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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    May have said more about race in America today than any other movie of last year.
  2. Intimate Strangers
    To borrow a phrase from Pauline Kael, Intimate Strangers suggests bits of Alfred Hitchcock and bits of Woody Allen. But the wrong bits.
  3. Garden State
    Braff, and Garden State, give it the old college try, and at least some, if not all, of the sparks catch. Even if the movie doesn't quite take off, it doesn't leave you feeling stranded, either.
  4. She Hate Me
    The problem with She Hate Me is that there's no playfulness in Lee's provocations. He doesn't have the style or the naughty joie de vivre that you need to make a sex farce.
  5. The Bourne Supremacy
    As a piece of craft, and with the exception of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," it's miles beyond any studio film this summer.
  6. Catwoman
    The frustrating thing about Catwoman is that Berry does her damnedest to make the character work. Some of her physical moves are astonishing: Her offhanded grace is exceedingly catlike.
  7. A Home at the End of the World
    At the movie's end, nuance is all we have left; beyond the admirable efforts of some of the actors, the picture leaves behind nothing so human as a fingerprint.
  8. I, Robot
    I, Robot strives to be so many things that it ultimately falls away to nothing, a heap of expensive metal parts.
  9. The Door in the Floor
    It's nearly impossible to tell whether Williams thought he was making a family tragedy or a sex farce.
  10. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    It has a pleasing, noodly elasticity about it -- the picture knows what its limits are and proceeds to boogie unself-consciously far outside them.
  11. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Veers unpredictably between wrenching psychodrama and "Spinal Tap"-style mockumentary.
  12. King Arthur
    It's hard to care about a valiant groping for accuracy when a story is so badly told you can't tell what the devil is going on.
  13. Before Sunset
    Although there isn't a single kiss in this love story, it's intensely erotic -- and more to the point, it's not afraid of eroticsm's juicier and more forthright twin, carnality.
  14. The Clearing
    Just when you think The Clearing is too simplistic to have any dramatic edge, the actors dig in and flesh out the stark framework of the story.
  15. Spider-Man 2
    For a big-budget action movie Spider-Man 2 is modest and not assaultive -- it has a boring decency.
  16. The Notebook
    The movie not only approaches a level of shamelessness you have to see to disbelieve, it does it in a manner that's both inept and crass.
  17. Two Brothers
    Unless you're a lover of tigers, there's probably no reason to see Jean-Jacques Annaud's Two Brothers. And maybe not even then.
  18. Fahrenheit 9/11
    Fahrenheit 9/11 is more like a drug experience than a political documentary. It's a mind-bending, half-digested mass of video clips, interviews, statistics, rampant speculation and the cheap gags Moore has never been able to resist.
  19. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Strangely exhilarating.
  20. The Terminal
    Probably the worst-directed film Spielberg has ever made. A peculiarly rhythmless piece of work, it seems to go on forever, though nearly every one of the scenes is cut off before it has been dramatically developed.
  21. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    I'll Sleep When I'm Dead has its problems: As beautifully made as it is, Hodges leaves some crucial portions of the story maddeningly unclear, particularly at the end.
  22. Around the World in 80 Days
    Never as delightful and silly as it needs to be. The action is often manic, and there's a veneer of unapologetic corniness to it.
  23. The Chronicles of Riddick
    Thoroughly enjoyable, but not because it's any good.
  24. The Stepford Wives
    The picture is mildly entertaining and stringently unoffensive (provided you're not a supersensitive upper-crusty type from Connecticut). Yet it has problems from the start.
  25. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    One of the greatest fantasy films of all time.
  26. The Day After Tomorrow
    Despite the fact that The Day After Tomorrow is harnessed to the very real threat of global warming, it's still just a big, dumb movie, another Hollywood entertainment that, instead of tweaking and teasing our brains for fun, leaves us feeling thick and stupid.
  27. The Mother
    Reid is stunning here.
  28. Saved!
    The reality is that it's neither hip nor funny: Instead, it's excessively broad one minute and unctuously instructional the next.
  29. Raising Helen
    If a couple who belonged to the Christian Coalition, or your maiden aunt, or George and Laura Bush were looking for a reassuring night out, Raising Helen would fit the bill nicely.
  30. Control Room
    A surprising, puzzling and in many ways brilliant work.
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