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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
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. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    The segments are introduced with little clichés or homilies, like "Ignorance Is Bliss," but the fierce intelligence of the script reminds us that sometimes a cliché is the only way to express the ineffable.
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  2. Enough
    This particular script is deplorable. It's a pure cribbing of Ron Bass' screenplay for "Sleeping With the Enemy," which was no prize itself.
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  3. Bartleby
    Does little more than re-create the oppressive feeling of suffocating employment. And why put yourself through that experience without the promise of a paycheck at the other end?
  4. Insomnia
    Pacino is masterful as the sharp-witted, seen-it-all detective.
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  5. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Popcorn-buyers, beware: This is no "Shrek," with raucous adult humor sailing over the heads of wee ones. This is "Sesame Street"-level, with white hats, black hats and simple moral messages.
    • New York Daily News
  6. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Written to skewer the upper class of its time, the script is now just a broad joke-fest, clever lines batted back and forth like badminton shuttlecocks.
    • New York Daily News
  7. The Back of the World
    Corcuera is a deft and determined storyteller, and it's a testament to his passion that we're left wanting to know a great deal more about each of his subjects.
  8. Late Marriage
    Whether this smart, sexy and unsparing film is a hilarious comedy or a poignant drama is a matter of personal opinion — and experience. But if you've ever felt both baffled and blessed by your own family, this "Marriage" is one event you won't want to miss.
    • New York Daily News
  9. About a Boy
    A comedy hit, but its secret is that it delves deeper than the usual summer fare.
    • New York Daily News
  10. The Believer
    Gosling's performance is a stunner, although the story-telling is otherwise pedestrian. It is the movie's blessing and curse that it does not shy away from Danny's murderous, inexplicable contradictions — or explain them.
  11. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    The overall effect of Lucas' digital mania has been detrimental to the saga. Where the first trilogy was mythological fantasy, the second is pure cartoon. The sad truth is, the more three-dimensional they look, the more two-dimensional they are.
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  12. Standing by Yourself
    Koury's harsh documentary is likely to leave you unsettled and depressed. Which is, clearly, just what it's supposed to do.
  13. Cremaster 3
    Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously.
  14. Ultimate X: The Movie
    In a feat of truly impressive cinematic finesse, Hendricks manages to capture every possible angle, from below a soaring motorcycle to atop a speeding luger's helmet.
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  15. Blackwoods
    Cheesy horror flick that feels like straight-to-video material.
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  16. Diamonds and Rust
    Directors Adi Barash and Ruth Shatz do a brilliant job of letting the South African, Israeli, Cuban and Namibian men aboard speak for themselves.
  17. Unfaithful
    The movie doesn't stoop to cheap psychoanalysis and must be commended for a bravely ambiguous ending. But most of the credit goes to Lane, who is simply extraordinary as a woman whose body is at war with her conscience.
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  18. The New Guy
    Tries everything possible to win you over -- satire, gross-out comedy, even earnest romance. But as any high-schooler can tell you, the harder you try, the bigger you fall.
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  19. Janice Beard
    As the story of a romantic office lump, Janice Beard resembles last year's "Bridget Jones's Diary." But it is a far, far lesser thing.
  20. The Lady and the Duke
    The result is a galvanizing mix of intellectual discourse and guillotined heads.
    • New York Daily News
  21. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    The sunny, funny, toe-tapping Lagaan is the answer to those who ask why they don't make movies like they used to: They do, but in India.
  22. A Man's Gotta Do
    This amiable, off-kilter Australian comedy pits parental manipulation against adolescent pride, with generally amusing results.
  23. Fleeing by Night
    The many opera scenes are so beautifully mounted, they make up for the moments when the story veers toward melodrama.
  24. The Mystic Masseur
    There is a very sharp, funny critique of ambition and self-made gurus in The Mystic Masseur, but it is obscured by a softening bloat.
