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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 Recruit
    As a thriller, The Recruit is merely an entertaining ride. But remember: Nothing is what it seems. It's the subtext -- two actors from different generations faking each other out with skill and affection -- that counts.
  2. Darkness Falls
    Do you really need me to tell you how scary this horror show isn't?
  3. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    Just one talking head, that's all. But the head in this mesmerizing documentary belongs to Traudl Junge.
  4. A Guy Thing
    If you ever admired Julia Stiles, Selma Blair and Jason Lee -- and who didn't? -- don't watch them crush their careers in this laugh-free romantic comedy.
  5. National Security
    It's too bad Martin already made “What's the Worst That Could Happen?” The title really fits this one.
  6. Kangaroo Jack
    The 'roo doesn't talk, except in a dream sequence…I'm dying here.
  7. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Clooney fashions a style all his own: visceral, vital and churning with off-the-wall ideas. That's what makes you want to see Clooney direct again. You can feel his joy in it.
  8. 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.
  9. Max
    "You're an awfully hard man to like, Hitler." Few serious films could survive a line like that. Max certainly doesn't.
  10. The Hours
    These three unimprovable actresses make The Hours a thing of beauty.
  11. The Pianist
    Nothing can detract from the film as a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake.
  12. Chicago
    Chicago, based on Bob Fosse's Broadway smash, kills.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Gangs of New York
    Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive.
  18. Antwone Fisher
    The uniformly fine performances are a tribute to Washington, who plays the shrink with his customary command.
  19. 25th Hour
    In a multiplex filled with empty New Year vessels (take that, Kangaroo Jack), this holdover grabs you hard.
  20. 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.
  21. The Guys
    The film is just two people talking, but director Jim Simpson finds its grieving heart.
  22. 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.
  23. Analyze That
    The sequel, also directed by Harold Ramis, is painfully padded.
  24. Adaptation.
    Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a rare species. It's magic.
  25. Solaris
    Clooney brings raw intensity to his role; his scenes with McElhone are rooted in a fierce romantic yearning.
  26. 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.
  27. Die Another Day
    Brosnan, in his fourth time up at the Bond bat, hits this one out of the park.
  28. The Emperor's Club
    Director Michael Hoffman sprays on the tears like a toxic mist. Avoid like the plague.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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