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For 16,550 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Miss Congeniality
    A mainstream Hollywood escapist fantasy that in the end melts satire into sentimentality, but it is funny and knowing, detached enough to take a bemused stance toward its calculated tone.
  2. State and Main
    A quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish.
  3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Enlivening things to an unprecedented extent, the songs turn O Brother into perhaps the warmest production in the Coens' repertoire.
  4. Cast Away
    Comes off as convincing but never compelling. There's a ponderous quality to it, as if it's forever clearing its throat to say something of value that doesn't quite get articulated.
  5. The Family Man
    Not even a sincere and heroic effort by Nicolas Cage can redeem the film's essential phoniness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Neighbors the Yamadas
    Rendered in Japanese ink wash, it is a surreal look at nuclear family dynamics. [21 Oct 2014, p.D5]
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  7. Finding Forrester
    Even fairy tales could use a bit more substance than this.
  8. The Gift
    Overly familiar material, even well done, cannot be made more intrinsically interesting than it is. Not even by Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves.
  9. Pollock
    Stands out among creative bio-pics for an ability to show art being made in a way that's as realistic and exciting as it's ever been on screen.
  10. South of Heaven, West of Hell
    Overlong, overwritten.
  11. The Visit
    This is a film that stays with you long after the lights have gone up.
  12. The Emperor's New Groove
    A delightful, effervescent morality tale for children conveyed with such wit and sophistication that adults are likely to be enchanted as well.
  13. What Women Want
    A vaguely amusing formulaic comedy with a premise that turns out to be more discomforting than endearing.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dude, Where's My Car?
    There's a benign, peace-loving air about it all that forces you to accept and embrace the film's two central characters.
  15. Chocolat
    A work of artistry and craftsmanship at the highest level.
  16. Vertical Limit
    Vertical Limit, despite its weaknesses, finds the right director in Martin Campbell to energize this high-altitude thriller.
  17. Dungeons & Dragons
    Whalin is awful, Birch is saddled with lines that would make a silent film star blanch and Irons devours huge chunks of scenery with the ferocity of one of those dog-fighting dragons.
  18. Proof of Life
    An ambitious film that aims to examine the human equations behind the abductions. But for all its good intentions, it's not as subtle as it might be, and it's finally pitched too broadly to achieve the level of emotional truth it aims for.
  19. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger's blend of the magical, the mythical and the romantic fills a need in us we might not even realize we had.
  20. Boys Life 3
    Lively, amusing collection of five films that take a wry look at being gay.
  21. Spring Forward
    Spring Forward is so fully realized and so moving that you wish you could get away with merely saying: "Go see it for yourself."
  22. 102 Dalmatians
    You can't help but feel that Disney has delivered a turkey for Thanksgiving.
  23. Unbreakable
    It would be foolish to deny that Unbreakable has scenes that make you jump, but without anything resonant to apply that skill to, the film has no option except squandering its technique.
  24. Quills
    Soon becomes a sadistic experience in its own right. Experiencing this pretentious wallow -- overwritten, under-thought and overdone -- is a very sophisticated form of torture.
  25. Lies
    A work of honesty and artistic integrity that nonetheless will be difficult to watch for many viewers.
  26. Bounce
    Affleck and Paltrow, who've been excellent elsewhere, display less chemistry than they've shown in magazine photo shoots. Even Woody and Bo Peep had more going on between them in "Toy Story" than these two manage here.
  27. La bûche
    With its lovely images of wintertime Paris and its lyrical Michel Legrand music, La Bu^che does take the cake.
  28. One Day in September
    This utterly compelling behind-the-scenes account of that horrific event unfolds with a potent sense of authority and authenticity.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    All of this film's faults are nearly forgiven for the short but memorable scene of sumo wrestlers singing a karaoke version of "Bad Girls."
  30. The 6th Day
    From its standard-issue action to its halfhearted dialogue and acting, that's one situation even two Schwarzeneggers aren't enough to solve.
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