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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. Nicholas Nickleby
    Christopher Plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as Nicholas' wounded and wounding Uncle Ralph. It's a great performance and a reminder of Dickens' grandeur. This Cliff's Notes of a film, though lively fun, only hints at that.
  2. The Hours
    These three unimprovable actresses make The Hours a thing of beauty.
  3. Catch Me If You Can
    What begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes. A film that took off like a hare on speed ends like a winded tortoise.
  4. Morvern Callar
    Despite grim doings involving sexual hysteria and chopped-up body parts (don't ask), Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling.
  5. Narc
    A no-bull throwback to 1970s action films. It zips along with B-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special.
  6. Gangs of New York
    Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive.
  7. Spider
    What catches us in Spider's web -- besides the indelible performances of Fiennes and Richardson -- is the director's sympathy with this freak man-child who struggles to order his confused memories into a kind of truth.
  8. Antwone Fisher
    The uniformly fine performances are a tribute to Washington, who plays the shrink with his customary command.
  9. 25th Hour
    In a multiplex filled with empty New Year vessels (take that, Kangaroo Jack), this holdover grabs you hard.
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Spectacular in every sense of the word, even if you don' t know an Orc from a Uruk-Hai.
  11. The Guys
    The film is just two people talking, but director Jim Simpson finds its grieving heart.
  12. About Schmidt
    It is also Nicholson at his bravest and riskiest. By banking his fires and staying alert to the smallest details, he delivers a monumental performance that blasts your expectations and batters your heart.
  13. Analyze That
    The sequel, also directed by Harold Ramis, is painfully padded.
  14. Adaptation.
    Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a rare species. It's magic.
  15. Eight Crazy Nights
    I'd prefer to think of Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love," the one good movie of the three he did this year.
  16. Solaris
    Clooney brings raw intensity to his role; his scenes with McElhone are rooted in a fierce romantic yearning.
  17. The Emperor's Club
    Director Michael Hoffman sprays on the tears like a toxic mist. Avoid like the plague.
  18. Die Another Day
    Brosnan, in his fourth time up at the Bond bat, hits this one out of the park.
  19. Talk to Her
    The actors are outstanding, illuminating four different views of loneliness. But it's Camara's tour-de-force performance that anchors the film, that shocks and unnerves us.
  20. The Quiet American
    Caine has never been better, which is saying something. He puts a human face on a tragic era of history in a film that ranks with the year's finest.
  21. I Spy
    Something lazy, slow, shallow, stupid, amateurish, unfunny, unsuspenseful, uninformed, unspeakably dull and witlessly written, directed and acted (the special effects suck, too).
  22. Roger Dodger
    Campbell Scott swings at one of the year's juiciest roles and knocks it out of the park.
  23. Waking Up in Reno
    Thornton plays this low-ball farce with deceptive, masterful ease. Appreciate it.
  24. The Truth About Charlie
    Demme can't sustain the fizz, but seeing a real filmmaker try and fall short is still more fun than watching a hack hit the mark.
  25. Frida
    Hamstrung by a script that seems determined to stop at all the big moments in Frida's life (she died in 1954 at age forty-seven) without giving anything time to resonate.
  26. All or Nothing
    Leigh isn't breaking new ground, but he knows how a daily grind can kill love. Strong stuff.
  27. Abandon
    Crossing "A Beautiful Mind" with "Sex Kittens Go to College," first-time director Stephen Gaghan (he wrote Traffic) causes a head-on collision.
  28. The Ring
    The pickings are slim for scares this Halloween season (Ghost Ship, Below), so The Ring wins first prize by default.
  29. Auto Focus
    Michael Gerbosi's script might have reduced Crane to a clueless cliche were it not for the bruised humanity that Greg Kinnear brings to the role. Kinnear is dynamite.
  30. 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.
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