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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 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 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. The Kid
    A parable for adults -- particularly men.
  2. The Ring
    The best thing about the movie, which is a very elegantly crafted piece of gothic snuff hokum, is the way it teases and intrigues us with the revelation of what's on that tape.
  3. Ali
    For everything it gets right, Ali, following its superb first hour, begins to lose the vision, clarity, and structure necessary to bring its hero into full focus.
  4. 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.
  5. Tokyo Godfathers
    Like the comic strips of Ben Katchor, Tokyo Godfathers artfully appreciates the beauty and humanity in junked lives and landscapes.
  6. The Matrix Reloaded
    If The Matrix Reloaded is a trip through high-toned mediocrity, not nearly as suggestive or cohesive as ''The Matrix,'' it's one of the most wizardly mediocre movies I've seen in quite some time.
  7. Any Given Sunday
    The film's cumulative effect is as exhausting as it is exciting.
  8. Primary Colors
    One of those thrilling confluences in pop culture that rewards audiences for thinking the worst about politicians and the best about movie stars.
  9. What Planet Are You From?
    Nothing more than a sort of dumb, sort of clever fish out of water comedy.
  10. The Salton Sea
    A twisty, showy, atmosphere-saturated drama that revels (in a post-post-Tarantino-and-''Trainspotting'' way) in sadism and in-your-face seediness -- and attracts a cast of coolios primed to play extreme.
  11. The Deserted Station
    Slow going, but I mean it as no insult when I say that it bored me, in the end, to tears.
  12. Happy Times
    Had O. Henry set his stories in China, he might have come up with Happy Times, a comedy for which the adjective ''bittersweet'' could have been invented.
  13. In America
    Has moments of biting tenderness, yet the movie made me wish that Sheridan had let in more of America.
  14. Being Julia
    Being Julia flirts too heavily with soap opera clichés, but it has enough surprises to keep you guessing, and for Annette Bening it's the liveliest of comebacks.
  15. The Devil's Advocate
    Embarrassingly entertaining.
  16. Overnight
    I do wish that Overnight caught in more precise detail what Duffy, who finally made his film on the cheap at an obscure studio, did to tick off the Miramax powers. Imagining it, though, is half the fun.
  17. Liar Liar
    Jim Carrey entertains himself mightily in Liar Liar, and his enthusiasm is infectious.
  18. American Pie
    A lively, disposable hybrid of the sincere and the synthetic.
  19. Minority Report
    The mechanical beauty and android possibilities of the future excite the filmmaker, and that's where Minority Report becomes an alluring postcard from the edge. But it's an edge over which Spielberg never seems to want to step.
  20. The Last Samurai
    A handsome epic, a brave-hearted 19th-century man-saga from the director who made the period piece man-sagas ''Glory'' and ''Legends of the Fall.''
  21. Scary Movie
    The whole thing wobbles, like the garish, trashy, sexy shoes the young folks are wearing this summer on their way (in droves) to movie theaters, intent on abandoning themselves to pleasurable mindlessness.
  22. Seven
    This homicide thriller has a tantalizingly morbid atmosphere of unease.
  23. The Powerpuff Girls
    The three kindergarteners make up for their lack of irony with laser-power eyes, radical post-post-postfeminist blithe confidence, and some of the coolest retro-futuristic animation style this side of Gerald McBoing-Boing.
  24. The Young Black Stallion
    The hoofbeats are seismic, the music is like hot cheese, and the sandy vistas thrill appropriately: It's a perfectly rousing Ben-Her of a centerpiece.
  25. Bowling for Columbine
    Even Moore's target ticket-buyers are likely to squirm with concern, unsure of who the real weasels and idiots are in this large, unkempt, rambunctious country of ours.
  26. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    That sense of déjà vu is at once this Harry Potter's balm and its limitation: many charms, but few surprises.
  27. Noi the Albino
    Paced a bit too glacially for my taste, yet it's worth sitting through for its trick ending, a twist of events as ominous as the landscape.
  28. Party Monster
    As stagy and awkward as some of the Warhol/Morrissey films of the early '70s.
  29. The Way of the Gun
    Plays like an unusually ritzy festival circuit audition film, though McQuarrie, it must be said, aces the audition.
  30. The Blair Witch Project
    As a horror picture, Blair Witch may not be much more than a cheeky game, a novelty with the cool, blurry look of an avant-garde artifact. But as a manifestation of multimedia synergy, it's pretty spooky.
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