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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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  1. Friday Night Lights
    Thornton, giving a splendid, disciplined performance, seamlessly shapes his coach into a believable man of quality rather than star-size charisma.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Bottle Rocket
    The title refers to cheap fireworks that fizz before they flame out quietly, and that's what three Southwestern slackers do in this amiable heist movie-cum-road flick.
  3. Ararat
    As ever, Egoyan assembles a devoted repertory cast, including Christopher Plummer.
  4. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    The actress (Scarlett Johansson) gives a nearly silent performance, yet the interplay on her face of fear, ignorance, curiosity, and sex is intensely dramatic.
  5. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    A lickety-split, madly packed, roller-coaster entertainment that might almost have been designed to make you scared of how much smarter your kids are than you.
  6. Pitch Black
    So jaunty, so limber, and so visually self-assured that art peeks through where crap has traditionally made its home.
  7. The Age of Innocence
    Up through its first half, The Age of Innocence is a masterfully orchestrated tale of romantic yearning.
  8. Notre musique
    Notre Musique is Godard's post-9/11 statement, a meditation on how war emerges from the eternal, and hypocritical, duality of human perception -- the sense that it's always ''the other'' who dies.
  9. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Hilariously fake and rude. And thus true and tonic, if you know what I mean.
  10. Dolls
    As an exception to the norm, Kitano doesn't appear this time, confining himself merely to writing, directing, and editing.
  11. Fahrenheit 9/11
    Scalding and glib, derisive yet impassioned, Fahrenheit 9/11 is an intensely resonant piece of Bush-bashing, because it lets the president do most of the work.
  12. American Pimp
    Supple and engrossing, a liquid-smooth street-rap testimonial.
  13. 28 Days Later...
    A swankily austere piece of jeepers-creepers sci-fi.
  14. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Director Niels Mueller's attempt to create a middle-class "Taxi Driver" (he tips his hand a bit smugly by respelling Byck's name to evoke Travis Bickle) has a creepy, meticulous exactitude.
  15. The Merchant of Venice
    Pacino shows you what is only subliminally in the text: that Shylock's heart of stone is really a wall of wounded pride.
  16. Meet the Parents
    It's a bouncy, loose limbed, ''families do the darnedest things'' sitcom that elicits ungrudging laughs.
  17. Hero
    I wish 'Hero's emotional heat rose more intensely -- more recklessly. There's something grand but distant and almost fetishistic about the operatic solemnity with which Zhang approaches the Rashomonic story of assassins attempting to kill a king.
  18. Ella Enchanted
    The hoot and giggle of a girl-power fairy tale blended from potions of ''Monty Python,'' ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,'' and ''Shrek.''
  19. The Door in the Floor
    Everything in the movie -- family demons, May-December sex, the lessons of writing -- ties together with pinpoint precision. That's a pleasure, to be sure, and a limitation, too.
  20. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    Let's face it: Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) is just too darn polished to be a junior-high underdog, even by the standards of her 'luxe suburban environs.
  21. City of God
    Undeniably powerful, the work also comes with its own built-in shield against feeling any one character's difficulties too deeply, or for too long.
  22. De-Lovely
    De-Lovely is something dishy and rare: a biopic about a happy, and even enchanted, man.
  23. Elf
    The disarming comedic tone -- silly and novel in its lack of cynicism -- is driven by the fearless, cheerful unself-consciousness of Will Ferrell, a big man last seen streaking (all too unself-consciously) through ''Old School.''
  24. Goodbye Lenin!
    A funny and intermittently sharp German satire that musters gentle nostalgia for East German communism while mocking the not-so-distant past.
  25. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    And among the things this ''HP'' does very well indeed is deepen the darker, more frightening atmosphere for audiences of all ages already familiar with the intricacies of the ''Potter'' landscape. (This is as it should be: Harry's story is supposed to get darker.)
  26. Ice Age
    Ice Age never matches the brilliance of ''Toy Story'' or the heartfelt heft of ''Shrek,'' but it's an antic and sweet-spirited pleasure.
  27. In Good Company
    The denouement of the movie is as preposterously happy as a children's fairy tale. But the moral is ageless.
  28. Mulholland Dr.
    Rapt and beautiful and absorbing.
  29. Osmosis Jones
    Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction.
  30. Praise
    Heavier on mood than incident, but its vision of a doomed erotic power war has a lurching authenticity.
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