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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. Stolen Summer
    Say a little prayer and save your money.
  2. Big Bad Love
    If the point of this umpteenth posttraumatic stress drama is that war is hell, even years after it's over and you're sitting in a movie theater, Big Bad Love makes it.
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  3. Mean Machine
    In Mean Machine, soccer is pretty much an excuse to watch a bunch of grown men smashing their heads together. Which, come to think of it, may be enough.
  4. Revolution OS
    Confident that his subject matter is inherently scintillating, however, Moore lays it out in creakily dry fashion. Those who consider computers to be glorified word processors may find their eyes glazing over in a matter of minutes.
  5. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    That's a lot just to justify a cute title, but cuteness is the engine driving the slight, obvious but occasionally very funny film.
  6. The Cherry Orchard
    The film medium allows us to witness a most ravishing cherry orchard. But the grand cast is given to emoting as if they were playing to the peasants in the cheap seats.
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  7. Queen of the Damned
    The main theme is the loneliness of the social outcast. That, plus a soundtrack to wake the undead, and the morbidly entombed presence of Aaliyah, will attract an audience despite the movie's intrinsic cheesiness.
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  8. Maryam
    Though it's ultimately rather heavy-handed, this drama about an Iranian-American family is heartfelt and topical.
  9. Monsoon Wedding
    With its colorful embroidery, Monsoon Wedding feels pleasurably grounded in a reality about which most Westerners haven't a clue. This may be their only engraved invitation.
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  10. Dragonfly
    A stinker of epic proportions.
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  11. Hart's War
    Hart's War has its priorities clear, but delivers them with insulting simplicity.
  12. Crossroads
    Here's what Crossroads does not have: Cohesive direction from Tamra Davis, intelligent dialogue, a comprehensible plot.
  13. The Last Man
    Scenario is ripe for subversive humor, but Ralston never even questions the superiority of the genetically privileged.
  14. Super Troopers
    There's a thin line between smart-stupid and just plain stupid, and Super Troopers walks it with ease.
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  15. John Q
    It's not honest, and it's certainly no solution.
  16. Umberto D (re-release)
    Universally appealing story that plays as well now as it did on opening day a half-century ago. Maybe better.
  17. Wendigo
    The intriguing elements never quite coalesce into a consequential whole; we leave this yuppie nightmare feeling both unsettled and unsatisfied.
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  18. Return to Never Land
    You may want to wait and watch "Never Land" the way it was meant to be seen -- as a straight-to-video baby-sitter.
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  19. Much Ado About Something
    Barely qualifies as a documentary. It's the personal journey of a man hoping to claim a million-dollar literary prize by proving that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare.
  20. Collateral Damage
    Exploits and trivializes public anxiety for entertainment and commercial gain. They've been doing it for years. But this little piggie didn't get to the market in time.
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  21. Swiri
    Americans, for better or worse, have already seen plenty of budget-busting action flicks with half-baked political pretensions.
  22. Scotland, Pa.
    As Shakespeare adaptations go, Scotland, PA. is just a McNugget, but the actors help sustain the satiric tone right up until McBeth's lady finally gets that stain out the old-fashioned way, with a cleaver.
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  23. Rollerball
    The game itself is meaningless, and the movie, much the same way, likes it like that.
  24. Big Fat Liar
    There are lame comedies, and then there is Big Fat Liar, which is so lame that it merits its own reserved parking space.
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  25. A Rumor of Angels
    With its mystical mumbo jumbo and even a helpful beam of celestial light in one scene, A Rumor of Angels is a kind of cinematic comfort food for an undemanding audience.
  26. Birthday Girl
    It's a slight, old-fashioned B movie, the last thing you would expect from an actress coming off a breakout year, but it has a charm and freshness we don't see much these days.
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  27. Slackers
    Slackers depends on the pathetic Ethan and the flatulent Sam for most of its laughs, and both characters are more revolting than amusing.
  28. Domestic Violence
    Wiseman's film is revealing. But it is also a silent rebuke to a society that tries to hide this pervasive problem behind a smug vision of itself.
  29. Hey, Happy!
    With its amateurish performances and sloppy script, Hey, Happy! has the homemade feel of a cult movie, but very little of the charm.
  30. Storytelling
    Solondz's refusal to frame his dark, misanthropic impulses with an overriding point-of-view seems a cheap copout for a film whose title proposes that it's about the storytelling process.
  31. Maelstrom
    The film's overriding messages are of personal responsibility and redemption. If that is Villeneuve's objective, it's done as an insidious polemic. If not, it's guilty of an even greater sin: It's boring.
  32. The Son's Room
    A stately and deeply affecting look at the human condition, told in something like a series of snapshots.
