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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. The Notebook
    I have the same allergic reaction to this open faucet of tear-jerking swill as I do to the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel that inspired it.
  2. Fahrenheit 9/11
    Moore has marshaled what's on the record and off into a stinging indictment of where we're going. In a multiplex filled with Hollywood cotton candy, we need him more than ever.
  3. The Terminal
    In his sappiest film since 1989's "Always," director Steven Spielberg has come down with a case of the cutes that the whole cast catches.
  4. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    It's one for the time capsule.
  5. The Stepford Wives
    Close gets laughs, as does Bette Midler as a Jewish rebel. But the sting is gone.
  6. Napoleon Dynamite
    Hess and his terrific cast -- Heder is geek perfection -- make their own kind of deadpan hilarity. You'll laugh till it hurts. Sweet.
  7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Not only is this dazzler by far the best and most thrilling of the three Harry Potter movies to date, it's a film that can stand on its own even if you never heard of author J.K. Rowling and her young wizard hero.
  8. Saved!
    Fanaticism is Dannelly's target, not faith. That's what makes his film a keeper: It sticks with you.
  9. Baadasssss!
    The film is technically raw, but the sight of Van Peebles playing his father at a defining moment in movie history exerts a potent fascination.
  10. The Day After Tomorrow
    Don't ask whether or not you should take The Day After Tomorrow seriously. Don't take it at all.
  11. The Five Obstructions
    Keep "Survivor" and "Fear Factor," and give me this spellbinding mind teaser, the ultimate game for movie buffs.
  12. Raising Helen
    Despite Joan Cusack, whose comic spark earns the film its only star, Raising Helen is like tumbling into chick-flick hell.
  13. Stateside
    Anselmo, basing his script on a true story, juggles more plots than a full season of "The O.C.," setting his cast adrift in a sea of soap-opera bubbles.
  14. Shrek 2
    Shrek 2 may be computer-generated, but its innate heart and glorious sense of mischief make it one of the best and most humane movies of the summer.
  15. Coffee and Cigarettes
    Jarmusch makes it a feast that plays like a haunting concept album.
  16. Troy
    Troy lacks the focus of Gladiator, not to mention that Oscar winner's scrappy wit. But why kick a gift horse when you're in summer-movie heaven?
  17. Super Size Me
    It’s one of the blackest comedies to hit the screen since Dr. Strangelove. Spurlock proves himself a supersize talent; he makes you choke on every laugh.
  18. Van Helsing
    Here's a shrieking bore of a horror flick.
  19. Laws of Attraction
    They are all victims of a script of such colossal banality and gross stupidity that smiles freeze on their faces, leaving them looking trapped and desperate, much like the audience.
  20. Godsend
    Every scare is telegraphed. Every surprise is recycled from a better thriller. Even the devil would send this one back.
  21. Envy
    Environmentalists are up in arms. "Where did the shit go?" they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay.
  22. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    It's too bad. Jones deserved better than a biopic with a TV-movie heart.
  23. Mean Girls
    The plot is flimsy, but director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday) trusts Fey's tart dialogue to carry the day. Wise man. Fey subverts formula to find comic gold. She's a brash new voice in movie comedy. Boy, do we need her now.
  24. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    You'll thrill to the action, savor the tasty dialogue and laugh like bloody hell.
  25. The Punisher
    Among the recent spate of comic-book movies, from "Spider-Man" to the "X-Men," The Punisher is unique.
  26. Young Adam
    Tepid.
  27. The Girl Next Door
    Director Luke Greenfield, the auteur behind "The Animal," starring Rob Schneider, wants to pass off this limp-dick farce as social satire. Ha!
  28. I'm Not Scared
    In the guise of a nerve-jangling thriller, director Gabriele Salvatores, an Oscar winner for "Mediterraneo," delivers a fierce, frightening and deeply moving study of childhood. It's a keeper.
  29. Walking Tall
    There was a time when guys would grab a six-pack and watch this kind of flick at a drive-in. I mean that as a compliment.
  30. Hellboy
    Hellboy is on fire with scares and laughs and del Toro’s visionary dazzle. It’s the tenderness that comes as an unexpected bonus.
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