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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. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    This version of the Potter saga is fun and harmless rather than memorable or imaginative. That's certainly no crime.
  2. The Fluffer
    Stay away from this cautionary tale about the gay porn industry -- it blows.
  3. Shallow Hal
    May be the best Farrellys movie yet, even though it doesn't live up to the pair's usual level of uproarious, crass comic genius. They're learning, movie by movie, to articulate ideas that are more and more sophisticated, without being oppressively heavy-handed.
  4. Heist
    There's something offensive about how Mamet continues to win praise as a serious filmmaker with such a joyless picture, a picture that -- intentionally -- gives the audience so little.
  5. Monsters, Inc.
    It's a nice movie. But Disney has never learned that "nice," especially in comedy, is a negative virtue.
  6. Amélie
    The problem is that the charm and good spirits of Amélie feel calculated rather than natural.
  7. Domestic Disturbance
    It's clear from the outset that a thriller is going to be big and dumb -- as opposed to tight and smart.
  8. The Man Who Wasn't There
    What makes me respect The Man Who Wasn't There despite myself is the sense that the Coens want it to be about something that can't be described or defined.
  9. K-PAX
    What keeps the movie going, besides Softley's intelligent direction and Mathieson's inventive cinematography, is the actors' duet between Spacey and Bridges.
  10. Life as a House
    Forget about cancer -- it's weepy movies like this that are the real scourge.
  11. Better Than Sex
    It could be funnier, sharper, more probing, but at its best it is sexy, and that's always something to celebrate.
  12. Donnie Darko
    A stunning technical accomplishment that virtually bursts with noise, ideas and references, but it's fundamentally a gracefully crafted movie that's about human beings and not images.
  13. Bones
    Too jumbled to become the major pop hit it wants to be. But it's not an entirely bad film despite its lack of coherence. Horror aficionados and other midnight-movie fans shouldn't miss it.
  14. Trembling Before G-d
    By the end of Trembling Before G_d, you desperately wish that at least some of DuBowski's subjects would see the light.
  15. From Hell
    A brain-dead version of a dark and complex work.
  16. The Last Castle
    Deadly dull.
  17. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Every scene is coated with Marshall's thumbprints, ultimately connecting into a manhandled, mangled, misshapen whole, its themes written out in thunderously obvious cues.
  18. Waking Life
    It's the perfect marriage of music and animated movement. But even when there's no music playing in Waking Life, the movie's lyricism is sustained by the way it looks and feels.
  19. Bandits
    Nothing is more dispiriting than forced high spirits. Bandits keeps reminding you of what a good time you should be having. You leave with a feeling of being swindled, and that's the only genuine thing about it.
  20. Iron Monkey
    A guilt-free, no-fat dessert from start to finish.
  21. Mulholland Dr.
    Lynch's Hollywood is a grand old girl, but she's one with some very treacherous curves. To trace the contours of her sensuality, you need a camera as sensitive as a set of fingertips. Lynch's is.
  22. Fat Girl
    It's a lean, mean movie, and not a pretty one, but it leaves no question as to Breillat's angular originality as a filmmaker.
  23. Joy Ride
    The kicker is that Joy Ride is funny, too. In fact, it would be a superbly frightening entertainment if not for the way Dahl fixates, disturbingly, on sadistic details.
  24. Training Day
    One of the finest cops-and-robbers thrillers of recent years.
  25. Serendipity
    Airy and enchanting, this romantic comedy works overtime to sprinkle moonlight and stardust over itself.
  26. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    Never less than witty, charming, accomplished.
  27. Born Romantic
    Dancing, like being in love, sometimes means making a mess of things. Born Romantic makes glorious sense of that mess, trampled toes and all.
  28. Don't Say a Word
    A stupid, brutal and nonsensical picture.
  29. Zoolander
    It's to Stiller's credit that he can sustain the joke for the length of the movie, but just barely. Ten more minutes of Zoolander would have been 10 minutes too many.
  30. Hearts in Atlantis
    The resulting film directed by Scott Hicks is afflicted by terminal nostalgic drift. You come out of the theater with nothing more specific than half-pleasant memories of baseball gloves, Ferris wheels and vintage automobiles. I've had naps that were more exciting.
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