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  33. Waydowntown
    Maybe you have to have experienced one of these anti-weather urban cocoons to appreciate the concept of the film, and the prickly people who populate it.
  34. The Count of Monte Cristo
    With more buckling than swash, The Count of Monte Cristo is a good-looking, poorly acted washout.
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  35. Beijing Bicycle
    The movie is filled with sweetly funny moments, but its exposure of class, income and cultural differences makes it an uneasy charmer right up to its violent denouement.
  36. The Mothman Prophecies
    Gere, who's credited with keeping the project alive for years, has never thrown himself quite so fully into a role, and Pellington tells the story without a hint of skepticism. I suppose he had no choice. If you're going to treat poppycock as history, you had better believe it.
  37. Metropolis
    The story is compelling, but Metropolis is such a visual masterpiece, it's easy to get lost within its seemingly endless layers of graphic complexity.
  38. Wannabes
    A warmed-over ripoff, rather than the gritty urban drama it so desperately wants to be.
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  39. A Walk to Remember
    The audience for this chaste teen romance won't be film lovers, as the movie is sappy and listlessly paced. But it's just the ticket for people who want their movies sanitized.
  40. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    Silly, perfect fun.
  41. American Adobo
    Offers traditional cinematic gab about marital status, sexual orientation, nationality and degree of fulfillment.
  42. Snow Dogs
    Lame children's entertainment.
  43. Ha-Hesder
    Despite its rare look at the tensions between religious and secular soldiers in a settlement on the occupied West Bank, it's a pretty static, by-the-book drama that would be insufferable without the sullen heat of Tinkerbell and Avni.
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  44. Italian for Beginners
    It's the rare film, Dogma or otherwise, that keeps you smiling long after the lights come up.
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  45. State Property
    The cinematic equivalent of a gangsta rap song, State Property is little more than a marketing tool for Roc-A-Fella Records.
  46. Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe
    For the most part, the Plastics' music -- is not extraordinary. But as it's told here, their story is.
  47. Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
    A sad, almost morbid -- and cinematically inert -- eulogy to a complex man whose own genius was dampened by arrogance and politics.
  48. Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
    Looks great but tells us little about the subjects.
  49. E-Dreams
    There were a lot of people who came to regret investing their time and money in Park's brash dream. You won't be one of them.
  50. Orange County
    Under different direction, Orange County might have drawn a savvy cult audience that would appreciate the black-comedy possibilities of Shaun's idolatry of a certain writing professor (Kline), the homoerotic overtones inherent in best-buddydom and pyromania as a sexual turn-on.
  51. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    An eye-pleasing French action-slasher film that is cheerfully unencumbered by the usual conventions of stuffy costume drama.
    • New York Daily News
  52. What Time Is It Over There?
    This movie is not of a style that will speak to general audiences. It is nearly wordless, spare to a fare-thee-well.
    • New York Daily News
  53. Impostor
    It's a pleasure to watch a thinking-man's actor like Sinise adapt so easily to this challenge; he even keeps his dignity when forced to participate in the inevitable martial arts-inflected showdown.
  54. Black Hawk Down
    What we need to remember, what Black Hawk Down reminds us, is that there are no safe missions when you're chasing bad guys. Especially when you have to chase them down a hole.
  55. Charlotte Gray
    The setting and circumstances of the war overwhelm the personal story and diminish the dilemma of the title character's love life.
  56. I Am Sam
    It's a difficult issue, one that is not well served by a hollow confection like I Am Sam.
  57. Dark Blue World
    It's the banal romantic triangle that inspired Sverak ("Kolya"), who obviously didn't see "Pearl Harbor" in time to stop himself.
  58. Monster's Ball
    This movie hyperventilates with pessimism to the point of perversity.
  59. Gosford Park
    No matter which floor you're on, the huge cast is extraordinary, and Altman gives the actors free rein to bring their characters to life despite such close quarters.
  60. Ali
    It was against all odds that Michael Mann ("The Insider") would make a boring movie focusing on the most eventful decade in the life of the most dynamic athlete in history. But that's what he has achieved with Ali.
  61. The Shipping News
    The choice made by Kevin Spacey in taking on the role of Quoyle in the film adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News nearly sinks it. But not quite.
  62. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    A thoroughly entertaining animated comedy that's sweet enough for the youngest moviegoers, and smart enough for the most cynical chaperone.
  63. How High
    Dylan's stoner comedy barely manages to string together a story, but lucky for him, his two stars radiate charisma even when they're hidden behind clouds of smoke.
  64. A Song for Martin
    Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl give superb performances as the couple, a once-vigorous conductor and his orchestra's concertmistress. But soon ... well, you know the drill.
