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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. All the Pretty Horses
    McCarthy's rawhide has become movie Naugahyde, a substance unknown in literature or in nature.
  2. Thirteen Days
    A big, square, rousing political thriller docudrama.
  3. An Everlasting Piece
    In every way dreadful.
  4. Malèna
    You wish that Malena's inner life had been given as much accent as her outer charms.
  5. Before Night Falls
    Arenas' life zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it.
  6. The House of Mirth
    This stunning movie -- one of the very best of the year -- makes a much read American classic feel new and freshly devastating.
  7. Dracula 2000
    One of those desultory F/X and no script potboilers that seems to restart itself with every new scene.
  8. State and Main
    Delectably caustic comedy.
  9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Why would filmmakers with this much talent work this hard to thumb their noses at everything they put on screen?
  10. Cast Away
    Hanks towers as a near naked, near biblical man. Zemeckis tells his story -- the screenplay is by William Broyles -- with a control magnificent in what isn't shown as much as in what is.
  11. The Family Man
    Schlock weeper.
  12. Finding Forrester
    Highly unoriginal but nevertheless stirring drama.
  13. The Gift
    It's got the pleasing proportions of a stocking stuffed with agreeable little treats in the absence of an exciting big surprise.
  14. Pollock
    For all the praise that has been heaped upon it, is a quasisatisfying, half realized vision.
  15. The Visit
    This very earnestly American prison gives off an unusually mellow European air.
  16. The Emperor's New Groove
    Hip, funny, mostly nonmusical, decidedly non- epic family picture.
  17. What Women Want
    Gibson, in a disarmingly nimble, fast break performance, makes Nick's new hyperempathy look like the essence of virile panache.
  18. Dude, Where's My Car?
    The definition of aiming low is when the John Hughes film you're ripping off is ''Weird Science."
    • Entertainment Weekly
  19. Chocolat
    It's as agreeably sweet as advertised, with a particularly yummy performance by Juliette Binoche.
  20. Vertical Limit
    By laying on disasters with a trowel, misses the chance to sweep us up into a more elegant fantasy of primitive mountaintop terror.
  21. Dungeons & Dragons
    Malty brew of heroics and minutiae.
  22. Proof of Life
    When it's dull, which it is too often for a kidnap caper, this movie is about a woman chirping ''notice anything new about my outfit?'' to a man whose idea of style is a jacket not crusted in human blood.
  23. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year.
  24. Spring Forward
    Great, restrained performances of Beatty and Schreiber, delicately framed by the filmmaker's taste for visual compositions.
  25. 102 Dalmatians
    This sequel adds more insults and injuries that could traumatize little ones. Most frightening of all, the ending leaves the door open for ''103 Dalmatians,'' which would certainly constitute Cruella and unusual punishment.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  26. Unbreakable
    Somberly fantastic new mystery thriller.
  27. Quills
    Quills bleaches the danger -- and fascination -- out of De Sade, turning him into a kind of mad saint of ''Masterpiece Theatre'' porn.
  28. Lies
    Someone has finally done it -- made a sexually explicit feature that is also a genuine and harrowing work of erotic drama.
  29. Bounce
    Watching Bounce, you look at him (Affleck) and believe how much he's got at stake, and you look at Paltrow and know why.
  30. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Packs appeal for both kids and parents.
  31. The 6th Day
    A bit of a clone itself, but it's got a crackerjack helicopter chase, a semblance of a script, and a sotto voce performance by Robert Duvall as a biotech genius who murmurs sweet nothings to his dying cloned wife.
  32. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    If anything, the real surprise here is how affecting he makes the Grinch's ultimate big hearted turnaround, as Carrey the actor sneaks up on Carrey the wild man dervish. In whichever mode, he carreys the movie.
  33. Red Planet
    Watching the movie, it's hard to imagine why anyone would dream of going back there.
  34. Men of Honor
    Educational and upstanding, a little overacted and more than a little overdramatized. But it's honorable.
  35. Little Nicky
    There are laughs to be had, yet the movie is, if anything, more strenuous than it is funny.
  36. You Can Count on Me
    Beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama.
  37. Suzhou River
    Has more atmosphere than it does coherence; it's a series of floating tricks and gambits in search of a resolution. Even so, Ye's ''Vertigo'' fever is contagious.
  38. Boesman and Lena
    About two people on a stage, talking their way into and out of alienation.
  39. Kippur
    Intense, autobiographically based drama.
  40. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    There's not a moment in Bagger Vance that can't be anticipated.
  41. Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is finally Cameron Diaz's movie. Her Natalie has a heart as insecure as her body is smokin'.
  42. Once in the Life
    Showcases a trio of terrific performances.
  43. The Little Vampire
    Would like to be a Halloween treat, but it's more like a nightmare of blandness.
  44. A Room for Romeo Brass
    More and more independent filmmakers seem to be cobbling together characters and scenes that have surface hook and flash without organic emotional logic.
  45. A Time for Drunken Horses
    The nonprofessional cast of Bahman Ghobadi's remarkable, slow, rough edged feature reveals a simple, piercing grimness and determination framed by the gray, icy landscape of Iranian Kurdistan.
