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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    If you're at all curious about what it feels like to be inside a race car going 200 miles per hour at Daytona International Speedway, I don't think there's a better, quicker or safer way to find out than Simon Wincer's documentary.
  2. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    A story about people learning to know themselves through relationships to others -- delivered with gentle, offbeat humor.
  3. This Ain't No Heartland
    This is as cheesy and irrelevant as political documentaries get. Horvath, who is openly critical of the invasion of Iraq, makes game of a handful of Iowans and Nebraskans who are either too dumb, too drunk or too uninterested to have an informed opinion about it.
  4. Starsky & Hutch
    The new buddy comedy movie that assumes the names of the series' characters and features the same hot-to-trot, tomato-red and shocking-white 1974 Ford Gran Torino is more fun than a Heidi Fleiss open house.
  5. Hidalgo
    It's a bit of an oddball story, but surely there was a less plodding way to elaborate on it.
  6. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    Has something to add about the toll Western society takes on spiritual values, and the ugliness of consumerism.
  7. Ghost River
    Even Isabelle Huppert Lite is more profound than the best work of most other actresses.
  8. The Reckoning
    Has so many ideas working in it that they all but suffocate its thin plot.
  9. Collateral Damages
    The final image of the snow-covered landfill, having consumed the debris, provides a kind of closure for Sauret. But for the firemen, the nightmare continues.
  10. Club Dread
    Pure dumb fun -- horror slapstick that rudely parodies both the arterial violence of slasher films and the topless hedonism of the spring-break ritual.
  11. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Has some good music and hot dancing -- filmed choppily -- but it completely lacks the magic of its predecessor.
  12. Twisted
    It's an old maxim that you can't make a good movie from a bad script. But with the suspense thriller Twisted, Philip Kaufman shows that you can make one that looks like it should be good.
  13. Confessions of a Burning Man
    Essentially a home movie, nicely shot but dull.
  14. Goodbye Lenin!
    Wolfgang Becker's premise is absurdist and makes great sense as political satire.
  15. Greendale
    The film's only dialogue is composed of Young's songs lip-synched and acted out by the cast. This makes for a very literal, somewhat stilted experience.
  16. The Passion of the Christ
    Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of World War II. It is sickening.
  17. Kitchen Stories
    Features an absurdist sensibility that ultimately melts your heart. It's certainly one of the stranger movies you'll see.
  18. Against the Ropes
    As a boxing movie, Against the Ropes is perfunctory, with a well-muscled Omar Epps diligently enduring predictable montages showing his rise to fame as Jackie's first protégé. As a biopic, it's likewise uninspired stuff.
  19. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    A safely sanitized comedy with an important message about loyalty and individuality, plays to Lohan's strengths and gives the target audience a chance to live it up vicariously.
  20. EuroTrip
    A string of sketches. Some are better than others -- or, at least, less bad -- but they exist as extended, stand-alone jokes within an enveloping framework.
  21. Welcome to Mooseport
    It neither mocks nor satirizes, it doesn't touch any social issues, and though it is about an election, there are no losers. For all those reasons, there aren't many laughs, either. Political comedy plays against tension, and there just isn't any.
  22. Our Father
    Haroun is deft at handling the joys and pain of childhood. He neither condescends nor ­­over-sentimentalizes. It is a story of separation anxiety (for Amine) and coming of age (for Tahir) and it's universal.
  23. Big Animal
    This black-and-white movie features an enduring image: an ordinary couple at the dinner table with the giant, Dr. Seuss-like head of the camel ­filling their window ominously, ridiculously, like another dinner guest -- or like the proverbial elephant in the room that no one will address.
  24. Clifford's Really Big Movie
    A really lame attempt to expand the marketing reach of the PBS-TV series.
  25. After the Life
    We're treated to two smashing performances from Morel and Blanc, and all of the mysteries raised before are satisfyingly resolved.
  26. 50 First Dates
    A terrible movie by all reasonable standards -- yet it leaves a sweet taste.
  27. Love Object
    Unfortunately, the patina of witty satire eventually gives way to a gratuitous sadism that makes this sordid story feel like a fraud.
  28. Robot Stories
    The stories are sharply written and well composed. Some are high tech on a low-tech budget, but where they find their strength -- in the emotions of their characters -- money is no object.
  29. Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
    Presents a refreshing appreciation of Chaplin's work in the context of comedy, political and social satire, and history itself.
  30. The Code
    Interestingly, though, the actor who plays Yanis is a dead ringer (despite the scowl) for Adam Sandler. That's surely an effect director Manuel Boursinhac didn't intend.
  31. The Seagull's Laughter
    It's no easy trick to invite viewers into an utterly bleak setting populated by the dissatisfied and small-minded. But a droll script and generally deft direction make the Icelandic chill surprisingly inviting.
