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For 3,957 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,217 out of 3957
  2. Mixed: 1,377 out of 3957
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3957
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  1. Crimson Gold
    Watching it is like getting a peek behind the curtain. But it's frustrating, too, because the casting of Emadeddin as a murderer-in-the-making precludes any psychological depth. And as an indictment of social inequality, which is the film's calling card, Panahi inadvertantly makes a far better case for the haves than for the have-nots.
  2. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    At its best, the film compares favorably to its obvious antecedents, "Rififi" (which Melville once hoped to direct) and "The Asphalt Jungle."
  3. The Son
    A prime piece of whirlybird filmmaking, and the technique saps what might have been a powerful experience.
  4. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Sam Rockwell plays Barris with a hipster’s shimmy that’s creepily effective -- The problem with making a movie about a hollow man is that, when things start to get heavy, you’re stuck with nothingness at the core.
  5. Chicago
    I realize that Fosse's dark sizzle might seem a bit dated today, but surely something halfway snazzy could have been devised for this movie. It's toothless.
  6. The Pianist
    Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie.
  7. Max
    Noah Taylor does startlingly well by this role, but the conceit behind the film is a bizarre piece of wish-fulfillment.
  8. Nicholas Nickleby
    Showcases some of the world’s finest and funniest actors having a high old time. It’s best enjoyed as a kind of traveling music-hall revue.
  9. The Hours
    If all three of the women’s lives had come across with equal weight and artistry, the film, which glides back and forth among them, might have approached the symphonic. But only the Streep section truly inspires the kind of awe and terror that the film as a whole strives for.
  10. Catch Me If You Can
    Breezily enjoyable but thin.
  11. Gangs of New York
    Stunning, and it has the added bonus of being about an era that is virtually new to movies. As a dramatic achievement, however, it is not quite so amazing.
  12. Spider
    A kind of psychological whodunit, but without the thrills. The clue-making is rather desultory, as if Cronenberg were indulging a narrative strategy he didn’t really care for.
  13. Antwone Fisher
    Should be remembered for a pair of performers -- Derek Luke and Viola Davis, whose cameo as the mother who abandoned him cuts through the sap like an acetylene torch.
  14. 25th Hour
    This is romanticism of a rather low order.
  15. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Jackson has a genuine epic gift: Few filmmakers have ever given gross-outs such resplendence.
  16. The Guys
    A hushed and powerful piece.
  17. About Schmidt
    It’s the difference between artistry and knowingness. About Schmidt doesn’t bring us deeply into the lives of its people because it’s too busy trying to feel superior to them.
  18. Analyze That
    Compounds the problems of its predecessor, "Analyze This," while duplicating almost none of its humor.
  19. Adaptation.
    Spellbindingly original -- Like the wild orchid, Adaptation is a marvel of adaptation, entwined with its hothouse environment and yet stunningly unique.
  20. Russian Ark
    It’s a hyper-aestheticized meditation on the meaning of history, visually astonishing, dramatically stilted. No masterpiece, but quite a feat (and quite effete).
  21. Die Another Day
    This series is in its fortieth year; it might be nice to see Bond battle a readily identifiable, real-world villain for a change. There's certainly no shortage.
  22. Talk to Her
    Talk to Her affects some people very deeply, while others, like me, find it high-grade kitsch.
  23. The Quiet American
    Beautifully directed by Phillip Noyce, the film -- is a full experience, a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence.
  24. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    This time around, Harry Potter has more to worry about than the Dark Arts -- though parts of The Chamber of Secrets are spellbinding, he seems to be suffering from a bit of sequelitis.
  25. 8 Mile
    What it's really about is the euphoria that talent can bring to those who are possessed by it. That euphoria lights up the screen.
  26. Far From Heaven
    It elevates female sacrifice into an aesthetic. The movie isn't about suffering, really. It's about how you look when you suffer, how you dress up for it. Style is all.
  27. Femme Fatale
    It's a pure (guilty) pleasure trip. That's pleasure, De Palma–style -- twisted, dirty, voyeuristic, a vast glissando of amorality.
  28. Daughter from Danang
    This may sound like an Oprah episode, but the outcome is far from predictable and carries the force of a tragedy in which everyone, and no one, is to blame.
  29. Roger Dodger
    The dramatic arc of Roger Dodger may be banal, but Kidd manages some marvelous moments.
  30. The Truth About Charlie
    Another charmless Hollywood thriller.
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