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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. Secret Things
    The result is both merciless and darkly funny.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. The Company
    Makes the world of ballet, seen by so many as rarefied, accessible and exciting, a rigorous art that yields breathtaking results.
  5. Paycheck
    The sort of noisy nonsense that Woo's earlier action movies made irrelevant, but alas not extinct.
  6. The Young Black Stallion
    A film truly geared to the 6-year-old level. If not younger.
  7. 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.
  8. Cheaper by the Dozen
    As synthetic as a plastic Christmas tree.
  9. Peter Pan
    Though being magical is very much its intention, it never manages to cross the threshold that makes that happen in our hearts.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. The Butterfly
    An exceptionally satisfying film of much grace and beauty.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The Hebrew Hammer
    Unfunny rather than outrageous as intended.
  17. 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.
  18. Hotel Room
    Begins on a mildly entertaining note, with each successive vignette the film grows increasingly tedious.
  19. AKA
    Among the most sophisticated, fully realized and satisfying films of the year.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    Often rowdy and uproarious, the film also has surprising depth and subtext.
  23. Stuck on You
    While much of the unlikely charm of the Farrellys' newest comedy, Stuck on You, comes from its conceptual purity, much of the film's humor comes from its blissful impurity.
  24. Something's Gotta Give
    Stumbles in miscalculating how far it needs to go to make this particular romance convincing when, as another romantic comedy character put it, it had us from hello.
  25. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Even if Girl With a Pearl Earring is not nearly as remarkable dramatically as it is visually, it is, finally, a film of great beauty, and that is something worth appreciating.
  26. Big Fish
    There's delight to be had from watching Burton conjure up one fantastical Edward-inspired scenario after another.
  27. Man of the Year
    The film does have a certain flair and pace and is lively enough to be mildly diverting.
  28. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Surely there is room in the movies for a small film with an unabashed, even old-fashioned but timeless humanist spirit -- and a triumphant portrayal by a veteran star that is likely to be regarded as one of the year's best.
  29. What Alice Found
    Scrupulously fair-minded yet deliciously ambiguous, What Alice Found, a triumph of sound psychological and artistic judgment, is an unexpected treat for sophisticated audiences.
  30. Honey
    If you're in the mood for a hip-hop film with more happy faces than "The Partridge Family," Honey will divert you.
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