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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. Knockaround Guys
    Off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of Vin Diesel, Seth Green and Barry Pepper. It should have stayed there.
  2. The Rules of Attraction
    Rules needs that dose of hilarity. Ellis' satire, filtered through Avary's harsh lens, is hard to stomach, harder to ignore.
  3. Punch-Drunk Love
    Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. Sandler and the movie will knock you for a loop.
  4. White Oleander
    The estrogen overload damn near did me in.
  5. Bowling for Columbine
    This volcanically funny and seriously scary look at America's obsession with guns is meant to shake us up good. And it does.
  6. Swept Away
    For starters, it blows. Madonna continues to mistake a knack for striking poses with the interpretive skill of a real actor.
  7. Red Dragon
    Suffers from franchise fatigue. Its rote suspense is strictly a business proposition.
  8. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Jagger the actor is someone you want to see again. Eat your heart out, Madonna.
  9. Sweet Home Alabama
    Witherspoon has the class, the sass and the full-out talent to sustain a major career. Who else could turn the wimpy Sweet Home Alabama into a date-movie winner? She's one of that select group who is worth watching in anything. Even in this less-than-magic kingdom, Reese rules.
  10. The Four Feathers
    It should have been an old-fashioned rouser, and sometimes it is. The great cinematographer Robert Richardson (JFK) lights the battle scenes like action paintings. But Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities.
  11. 8 Women
    Whatever you call this one-of-a-kind bonbon spiked with wit and malice, it's classic oo-la-la.
  12. Secretary
    A film of startling humor and feeling. For that, director Steven Shainberg, who co-wrote the script with Erin Cressida Wilson, owes much to two remarkable performances.
  13. Spirited Away
    Miyazaki is the Pied Piper -- see Spirited Away and you'll follow him anywhere.
  14. Barbershop
    Good-natured fun when it isn't stale, which is most of the time, this talky comedy set in a Chicago barber shop is a sitcom pilot disguised as a movie.
  15. Swimfan
    It would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck, preferably a semi.
  16. City by the Sea
    The true story of the LaMarcas, well told by the late Mike McAlary in Esquire, has been pounded into TV-crime mush by screenwriter Ken Hixon and director Michael Caton-Jones. Shockingly, the acting doesn't help.
  17. In Praise of Love
    For all its bile and incoherence, In Praise of Love is filled with haunting images and insights. Godard may be a lion in winter, but the lion still roars.
  18. S1m0ne
    Writer-director Andrew Niccol -- gets this Hollywood satire off to a rousing start. But the middle flattens, despite Pacino firing on all cylinders. And the end just nose-dives into something silly and, worse, sentimental.
  19. One Hour Photo
    Williams gives a performance that is riveting in its recessiveness and, as a consequence, truly, deeply scary.
  20. Possession
    Maud and Roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story, but LaBute pulls off a neater trick in Possession: He makes language sexy.
  21. Blue Crush
    Bosworth is a star in the making, but even she can't outshine the surfing footage, which is flat-out spectacular.
  22. xXx
    It's hard to hate a movie, even one this droolingly crass, that knows how to laugh at itself.
  23. 24 Hour Party People
    Like the music, the film is outspoken, roaringly funny, defiantly sexual and relentlessly in your face. I couldn't have liked it more.
  24. The Good Girl
    There are times when The Good Girl is so low-key it damn near flatlines. Luckily, White creates compelling characters with a few deft brush strokes. The actors fill in the rest.
  25. Full Frontal
    It's all part of the joke. Soderbergh may have created a bit of a mess with Full Frontal, but it's a playful and scrappy mess.
  26. One Last Kiss
    Think "Sex and the City" with men, only in Italian and with lots more hollering and hand gestures.
  27. Signs
    Follow Shyamalan's Signs. It will take a piece out of you.
  28. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    This stuff is golden. Directors Brett Morgan and Nanette Burstein make sure the movie goes down like potato chips. It's great fun and compulsively watchable. And don't leave before Dustin Hoffman makes a hilarious appearance as the credits roll.
  29. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    The gifted Myers lets his once and (I hope) future shag king get lost in an elephantine Hollywood franchise. The first time was the charm, baby.
  30. Tadpole
    Tadpole may be small, but it's something special -- a cheeky comedy knockout.
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