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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. I Spy
    Something lazy, slow, shallow, stupid, amateurish, unfunny, unsuspenseful, uninformed, unspeakably dull and witlessly written, directed and acted (the special effects suck, too).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Waking Up in Reno
    Thornton plays this low-ball farce with deceptive, masterful ease. Appreciate it.
  5. All or Nothing
    Leigh isn't breaking new ground, but he knows how a daily grind can kill love. Strong stuff.
  6. Roger Dodger
    Campbell Scott swings at one of the year's juiciest roles and knocks it out of the park.
  7. Abandon
    Crossing "A Beautiful Mind" with "Sex Kittens Go to College," first-time director Stephen Gaghan (he wrote Traffic) causes a head-on collision.
  8. 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.
  9. The Ring
    The pickings are slim for scares this Halloween season (Ghost Ship, Below), so The Ring wins first prize by default.
  10. Comedian
    It's funny as hell, and like all comedy that stings, sorrowful at its core.
  11. Knockaround Guys
    Off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of Vin Diesel, Seth Green and Barry Pepper. It should have stayed there.
  12. 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.
  13. Punch-Drunk Love
    Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. Sandler and the movie will knock you for a loop.
  14. White Oleander
    The estrogen overload damn near did me in.
  15. Bowling for Columbine
    This volcanically funny and seriously scary look at America's obsession with guns is meant to shake us up good. And it does.
  16. Swept Away
    For starters, it blows. Madonna continues to mistake a knack for striking poses with the interpretive skill of a real actor.
  17. Red Dragon
    Suffers from franchise fatigue. Its rote suspense is strictly a business proposition.
  18. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Jagger the actor is someone you want to see again. Eat your heart out, Madonna.
  19. Sweet Home Alabama
    Witherspoon has the class, the sass and the full-out talent to sustain a major career. Who else could turn the wimpy Sweet Home Alabama into a date-movie winner? She's one of that select group who is worth watching in anything. Even in this less-than-magic kingdom, Reese rules.
  20. The Four Feathers
    It should have been an old-fashioned rouser, and sometimes it is. The great cinematographer Robert Richardson (JFK) lights the battle scenes like action paintings. But Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities.
  21. 8 Women
    Whatever you call this one-of-a-kind bonbon spiked with wit and malice, it's classic oo-la-la.
  22. Secretary
    A film of startling humor and feeling. For that, director Steven Shainberg, who co-wrote the script with Erin Cressida Wilson, owes much to two remarkable performances.
  23. Spirited Away
    Miyazaki is the Pied Piper -- see Spirited Away and you'll follow him anywhere.
  24. Barbershop
    Good-natured fun when it isn't stale, which is most of the time, this talky comedy set in a Chicago barber shop is a sitcom pilot disguised as a movie.
  25. Swimfan
    It would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck, preferably a semi.
  26. City by the Sea
    The true story of the LaMarcas, well told by the late Mike McAlary in Esquire, has been pounded into TV-crime mush by screenwriter Ken Hixon and director Michael Caton-Jones. Shockingly, the acting doesn't help.
  27. In Praise of Love
    For all its bile and incoherence, In Praise of Love is filled with haunting images and insights. Godard may be a lion in winter, but the lion still roars.
  28. S1m0ne
    Writer-director Andrew Niccol -- gets this Hollywood satire off to a rousing start. But the middle flattens, despite Pacino firing on all cylinders. And the end just nose-dives into something silly and, worse, sentimental.
  29. One Hour Photo
    Williams gives a performance that is riveting in its recessiveness and, as a consequence, truly, deeply scary.
  30. Possession
    Maud and Roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story, but LaBute pulls off a neater trick in Possession: He makes language sexy.
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