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For 4,545 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: 2,928 out of 4545
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4545
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4545
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  1. The Butterfly Effect
    Nothing can save this repetitive bore. Dude, where's your memory?
  2. Made-Up
    Pointed and hilarious.
  3. My Baby's Daddy
    Diapers, even from three babies, can't stink worse than this.
  4. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Shocking and indispensable viewing.
  5. Chasing Liberty
    Lacks the active verb it promises. It defines blah.
  6. Japanese Story
    Tsunashima is superb, and a never-better Collette (The Sixth Sense, About a Boy, The Hours) has a radiant intensity that hits you right in the heart. She burns this movie into your memory.
  7. The Company
    Altman, showing the ardor and assurance of a master, pulls us into his film with seductive power. You won't want to miss a thing.
  8. Paycheck
    The title of this limp retread of "Minority Report" -- both films are based on stories by Philip K. Dick -- presumably refers to the reason the big names involved did this movie.
  9. Cold Mountain
    The specter of war haunts Cold Mountain, but you remember it for the heat of its romantic yearning and the mysteries that wrap themselves around you until you're lost in another world.
  10. Peter Pan
    Despite a hint that Peter (Jeremy Sumpter) and Wendy (Rachel Hurd-Wood) might get it on, there's nothing to crow about.
  11. Monster
    There's Theron, like a force of nature, compelling us to go beyond TV-movie supposition and look Wuornos straight in the eye. Her raw and riveting performance makes Monster an experience you won't forget.
  12. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    It will knock you for a loop like no other movie this year.
  13. Mona Lisa Smile
    "Irritating" doesn't begin to describe Julia Roberts as Katherine, an art-history prof who arrives at Wellesley in 1953.
  14. House of Sand and Fog
    Before it runs off course into excess, this brilliantly acted film version of the 1999 novel by Andre Dubus III moves with a stabbing urgency.
  15. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    This is a film in which ideas resonate as well as action. Gandalf’s words to Pippin about death have a muscular poetry.
  16. The Statement
    Jewison dodges the issues in the script by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) to focus on cat-and-mouse chases that kill interest.
  17. Something's Gotta Give
    In an era of dumb farce, Something's Gotta Give is something special.
  18. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Near the end, when Griet puts on that earring and Johansson magically morphs into the figure on that canvas, you'll be knocked for a loop.
  19. Big Fish
    Director Tim Burton finally hooks the one that got away: a script that challenges and deepens his visionary talent.
  20. The Last Samurai
    When the script, by Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, doesn't sabotage the images, and the great cinematographer John Toll turns action into poetry, The Last Samurai emerges as a haunting silent movie.
  21. The Cooler
    Wayne Kramer, who co-wrote the scrappy script with Frank Hannah, makes a potent directing debut and strikes gold with the cast.
  22. The Triplets of Belleville
    It's comic, touching and a visual knockout.
  23. In America
    An emotional wipeout.
  24. Bad Santa
    If you've had it with all that feel-good holiday sludge, hook up with the combustibly nasty Bad Santa. It could become a Christmas perennial for Scrooges of all ages.
  25. 21 Grams
    You won't see more explosive acting this year.
  26. Gothika
    Stupefyingly stupid thriller.
  27. The Barbarian Invasions
    It's a feast of smart, sexy, glorious talk. The Oscar for best foreign film belongs right here.
  28. The Cat in the Hat
    Talk about your quick-buck exploitation.
  29. The Missing
    Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.
  30. Tupac: Resurrection
    Lazin's remarkable achievement is to catch Tupac in the act of discovering himself. It's something to see.
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