    • New York Daily News
  25. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Maintains a light, dainty tone despite the heavy-handed metaphor, but in crossing the Pacific to the U.S., it is bound to leave most viewers dry.
  26. Hollywood Ending
    A bouquet of snappy one-liners and disarming nuttiness.
    • New York Daily News
  27. Spider-Man
    Spider-Man is an almost-perfect extension of the experience of reading comic-book adventures.
    • New York Daily News
  28. Grin Without a Cat
    By turns brilliant and tedious, imaginative and mundane.
  29. Rain
    Movies about the dawning of female sexuality and its links to mother-daughter competition are tough to pull off, but Rain is a splendid example of how to get it right.
    • New York Daily News
  30. Circuit
    The movie's strongest draw is its kitsch value -- along with a wisecracking Bruce Vilanch, the cast includes '80s TV refugees Jm J. Bullock ("Too Close for Comfort") and the Greatest American Hero himself, William Katt.
    • New York Daily News
  31. Sade
    In any case, this is the image of the marquis we would know had he been handled by a top publicity team.
  32. Sex with Strangers
    You never know what these people are going to say or do, but you're pretty sure it will be whatever they want to.
  33. Life or Something Like It
    The movie creaks and groans, weighed down by clichés.
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  34. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    In keeping with the unrefined spirit of the '70s, the movie is deliberately haphazard and proudly retains all its mistakes, including narrator Sean Penn going up on his lines.
    • New York Daily News
  35. Night at the Golden Eagle
    Adam Rifkin's dank, relentless drama puts you savagely through the wringer without bothering to enlighten or entertain.
  36. Jason X
    If the 10th "Friday" sounds like the first "Alien," it's strictly intentional. Todd Farmer's script rips off that classic sci-fi horror film, replaces the acid-based monster with the hockey-masked Jason, adopts the self-mocking attitude of "Scream" and lets the heads, arms, legs and torsos fall where they may.
    • New York Daily News
  37. The Salton Sea
    Might be thought of as "Memento" for people who didn't get "Memento."
    • New York Daily News
  38. Some Body
    The gimmick is that the script is based on the real-life experiences of actress Stephanie Bennett, who plays Samantha.
  39. Facing the Music
    An urgent, stirring story made all the more inspiring by the very ordinary nature of its subjects.
  40. Enigma
    A smart, old-fashioned spy thriller in which the weapon of choice is brainpower.
    • New York Daily News
  41. Girls Can't Swim
    Sensitive and thoughtful coming-of-age story.
    • New York Daily News
  42. Chelsea Walls
    The actor's directorial debut is a lugubriously poetic homage to the famed Chelsea Hotel, which is to New York's artistic and beatnik past what Ellis Island is to the story of American immigration.
  43. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Vardalos is a breath of fresh air. After all the little nipped and tucked bunnies we've been seeing onscreen for so long, we forget what real women look like.
    • New York Daily News
  44. The Scorpion King
    Has been fine-tuned for adolescent boys, from the hectic pace right down to the way Cassandra's breasts are always barely draped.
    • New York Daily News
  45. Murder by Numbers
    Ultimately, Murder by Numbers has been reduced to a tease, giving us a hint -- mostly through the fine performances of Gosling, who creates a charismatic sociopath, and Pitt, who's character seems genuinely troubled -- of the kind of relevant social drama it might have been.
    • New York Daily News
  46. Nine Queens
    Clever, compelling, funny and unpredictable, and it has a lollapa-looza of an ending.
    • New York Daily News
  47. World Traveler
    Crudup gives it his best, but his character is so economically drawn, there's hardly anything there -- certainly nothing likable.
    • New York Daily News
  48. Murderous Maids
    Denis' slow, deliberate style shuns typical suspense techniques, relying instead on something far more effective: a stunning performance by Testud.
  49. Mutant Aliens
    This lackluster outing is mostly just a retread of past glories.
