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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 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. Waking Life
    An amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursues the logic-defying (parallel) subjects of dreaming and moviegoing.
  2. Spirited Away
    A triumph of psychological depth and artistic brilliance offered as the magical adventures of one skinny little girl.
  3. Ocean's Eleven
    It's a scrumptious and dizzy-spirited lark, a what-the-hell-let's-rob-the-casino flick made with so much wit and brains and dazzle and virtuosity that the sheer speed and cleverness of the caper hits you like a shot of pure oxygen.
  4. Mystic River
    Eastwood directs Mystic River with an invigorated grace and gravitas. This is a true American beauty of a movie, a tale of men and their bonds told by and for adults who value the old-fashioned Hollywood-studio notion of narrative.
  5. Man on the Moon
    Jim Carrey's performance is an impersonation on the level of genius.
  6. Yi Yi
    These 173 minutes don't drag, they waltz.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Raging Bull
    Another harsh character study, with poignant echoes of "Taxi Driver."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Cape Fear
    A hypnotically engrossing thriller that spins along on the dreams and anxieties of its characters.
  9. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    The film is at times harrowing to watch, yet it's also wry and delicate and absorbing. It's infused with the messy excitement of imperfect passion.
  10. Being John Malkovich
    The most excitingly original movie of the year.
  11. Dangerous Liaisons
    Pfeiffer reveals an emotional nakedness that's almost shocking. Never has she exposed so much and done it so simply. Who knew she could be this good?
  12. Finding Nemo
    You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo.
  13. Spider-Man 2
    This triumphant sequel to the hard-to-top 2002 original may be the first great comic-book movie in the age of self-help and CGI wizardry, an entertainment in which both the thrills and the therapeutic personal growth are well earned.
  14. Before Sunset
    The new film, which unfolds in real time over the course of 80 minutes, is a deeper, darker, altogether more memorable experience. It doesn't extend the characters so much as fulfill them.
  15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is.
  16. The Incredibles
    Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.
  17. Maria Full of Grace
    Unfolds with a simplicity that's as breathtaking as its inevitability is harrowing.
  18. The Piano
    By the end, Campion views all her characters with a compassion bordering on grace, a humanity-like her heroine's-as dark, quiet, and enveloping as the ocean.
  19. Requiem for a Dream
    May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.
  20. School of Rock
    The School of Rock was made by gifted veterans of the American indie scene, but it's still the most unlikely great movie of the year.
  21. Shower
    Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy.
  22. Thirteen
    With an authenticity that is tender and merciless, the movie shows you what it looks like when youth rebellion becomes a form of fascism.
  23. Open Water
    In spirit, Open Water reduces us to children peering through our fingers, waiting for the horrid deliverance we're not quite sure we want to see.
  24. Bend It Like Beckham
    The most exhilarating movie so far this year. It's made up of many familiar elements -- think ''Monsoon Wedding'' meets ''My Beautiful Laundrette'' meets ''Personal Best'' -- yet before long, you catch on to how buoyant and funny and original it is.
  25. The Bourne Supremacy
    A conventionally heightened series of escapes and clashes and hide-and-seek gambits, yet the way the film has been made, nothing that happens seems inevitable -- which is to say, anything seems possible. There's a word for that sensation. It's called excitement.
  26. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    Vibrantly, intricately alive on its own terms. This is what magic the movies can conjure with an inspired fellowship in charge, and unlimited pots of gold.
  27. Vera Drake
    Stunning and compassionate period drama.
  28. I Shot Andy Warhol
    As riveting as its title.
  29. When We Were Kings
    It took director-producer Leon Gast 22 years to edit and finance When We Were Kings, his thrilling documentary about the legendary 1974 heavyweight-championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. But the lag time has only deepened the impact of this thrilling documentary: All sad thoughts of Ali as a wounded warrior fall away in the glow of seeing the champ at his best.
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