  32. Osama
    Rough around the edges, but effectively presents the quandary of women during the repressive religious regime.
  33. An Amazing Couple
    Given the grim events, the buoyantly goofy An Amazing Couple has the effect of laughing gas pumped through the vents in a funeral hall.
  34. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Queen Latifah, as the proprietor of the ­lady's salon next door to Calvin's, brightens things up in the brief appearances that serve as symbiotic promotion for the producers' coming spin-off movie, "Beauty­ Shop."
  35. Catch That Kid
    A passable, but entirely uninspired "Spy Kids" wanna-be.
  36. Miracle
    What is lacking in suspense is more than made up for in passion and in sports cinematography virtuosity.
  37. The Dreamers
    As tawdry as this may seem, Bertolucci is not trying to one-up himself. He was 27 when the student riots occurred and very much a participant in a revolution that was both complex in its implications and naive in much of the behavior. He has caught that perfectly
  38. The Return
    A haunting, melancholy work.
  39. Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust
    A poignant, deeply ­intimate history of one family.
  40. Blind Shaft
    A brilliantly spare and poignant tragicomedy that projects such savage self-criticism of China's "economic miracle" that the film has been banned at home.
  41. The Perfect Score
    Only sharp dialogue and a suspenseful buglary might have given this lame, quasi morality play some energy. It has neither.
  42. You Got Served
    This amateurish drama about street-dance contests and busted friendship is about as real as Lil' Kim's chest.
  43. Eat This New York
    An excellent idea that never quite pans out.
  44. Latter Days
    In equal parts earnest and awkward, this romance between a Mormon missionary and an L.A. party boy falls significantly short of its lofty goals.
  45. On the Run
    Belvaux says his tryptich...are stand-alone movies that can be enjoyed in any order. I disagree. None is a complete experience and "An Amazing Couple" can be easily skipped. But the first and third add up to something very poignant and satisfying.
  46. The Big Bounce
    A sexy crime story. The double-crossing complications don't make much sense, but it's fun to watch Wilson turn the hard-boiled dialogue into a series of ironic one-liners under the hot Oahu sun.
  47. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Starts out as fresh as your popcorn, but turns stale before you finish it.
  48. Touching the Void
    Simpson and Yates give a good idea why individuals are drawn to extreme sports.
  49. The Butterfly Effect
    If you approach this movie in the right frame of mind -- that is, with total contempt -- you can still enjoy it as a comedy.
  50. Made-Up
    Like picking out a family at random and walking into their house during dinnertime. Sure, their conversations are fascinating to them. But to you, it's just boring, meaningless chatter.
  51. Empathy
    I don't mean to demean it; it's smart, inventive and well-crafted. But as a feature film, it's a novelty item at best.
  52. Along Came Polly
    Stiller and Aniston have zero sexual chemistry. But they have impeccable comic chemistry in a movie that features some stellar bits of business.
  53. Teacher's Pet
    By deftly blending silliness and sophistication, this little movie does its part to stem the technological tide.
  54. Torque
    Despite all the bike chases and bullet-dodging, the real sport here is Xtreme posing.
  55. Cuba: Island of Music
    The movie is dismally organized, his (Keys) interviews are shallow and uninformative, and the project has a whole lacks a strong point of view.
  56. Tokyo Godfathers
    Though he's working with an unavoidably sentimental story, Kon embraces the dark underside of his characters' lives, giving this animated film a satisfyingly three-dimensional feel.
  57. The Tracker
    An underwritten drama.
  58. Chasing Liberty
    The screenwriters claim they got the idea for this dreary thing by glimpsing a besieged Chelsea Clinton in the stands at a basketball game.
  59. My Baby's Daddy
    There's no story to speak of - three cohabiting bachelors are dragged into adulthood by the simultaneous pregnancies of their girlfriends - but Anderson, Imperioli and Eddie Griffin are amiable company and there's an earned laugh here and there.
  60. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    The filmmaker's ego and ethics aside, there's no denying the power of Wuornos' behavior here.
  61. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    So unfocused we never get to know the man behind the gowns.
  62. Japanese Story
    Japanese Story could have been a two-character play staged in front of a desert mural. It wouldn't have been as pretty, but it's that tight.
  63. Cheaper by the Dozen
    There is not a frame of "Cheaper" that doesn't feel contrived. It fails the most fundamental test of movie logic.
  64. Cold Mountain
    Minghella has certainly mounted a gorgeous movie and the battle scenes are brutally spectacular. But overall, "Cold Mountain" is like a fine piece of hand-crafted leather, where the stitching shows its quality. That looks good on a handbag, not so good on the big screen.
  65. Paycheck
    The story, adapted by Dean Georgaris, doesn't come within a light year of science-fiction plausibility, and after a while Woo gives up trying to sell it and reverts to the action choreography that made him a master of Hong Kong martial-arts movies.
