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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
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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. Lightning in a Bottle
    The music's sensational, but you keep waiting for the pledge number to flash up.
  2. The Barbarian Invasions
    I kept wondering how Arcand could have chosen as his generational representative a man not just flawed in his hedonism but one so fundamentally lacking in tenderness for others.
  3. Malèna
    You wish that Malena's inner life had been given as much accent as her outer charms.
  4. Red Dragon
    A thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion.
  5. Lost Highway
    Lost Highway has scattered moments of Lynch's poetry, but the film's ultimate shock is that it isn't shocking at all.
  6. 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.
  7. A Map of the World
    Director Scott Elliott, in his feature-film debut, is especially perceptive about what goes on at the edges during deepening family crises, literally at the borders of the screen.
  8. Bruce Almighty
    Carrey isn't afraid to go happily psycho, like Peter Sellers or Eminem on his funniest tracks, and that's his edge.
  9. Cop Land
    Dense, meandering, ambitious yet jarringly pulpy, this tale of big-city corruption in small-town America has competence without mood or power -- a design but not a vision.
  10. September 11
    In the most shocking contribution to this self-conscious but fascinating sampling of art challenged by life, Mexico's Alejandro González Iñárritu (''Amores Perros'') makes a horrifying suspense story.
  11. I Am David
    The movie meets the requirements of the "Life Is Beautiful" school; those loyal to the tougher, more stringent Osama academy of realism need not apply.
  12. Around the World in 80 Days
    What's new and nutty, though, is the physical comedy of Jackie Chan as Fogg's manservant.
  13. Connie and Carla
    The surprise -- and intermittent delight -- of Connie and Carla is the way that it taps into the everybody-is-a-star passion of the new sing-along culture.
  14. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    The film's lures, while undeniable, are synthetic, and we never do learn what fuels all the greed besides pints of beer.
  15. After the Sunset
    A fun-in-the-sun heist caper that director Brett Ratner stages as if he were the activities director of a cruise ship.
  16. Saw
    Saw is a gristle-cut B psycho thriller that would like to tap the sickest corners of your imagination. It has a few moments of nightmare creepiness, but it's also derivative and messy and too nonsensical for its own good.
  17. King Arthur
    In a movie like this one, a little madness is its own Holy Grail.
  18. The Clearing
    The Clearing is what's known in the biz as an alternative for adult moviegoers. Which is to say the film is a performance-driven drama devoid of special effects and loud noises. On the contrary, it's a meditation on midlife weaknesses and compensation.
  19. Control Room
    Anxiety-provoking documentary.
  20. Luther
    Rising above the throng is the great wreck of Sir Peter Ustinov, who, as the canny, saucy German Prince Frederick, distinguishes both himself and the movie.
  21. Sleepy Hollow
    Little more than a lavish, art-directed slasher movie.
  22. Signs
    It's a high-octane doomsday vision built almost entirely around our sense of anticipation, and that's both its strength and its weakness.
  23. The Village
    It gives nothing of the plot away to say that there's a fine line between an ''Aha!'' and an ''Oh, brother!'' Whether you feel The Village crosses that line may hinge on whether you think Shyamalan's screenwriting ability is beginning to lag behind his skill as a director.
  24. Alfie
    The new Alfie is so irresistible that he hardly requires contempt. Without it, the movie is little more than a feature-length roll in the hay.
  25. Ned Kelly
    A boggy mix of fact, fiction, and changeable wigs and beards worn by Heath Ledger in the title role, manages to shrink the grandness of the myth without clarifying our understanding of the man.
  26. Blade II
    Del Toro lays on the operatic head-trip gore, but his heavy-handed embrace of the ''Blade'' mythology allows Wesley Snipes to give more of a performance than he did in the first film.
  27. As Good as It Gets
    A cute premise that, upon closer inspection, rings falser rather than truer. It's pretty good, but not nearly as good as Brooks gets.
  28. Space Cowboys
    Poorly engineered: lurchingly paced, the dramatic conflicts duct taped together.
  29. Michael Jordan to the Max
    A highly conventional 2-D infomercial.
  30. May
    Though ultimately too waterlogged with student-film self-seriousness to revel fully in its low-rent joie de cleaver -- nevertheless taps into a furious atavistic energy that reflects well on the filmmaker and his fully committed cast.
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