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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 2.2 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. Insomnia
    Superb psychological thriller.
  2. The Importance of Being Earnest
    The antics are wacky -- but far from Wilde.
  3. Late Marriage
    Watch for the director's own mother, Lili Kosashvili, a standout as Zaza's fierce, stately mama.
  4. The Believer
    Bean's commitment to serious theological examination is exciting, Gosling's performance is riveting, and this fiery and imperfect feature shines as a demonstration of independent filmmaking at its most uncompromising.
  5. About a Boy
    Hugh Grant has grown up, holding on to his lightness and witty cynicism but losing the stuttering sherry-club mannerisms that were once his signature. In doing so, he has blossomed into the rare actor who can play a silver-tongued sleaze with a hidden inner decency.
  6. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    Here we are again: not entertained, not nearly enough, by an installment of the ''Star Wars'' epic that, for the first time, exhibits symptoms of...nerves. And a chill, conservative grimness of purpose, rather than an excited thrill at the possibilities of cinematic storytelling.
  7. The Lady and the Duke
    The technique is impressive. But it would count for little if the human story -- of a magnetic, resourceful, and, in the way of all Rohmer heroines, articulate woman who was mistress to the Duke of Orleans -- weren't engrossing on its own dramatic terms.
  8. Unfaithful
    Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama.
  9. The New Guy
    A Jekyll-and-Hyde teen comedy that sounds like a Pauly Shore reject, but Qualls moves his marionette body around with a true clown's effervescence, and he does rubber-faced parodies of youth cool that are just what youth cool deserves.
  10. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    The unlikeliest enthralling movie to be released so far this year.
  11. Home Movie
    Smith profiles five extraordinary American homes, and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame, it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mystic Masseur
    The novel is a sharp, Dickensian comedy; the film is just plain dull.
  13. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent.
  14. ABC Africa
    It's not enough for the film to show us a child's corpse wrapped in cardboard; we've got to step back to see Kiarostami himself shooting the sad sight, so that it becomes a Godardian ironic statement.
  15. Hollywood Ending
    For Woody, it's looking more and more like the end of his days of whine and neurosis.
  16. 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.
  17. Sade
    Achieves the near-impossible: It turns the Marquis de Sade into a dullard.
  18. Vulgar
    The only thing shocking about it, however, is the degree to which self-congratulatory gutter exhibitionism has become the degraded ash end of indie ''edge.''
  19. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    A dazzlingly crafted documentary about the teenage surf punks of lower Los Angeles who singlehandedly transformed skateboarding into the extreme sport it has become.
  20. Life or Something Like It
    Mostly about slapping together a bunch of clichés -- outdated clichés at that -- regarding the loneliness of ambitious women.
  21. Jason X
    It will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary. But here's the real damn: It isn't funny, either.
  22. Rain
    As it moves from the drizzly to the overly stormy, Rain freights a young girl's self-destructive eagerness to lose her virginity with so much danger and even horror that it's as if the events were trying to make up for the film's previous lack of drama.
  23. 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.
  24. Some Body
    Will take you places you haven't been, and also places you have.
  25. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    The wedding, which turns the very concept of ''Greek'' into the sort of hideous, pandering clichés that look rejected from bad Jewish and Italian sitcoms.
  26. Murder by Numbers
    Even though Bullock engages in a climactic scene of blue-screen peril, she essentially cedes the match to the kids. In this mediocre murder case, their presence is the only thing that's really killer.
  27. Enigma
    A turgid muddle of romance, espionage, and geek valor, despite intimations that it might have turned into ''A Reasonably Dapper-Looking Mind.''
  28. The Scorpion King
    Isn't incompetent; it's just plodding and obvious. If anything holds it together, it's The Rock's ironic ability to tread lightly, which the movie is neither fast nor inventive enough to recognize as different from the spirit of Arnold.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    World Traveler
    Crudup is the best navigator a road movie like World Traveler can have, but even he can't single-handedly transport these goods from nowhere to somewhere.
  30. Nine Queens
    As tricky and satisfying as any of David Mamet's airless cinematic shell games. Mamet's films are all plot and no atmosphere; this one has a squalid, urban-greed-meets-the-gutter mood that lends its filigreed cleverness an unusually resonant kick.
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