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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. Assault on Precinct 13
    By playing it safe, the new Precinct leaves the audience sorry and restores thirteen to its place as the unluckiest number.
  2. Coach Carter
    This afternoon-TV special trying to pass as a real movie earns an extra half star solely for Samuel L. Jackson, who brings his usual fire to the role.
  3. Elektra
    Breathlessly boring.
  4. White Noise
    "Sixth Sense" rip-off.
  5. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    It's the stunning location photography of camera ace Elliot Davis that provides what the movie itself lacks: authenticity.
  6. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    This riveting film qualifies as the anti-crowd-pleaser -- but Penn makes it unthinkable to turn away.
  7. The Merchant of Venice
    The film itself occasionally plods, but Pacino, tackling a tough trap of a role, raises the bar in a mesmerizing acting triumph.
  8. In Good Company
    Fresh comic thinking spices up this smart cookie of a satire from director-writer Paul Weitz (About a Boy). He makes it sexually provocative and subversively hilarious.
  9. The Woodsman
    It's Bacon who overcomes all obstacles.
  10. The Phantom of the Opera
    Phantom, still running on Broadway after sixteen years, is a rapturous spectacle. And the movie, directed full throttle by Joel Schumacher, goes the show one better.
  11. Hotel Rwanda
    George has been criticized for simplifying a complex story into an African "Schindler's List." But despite flaws in execution, this is a film of rare courage and imperishable heart.
  12. Imaginary Heroes
    What the movie damagingly lacks is a personality of its own.
  13. Beyond the Sea
    Doing his own singing (an uncanny imitation), Spacey is a marvel.
  14. The Sea Inside
    The film, quite rightly, is a tour de force for Bardem.
  15. Spanglish
    A rich blend of humor and heartbreak.
  16. The Aviator
    When it flies, it soars.
  17. Million Dollar Baby
    The knockout punch comes from Eastwood. His stripped-down performance -- as powerful as anything he's ever done -- has a rugged, haunting beauty. The same goes for the movie.
  18. Ocean's Twelve
    Clooney and company work it too hard this time. You can tell they're huffing and puffing to stay afloat. But all I hear is: glug glug glug.
  19. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Wilson drops the ironic smirk to give a sincerely affecting performance. His scenes with Murray provide the ballast when the script veers off into unconvincing pirate attacks and animated sea creatures.
  20. House of Flying Daggers
    Forget "Hero" -- that cult hit was just Zhang Yimou's warm-up for this martial-arts fireball that throws in a lyrical love story, head-spinning fights and dazzling surprises.
  21. Closer
    Mike Nichols' haunting, hypnotic Closer vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
  22. A Very Long Engagement
    An emotional powerhouse.
  23. Alexander
    Alexander breaks the key rule that makes movies move: Show, don't tell.
  24. National Treasure
    It's not just hard to believe any of this, it's impossible. And director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenom) directs with robotic cheerlessness.
  25. Bad Education
    A rapturous masterwork.
  26. After the Sunset
    A movie utterly devoid of wit , excitement and any reason for being.
  27. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Is it the clumsy script or the switch in directors -- Beeban Kidron in for Sharon Maguire -- that has sucked out the charm of the original and replaced it with crude pratfalls and enough shag gags to stuff the next three Austin Powers movies?
  28. Kinsey
    Scrappy, funny, hot-to-trot biopic.
  29. Finding Neverland
    Glorious entertainment.
  30. The Polar Express
    The result is a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.
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