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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. The Circle
    Quiet, rageful indictment of a two-tiered Islamic society.
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  2. Joe Dirt
    Just a big chunk of waste flushed from a Hollywood studio.
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  3. Josie and the Pussycats
    Follows its heroines' rise and wising-up with a giddy, "Hard Day's Night" enthusiasm.
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  4. Kingdom Come
    More a grab-bag of loosely connected scenes and lives than a film with a firm sense of direction.
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  5. Chopper
    Its dabs of dark comedy and stabs of gore, still rings with a sense of the real. It's electric-charged.
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  6. Blow
    The real problem is that there's nothing to George but the movie's props.
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  7. Along Came a Spider
    A thriller is only as good as its villain is bad, and this is the film's problem.
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  8. Beautiful Creatures
    Cold and stylish, slick and violent.
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  9. The Day I Became a Woman
    Underlines the nightmare of entrapment so vividly captured in The Day I Became a Woman.
  10. The Girl
    Suggests that one way women can fight male violence is by using the weapons of the alpha male: Marking one's territory and firing upon anyone who trespasses.
  11. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Boasts rich texture, sly vision and rueful humor.
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    All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Looks as if was cobbled together from stuff hanging around the cutting room at MTV.
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  13. Just Visiting
    I nodded off watching Just Visiting.
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  14. Shadow Magic
    Transports us to a world that still had a capacity for awe, and that's the core of its charm.
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  15. The Tailor of Panama
    Forget the end and there is much to enjoy here.
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  16. Amores Perros
    An overpowering and original piece of bravura filmmaking that constitutes one of the most breathtaking and impressive directing debuts in years.
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  17. Spy Kids
    Yummy and weightless.
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  18. Someone Like You...
    An altogether enjoyable ride.
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  19. Too Much Sleep
    A picture that's pleasantly forgettable.
  20. The Brothers
    A feeling man's buddy story that's user-friendly to men and women alike.
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  21. Heartbreakers
    Crudely entertaining comedy.
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  22. Say It Isn't So
    It's getting tiresome, this stuff.
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  23. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    As an exploration of a man who really did take the road less traveled, the film is fascinating.
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  24. Enemy at the Gates
    War is hell, war is cruelty, war is toil and trouble, war is just a shot away. But is war a snooze? Well, by the time Enemy at the Gates has run its course — it sure seems that way.
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  25. Memento
    Terrifically satisfying film.
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  26. The Dish
    Amusing, compelling and technologically fascinating tale.
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  27. Kissing Jessica Stein
    It's a charmer.
  28. When Brendan Met Trudy
    A charmer.
  29. 15 Minutes
    Less the blistering satire it imagines itself than a blustering, bloody, blundering melodrama about bottom feeders nibbling each other.
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  30. The Gleaners & I
    At once guileless and profound.
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  31. Blow Dry
    If Blow Dry isn't a rousing triumph on the order "of The Full Monty" and "Brassed Off," Rickman, Richardson and Nighy make sure it's a winning film.
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  32. The Caveman's Valentine
    So suggestively atmospheric is Amelia Vincent's cinematography and Robin Standefer's art direction that mood -- and of course Jackson's performance -- sustains the movie.
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  33. Me You Them
    Little gem of a movie.
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  34. Hit and Runway
    Individual moments in Hit and Runway are quite funny, but as a send-up of action-movie mindlessness, the movie is sometimes as dumb as its targets.
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  35. The Mexican
    This violently comic caper has some spunky charm going for it -- but has a lot of self-consciously hip, studied wackiness going against it.
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  36. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    If there were a truth-in-titling law, the movie would be called "3000 Bullets to Brain Death."
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  37. Monkeybone
    Feels like it's been homogenized and Hollywoodized to death.
  38. Last Resort
    Quiet, finely etched and beautifully acted by Dina Korzun and the wise-beyond-his-years Artiom Strelnikov.
  39. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    Remarkable movie.
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  40. The Price of Milk
    Fairy-tale-like musing on true love in cynical times.
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  41. Down to Earth
    What Rock fans will sorely miss in Down to Earth is the earthiness and outrageous hilarity of his stand-up act.
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  42. Company Man
    The scenario looms as a brain-dead invitation for the stars to embarrass themselves, and Company Man wastes little time in fulfilling that glum suspicion.
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  43. Recess: School's Out
    Refreshingly subversive.
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  44. Sweet November
    If Sweet November were a puppy, it would have rabies.
  45. The Taste of Others
    For everyone who has ever asked, "What on earth do they see in each other?"
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  46. Signs & Wonders
    Skarsgard's performance is bold and raw (and reminiscent of vintage Jack Lemmon in its earnestness).
  47. Saving Silverman
    Yes, it's stupid. But sometimes it's stupid with a capital S, and it's in those moments of transcendent idiocy that you can't help liking Saving Silverman. At least, a little bit.
  48. Hannibal
    Perhaps to compensate for the absence of compelling drama and tension (and a few continuity gaffes), Scott has retreated to his TV commercial roots and crammed Hannibal full of busy, art-directed visuals.
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  49. In the Mood for Love
    A feast for the eyes and succor for the soul.
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  50. The Invisible Circus
    It's a shameless don't-hate-me-because-I'm-beautiful-and-impulsive performance (Diaz), and it throws the entire movie out of balance.
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  51. Nico and Dani
    Honest, sensitive and keenly observant.
