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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. 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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  2. 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.
  3. Cremaster 3
    Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously.
  4. 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.
    • New York Daily News
  5. Blackwoods
    Cheesy horror flick that feels like straight-to-video material.
    • New York Daily News
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
    • New York Daily News
  8. 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.
    • New York Daily News
  9. 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.
  10. The Lady and the Duke
    The result is a galvanizing mix of intellectual discourse and guillotined heads.
    • New York Daily News
  11. 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.
  12. A Man's Gotta Do
    This amiable, off-kilter Australian comedy pits parental manipulation against adolescent pride, with generally amusing results.
  13. Fleeing by Night
    The many opera scenes are so beautifully mounted, they make up for the moments when the story veers toward melodrama.
  14. 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
  15. 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.
  16. Hollywood Ending
    A bouquet of snappy one-liners and disarming nuttiness.
    • New York Daily News
  17. Spider-Man
    Spider-Man is an almost-perfect extension of the experience of reading comic-book adventures.
    • New York Daily News
  18. Grin Without a Cat
    By turns brilliant and tedious, imaginative and mundane.
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Sade
    In any case, this is the image of the marquis we would know had he been handled by a top publicity team.
  22. 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.
  23. Life or Something Like It
    The movie creaks and groans, weighed down by clichés.
    • New York Daily News
  24. 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
  25. Night at the Golden Eagle
    Adam Rifkin's dank, relentless drama puts you savagely through the wringer without bothering to enlighten or entertain.
  26. 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
  27. The Salton Sea
    Might be thought of as "Memento" for people who didn't get "Memento."
    • New York Daily News
  28. Some Body
    The gimmick is that the script is based on the real-life experiences of actress Stephanie Bennett, who plays Samantha.
  29. Facing the Music
    An urgent, stirring story made all the more inspiring by the very ordinary nature of its subjects.
  30. Enigma
    A smart, old-fashioned spy thriller in which the weapon of choice is brainpower.
    • New York Daily News
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