  66. Peter Pan
    Both enchantingly old-fashioned and daringly modern.
  67. The Company
    Knowing that the director is Robert Altman gives you a good idea of what to expect: a demimonde of locker-room chatter, catty sniping, backstage politics, high art and low self-esteem. Altman constructs the movie with the same cross-currents of his other ensemble movies.
  68. The Young Black Stallion
    Stallion" has gorgeous cinematography with spectacular landscapes - plus a lazy script, forgettable performances and regrettably uninspired direction.
  69. Children of Love
    A powerful drama that turns a common event -- the rending of a family -- into an intimate, personal affair.
  70. Monster
    Any which way you describe this uncompromising movie, it will never sound palatable. Still, it features one of the most spectacular physical transformations by an actress hungry for a meaty role. I haven't used the term "tour de force" in all of 2003, but now it is time.
  71. Mona Lisa Smile
    A movie about a maverick ought to be a little daring as well, and Mona Lisa Smile is as safe and predictable as chintz.
  72. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    The film's greatest strength is its inadvertent timeliness. Parallels between LBJ's Vietnam policy and George W. Bush's Iraq policy go off in your head like flares.
  73. House of Sand and Fog
    It's a sad, rich story, full of misunderstandings, bad bargains, odd parallels.
  74. Calendar Girls
    This is good clean fun, with or without the soap, and one of the most spirited entries of the season.
  75. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The most emotionally satisfying because, in addition to having both more intimate drama and more spectacular battles, it resolves all of the issues raised before.
  76. Prisoner of Paradise
    Gripping documentary.
  77. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Does an uncommonly good job of summoning all that goes into a masterpiece - erotic tension, financial considerations, even the sensual, elaborate grinding and mixing of paint colors as per 17th-century requirements.
  78. The Statement
    There's a sensational, highly original performance by Swinton.
  79. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    But where the original was slight but sweet, the remake is depressingly superficial and cynical.
  80. Something's Gotta Give
    It's hard to imagine anyone other than Keaton pulling this off.
  81. Stuck on You
    A two-hour, one-joke comedy that never gets old, Stuck on You is the most mature, consistently funny and satisfyingly sweet movie in the rollicking careers of brother filmmakers Bobby and Peter Farrelly.
  82. Power Trip
    To Devlin's great credit, he keeps us rapt throughout.
  83. Big Fish
    But Burton and August have added ­anger to the mix, and it sours much of the otherwise wondrous tone.
  84. Honey
    A by-the-numbers, let's-put-on-a-show quasi-musical that has absolutely nothing going for it, except Alba.
  85. The Last Samurai
    Cruise isn't horribly miscast, a la Tony Curtis in "The Son of Ali Baba" or John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," but he doesn't miss by far.
  86. Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
    Feels a little too much like a film-school project, but it does offer an informative look at a timely issue.
  87. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Omar Sharif certainly doesn't disappoint in Monsieur Ibrahim. The casting alone promises something extraordinary.
  88. What Alice Found
    Digital video is both the blessing and the curse of writer-director A. Dean Bell's well-conceived but underachieved What Alice Found.
  89. The Legend of Leigh Bowery
    Some consider Leigh Bowery a visionary performance artist. Others will see a selfindulgent narcissist. You may want to decide for yourself.
  90. My Flesh and Blood
    Susan Tom has her hands full in Jonathan Karsh's documentary My Flesh and Blood -- she's dealing with her 13 children, most adopted, some with serious maladies. Rarely does one encounter such capable hands.
  91. Valley of Tears
    The town's entrenched racism is impossible to ignore, but the efforts toward change make a compelling history.
  92. Kal Ho Naa Ho
    All three leads grow on you.
  93. In America
    If you're looking for a bit of an uplift, you could do worse among the gloom of so many holiday dramas.
  94. The Triplets of Belleville
    An insanely delicious animated feature.
  95. Bad Santa
    "Ghost World" director Terry Zwigoff, working with a depraved script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, has fashioned the sickest -- and funniest -- black comedy in years.
  96. The Haunted Mansion
    A tepid comedy whose only saving grace is the face of Jennifer Tilly in a crystal ball.
  97. Timeline
    An instant contender for cult status on the midnight-movie circuit, where lines like "Do we look like quantum wormhole specialists?" will be given the respect they deserve.
  98. The Cooler
    When you realize The Cooler is not a comedy but a dark and violent love story, it's hard to reconcile its premise with its mood. The saving graces are the performances of William H. Macy as Bernie and Maria Bello.
  99. 21 Grams
    As darkness falls over the movie landscape comes the year's darkest and best movie of them all - Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams.
  100. The Cat in the Hat
    Everything to treasure about that magical, slightly malevolent feline of childhood verse is obliterated in the coarse, charmless Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
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