  65. A Beautiful Mind
    This is another brilliant performance by Crowe, who is to body language what Meryl Streep is to accents.
  66. The Majestic
    Has sentimental goo oozing from its opening frame, and the gunk gets so thick so fast, it's a wonder the projector doesn't freeze before the molasses-strapped finale.
  67. Joe Somebody
    An unimaginative schoolyard-bully comedy.
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  68. Little Otik
    Must be the smartest -- and most disturbing -- movie about parenthood in ages.
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  69. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    For Hobbitués and adventure fans of all other ages, it's the year's best thrill ride -- maybe the best film.
    • New York Daily News
  70. Iris
    A delicately upbeat, even humorous celebration of love and sacrifice.
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  71. Lantana
    In addition to the strong script, the ensemble performances are topnotch, with no one hogging the limelight.
  72. The Royal Tenenbaums
    The performances are all terrific, but Gene Hackman is close to a career best as the family patriarch Royal, the most useless man you can't help loving.
  73. Kandahar
    Among the unforgettable images is that of artificial limbs floating to earth on parachutes, while below, one-legged men on crutches race each other to the prizes.
  74. Not Another Teen Movie
    Occasionally funny but ultimately desperate comedy.
  75. Vanilla Sky
    The title doesn't hint at the unsavory mess the film actually is.
  76. Behind the Sun
    The story, which was inspired by an Albanian novel and the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, ends with a literary patness. But it's still a potent tale of fraternal love and the loss of innocence.
  77. Eban and Charley
    It's always admirable when a director decides to make a risky film. On the other hand, it's not quite as commendable to also make a boring one.
  78. Final
    The cat-and-mouse game between the patient and doctor and the coy is-he-or-isn't-he? game being played on us by the filmmakers becomes tiring.
  79. Segunda piel
    So sudsy it should have been rinsed off before being allowed into theaters.
  80. Baran
    Yet another deceptively simple, supremely moving film from Iran.
    • New York Daily News
  81. Princesa
    An evocative melancholy hangs over Princesa, Henrique Goldman's intermittently affecting tale.
    • New York Daily News
  82. Last Orders
    It is remarkably, unsentimentally dramatized by Fred Schepisi, courtesy of the pitch-perfect performances of its ensemble British cast.
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  83. No Man's Land
    Writer-director Danis Tanovic, a Bosnian who spent years documenting his homeland's turmoil, makes a bold feature-film debut with this funny, sobering message movie.
  84. Ocean's Eleven
    The movie tells you right up front you're going to get what you came for: big stars, winking inside jokes and a spin on something so familiar it doesn't matter that you don't buy it for one minute. You're not meant to.
  85. In July
    Everything you might want in a road movie: an off-the-cuff sense of adventure, a winningly scruffy charm and a whip-smart sense of humor.
  86. Tuvalu
    It may take a half-hour to get one's bearings, but there's a payoff in the subsequent charm of this nearly wordless, surreal comedy set in a decrepit bathhouse in Bulgaria.
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  87. The Business of Strangers
    A claustrophobic psychodrama.
  88. B-52
    The salvaging operations, and the scavenging of B-52 parts for retail recycling and junk art that seem to consume most of the film take it to tedium, and beyond.
  89. The Affair of the Necklace
    This sob story is a tough sell.
  90. Behind Enemy Lines
    There aren't many better examples of how commercial intuition sabotages story integrity in today's Hollywood.
  91. Bay of Angels
    Seen through Demy's eyes (and Raoul Coutard's shimmering black-and-white photography), their extravagance is so effortlessly cool, you feel somehow lucky just to be there with them.
  92. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    For those who've become increasingly conscious of the connections between strangers sharing a city, it's a challenge that's hard to resist.
  93. The Independent
    Dumb fun is the best way to describe The Independent, and I mean that as a compliment.
  94. ABCD
    Madhur Jaffrey and Faran Tahir fare considerably better as Nina's conservative mother and brother, leaving us confused ourselves: Why didn't Patel focus on them, instead?
  95. Trouble Every Day
    Insipid, self-indulgent bit of art-house macabre.
  96. Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
    It is an excruciating experience. But then, it would have to be. We're watching the distilled essence of war.
  97. Bangkok Dangerous
    There are movies that are all about the characters, and then there are movies, like Bangkok Dangerous, that are far more about the directors who created those characters.
  98. In the Bedroom
    It's a human drama, drawn in such careful emotional detail, its two acts of violence -- one shown, one not -- are almost incidental.
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  99. Sidewalks of New York
    A waterlogged bagel, hardly the valentine to New York it imagines itself to be.
  100. The Devil's Backbone
    Along with "The Others," -- represents a welcome diversion from loud, senseless Hollywood extravaganzas.
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