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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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    True Crime
    Woefully misconceived reporter-saves-innocent-man-from-execution cheese grater.
  2. Unforgiven
    As enjoyable as most of Unforgiven is, Eastwood's shades-of-gray moralism feels like a whitewash.
  3. Blood Work
    Eastwood is now playing a man whose will is stronger than his body, and it's that tension -- between anger and frailty, steel and decay -- that powers the movie.
  4. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    The movie, quite simply, goes to sleep whenever Zatoichi isn't fighting. When he is, it's a pulp dazzler.
  5. Whale Rider
    An inviting international audience-pleaser.
  6. This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    Almereyda's fascination with creative creatures and their mysterious ways is abundantly clear. And distracting.
  7. The Passion of the Christ
    Tempting as it may be to dismiss Mel Gibson as a glorified pain freak, dressing up a martyrdom fantasy in Aramaic and Latin, it would be more accurate, I think, to say that the filmmaker, a Catholic fundamentalist, presents his torture-racked vision of Jesus' last 12 hours on earth as a sacred form of shock therapy.
  8. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    In its wildly overwrought, burrito-Western way, is about as close to a home movie as you're likely to see in a megaplex.
  9. 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.
  10. Barton Fink
    Barton Fink has an atmosphere of languid comic anxiety (it's like a cross between "Eraserhead" and "Angel Heart"), and it's fun to watch, if only because you have no idea what's coming next.
  11. Big Fish
    The movie is a gently overstuffed cinematic piñata, crammed with tall tales -- with giants and circuses and fairy-tale woods, plus a huge squirmy catfish, all served up with a literal matter-of-fact fancy that is very pleasing.
  12. Jackie Brown
    Each scene is staged methodically, overdeliberately, as if it concealed some payoff zinger. But the zingers don't arrive. All we see is a reasonably clever Elmore Leonard caper that needed to be treated as fast, trashy fun.
  13. Flight of the Phoenix
    Refreshingly, it's actually about action, albeit arbitrary action, and how it defines us and keeps us alive.
  14. Hellboy
    Directed by Guillermo del Toro with a colorfully kinetic visual imagination that seldom lets up.
  15. Ladder 49
    Aside from the awesome flames and pyrotechnic scenes of crisis, danger, and part-of-the-job bravery, the movie is a quiet salute; it does its job.
  16. Mean Girls
    A vinegary fable with a Splenda aftertaste -- is a harbinger of hope not only for future feminist comedies of any grit but also for ''SNL''-staffed feature films that don't disproportionately suck.
  17. The Sea Inside
    The classy production, with its aesthetic graces, is especially convincing about the charisma of the man, a performance specialty of the great Bardem.
  18. Son frère
    Son Frère is hushed, clinical, grimly paced, and moving.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    Always entertains, just like ''Pearl Harbor'' and the rest of the best of Hollywood's dumb war movies.
  20. Team America: World Police
    I was amused more or less throughout by the ingeniously designed and executed stunt that is Team America.
  21. Garden State
    Certainly Garden State is a very American specimen of debut indie form, its loose, goof-about scenes of comic melancholy reinforced with the glue of quirkiness over cracks in the narrative development.
  22. Wimbledon
    Nothing more than amiable fluff, yet Bettany infuses it with a brazen dash of reality. You believe in him, even when you don't quite believe in the movie.
  23. Cheaper by the Dozen
    Martin and Hunt are exactly the right lively but not sticky authority figures to keep the house (and the comedy pace) bouncing.
  24. Finding Neverland
    Depp portrays a fellow who is openly gentle to the core, and the actor just about wraps the movie around his lilting delivery and quiescent gaze.
  25. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    What it comes down to is superbly staged battle scenes and moral alliances forged in earnest yet purged of the wit and dynamic, bristly ego that define true on-screen personality.
  26. Love Actually
    It's a toasty, star-packed ensemble comedy in which a handful of lonelyhearts attempt, with some success, to come out of their shells, and it's going to make a lot of holiday romantics feel very, very good; watching it, I felt cozy and charmed myself.
  27. Peter Pan
    A bright, whirling pinwheel of a movie that tosses around special effects like confetti, but the techno magic is graced with a touch of sensuality.
  28. Spider-Man
    A canny franchise escapade; it gets the job done. But it also leaves you hungry for something more, and I don't necessarily mean the next episode.
  29. The Aviator
    Scorsese, I think, is so invested in making The Aviator upbeat and rousing that the movie never quite reveals, the way that "Kinsey" or "Ray" or "A Beautiful Mind" or even a good E! True Hollywood Story do, how its hero's vision and his grand torments could be flip sides of the same temperament.
  30. From Dusk Till Dawn
    Imagine two movies...The first is a moody thriller about two brothers who pull off a bank job, take a family hostage, and head for Mexico. The second is a garish horror freak-out. The deranged hook of From Dusk Till Dawn is that it starts out as the first movie and turns, on a dime, into the second.
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