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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. The Mummy Returns
    We have to suffer through two hours of this rancid summer cheese.
  2. One Night at McCool's
    Tyler, a true beauty, gives the role a valiant try, but her range is too limited to play this amalgam of female perfection.
  3. Freddy Got Fingered
    It feels manufactured to be suitable for mass consumption.
  4. Lakeboat
    Brought to the screen awkwardly but ardently by Mamet-actor supreme Joe Mantegna in his feature-directing debut.
  5. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Delivers frisky fun for bruised romantics regardless of age, sex or nationality.
  6. The Circle
    Panahi creates a raw, riveting film.
  7. Joe Dirt
    In one scene, raw sewage is dumped on Joe. See Joe Dirt and you'll know how that feels.
  8. Josie and the Pussycats
    Harmless girlie trifle. Or at least it means to be.
  9. Blow
    Scorches the screen with a badass bravado all its own. Smart, sexy, funny and dangerous this high-wire act is a movie and a half.
  10. Along Came a Spider
    Alex Cross has been neutered on film, deprived of his sexuality, his family, his friends.
  11. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Deliver it does, big time.
  12. The Tailor of Panama
    The show belongs to Geoffrey Rush in a note-perfect performance as Harry Pendel, the tailor.
  13. Tomcats
    Laced with such rampant misogyny that the laughs stick in your throat.
  14. Someone Like You...
    The film is a distinct pleasure.
  15. Heartbreakers
    It's not a pretty picture, but it is a pretty funny one when Gene Hackman shows up as William B. Tensy, a Palm Beach tobacco tycoon.
  16. Say It Isn't So
    A script by Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow that is minus a shred of Farrelly wit.
  17. Enemy at the Gates
    Any flaws in execution pale against those moments when the film brings history to vital life.
  18. Memento
    Like the best filmmakers at Sundance 2001, Nolan leaps into the wild blue and dares us to leap with him. Go for it.
  19. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Westfeldt and Juergensen are smart, sexy knockouts, finding just the right mix of fun and tenderness in their writing and performances.
  20. 15 Minutes
    Big, loud and lurid, but no less entertaining for that.
  21. Series 7: The Contenders
    Minahan wants us to see ourselves in the dark mirror of this outrageously funny satire. He's built the laughs wisely so they stick in our throats.
  22. The Mexican
    Promises a road movie of blissful comic romance and delivers a series of dramatic dead ends.
  23. Down to Earth
    The call on this one is: dead on arrival.
  24. Sweet November
    Beware all male viewers who enter here, you are in chick-movie hell.
  25. Saving Silverman
    Peet is always worth watching, but the role does her no favors, and the script, involving a kidnapping and a surprise cameo by Neil Diamond - you heard me - smacks of desperation beyond saving.
  26. Hannibal
    It's unmissable, flaws and all, because riveting suspense spiced with diabolical laughs and garnished with a sprig of kinky romance add up to the tastiest dish around.
  27. In the Mood for Love
    The film is alive with delicacy and feeling...It's a beauty.
  28. The Invisible Circus
    The script hits rough patches, especially when Phoebe and Wolf get it on, but the sisters cut to the heart.
  29. The Million Dollar Hotel
    The script that Nicholas Klein has conjured from Bono's idea is a quicksand that sucks down a solid cast.
  30. Sugar & Spice
    Give the girls a cheer, but remember: "Bring It On" is still the poo, Missy. Take a big whiff.
  31. Trolösa
    A mesmerizing deconstruction of the brute nature of love.
  32. Two Ninas
    Turitz keeps it comic and romantic in just the right doses. Looking for a fun date flick? You found it.
  33. The Pledge
    In crafting a fierce, fragmented, downbeat film about a character who makes the wrong decision as a man by being right as a cop, Penn flies in the face of what sells in Hollywood. Godspeed.
  34. Snatch.
    Ritchie's got something all his own: a go-for-broke energy that cuts through the cliches of the crime genre.
  35. Panic
    A black-comedy gem.
  36. Save the Last Dance
    Carter can't sidestep the script's cliches, so he wisely cuts to the fancy footwork whenever possible.
  37. Antitrust
    Gives us good reason to believe that January really is the month Hollywood studios use to bury their cheesiest mistakes.
  38. The Claim
    Draws an electric performance from Peter Mullan.
  39. Shadow of the Vampire
    It's a mesmerizing spectacle.
  40. Malèna
    Nothing new here except model-turned-actress Bellucci. To call her noteworthy would be an understatement.
  41. All the Pretty Horses
    It doesn't help that Damon and Cruz fail to generate sparks or that the second half of the film, in which John and Lacey face hell in a Mexican prison, feels bluntly edited to fit a two-hour running time.
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  42. Vatel
    This putrid dish marks a new low for director Roland Joffe.
  43. An Everlasting Piece
    The humor is slight, but the actors make the blarney go down easy.
  44. Before Night Falls
    In uniting to honor Arenas, Bardem and Schnabel create something extraordinary.
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  45. The House of Mirth
    The House of Mirth is not one of those teacup and doily movies; it's harsh and disturbing. Davies does superlatively right by Wharton. There's blood on the walls.
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  46. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    It's a wild, whacked-out wonder. Coenheads rejoice.
  47. Dracula 2000
    Dracula may stay undead in the new millennium, but there's not a sign of life - oh, that bloodless acting - in this sorry mess.
  48. The Family Man
    Starting to feel sick? Just you wait.
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  49. Miss Congeniality
    I'd rather be buried in a mound of Floridian chad than watch director Donald Petrie force Bullock to jump through another desperately unfunny comic hoop.
