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On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. The Animal
    While a good deal funnier than ''Deuce Bigelow,'' is still destined to get branded, if not condemned, as ''dumb.''
  2. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Maybe the worst thing that can happen is that every other movie at the multiplex will be sold out this weekend.
  3. The Man Who Cried
    There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.
  4. The Road Home
    This is a gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds, both natural and bureaucratic, in which the past represents enduring family values and customs.
  5. Pearl Harbor
    The picture is nearly painstaking in its traditionalism, a tale of love, war, and valor in which nostalgia for ''simpler times'' gets mashed together, almost fetishistically, with nostalgia for old movies and for the spirit of knightly self sacrifice during World War II.
  6. Our Song
    The movie draws us into the illusion that we're simply eavesdropping on the lives of three inner-city black and Hispanic girls.
  7. Fast Food Fast Women
    Kollek is a fringe auteur who makes independent films the old fashioned way: no budget, static camera, a script that telegraphs its tiny, paste gem ironies.
  8. Angel Eyes
    A cumbersome dud, grows draggier with each new revelation.
  9. Moulin Rouge!
    The result is a musical that substitutes irony for pop passion, misanthropic disjointedness for lyrical flow.
  10. Shrek
    Lives happily ever after because it's such a feisty but good natured embrace of the inner ogre in everyone.
  11. Startup.com
    For sheer dramatic wallop outpowers virtually every fiction feature I've seen this year.
  12. The King Is Alive
    Janet McTeer displays Amazonian power while Jennifer Jason Leigh tears into her role as a high maintenance creature with a ferocity that leaves little room for her usual acting tics.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trumpet of the Swan
    A pox on the man's (E.B. White) memory.
  14. A Knight's Tale
    Laddish, one joke, genre scrambling rock & roll fairy tale.
  15. About Adam
    Cotton candy story with an acrid aftertaste.
  16. The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    When Kinney and Muth share scenes, it's hard not to get caught up.
  17. Under the Sand
    Ozon specializes in dissecting the vulnerability, erotic longing, and garbled intentions with which people regularly rub up against one another.
  18. Eureka
    Slow -- sometimes maddeningly, soporifically so.
  19. The Mummy Returns
    The actors themselves are more rip roaring and full of spunk than in their first outing.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Deuces Wild
    If you put the scripts for ''West Side Story,'' ''Mean Streets,'' and ''The Warriors'' in a blender, you might wind up with something like Deuces Wild, a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in Brooklyn circa 1958.
  21. The Forsaken
    While it's rarely scary, the film is often gory.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    One Night at McCool's
    More than just dumb, the picture is embarrassingly dorky.
  23. Driven
    Mostly preposterous, and it has no dramatic center, but the racing scenes hold you in their death-trip grip.
  24. The Golden Bowl
    There's no mirth, and precious little passion, left in this house.
  25. Town & Country
    Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny.
  26. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Turns out to be the portrait of a serial yo-yo dieter, an impression enhanced by the 60 year old Berlin, who suggests less a former depraved scenester than a calorie compulsive Martha Stewart grown bored with good taste.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Luzhin Defence
    Fine candy for mind and eye.
  28. The Low Down
    Gillen can't make good on his gaze's search and destroy capabilities.
  29. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    The punchlines are as tired as Hogan looks.
  30. Harry Is Here to Help
    A suspenseful and delightfully creepy French drama.
  31. Freddy Got Fingered
    To dismiss this movie for being ''offensive'' would be to offer it high praise.
  32. The Center of the World
    Too arty by half.
  33. The Body
    This cinematic stiff should have stayed buried.
  34. The Circle
    Circles the heart of noisy, modern Tehran with an informal, documentary-like freedom that is thrilling in its naturalism.
  35. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Bridget's most attractive asset is that she's played by Renée Zellweger.
  36. Josie and the Pussycats
    The movie's got bounce. Spanked along by a soundtrack that has a surprising punky bite for something aimed at 13-year-olds.