  50. The Triumph of Love
    The always reliable Kingsley and Shaw are hilarious, and if the movie isn't quite a triumph, it's still far better than the junk food currently cluttering movie screens.
    • New York Daily News
  51. Human Nature
    Fresh and often very funny, and it makes its point that when our native urges conflict with social norms, the former shall give in to the latter, or else.
    • New York Daily News
  52. New Best Friend
    Preposterous collegiate drama that exists simply to show pretty girls kissing, pretty boys undressing and pretty people of every sexual orientation drinking, doing drugs and otherwise wreaking postadolescent havoc.
  53. Changing Lanes
    Gets too caught up in its escalating violence and strained-to-bursting moral subtexts. It's the blood of souls drenching the screen, and it's a hideous sight to behold.
    • New York Daily News
  54. Frailty
    There's a good little psychological thriller buried underneath all the manufactured shocks, in the story of a powerless child standing alone against a parent's mental illness.
    • New York Daily News
  55. The Cat's Meow
    Dunst makes Davies the most confident and interesting person aboard the Oneida and makes this voyage almost, but not quite, worth taking.
    • New York Daily News
  56. The Sweetest Thing
    This vulgar, equal-opportunity chick flick aims pretty low.
    • New York Daily News
  57. The Other Side of Heaven
    Earnest, fact-based drama is marred only by the fact that it wants desperately to save your soul.
    • New York Daily News
  58. Echoes
    Intriguing almost in spite of itself.
  59. Lucky Break
    Without the surprise, realism, audacity and upstart cheekiness -- pun intended -- that made "The Full Monty's" blue-collar strippers so irresistible.
    • New York Daily News
  60. Astoria
    Fels like an awkward student film.
  61. The Komediant
    Works on two levels: Goldfinger does a terrific job exploring the broader history of Yiddish theater, while also homing in on the compelling story of the Burstein family itself.
  62. Les Destinées
    As befits a production of impeccable French pedigree, the acting, set design and lush cinematography are all outstanding. But the story is told so slowly.
    • New York Daily News
  63. High Crimes
    Judd has genuine movie star magnetism -- beauty, intelligence, presence and talent to spare. In the old studio days, she'd be Ingrid Bergman by now.
    • New York Daily News
  64. Big Trouble
    A mediocre movie that will be wiped from its stars' résumés with head-spinning speed.
    • New York Daily News
  65. Van Wilder
    A movie that shouldn't be allowed on the same campus as "Animal House."
    • New York Daily News
  66. Crush
    The tragedy that separates the Good Crush from the Bad Crush is a cleaver that severs the film's relationship with reality.
    • New York Daily News
  67. The Rookie
    Commits the sin of a hundred sports biographies in overselling its inherent drama.
    • New York Daily News
  68. No Such Thing
    The film's pace is just plain wacky, moving with the haste of a receding glacier most of the time, but then jumping ahead as if Hartley hit the gas on a time machine.
  69. Time Out
    A well-crafted indictment of the dark side of the modern work ethic.
    • New York Daily News
  70. The Piano Teacher
    Haneke has made a masterly, disturbing movie.
    • New York Daily News
  71. Death to Smoochy
    Plays like a long TV sketch, but with an array of characters, themes, subplots and situations just clever enough to keep it moving, and to give cover to its underlying cynicism.
    • New York Daily News
  72. Clockstoppers
    After the first hour, it starts to convince you that time really can stand still.
    • New York Daily News
  73. Panic Room
    May actually appeal more to women than men because of the steely heroine, the pitting of love of family against love of filthy lucre -- and the mom-fights-back plot.
    • New York Daily News
  74. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Falls short of the mark, content to shoot fish in a barrel.
  75. Shot in the Heart
    As wide-ranging, and yet as sharply focused, as Mikal Gilmore's book.
  76. Blade II
    Del Toro ("Cronos") is a stylish horrormeister, and he has created an evocative, foreboding atmosphere. But only a fan of this kind of mayhem could find a way into the story.
