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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Teacher's Pet
    By deftly blending silliness and sophistication, this little movie does its part to stem the technological tide.
  4. Torque
    Despite all the bike chases and bullet-dodging, the real sport here is Xtreme posing.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The Tracker
    An underwritten drama.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    So unfocused we never get to know the man behind the gowns.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Peter Pan
    Both enchantingly old-fashioned and daringly modern.
  17. 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.
  18. The Young Black Stallion
    Stallion" has gorgeous cinematography with spectacular landscapes - plus a lazy script, forgettable performances and regrettably uninspired direction.
  19. Children of Love
    A powerful drama that turns a common event -- the rending of a family -- into an intimate, personal affair.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. House of Sand and Fog
    It's a sad, rich story, full of misunderstandings, bad bargains, odd parallels.
  24. Calendar Girls
    This is good clean fun, with or without the soap, and one of the most spirited entries of the season.
  25. 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.
  26. Prisoner of Paradise
    Gripping documentary.
  27. 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.
  28. The Statement
    There's a sensational, highly original performance by Swinton.
  29. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    But where the original was slight but sweet, the remake is depressingly superficial and cynical.
  30. Something's Gotta Give
    It's hard to imagine anyone other than Keaton pulling this off.
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