  37. Kingdom Come
    What slays them in the second balcony, though, flattens on the screen.
  38. Chopper
    A movie overtly designed to win attention (and not to do much else).
  39. Joe Dirt
    Ends up blowing its own joke. Instead of making Joe blissfully arrogant in his Southern rock dude myopia, it turns him into a shuffling masochistic loser.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Visiting
    Forgoes the destructo silliness of the original in favor of one too many bland self help subplots.
  41. Beautiful Creatures
    Overstyled pseudo-thriller.
  42. The Day I Became a Woman
    Creates a flow of symbolism so potent, so transporting in its physicality, that its impact all but transcends its righteous liberal ''meaning.''
  43. Along Came a Spider
    Broody fun.
  44. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Enjoyable only if you're under the age of 7 -- or the influence of psychedelic drugs.
  45. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Depression is a fair subject for a movie, but this much moroseness shouldn't come to this little.
  46. Blow
    Carries little in the way of passion or revelatory charge.
  47. Amores Perros
    Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark.
  48. The Tailor of Panama
    In a world full of off the rack thrillers, it's fine boutique quality.
  49. Someone Like You...
    It was originally called ''Animal Husbandry,'' and while the producers were throwing away that title, they might have done well to chuck the movie along with it.
  50. Spy Kids
    It's Alan Cumming who takes over the movie as the impish mastermind Fegan Floop.
  51. Tomcats
    In its mingling of horniness and disgust, Tomcats attains a convoluted cleverness.
  52. The Brothers
    Passionate and saucy comedy.
  53. Heartbreakers
    Never tickles your nasty bone, perhaps because, in an era when the gossip pages are dotted with news of celebrity prenups, the prospect of marriage as a route to instant fortune seems less scandalous than it does like business as usual.
  54. Say It Isn't So
    A black comedy in the form of vicarious serial punishment.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Too Much Sleep
    Maquiling has built and sustained a mood of lovely comic aplomb. Like one of its hero's daydreams, the film evaporates on contact and leaves a serene glow.
  56. Exit Wounds
    In its low grade way, this blithely brutal cops and drugs thriller is an efficient hot wire entertainment.
  57. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    As compelling as it is bizarre.
  58. Memento
    Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream.
  59. Enemy at the Gates
    The one valuable prize for audiences in this war pic Cracker Jack box is Jude Law. Once again the talented Mr. Law makes more of a role than most movies know what to do with.
  60. The Dish
    It's a lovely, original, Australian take on a climactic moment usually thought of as all American.
  61. Kissing Jessica Stein
    All too content to be a comedy of surfaces and stereotypes. And because, for all the novelty of the bisexual romantic angle, there's something about Jessica, her New York-singleton ticks and her Jewish-family tocks, that feels...old.
  62. When Brendan Met Trudy
    The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.
  63. 15 Minutes
    Is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills.
  64. Get Over It
    The only performer I enjoyed watching was Martin Short, who plays a bitch dandy music teacher with a smile so fake that the comedian seems to be acting with his gums.
  65. Blow Dry
    Written by Mr. ''Full Monty'' himself, Simon Beaufoy, and, like ''Monty,'' sprinkles pixie dust over the heads of worn out local folk.
  66. The Gleaners & I
    Feels delightfully organic, eccentrically rambling, the found artistic collage of a woman who herself loves to collect.
  67. Me You Them
    Casé, with her sturdy, elemental body and shining eyes, is the reason phrases like ''inner beauty'' were invented, and she's also the reason this idealistic, naturalistic film by Rio de Janeiro born Andrucha Waddington has been such a success at festivals around the world.
  68. The Caveman's Valentine
    There is pleasure in giving oneself up to the gusty swirls of the film's imagery, and especially to the handsome grandeur of its star.
  69. See Spot Run
    Personally, I'd say that it was about time Arquette was leashed.
  70. The Mexican
    It's not the fault of "The Sopranos" charismatic, beefy star (Gandolfini) that he's an actor of such substance and quiet ardor as to make idle movie star ribbitting look frivolous.