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  52. Left Behind
    Piously acted, stiffly directed, and infused with a view of world politics that might charitably be described as delusional.
  53. Head Over Heels
    A bubble-brained comedy with as much bearing on the real world as a Pokemon cartoon.
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  54. Trolösa
    The movie may be the meditation of an old man, but rarely has a supreme artist's twilight been so richly illuminating. Faithless makes other films on the same subject seem clueless.
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  55. The Wedding Planner
    At its best when it employs the conventions of romantic comedies to satirize them through the eyes of an anti-romantic wedding planner.
  56. The Pledge
    It is understatement to say that Nicholson does some of the finest work of his career here, easily equaling "The Shining" for gargoyle monstrousness and "As Good as It Gets" for tortured humanism.
  57. The Amati Girls
    Rather like listening to Vladimir Horowitz play "Chopsticks."
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  58. Snatch.
    Since the main reason I go to movies is to engage with characters, I prefer "The Pledge," the film opening today by Madonna's first husband, Sean Penn, rather than this stylish fluff by her second spouse.
  59. Panic
    A defiantly offbeat and accomplished piece with a dream ensemble acting out one man's nightmare, it deserves not to fall through the cracks.
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  60. Double Take
    Snappily written and even more snappily directed.
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  61. Save the Last Dance
    While it flirts with "After School Special"-ness, at least has the courage to address racial and cultural cliches with a degree of honesty.
  62. Antitrust
    An unintentional high-tech hoot.
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  63. The Claim
    Winterbottom also has the insight to share the novelist's suggestion that landscape can reflect and, to a degree, even shape character.
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  64. Chunhyangdyun
    Chunhyang is a movie — and a heroine — for all times.
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  65. Shadow of the Vampire
    A bit of a one-joke wonder.
  66. Traffic
    A flat-out electrifying experience.
  67. Malèna
    Gives audiences something more than just a heart-stopping beauty to contemplate.
  68. Thirteen Days
    A deeply involving and disturbing movie.
  69. All the Pretty Horses
    Lacks an essential sense of purpose.
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  70. Before Night Falls
    This is a sad, passionate, beautifully wrought story, and Bardem's portrait of Arenas is at once daring and deeply moving.
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  71. The House of Mirth
    This is very much Anderson's film. The publication of the novel made Wharton's reputation. The release of The House of Mirth should do the same for Anderson.
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  72. Cast Away
    Bold, ambitious -- and ambiguous.
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  73. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Devilishly delightful.
  74. The Family Man
    Cage and Leoni make it offbeat.
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  75. Miss Congeniality
    The makeover from ugly duckling to swan essentially replaces narrative catharsis.
  76. State and Main
    His (Mamet) direction is unobtrusive, unflashy, and always willing to allow the hilarious cast all the room it needs.
  77. Finding Forrester
    A rewarding exploration of the knotty and often contentious relationship between teacher and protege.
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  78. The Gift
    At its heart, there's Blanchett, an actress whose instincts are unerring, and dead-on.
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  79. What Women Want
    A winner.
  80. The Visit
    A spare and moving study of regret and redemption, marked with chilling truths about a life behind bars.
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  81. Pollock
    It is a difficult and demanding movie, one that rewards the persevering moviegoer just as Pollock's difficult and demanding paintings ultimately reward the steadfast.
  82. The Emperor's New Groove
    Picks up speed as it goes along and the finale is frenzied and, well, cartoonish.
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  83. Chocolat
    Too bad Chocolat isn't as seductive as its leading lady.
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  84. Proof of Life
    Whatever romantic tension the film has is communicated in the coiled-spring performance by Crowe, one of the most remarkable actors working.
  85. Dungeons & Dragons
    Much of the dialogue is the silliest sort of fantasy mush, and a good deal of the picture appears to have been shot while the lighting guys were out to lunch.
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  86. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    It is with gravity and levity and incomparable grace that Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- by light years the best movie of 2000.
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  87. Spring Forward
    A little gem that's everything a fine independent film used to be.
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  88. Boys Life 3
    Not up to the freshness and inventiveness of its predecessors.
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  89. 102 Dalmatians
    The film, which is amiable, undemanding family holiday entertainment, is more a tribute to the astonishing skills of the dog trainers than anything else.
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  90. Quills
    It's a work that preaches to the choir, and the song has been more subtly sung in better movies.
  91. Unbreakable
    Far-fetched and utterly humorless, with a literally tacked-on conclusion (yes, more text on the screen), the only thing that's surprising about Unbreakable is how lame it is.
  92. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    It's a big stuffed turkey of a movie, just in time for the holidays.
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  93. Bounce
    Roos introduces the possibility that perhaps two partials add up to the whole truth, and in so doing creates a provocative love story that sticks with you long after the credits roll.
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  94. La bûche
    Suave, witty and wonderfully acted ensemble piece.
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  95. The 6th Day
    There's no doubt that the formula for this kind of action film is showing its age.
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  96. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Remarkably poignant (and pungent) when it comes to child psychology.
  97. One Day in September
    Macdonald's film brilliantly telescopes the '70s, an era when every physical action had its equal and opposite political reaction.
  98. Little Nicky
    Full of kerplunkingly unfunny jokes and ex-"Saturday Night Live" cast members turning up to do shtick.
  99. Non-Stop
    Hip, stylish, funny.
  100. You Can Count on Me
    A small but moving film that gets the details right (life in a sleepy burg, sidewalk chats between old high school pals) and gets at the heart of human longing for family, for love.
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