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For 639 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Donnie Darko
Lowest review score: 0 Rollerball
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 314 out of 639
  2. Mixed: 210 out of 639
  3. Negative: 115 out of 639
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  1. State Property
    But there is a saving grace: Seemingly aware of how weak the material was, the filmmakers have filled it with wall-to-wall beautiful naked women in every other scene, complete with a little gratuitous lesbian action. It can't save the film, but it'll keep you from dozing off.
  2. Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
    It's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over, but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest.
  3. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    All manner of superstitions, religious conspiracies and insurrections are aired, resulting less in awe than bewilderment. However, taken as an exciting and expansive cultural bridge, the film is a roaring success.
  4. What Time Is It Over There?
    Those with an interest in new or singular sorts of film experiences will find What Time Is It There? well worth the time.
  5. Impostor
    Turns out some folks just don't know Philip K. Dick about making movies.
  6. Black Hawk Down
    Doesn't just kick your ass. It pummels your entire body; it leaves you trembling.
  7. Charlotte Gray
    Never rises above the level of a 1950s-era adolescent romance novel.
  8. I Am Sam
    In one of the year's most woefully manipulative and oppressively pandering offerings: I Am Sam, a dolled-up TV movie-of-the-week masquerading as profound cinema.
  9. Dark Blue World
    Whatever Dark Blue World lacks in pyrotechnics it makes up for with richly drawn characters, high drama and pointed historical ironies.
  10. Monster's Ball
    Well redeemed by its dank atmosphere and cracker-barrel performances.
  11. Gosford Park
    Altman's technique also allows his huge cast to act up a storm, in the best sense. Gosford Park has roughly half the best actors in England in it.
  12. Ali
    Muhammad Ali's spirit, his life force, is not quite present here, despite Smith's astonishing mimicry and Mann's considerable perspiration.
  13. The Shipping News
    Hallström has leavened the story's bleakness with great warmth, fashioning one of the finest films of the year.
  14. Kate & Leopold
    Mangold gets stuck in the gooey sweet spots of his tale a little more often than he breaks loose with a bracing jolt of perversity.
  15. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    The movie's essentially a series of high-speed, dizzying rocket chases that should keep the young'uns perfectly quiet.
  16. How High
    Just when it looked like "Not Another Teen Movie" might claim the crap crown comes this stoner's tale.
  17. A Beautiful Mind
    It's everything most movies this year have not been: deeply felt, genuine, gracious.
  18. The Majestic
    Indeed, the best that can be said about The Majestic is that it may boost Capra's reputation by virtue of comparison. Apparently, it's not so easy to weave that kind of magic.
  19. Joe Somebody
    It isn't until Joe starts getting confident and cocky that Allen starts to feel a little more natural in the role, and by then the movie's plot has all but evaporated into a series of wispy gags that barely register.
  20. Little Otik
    In the realm of B-movies about messing with nature, it's as enjoyable as "Frankenstein Unbound," and unlike, say, "A.I." it's intentionally creepy. It's also occasionally masterful.
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  21. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    The film succeeds as massive, astonishing entertainment; verily, enthralling us is its chief goal.
  22. Piñero
    What Ichaso does do is take us on a dizzying, constantly moving ride through an exciting decade in the blossoming of "Nuyorican" culture with its most flamboyant figure as our focus.
  23. Iris
    Dench is wholly extraordinary in a characterization that is frequently muted, literally and necessarily.
  24. Lantana
    Lawrence constructs a vivid pastiche of human foibles, nicely flavored with a touch of suspense and some well-timed jolts of humor. In the end it's a terrifically entertaining film, if not quite so profound as the makers might wish.
  25. In Search of Peace
    History buffs will find this film lacking, and it isn't really deep enough to educate the rest of us as thoroughly as it should.
  26. The Royal Tenenbaums
    One expects more from writer-director Wes Anderson (and his co-scribbler, Owen Wilson) than such frivolous fun that bears no lingering effect.
  27. Kandahar
    A film worth your time, and if you know going into it that there's no closure, it'll give you all the more freedom to enjoy what IS there.
  28. Not Another Teen Movie
    It took five men to concoct the hackneyed plot and conceive the brainless jokes that constitute Not Another Teen Movie, meaning there are five men in Los Angeles right now still trying to wash that stink off their soft, idle hands.
  29. Vanilla Sky
    Crowe renders David's dream (and its accompanying nightmare) so literal we can't help but leave the theater feeling as though we've been lectured to, told how to feel and what to think. And for an audience, that's a bit of a nightmare.
  30. Behind the Sun
    Beautiful to watch and universal in theme by any name.
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