    • New York Daily News
  77. Jim Brown: All American
    We never really learn what Lee thinks of this man, other than that he is worth every second of a 130-minute documentary.
  78. Sorority Boys
    Recycles the most obvious jokes from similar comedies that preceded it, such as "Tootsie," but with the most rudimentary characters.
    • New York Daily News
  79. Very Annie Mary
    Having mined England and Ireland dry, filmmakers are now turning to Wales for their quirkiness quota.
  80. Lola
    Jacques Demy showed up with the lightest touch with his 1960 Lola, a movie that has been called a musical without music.
  81. Son of the Bride
    Exquisitely moving story.
    • New York Daily News
  82. Margarita Happy Hour
    The production is as gaily colored as the margaritas, but the overall result is wan.
    • New York Daily News
  83. Pauline and Paulette
    Plumbs the issue of sibling love and family responsibility in quietly powerful ways, and the performances of the two stars surpass convincing to reach a level of biographical realism.
    • New York Daily News
  84. Promises
    The filmmakers caught the kids arguing their cases like adversaries on "Judge Judy," sticking to phrases they've memorized or absorbed only too well.
  85. Resident Evil
    The dialogue is nothing to speak of, but the movie has a dynamite opening sequence in which the corporation turns on its workers, leaving them, if not dead, then with "virtually no intelligence," like office workers everywhere.
    • New York Daily News
  86. Y Tu Mamá También
    Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.
    • New York Daily News
  87. Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
    Bogdanich turned in an exhaustively thorough document that sheds some light on a tragedy that remains shadowy to those outside its domain.
  88. Showtime
    A lame buddy-cop movie that squanders stars De Niro and Eddie Murphy as it races from one cliche to the next, blithely unconcerned with whether anything parses.
    • New York Daily News
  89. Harrison's Flowers
    The movie does have one very perplexing major flaw. It throws in some minor-character narration toward the end, as if test audiences had lost their ability to concentrate, and this was the filmmaker's only solution for getting us back on track.
    • New York Daily News
  90. Ice Age
    Its story, characters, dialogue, humor and voice performances are first-rate.
    • New York Daily News
  91. Asphalt Zahov
    More than the sum of its parts.
  92. Festival in Cannes
    The best of the lot are Greta Scacchi, as an actress trying to peddle her first screenplay (with herself attached as director), and Ron Silver.
    • New York Daily News
  93. Miss Wonton
    Earnestness is the primary appeal of Meng Ong's clumsy melodrama.
  94. The Time Machine
    Wells' vision of the distant future is cartoonishly simplistic without the subtext of British class consciousness that informed the novel.
  95. All About the Benjamins
    Those who need little more than a car chase, gunplay, pretty girls and a solid soundtrack will be entertained. And Ice Cube fans won't be disappointed. Everyone else may want to think twice before shelling out hard-earned dollars.
    • New York Daily News
  96. We Were Soldiers
    We Were Soldiers works. The action is well-staged and realistic. And Gibson is a commanding presence in a role that has more shadings and stature than his usual action heroes.
    • New York Daily News
  97. Esther Kahn
    A draggy shaggy-dog story about a poor Jewish girl's painfully slow emotional awakening. The movie is 145 minutes long, so by the time Esther's awake, the audience may not be as lucky.
    • New York Daily News
  98. Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    The movie elevated the basic gangster picture into what became known as the niche genre of poetic realism. And, aside from Garbo, never have key lights on a star's face caused so much swooning among fans.
  99. Borstal Boy
    The film moves briskly enough to be entertaining, but it can't escape the smothering hero worship that Sheridan infuses into every frame.
    • New York Daily News
  100. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    A curious entry in the current wave of raunchy youth comedies. It's refreshingly free of scatological humor, but even while aiming higher, it can't raise its focus above the belt.
    • New York Daily News
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