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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Whale Rider
    A film of female empowerment that resonates deeply.
  2. The Italian Job
    A triumph for the machines, more proof that we do indeed live in the Matrix.
  3. Capturing the Friedmans
    It's a modern horror story that gets you where you live.
  4. Finding Nemo
    Leave it to a g-rated cartoon to give the live-action epics a lesson in action, fun and bracing originality.
  5. The In-Laws
    Everything sly and low-key about The In-Laws, a 1979 comedy...is supersized and coarsened in Andrew Fleming's remake.
  6. The Matrix Reloaded
    The Wachowskis have put together a mix of culture, kung fu, sci-fi and speculation, that makes them the warped wonders they are. When the film ends with a "To Be Continued," the hooks are in for The Matrix Revolutions on November 5th. Maybe I've been programmed to say it, but I am so there.
  7. Only the Strong Survive
    One for the time capsule.
  8. Daddy Day Care
    Murphy looks comatose delivering the played-out poopy jokes.
  9. The Shape of Things
    The actors nail the comic sting in every line, punctuated by eleven prime Elvis Costello songs.
  10. Down with Love
    What starts as freshly spun cotton candy ends as something pink, sticky and indigestible. You leave the theater wanting to puke it up.
  11. X2: X-Men United
    A summer firecracker. It's also a tribute to outcasts -- teens, gays, minorities, even Dixie Chicks. It's not without thought or feeling, except when its mind gets bent by the gods of box office. Then it's craven and empty.
  12. The Dancer Upstairs
    Malkovich weaves something delicate and devastating.
  13. Blue Car
    Bruckner is an amazement, piercing the heart without begging for sympathy. This small gem of a movie is the perfect setting for her breakthrough performance.
  14. Spellbound
    By the time they're onstage, your pulse is pounding right along with theirs. Spell this movie: g-r-e-a-t.
  15. A Decade Under the Influence
    Here's a fireball documentary about the 1970s, when filmmakers were stoked by sex, drugs, rock and, oh, yeah, social conscience.
  16. Confidence
    Scenes with Burns crackle with the toxic energy that makes Confidence a game worth playing.
  17. Winged Migration
    The result is a movie miracle; it soars.
  18. Lilya 4-Ever
    Lukas Moodysson, a young Swedish director, crafts a stunner of a film out of familiar turf.
  19. A Mighty Wind
    I've seen A Mighty Wind only twice so far. Maybe it is less fresh than "Guffman," more strained than "Best in Show." Who cares? It's still a gift from comedy heaven.
  20. Better Luck Tomorrow
    Lin is a talent to watch. There's a sting to this film that gets to you.
  21. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Despite over-ripe narration and an understandable urge to cram too much in, Ghosts of the Abyss is a thrilling documentary.
  22. Anger Management
    It's good fun for a while, especially the therapy sessions that feature Luis Guzman as a gay hood with a paunch he covers in Day-Glo spandex and John Turturro as Dave's "anger buddy." John C. Reilly also scores as a bully turned Buddhist monk.
  23. Phone Booth
    Farrell is a dynamo. And Kiefer Sutherland, whose sniper role is essentially a voice on the phone, matches Farrell subtle shift for subtle shift.
  24. What a Girl Wants
    It's slick girlie stuff, but the cast makes it go down easy.
  25. Levity
    A dreary film that's damn near torture to sit through.
  26. A Man Apart
    It's a little early for self-parody in the career of Vin Diesel. But he's a calamitous cliché in A Man Apart.
  27. The Good Thief
    Nolte brings a raspy authority to the role, and director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) surrounds him with colorful characters.
  28. Assassination Tango
    Duvall missteps in trying to mesh suspense with a love story that also involves the woman (Kathy Baker) John J. lives with and her young daughter (Katherine Micheaux Miller), on whom he disturbingly dotes.
  29. The Core
    The Core -- with its by-the-numbers plot and performances -- isn't offensive, just unblushingly tacky and derivative.
  30. Head of State
    Doesn't seem directed at all; you half expect the actors to crash into each other. Still, give me the attempted satire of Head of State over the racial stereotyping of "Bringing Down the House" anyday. You can feel a mind at work when you watch Rock.
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