  46. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Clever and smooth, yet, like Angèle herself (or Nathalie Baye), the film is almost too placid for its own good.
  47. Stardom
    It may be the first movie that mirrors, in its very syntax, the ''snap crackle and pop'' narcotic superficiality of the E! channel. I mean that as a compliment.
  48. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A flat, heebie jeebies thriller.
  49. Lucky Numbers
    The laughs are few in this inert, ungenerous comedy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What's Cooking?
    Like the meal itself, the movie's both filling and familiar.
  51. George Washington
    A peculiar combination of willful meandering and matter of fact violence, and it occasionally confounds in its attempts to exalt.
  52. Sound and Fury
    A work of intimate and wrenching humanity.
  53. The Yards
    A drama about corruption in the city's transit system that's not only hard boiled but also dipped in egg batter dialogue and deep fried.
  54. The Legend of Drunken Master
    May be the most kick ass demonstration yet, for the majority of American moviegoers, of what the fuss is all about.
  55. Pay It Forward
    Pushes and pushes and pushes the emotional throttle without respite.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Bedazzled
    A little more script work, at the very least, should have gone into the manufacture of the black comedy Bedazzled.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Looking
    The pacing is lumpy, the acting's all over the map.
  58. Lost Souls
    Silly, undone by lack of faith in its own subject.
  59. Dr T and the Women
    Funny and ebullient look at a man in full confusion.
  60. The Contender
    Engages in the cinematic equivalent of not inhaling.
  61. Billy Elliot
    Even as the director, Stephen Daldry, places his star front and center, he doesn't know how to highlight him.
  62. The Ladies Man
    One more case of a winning ''SNL'' character tamed by the wan, fizzled farce around him.
  63. Two Family House
    The charm and art of De Felitta's gentle domestic sketch expand far beyond biographical borders.
  64. Bamboozled
    Nothing Lee has done is as flashy or as mucked up as Bamboozled.
  65. Get Carter
    The only fun is in watching Stallone square off against Alan Cumming and Mickey Rourke.
  66. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Aa shockingly chintzy spin-off of Fox's post ''Pokémon'' cartoon hit.
  67. Yi Yi
    These 173 minutes don't drag, they waltz.
  68. Meet the Parents
    It's a bouncy, loose limbed, ''families do the darnedest things'' sitcom that elicits ungrudging laughs.
  69. Requiem for a Dream
    May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.
  70. Beautiful
    Not one female character escapes mockery or patronizing.
  71. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    A majority oriented movie that assumes sophisticated familiarity with a sexual minority.
  72. Girlfight
    While Rodriguez punches through the indie clutter to announce herself as a superb new movie talent, so Kusama scores big points in her first main event.
  73. Remember the Titans
    Denzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep.
  74. Best in Show
    You giggle every so often, but you never give yourself over to the characters.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Debased swill.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under Suspicion
    Pits the two actors against each other in a ''long night of the soul'' talkathon that director Stephen Hopkins' jerky editing techniques can't quite spark into sustained life.
  77. Woman on Top
    Has all the mood enhancing flavor of a tropical cocktail made with watered down rum and fake fruit juice.
  78. Tigerland
    An affecting, old fashioned, antiwar war story.
  79. Dancer in the Dark
    Like a naive modernist hymn made by someone who doesn't, deep down, believe in hymns.
  80. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    The dramatic power, though, comes entirely from the eloquence of old people, shot in medium close-up, barely moving as they remember things.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Duets
    A leaden piece of whimsy that looks for profound life lessons among a group of karaoke bar aficionados.
  82. Human Resources
    Acompelling, cant free drama about clashing class systems and challenged family relationships that's all the more engrossing for its organic, near documentary style.
  83. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    A somber, draggy, deadweight, lugubrious, absurdly self serious version of ''American Beauty.''
    • 39 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Bait
    A tired action thriller determined to play the race card every which way for every which kind of viewer, seems hopelessly behind the curve.
  85. Almost Famous
    Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen.
  86. Pola X
    There's only one Carax, uncompromisingly ambiguous.
  87. The Watcher
    Reeves is a stiff dancer and he delivers his lines in a full leather jacket monotone.
  88. Solas
    After all of its sadness, a tender redemptive glow.
  89. Nurse Betty
    The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason.
  90. The Way of the Gun
    Plays like an unusually ritzy festival circuit audition film, though McQuarrie, it must be said, aces the audition.
  91. Highlander: Endgame
    The endless, numbing sameness of it all.
  92. Whipped
    The trouble with Whipped isn't that its characters are dirty mouthed horndog jerks -- it's that they're phony dirty mouthed horndog jerks.
  93. Dark Days
    More noteworthy for its intentions than its execution.
  94. The Art of War
    The dialogue is chintzy and rhythmless.
  95. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    This sunny ode to brotherhood, made on a tiny budget, goes a fair distance on good vibes.
  96. The Crew
    Each man's shtick swells into a frenzy of overacting.
  97. Bittersweet Motel
    It's like Woodstock without the mud, and it leaves you feeling clean.
  98. Solomon & Gaenor
    A "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy of surprising power.
  99. Love & Sex
    The Dutch born Janssen sparkles serenely.
  100. Bring It On
    It's an okay brat movie.
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