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For 16,533 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,703 out of 16533
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16533
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16533
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  1. Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
    If there is one moment in The Language of Music that will thrill old rock fans, it's watching Dowd, his fluid hands moving with a surgeon's grace, remix for the film's benefit the 24-track sub-master of "Layla."
  2. The Tracker
    Redeemed by its adherence to a simple yet distinctive approach to storytelling and its uniformly strong acting.
  3. Along Came Polly
    On paper it has every advantage, from gifted stars Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston to an established comedy writer-director with a promising idea about a romance between a carefree woman and a worried man. But instead of maximizing those pluses, Along Came Polly so completely fritters them away that even its brief 90 minutes feels unhappily long.
  4. Tokyo Godfathers
    As with the greatest animated films, the triumph of Kon's work lies not just in its beauty and singularly sophisticated storytelling but in how that beauty and storytelling combine to give the films a sting so human you can forget you're watching a cartoon.
  5. My Baby's Daddy
    A tedious comedy... It's not the worst premise for humor dashed with a little wisdom, but the script, written by the film's star Eddie Griffin and others, is less than inspired and tends to blur the line between immaturity and just plain stupidity.
  6. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    She was guilty, no doubt, but as this immensely moving film makes clear, Aileen Wuornos was also heartbreakingly human.
  7. Chasing Liberty
    The film means to be an unpretentious, engaging romantic comedy but stretches its charm awfully thin with a 110-minute running time.
  8. The Battle of Algiers
    Achieves its success through a combination of attitude and technique, uniting, to exceptional effect, a way of viewing the world morally while looking at it physically.
  9. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    Engrossing and illuminating.
  10. Secret Things
    The result is both merciless and darkly funny.
  11. Millennium Mambo
    There's wonderful promise in Hou's attempt to make a movie about the kind of woman who's usually part of the scenery.
  12. Japanese Story
    Collette is fearless in reaching deeply into her emotions, and her expressiveness as an actress comes across as completely natural because it so clearly comes from within.
  13. The Company
    Makes the world of ballet, seen by so many as rarefied, accessible and exciting, a rigorous art that yields breathtaking results.
  14. Paycheck
    The sort of noisy nonsense that Woo's earlier action movies made irrelevant, but alas not extinct.
  15. The Young Black Stallion
    A film truly geared to the 6-year-old level. If not younger.
  16. Cold Mountain
    There are not one, but two wars raging inside this adaptation: one between the North and the South, and another, more calamitous war between art and middlebrow entertainment.
  17. Cheaper by the Dozen
    As synthetic as a plastic Christmas tree.
  18. Peter Pan
    Though being magical is very much its intention, it never manages to cross the threshold that makes that happen in our hearts.
  19. Monster
    Phony choppers and a startling resemblance to Jon Voight aren't enough to transform Theron into Wuornos, and I didn't buy either the performance or the character for a second.
  20. Calendar Girls
    Closer in texture and consistency to individually wrapped American cheese than good, tangy English cheddar. But even humble plastic-wrapped cheese has its virtues and so does this film.
  21. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    Never one to shy away from challenges, Morris has come up with one of the best documentaries of this or any year.
  22. The Butterfly
    An exceptionally satisfying film of much grace and beauty.
  23. Mona Lisa Smile
    For all its flaws, its obvious if irrelevant similarity to "Dead Poets Society," it lets us spend some quality time with some of the finest actresses in American film as they give energetic life to one of the most radically underrepresented minorities in Hollywood: the intelligent woman.
  24. House of Sand and Fog
    Its step-by-step tragedy is so ruthless in its unfolding, you may find yourself wishing it were less well done, that it left you some room to breathe. But House of Sand and Fog has a story to tell and it means to tell it, no matter what the cost.
  25. The Hebrew Hammer
    Unfunny rather than outrageous as intended.
  26. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    As completely real on the psychological level as its up-to-the-moment visual effects have on the physical.
  27. Hotel Room
    Begins on a mildly entertaining note, with each successive vignette the film grows increasingly tedious.
  28. AKA
    Among the most sophisticated, fully realized and satisfying films of the year.
  29. The Statement
    Films can't just sound good on paper; they have to be effective on the screen, and in that form, The Statement is disappointing.
  30. Prisoner of Paradise
    A strange story wrapped in a stranger one, an engrossing documentary about one of the least known and most unexpected aspects of the Nazi war against the Jews.
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