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  50. State and Main
    You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire. . .just to catch the zingers the audience often drowns out with laughter. Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartest comedy.
  51. Finding Forrester
    The ending leans to soap opera, but Van Sant, revisiting the closet-genius theme of "Good Will Hunting" is too keen an observer of character to let this funny and touching film go soft.
  52. The Gift
    The Gift delivers the lurid goods as a scary, sexy, twist-a-minute whodunit.
  53. Pollock
    Ed Harris, who plays Pollock and makes his debut as a director - doing both jobs superbly, by the way - is angst incarnate.
  54. Chocolat
    A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.
  55. Vertical Limit
    Pulls off thrilling stunts that will leave you a sweaty-palmed mess. It's top-tier movie escapism.
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  56. Proof of Life
    Slim pickings.
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  57. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Ang Lee, a world-class director working at the top of his elegant form, has done something thrilling. For all the leaping action, it's the film's spirit that soars.
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  58. Quills
    A savage comedy of sexual extremes; the barbed laughs draw blood.
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  59. Unbreakable
    It's rare that a a movie leaves you pinned to your seat, wanting to see it again -- right now, this minute -- to work out the pieces of the puzzle. Unbreakable is one of those movies.
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  60. The 6th Day
    Offers action in the Arnold Schwarzenegger style. Well, not right away.
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  61. Little Nicky
    Where's Sandler in all this? Lost in gimmicks that smack of desperation. Damn it.
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  62. You Can Count on Me
    There may be bigger, costlier, weighter films this year. There's none lovelier.
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  63. Men of Honor
    Passes muster as an old-style biopic with its heart in the right place. There won't be a dry eye in the house.
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  64. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Redford plays the game of filmmaking to reveal what he holds sacred: story, character, feeling, thoughtful pacing, and an alertness of nuances of honor and shame that most movies skip in the rush to the rush.
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  65. Charlie's Angels
    These kickass Barbies bring heart to a machine tooled genre.
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  66. George Washington
    Green has created a work of startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.
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  67. Lucky Numbers
    Ephron, try as she might, can't give her codified champagne spin to a Resnick script that all too quickly runs out of fizz.
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  68. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    While the first movie steadily tighened its vise, the second loosens its grip through strained acting and incoherent plotting.
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  69. Bedazzled
    Should have been a fun update on the 1967 Brit farce. Director/co-writer Ramis comes on too strong with the camper trickery.
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  70. Calle 54
    A landmark musical tribute.
  71. The Yards
    Self-importance sinks this one like a stone.
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  72. Pay It Forward
    Crass manipulation can clean up at the box office, so do your part: Nail this flick as a bottom feeder and pay the bad word forward to three others.
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  73. Dr T and the Women
    Altman orchestrates Dr. T's odyssey with the precision, heart and lively wit of a virtuoso.
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  74. Billy Elliot
    Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart without sham tearjerking. Look for Billy to blast off.
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  75. Just Looking
    There's not that much that's new in screenwriter Marshall Karp's sitcom-ish memoir, but Alexander keeps the laughs coming.
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  76. Lost Souls
    If the devil made them all do it, he's one dull bastard.
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  77. The Contender
    Until The Contender slips into partisan politics and platitudinous piety, it's a lively, entertaining ride.
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  78. Two Family House
    Writer-director Raymond De Felitta creates something wonderfully funny and touching.
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  79. Yi Yi
    A marvel of delicacy and humor.
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  80. Bamboozled
    A frustratingly uneven satire with undeniably sharp teeth, isn't afraid to shoot comic darts at its targets until blood is drawn.
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  81. Meet the Parents
    A hilarious hodgepodge, in which De Niro gives his best comic performance to date.
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  82. Requiem for a Dream
    No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.
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  83. Girlfight
    A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions.
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  84. Remember the Titans
    Distressingly shallow.
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  85. Best in Show
    Waggish fun like this is too good to miss.
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  86. The Fantasticks
    Shot five years ago by director Michael Ritchie. No release until now. Uh-oh. Disaster? Pretty much.
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  87. Woman on Top
    Cruz is a dish, but her movie is as soggy and indigestible as Styrofoam.
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  88. Dancer in the Dark
    For all its fancy pedigree, the spellbinding Dancer in the Dark aims right for the heart and aces its target.
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  89. Under Suspicion
    Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat.
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  90. Tigerland
    Despite melodramatic lapses -- the gripping action recalls Walter Hill's 1981 "Southern Comfort" -- this is Schumacher's most ambitions film since "Falling Down" in 1993, and it plays to his strengths with young actors.
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  91. Almost Famous
    If you haven't already sold your soul to rock & roll, Almost Famous should seal the deal.
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  92. The Way of the Gun
    Doesn't deliver an ounce of charm.
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  93. Nurse Betty
    As ever, Freeman delivers miracles; he's as good as it gets.
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  94. Whipped
    Peet does it with a twinkle, finding class among the crass.
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  95. The Original Kings of Comedy
    A tornado of laughs based on the black experience as lived by these four insightful jokers, instead of as filtered through the Hollywood formula.
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  96. The Cell
    Tarsem uses the dramatically shallow plot to create a dream world densely packed with images of beauty and terror that cling to the memory even if you don't want them to.
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  97. Cecil B. DeMented
    DeMented is Waters the way we like him--spiked with laughs and served with a twist.
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  98. The Replacements
    What The Replacements does have is energy.
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  99. The Opportunists
    Modestly made and modestly charming.
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  100. The Tao of Steve
    Logue hits every note of humor and heart in his breakthrough role. Don't miss him. He's that good.
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