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For 16,532 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: 8,702 out of 16532
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16532
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16532
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  1. Storytelling
    None of this intellectualizing is necessary to the simple enjoyment of Storytelling -- provided the viewer has a taste for the pitch-black humor that emerges when Solondz's camera becomes a veritable blowtorch aimed at humanity's myriad failings.
  2. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Revenge may be sweet, but this is one "Monte Cristo" that leaves a sour taste.
  3. Beijing Bicycle
    With this masterful, flawless film, Xiaoshuai emerges in the front ranks of China's now numerous, world-renowned filmmakers.
  4. A Walk to Remember
    A sensitively told story of first love that could have been more affecting with a little more grit and without so mawkish a score.
  5. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    The result is hopelessly inane, humorless and under-inspired.
  6. American Adobo
    An intimate, good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected.
  7. Ha-Hesder
    One of the most successful, provocative and intensely contemporary of Israeli films, so much so that to watch it is to feel the country having a passionate argument with itself.
  8. Italian for Beginners
    A delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them.
  9. Snow Dogs
    Every generation is entitled to its dopey, sticky junk and, deep into the winter blahs, they don't get stickier or dopier than Snow Dogs.
  10. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    One of the five most popular films of the year in France, "Wolf" is a cross-cultural hoot that no one should take too seriously.
  11. Orange County
    Starts out deliriously funny but allows sentimentality to squeeze it to a pulp by the time it's over.
  12. Impostor
    Likely to be best appreciated by dedicated sci-fi fans, admirers of Dick in particular. It hasn't the stupendous razzle-dazzle of a mega-budget picture like "A.I. Artificial Intelligence."
  13. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    Intoxicating and meditative by turns, helped by Fred Frith's minimalist score, this film opens a portal into a singular creative mind.
  14. Charlotte Gray
    Charlotte Gray, for all Blanchett's radiance and intelligence in the title role, is a bore.
  15. I Am Sam
    A warm, hard-to-resist story.
  16. Dark Blue World
    As it stands, Dark Blue World -- for all the considerable skills of the Sveraks and their colleagues on both sides of the camera -- occupies that treacherous territory between art film and popular epic.
  17. Black Hawk Down
    His is a triumph of pure filmmaking, a pitiless, unrelenting, no-excuses war movie so thoroughly convincing it's frequently difficult to believe it is a staged re-creation.
  18. Gosford Park
    It's the style of the thing, not the plot, that is the attraction here, the great way the cast has with the snarky dialogue.
  19. Monster's Ball
    Hank is but the latest of Thornton's strikingly taciturn characters in a whole string of movies, but for Berry, Leticia represents a big-screen breakthrough.
  20. The Shipping News
    It's a portrayal so unconvincing it makes it close to impossible for the rest of the film to function as intended.
  21. Ali
    Whatever the reason, the energy and hold-onto-your-seat excitement that Muhammad Ali brought to the sports world is oddly absent from this quite accomplished but finally distant film.
  22. The Majestic
    The Majestic isn't. Rather it's "The Film That Wasn't There," a derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried. And it tries, oh, how it tries.
  23. Kate & Leopold
    A flawed time-travel love story, benefits from Meg Ryan's reliable perkiness and establishes Australia's Hugh Jackman as a potent romantic leading man. These and other pluses, however, cannot overcome the film's inability to come alive for a full hour and 20 minutes.
  24. A Beautiful Mind
    There is more to admire in A Beautiful Mind than you might suspect, but less than its creators believe. When the film does succeed, it almost seems to do so despite itself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Song for Martin
    From its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale, "Martin" is a masterfully conducted work.
  26. How High
    There's a spirit of generosity to How High that allows many performers to shine beyond its sharp and amiable stars.
  27. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    The movie's clatter and whiz-bang suggests more humor than there actually is.
  28. Little Otik
    Little Otik is too outre not to turn off some, but for those who can go the increasingly macabre distance, its sheer power to confound can be enthralling.
  29. Joe Somebody
    Joe Somebody sends audiences home happy but also with an awareness that happy endings have to be earned in real life as on the screen.
  30. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    Made with intelligence, imagination, passion and skill, propulsively paced and shot through with an aged-in-oak sense of wonder, the trilogy's first film so thrillingly catches us up in its sweeping story that nothing matters but the vivid and compelling events unfolding on the screen.
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