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For 7,797 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Manhunter
    The brilliance of Michael Mann's Manhunter is that it appreciates that the true nexus of humanity is our shared closeness.
  2. The Guru
    Bright dialogue and finely embroidered performances adorn The Guru like festive beading on a pair of made-in-India bedroom slippers.
  3. Unbreakable
    Somberly fantastic new mystery thriller.
  4. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    Underneath the ravishing imagery however, hearts are in flux.
  5. MC5*: A True Testimonial
    Wide-ranging and beautifully edited -- it's a vivid evocation of a moment when even the ugliest guitar feedback could be taken as a serious political statement.
  6. The Score
    A sturdily diverting old fashioned heist thriller that looks like a masterpiece of sheer competence next to the slovenly action fantasy F/X grab bags that have been passing for summer entertainment.
  7. Anger Management
    The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable.
  8. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Smart enough to hook us with the best thing it has going: Cedric the Entertainer's gruffly uproarious and lived-in performance as Eddie.
  9. A Beautiful Mind
    Crowe sometimes summons up one of the most powerful depictions of mental illness I have ever seen with barely an eyelid flicker separating manifestations of sickness from utterly sane displays of creative concentration.
  10. Bus 174
    Although it shares a bitter interest in slum desperation with last year's Brazilian-underbelly docudrama ''City of God,'' Bus 174 pulls ahead, I think, by not confusing cinematic pizzazz with the content of misery.
  11. Dahmer
    To explain a serial killer is to diminish his madness, but Dahmer does something quietly riveting. It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho.
  12. Joy Ride
    Zigzags across the conventions of genre, occasionally driving on the shoulders of black humor -- it's a road movie for the way we process suspense today.
  13. The Dancer Upstairs
    The movie has a mystery, and moral unease, that lingers.
  14. The Komediant
    Reflect the robust status of Yiddish theater in the early 20th century, and its post-Holocaust decline.
  15. Iron Monkey
    Gravity-defying kung fu choreography.
  16. The Station Agent
    That his (writer-director Tom McCarthy) strange, often funny film is so well-disciplined and deadpan refreshing is an achievement.
  17. Final Destination
    An unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Glengarry Glen Ross
    Alec Baldwin is on camera for barely eight minutes in Glengarry Glen Ross, the tightly wound — and actually very fine — film adaptation of David Mamet’s play. But his big speech, whipping up the assembled real estate salesmen with reptilian gung ho, could stand as a compressed version of what makes Baldwin, when bad, so good.
  19. Runaway Jury
    The already heavy-footed clomp of Grisham's declamatory storytelling style has been given an extra-thick-soled, wing-tipped, liberal-leaning, reality-tampering kick thanks to a screenplay credited to four writers.
  20. The Princess Diaries
    This charming, if unnecessarily coronation-length production gets the duckling-to-swan ambivalence just right.
  21. Rat Race
    The easygoing silliness with which this late-summer movie surprise scuttles from mayhem to mayhem and the verve with which the cast throws itself into the fray are so cheering and liberating.
  22. Jesus' Son
    Another grotty drama about junkie love? Well, yes...I make an exception for Jesus' Son.
  23. Auto Focus
    The performances are vividly alive.
  24. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    The movie is a great big feast of wreckage. But that’s also what makes it a bit numbing.
  25. State and Main
    Delectably caustic comedy.
  26. Black and White
    A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis.
  27. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    May not tell a great story, but it's a great wow.
  28. Japanese Story
    This is an origami story, really, about what a construction of chance the big world is.
  29. The Yes Men
    When they're good, the Yes Men are astonishing, anarchic sights to behold.
  30. Lone Star
    The biggest problem with Lone Star is that colorful Charley Wade isn't the center of the movie -- it's bland Sam Deeds. Cooper isn't a compelling enough movie star to carry us along some of the film's more languid twists and turns.
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