragic Shakespeare mood, that somber stentorian passion born of hidden slivers of ambition and betrayal.
  40. Jeepers Creepers
    Turns into a grab-bag freak show as desperate as it is arbitrary.
  41. Tortilla Soup
    At times, the movie smacks of a standard-issue Hollywood chick flick, especially in the obligatory scene where the women bond by singing and dancing in a kitchen (to Doris Day's ''Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps'').
  42. Summer Catch
    Freddie Prinze Jr. has a look in his eye that is equal parts self-infatuation and boyish flash of fear.
  43. Together
    This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like.
  44. Ghosts of Mars
    Borderline-incoherent.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    It feels wrong; the entire machinery of the movie seems to be rotating around Woody Allen's vanity. He remains a canny (if, in this case, hollow) film craftsman, but by now we know him far too well to be asked to find him adorable.
  46. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    A hit-or-miss affair that starts out wobbly and then gathers comic momentum.
  47. Bubble Boy
    After enduring only a few minutes of this shrill debacle, you'll feel more trapped in the theater than Jimmy is by his bubble.
  48. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    It's not every comedy that can make you laugh with ridicule and cringe in empathetic horror at the same time.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    American Outlaws
    Bogusly wholesome six-gun dud.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    A movie that reduces history, as well as eros, to a postcard.
  51. Rat Race
    The easygoing silliness with which this late-summer movie surprise scuttles from mayhem to mayhem and the verve with which the cast throws itself into the fray are so cheering and liberating.
  52. American Pie 2
    Even though they're now college dudes, fulfillment for fellas is still predicated on copping a feel and downing a brewski.
  53. Session 9
    A marvel of vérité nightmare atmosphere.
  54. The Others
    The gimmicks, in the end, are too arbitrary to tie together in a memorably haunting fashion, though they do culminate in a Big Twist, a nifty one that almost -- but not quite -- makes you want to see the movie again.
  55. Osmosis Jones
    Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction.
  56. The Deep End
    Displays a promise it doesn't, in the end, live up to. See it for Swinton's embodiment of unadulterated maternal will.
  57. Original Sin
    Aspires to blasphemy but achieves only banality.
  58. Thomas in Love
    The movie, after a while, drifts into an all too literal parable of the limits of never leaving the house.
  59. The Princess Diaries
    This charming, if unnecessarily coronation-length production gets the duckling-to-swan ambivalence just right.
  60. Rush Hour 2
    Coarser, more hectic, more cheaply written sequel.
  61. Apocalypse Now Redux
    I don’t think Apocalypse Now Redux is superior to the 1979 version. Quite the contrary, it’s draggier and more portentous, more inflated with its own importance.
  62. Greenfingers
    If your allergy to comedies bred from British style mugging crossed with Disney style prancing has, like mine, flared up in recent years, this hybrid from writer director Joel Hershman (''Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me'') will make you wheeze.
  63. Planet of the Apes
    Are there surprises? A couple of big money ones, notably the ludicrous would-be jaw-dropper of a finale.
  64. Wet Hot American Summer
    The movie is so hilariously sly about something so fetishistically trivial that at times it appears to take in an entire culture through a lens made of cheese.
  65. Jackpot
    It's as self consciously arty and fragmented as ''Twin Falls'' was controlled and organically built.
  66. America's Sweethearts
    No excuse for the bitterness and crudity in America's Sweethearts -- a noxious combination that erodes the 1930s and '40s screwball-comedy armature on which this mirthless movie is based.
  67. Brother
    Critics tend to fawn over the Japanese director-star Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi), but am I the only one who finds his films impossible to make heads or tails of?
  68. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    Mitchell directs and stars in the riotous, loving, and only occasionally pathos-milking film adaptation of his own acclaimed Off Broadway play, with great up-your-ante music and lyrics by Stephen Trask.
  69. Ghost World
    A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt.
  70. Jurassic Park III
    Has no pretentions to be anything more than a goose-bumpy fantasy theme-park ride for kids, but it's such a routine ride.
  71. Made
    Little more than a rambling chain of combative buddy mishaps, but the interplay between Vaughn and Favreau, who does great double takes of thrusting chin frustration, spins you through the weak patches.
  72. Legally Blonde
    She may be follically blond, but as an actor of distinction who's all of 25, Reese Witherspoon reveals interesting dark roots even as she plays golden girls.
  73. That Obscure Object of Desire
    The lightness with which Buñuel was able to insert the little jokes and knife stabs of surrealism he loved so much is, in fact, divine.
  74. Bully
    With its smooth skinned cast and demonized adults, doesn't feel very authentic.
  75. The Score
    A sturdily diverting old fashioned heist thriller that looks like a masterpiece of sheer competence next to the slovenly action fantasy F/X grab bags that have been passing for summer entertainment.
  76. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    May not tell a great story, but it's a great wow.
  77. Kiss of the Dragon
    This is all grimy, guy on guy fun, right down to the fevered, bad English dialogue.
  78. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    Underneath the ravishing imagery however, hearts are in flux.
  79. Lost and Delirious
    Evokes the intimacies of teenage girls with unusual delicacy, and Perabo's performance is a geyser of emotion.
  80. Jump Tomorrow
    There's a certain breed of annoying indie movie in which a character's shyness is portrayed in a manner so coy that it becomes a reverse form of exhibitionism. Jump Tomorrow is that kind of movie.
  81. Cats & Dogs
    The plot and script sag like worn out chew toys just when Cats & Dogs should be in full squeak.
  82. Scary Movie 2
    An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.
  83. The Closet
    Cagey, high gloss comedy.
  84. Pandaemonium
    Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.
  85. Pootie Tang
    Amiably silly.
  86. Crazy/Beautiful
    Dunst, in her finest performance yet, has now transcended her fellow teen stars. She is arguably the first actress of her generation poised to take on Gwyneth and Julia.
  87. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    There aren't many at all like Spielberg and Kubrick, directors willing to lasso dreams (that's Steven) and nightmares (that's Stanley) or die trying. A.I. is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a carny act. I want to see it again.
  88. Lumumba
    What matters now, what Lumumba conveys, is the urgent chaos of revolution.
  89. Baby Boy
    What holds the movie together, however, is Gibson's broodingly responsive performance.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dr. Dolittle 2
    Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within.
  91. The Fast and the Furious
    Works hard to be exciting, but the movie scarcely lives up to its title. It could have used a bit of a fuel injection itself.
  92. Songcatcher
    There are mountain tunes as powerful as moonshine to be enjoyed in Songcatcher -- but there's also a mighty mushy heap of corn pone to be swallowed.
  93. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    This is just cut-rate, generic daughter of Indy Jones hokum.
  94. Sexy Beast
    Carries so much impacted menace and visual narrative gamesmanship that it brought back some of the excitement I felt nearly a decade ago watching Quentin Tarantino's ''Reservoir Dogs.''
  95. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Has my eye, seduced by the devious and tactile delights of ''Shrek,'' already evolved in tandem with the technological leaps in computer animation? Or is Atlantis simply a Disney dud?
  96. Evolution
    Visually witty and even marvelous when it comes to depicting the spectacular creatures evolving at a speed previously known only in the Bible.
  97. Bride of the Wind
    A sodden ''feminist'' vulgarization.
  98. The Anniversary Party
    As a work of art, the movie, shot quickly on digital video, is genial enough if unrefined.
  99. Swordfish
    A good movie? Hardly. But more than enough to pass a dog day afternoon.
  100. Divided We Fall
    The tonal elegance of this black comedy set in a dark time -- is boldly dependent on performances that tug at taut lines of moral complexity.
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