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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. Narc
    Patric and Liotta get the chance to do some heavy riffing on themes of honor, sacrifice, selling out and self-destructing, and the bleak, smeared world of drugs and violence is brought to the fore with feverish style.
  2. Gangs of New York
    An elaborately worked-over opus that's as tarted-up and artificial as Scorsese's '70s classic Mean Streets was gritty and real, Gangs of New York feels like a movie musical without the songs.
  3. Spider
    Spider is a difficult film, but an inspired one, the movie equivalent of eating a meal of artfully prepared eel or sea urchin. It's for those with adventurous tastes and no fear of squishy textures.
  4. Antwone Fisher
    A deceptively simple movie with a deeply felt message.
  5. 25th Hour
    It could have been more taut, could have been harder, but 25th Hour still resonates with power and poetry.
  6. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Jackson's superior sequel to last year's first installment in his Rings cycle - resurrects the beloved Gandalf (majestic Ian McKellen) and rejuvenates the audience, too.
  7. Maid in Manhattan
    Not only is there no magnetism between Fiennes and Lopez, he's a lead balloon and she's helium-filled. Happily, their odd chemistry doesn't sink this fairy tale.
  8. The Hot Chick
    This unabashedly stupid comedy is, well, unabashedly stupid.
  9. Evelyn
    Doesn't overdo it on the 1950s period charm -- lots of tweed, old cars and bikes, great woolly sweaters and painted rowhouses -- and the performances never get out of hand, even when the plot does.
  10. About Schmidt
    A quiet, heart-rending masterpiece, one with an actor's turn that people will remember, and rediscover, eons into the future.
  11. Drumline
    The marching bands' duels are as fun as the cheerleader wars in "Bring It On."
  12. Intact
    Intriguing, provocative stuff.
  13. Star Trek: Nemesis
    Unfortunately, the plot runs out of dilithium crystals, and drifts to a sluggish and predictable conclusion
  14. Empire
    Empire, with its double-barreled shoot-outs, its predictable carnage and conflict, and a rush-job of a resolution, is ultimately just one more urban gangland genre flick.
  15. Analyze That
    This is a movie that both parodies "The Sopranos" and aspires to its mordant humor. I don't think anyone -- not Tony Soprano, not Paul Vitti -- can have it both ways.
  16. Adaptation.
    It's a testament to Cage's canny performance and Jonze's seamless use of special effects that you believe Charlie and Donald are two entirely different people.
  17. Russian Ark
    It's a cinematic feat, an art lover's dream, but as a moviegoing experience, Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark is something of a letdown.
  18. Extreme Ops
    A tad more character development would have been nice.
  19. Eight Crazy Nights
    Mazel tov, Adam, for having three movies released in five months. You should maybe spend more time on the next one?
  20. Solaris
    For those who have seen Tarkovsky's moody original, let me say that Soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film. What's left is a rich stew of longing.
  21. They
    They has a low-budget, generic feel -- but also enough sense to know that unseen menace is a lot creepier than explicit gore.
  22. The Emperor's Club
    Don't blame Kline. This most thoughtful of actors is trapped behind the lectern of a film that spouts contradictory lessons it can't reconcile.
  23. Die Another Day
    Not even Halle Berry, emerging from the blue Caribbean in an orange two-piece -- can bring this thing to life.
  24. Talk to Her
    Almodóvar has made a powerfully moving film about men who think they want to lose themselves in their women, then are startled to realize that they're the ones who have been comatose.
  25. The Quiet American
    A film full of a sense of impending danger, betrayal, seduction and destruction. Quite simply, it's great stuff.
  26. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    Has the confessional intimacy of a video diary and performances to match, particularly those of Kyra Sedgwick and Parker Posey.
  27. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    The Chamber of Secrets -- darker, scarier and somewhat better than "Sorcerer's Stone."
  28. The Way Home
    Charming is such an overused, film critic-y designation, but The Way Home is that, and more.
  29. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    Ain't no mountain high enough to keep the Funk Brothers from getting to you.
  30. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    A feverish melodrama about an idealist who, in following his heart and his bishop's orders, leads himself into temptation and his parish into hypocrisy.
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