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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. Prisoner of Paradise
    Gripping documentary.
  2. United 93
    I wouldn't recommend the movie to anyone, but if the families of the victims take something positive from it, as their cooperation with Greengrass suggests they do, that's justification enough.
  3. Out of Sight
    When boy meets girl in Steven Soderbergh's jaunty, sexy Out of Sight, it happens with a bang.
    • New York Daily News
  4. The Blair Witch Project
    The inexplicably terrifying ending is good for a month's worth of nightmares -- no small thing for a movie in such a saturated field.
  5. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Gives moviegoers a funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire.
  6. Mr 3000
    Bernie Mac gives surprising wisdom and heart - along with the laughs - to what could have been just another generic baseball comedy.
  7. Waking Life
    Linklater's ravishing new movie represents a bold leap into the possibilities of technology.
  8. Bad Education
    In this cross between film noir and melodrama, there's lust, need, camp and betrayal.
  9. Billy Elliot
    It's not just a movie about an underdog who fights the odds, it's about following one's heart -- despite the obstacles.
  10. Babel
    A powerful movie that should win all the year's ensemble acting awards. Pitt has never done better dramatic work, Blanchett is as convincing as always, and - in introducing themselves to American audiences - veteran Mexican actress Barraza and Japan's Kikuchi are revelations.
  11. Man on Fire
    Man on Fire, with a best-ever Denzel Washington, is the first (nonreligious) sure thing to hit the multiplex this year.
  12. The Manchurian Candidate
    The performance of the movie is Liev Schreiber as Shaw, a man howlingly uncomfortable in his own skin.
  13. Infernal Affairs
    The plot is intricate and tight. The preamble is a bit challenging to sort out. But the movie's engine is the relationships and the characters' inner lives, all of it boiling with emotional intensity.
  14. The Incredibles
    Clever, buoyant and surprisingly human.
  15. Hustle & Flow
    The feel-good movie of the summer. And the song this pimp works up, about how hard it is to manage a stable of ho's, is catchy and moving.
  16. Volver
    For a black comedy whose tangled sequence of events is completely improbable, Pedro Almodóvar's Volver feels absolutely authentic. So, think of everything as metaphor and enjoy one of the year's most delectably twisted treats.
  17. Spider-Man
    Spider-Man is an almost-perfect extension of the experience of reading comic-book adventures.
    • New York Daily News
  18. Once Were Warriors
    Once Were Warriors has more to say than the traditional TV-movie about spousal abuse. But some viewers will have to pay a price: This is a movie that requires strength and fortitude to sit through.
  19. 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.
  20. Shine
    A sublimely uplifting movie.
  21. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Harris brings into focus a nearly forgotten success story, filling in another blank in the ultimate mosaic of the 20th century's greatest tragedy.
  22. The Wind Will Carry Us
    A brilliant if slow-paced movie about one man's unwitting journey into adulthood.
    • New York Daily News
  23. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Overwhelmingly powerful.
  24. Punch-Drunk Love
    Whether Adam Sandler can actually act is not actually answered in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love. But he's great in it.
  25. Kissing Jessica Stein
    A pitch-perfect gem.
    • New York Daily News
  26. The Polar Express
    It's a sensation - both a milestone in computer-animation and a likely Christmas classic.
  27. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    Beautifully shot, both in darkened homes and on the misty green Irish landscape by Loach's frequent cinematographer Barry Aykroyd, "Wind" has a you-are-there intensity and intimacy about it that make it nearly overwhelming. But for all its violence and subsequent sadness, it's a movie of extraordinary importance.
  28. Sexy Beast
    Noir has never been this bright.
  29. 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.
  30. The Gift
    But there were few, if any, better performances in 2000 than the one Blanchett gives here, and Raimi's crafty blend of dramatic realism and supernatural knowledge is one of the year's best directing con jobs.
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