  71. Series 7: The Contenders
    The murder as entertainment premise of Series 7 is proof that even the blackest of humor is no longer particularly outrageous.
  72. Monkeybone
    There's unwieldy mess -- but there's also unruly brilliance to this dark and funny story about the havoc that ensues when a man's uncensored Freudian id is allowed the run of the place.
  73. Last Resort
    Moving and eerily beautiful.
  74. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    This is a high octane ride that starts to leak gas before it even gets going.
  75. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    The subtle selectivity of Leconte's eye, how he moves with great control from gesture to gesture, is matched by the disciplined intensity of the performances.
  76. Southern Comfort
    The film defuses all preconceptions about the ''issues'' of transsexual identity to arrive at a place of tremulous human power.
  77. Company Man
    If you've always longed to see a Cold War satire done in the hit 'em over the head frantic camp mode of ''Love, American Style,'' then Company Man is the movie for you.
  78. Down to Earth
    When Rock finds his authentic swing as an actor as well as a comedian, he'll be, like, a movie god.
  79. Sweet November
    A very low grade romantic drama indeed, a love story with all the life and death intensity of a heat rash.
  80. Recess: School's Out
    Creator producers Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere have come up with some unexceptional children and underdeveloped adults.
  81. Hannibal
    Hannibal lacks the rounded emotional elegance of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' (that was a great film; this one is merely good).
  82. Signs & Wonders
    Jonathan Nossiter's second feature (after the intricate and haunting ''Sunday'') strikes unnerving chords of mystery and dismay as it fuses the sinister, jump cut dislocations of a metaphysical thriller like ''Don't Look Now'' with a pain soaked meditation on love, guilt, marriage, and adultery.
  83. Saving Silverman
    In one rotten production -- all involved have managed to create the most unlikable, man hating, woman hating, unfunny idiots since ''Whipped'' ended up on worst movie lists last year.
  84. The Taste of Others
    Jaoui handles her crowd of vivid characters so naturally, and shoots her scenes so unobtrusively, that the diagrammatic cleverness of the plot never overwhelms the intelligence of the observations.
  85. The Million Dollar Hotel
    If any of these characters were half as resonant as Wenders appears to think they are, the film might have seemed charming instead of merely stranded.
  86. Valentine
    Doesn't contain a single scary or imaginative moment.
  87. Head Over Heels
    Bland to dismal.
  88. In the Mood for Love
    Although In the Mood for Love isn't in the mood for action, it dazzles with everything but.
  89. Trolösa
    A domestic tragedy of lacerating vision.
  90. Sugar & Spice
    Fun in its raunchy unwieldiness.
  91. The Wedding Planner
    An out of date 1950s movie.
  92. The Pledge
    Penn is a true talent, but there's just enough languid pretension to The Pledge to make you wonder if he's ultimately more interested in parading his promise as a director than in fulfilling it.
  93. Snatch.
    Guy Ritchie's second feature, is a faux tough caper modeled lock, stock, kit, and caboodle on his earlier film ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.''
  94. Antitrust
    While Robbins has a good time playing the boyish devil, the rest of the principals transmit on an awfully low baud rate.
  95. Double Take
    Another racial cartoon buddy movie that eagerly flogs its best laugh -- indeed, its only laugh -- in the trailer.
  96. Save the Last Dance
    This wan, formulaic teen movie from ''Metro'' director Thomas Carter is afraid to pump up the volume on its own interracial, hip hop Romeo and Juliet story, lest it challenge even one sedated viewer or disturb the peace.
  97. Chunhyangdyun
    It's a good bet the average American moviegoer, however familiar with the rhythms of cinematic global culture, has never experienced such a handsomely self contained world.
  98. The Claim
    There's something almost too controlled, cerebral, and overdetermined about Winterbottom's Western notions.
  99. Shadow of the Vampire
    Kicky, elaborately constructed fantasy.
  100. Traffic
    The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.
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