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For 1,070 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Frost/Nixon
Lowest review score: 0 Gigli
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 709 out of 1070
  2. Mixed: 172 out of 1070
  3. Negative: 189 out of 1070
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  1. The Chronicles of Riddick
    With his latest, the sci-fi–action–adventure The Chronicles of Riddick, Vin Diesel has established himself as the new face of morally ambiguous anti-heroes.
  2. The Stepford Wives
    Close is the best and worst thing about the film, delivering a performance that upstages even Christopher Walken (!), taking her over-the-top Cruella de Vil turn to its saccharine-sweet opposite.
  3. Napoleon Dynamite
    While Solondz's world is a hell hole and Anderson's "Rushmore" is a place of high-toned and often poignant whimsy, Napoleon Dynamite's unceasing burlesque creates a world that is pretty much a cartoon--and it's a damn funny cartoon to boot.
  4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Soars gloriously into fluency and magic.
  5. The Corporation
    Over the course of almost two and a half fascinating hours, they make a cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and they also make a terrific movie.
  6. The Day After Tomorrow
    The real top billing, what audience-goers are obviously shelling out to see, is the computer-generated chaos, and as they should: Digital technology has caught up with our collective imaginations Now More Than Ever.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Soul Plane
    Snoop's subtle performance in the captain's chair flips all the right switches, and Ryan Pinkston's timing as Arnold's "straight out of Malibu" son is perfect, but these two aren't enough to salvage the film.
  8. Baadasssss!
    The mood never droops, however, saved by Mario’s well-studied ability to channel his father, a performance as delicately nuanced and polished as the film is frenetic and raw.
  9. Bukowski: Born into This
    Dullaghan's film is a bit too straightforward and introductory to be declared a definitive portraiture. The gold nuggets worth sifting for lie in the anecdotal minutiae.
  10. Saved!
    Boasts both wicked satire and a big heart, and as a result, is nothing short of brilliant.
  11. Raising Helen
    It's really rather dull, lacking in any originality or flair that might draw attention to the cause. It's lightly comedic, lightly dramatic, lightly tragic, and, therefore, lightly entertaining.
  12. Shrek 2
    The humor is so satisfying in its moment-to-moment pleasures that it's almost unsportsmanlike to criticize the bigger picture.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Troy
    Wolfgang Petersen's Troy recalls an age when Hollywood not only gambled on but flourished with grandiose epics and casts of thousands, and brings megawatt star power to what is, at root, a brilliantly told story.
  14. Carandiru
    Stylistically, Carandiru is definitely less monochromatic than an "Oz" rerun.
  15. Coffee and Cigarettes
    By the end the movie has pretty much ceased taking itself at all seriously, devolving into a nonchalant giggliness of the stoned variety that's completely apropos.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    New York Minute
    Despite a lavish budget and one of the most expensive movie sets in the world--the island of Manhattan—they (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) can’t buy love, talent, or a decent script.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Van Helsing
    Horror classicists may be upset at his tampering with monster mythologies, but everyone else will just be going along for the ride, and they’ll have a terrific time.
  18. Super Size Me
    Made with obvious passion and humor (and a side of fries), Super Size Me is a mostly entertaining look at fast food, the billion-dollar businesses behind it, and its warped effect on our culture.
  19. Godsend
    With its cheap scares, its defiant lack of special effects, and the most blatant usage of a red coat as a stand-out prop since Schindler’s List, Godsend is as much an experiment-gone-wrong as its Frankensteinesque plot.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Laws of Attraction
    A subtly hilarious supporting performance from Frances Fisher, as Moore's mother, and a latter-day Sid and Nancy (Michael Sheen and Parker Posey, seeming deliriously inebriated the entire time) round out the thoroughly diverting cast.
  21. Mean Girls
    Mean Girls depicts the kind of traumatic high school experience that might await spoiled rich girls who grow up in two-parent households with designer clothes and Escalades.
  22. 13 Going on 30
    Nearly perfect in its own cotton-candy way.
  23. Man on Fire
    Not even within earshot of a masterpiece, Man on Fire, based on its ratio of production costs to quality alone, may prove to be the worst movie of 2004.
  24. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    This is a movie of head-spinning richness.
  25. The Punisher
    From an audience perspective, the title’s fairly apt as well.
  26. Gypsy 83
    Films like this have a way of finding their own devoted fan base, and Gypsy 83 deserves to be discovered not only by Goth and gay crowds, but by anyone who runs screaming from all things average.
  27. Young Adam
    It’s rich enough in atmosphere to make you almost buy the quasi-allegorical absurdities.
  28. The Alamo
    The studio wimped out, and the result is a lesser production on every level: talent, script, content, and purpose.
  29. Ella Enchanted
    Ella Enchanted seems squarely aimed at 12-year-old girls, or, I don't know, maybe 8-year-old girls.
  30. The Girl Next Door
    The film's lack of focus leaves most, if not all, of the characters just a hair less developed than they should have been; the plot holes just a bit more conspicuous than they might have been; and the ending just a touch less poignant than it could have been.
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