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For 16,524 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 2.3 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. The Simian Line
    These formidable actresses [Redgrave and Daly], abetted by a persuasive Connick, and by Hurt as the most genteel and benevolent of ghosts, set a high standard for a splendid ensemble cast.
  2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    What saves Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is what created it in the first place: J.K. Rowling's enrapturing imagination. At those sporadic moments when the film allows us to share in Harry's wonder, it lets us recapture our own as well.
  3. The Wash
    A knucklehead operation, all glands and attitude with no heart or brains.
  4. Snide and Prejudice
    Might work on the stage but is merely tedious on the screen.
  5. Maze
    In Linney, Morrow has chosen a formidable co-star, an actress who seems to draw upon an unusual degree of self-awareness to endow every character she plays with dimensions beyond what any script could provide.
  6. King of the Jungle
    The merely depressing ultimately gives way to the contrived in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's King of the Jungle.
  7. Heist
    The thinking person's caper flick, with its endlessly clever plotting revealing character under the utmost pressure.
  8. Shallow Hal
    Lacks even a vestige of subtlety and is rarely so much as amusing. Viewers with fond memories of the brothers' wildly funny "There's Something About Mary" will be astonished at how few laughs the current venture has.
  9. Happenstance
    It brims with the charm, wisdom and light touch that have endeared French films to international audiences for more than a century. It doesn't hurt that its star is "Amelie's" Audrey Tautou.
  10. Tape
    Thoroughly engrossing.
  11. Domestic Disturbance
    So TV-movie-of-the-week that you wonder throughout why you can't use a remote to find a decent ballgame.
  12. Everything Put Together
    The carefully crafted Everything Put Together is unpredictably venturesome, and cinematographer Roberto Schaefer makes virtuoso use of digital video to create the images and movements that play so large a part in the film's success.
  13. Monsters, Inc.
    Though it has its charms, Monsters, Inc. does not measure up. As a childhood entertainment it is certainly fine, but Pixar's celebrated lure for adults is largely absent.
  14. Amélie
    Features an aggressive, in-your-face romanticism that's noticeably lacking in genuine warmth. While its story of lonely misfits searching for love has appealing moments, more often it turns into an overbearing fable overburdened with fake joie de vivre.
  15. The One
    Li's far too unthreatening a presence to cause much of a stir amid the din of hard rock music and the pall left by fight choreography that has had every last bit of life digitally drained away.
  16. Punks
    Terrific entertainment, full of wit and energy, alternately hilarious and serious -- and very sexy.
  17. The Man Who Wasn't There
    You could say a lot about the very satisfying The Man Who Wasn't There, but what's for sure is that no one but the deadpan, dead-on Coen brothers could have turned it out.
  18. The Town Is Quiet
    Intimate and human yet deeply ambitious, a powerhouse of a film made with a disturbing vision.
  19. High Heels and Low Lifes
    A broad and stale British crime comedy that wastes the considerable talent and presence of Minnie Driver.
  20. On the Line
    Sophisticated romantic comedy for people who think "Corky Romano" is trenchant political satire.
  21. K-PAX
    A pleasant enough entertainment raised above its station by the quality of its acting.
  22. Life as a House
    Works as a heart-warming, involving experience.
  23. Better Than Sex
    It's a good thing Better Than Sex, which is pretty raunchy and absolutely not for prudes, does have more than sex on its mind, because otherwise audiences might be tempted to dismiss it as a tease.
  24. Thirteen Ghosts
    Although not for the faint of heart, it's a potent -- and very tricky -- treat.
  25. Donnie Darko
    If you let it be what it is, Donnie Darko will knock you flat.
  26. Bones
    The movie is over the top and garish. Its transitions often are sloppy and crude. But it brandishes its excesses like a loud, retro suit.
  27. Trembling Before G-d
    DuBowski has cast admirably far and wide for his interviews, giving the work global scope. In some instances, DuBowski is pretty clearly a proactive documentarian, inspiring some of his interviewees to dare to take steps that are risky and revealing.
  28. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    A well-crafted film, and it must be said that its actresses, in being prepared to come close to baring all for art, reveal stunning figures and perform scorching routines.
  29. Focus
    While Macy is persuasive, much of Focus is not.
  30. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Buried under the miscalculations, the shamelessness, the off-putting and inappropriate broadness are sporadically visible souvenirs of a good project gone bad, hints of the unusual, bittersweet story that got away.
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