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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. The Mexican
    The entire movie looks as if it were processed in the toilet of a Tijuana jail cell. Shot by Dariusz Wolski in colors that are bleached out, over bright and flat, The Mexican is the ugliest-looking major studio release in recent memory.
  2. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    It's a movie barely fit for a cretin, much less a King. If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building -- in disgust.
  3. Monkeybone
    A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years.
  4. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    It's not badly made, but it's a drag. Leconte's virtues can't overcome the plodding glumness that prevails.
  5. Down to Earth
    The Weitzes haven't come up with a masterpiece in Down to Earth, but they have put their stamp on a perfectly pleasant 90-minute diversion
  6. Company Man
    There's nothing worse than a bad farce -- except for this Cuban missile crisis comedy that wastes talent like Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Alan Cumming.
  7. Sweet November
    Does neither of its leads any favors. But they fill their roles admirably, and then some. Time and again, in a movie that repeatedly threatens mawkishness, you can sense them gently steering away just in the nick of time.
  8. Saving Silverman
    I was laughing myself sick over Saving Silverman, a sublimely idiotic farce in the "There's Something About Mary" tradition.
  9. Hannibal
    Hannibal, which is very likely the worst film of this year and quite possibly the next, achieves what no movie I can recall ever even attempting: It somehow manages to be both repugnant and boring.
  10. In the Mood for Love
    Smolders with more reserved passion than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
  11. The Invisible Circus
    The Invisible Circus isn't junk. It's carefully, competently made, though with no particular feeling for technique or rhythm.
  12. The Million Dollar Hotel
    There's a vacancy in The Million Dollar Hotel, and it's between Wim Wenders' ears.
  13. Valentine
    OK, so Valentine is, like, this new serial-killer movie that totally blows. But kind of in a good way. Like, it's funny.
  14. The Wedding Planner
    A chaste, lively and mildly goofy romance to dispel the winter blahs.
  15. The Pledge
    Just a bad movie, with more bits of good acting and flashes of director's invention than you get in most bad movies.
  16. Snatch.
    It takes a very clever schoolboy to make a movie as elaborately empty as Guy Ritchie's Snatch.
  17. Panic
    A small movie, to be sure, but it's also a thoroughly original one.
  18. Double Take
    You get the feeling that everyone was in a good mood and the margaritas were pouring, but neither Gallo nor anybody else ever found a bottom line for this movie or its characters.
  19. Save the Last Dance
    For all its dumb clichés it offers the basic appeal of teen movies: the pleasure of watching kids be kids, acting as they do among themselves instead of how parents and teachers expect them to act.
  20. Antitrust
    Poops out before it ever really gets going.
  21. The Claim
    One of those rare literary adaptations that finds its fidelity in freedom, that stands as both a fitting version of its source material and as its own creation.
  22. Shadow of the Vampire
    An academic exercise driven by adolescent ideas that never shape themselves into a narrative: in short, a movie that can never dislodge the art fatally wedged up its butt.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Traffic
    In the scorching new film Traffic, director Steven Soderbergh captures the hypocrisy -- and tragedy -- of the nation's unwinnable war on drugs. Traffic is a huge, determined movie in every way.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Thirteen Days
    A thoroughly bland and mediocre movie about the Cuban missile crisis.
  25. All the Pretty Horses
    At under two hours, the movie crawls by; at four, people would become fossilized to their seats.
  26. Before Night Falls
    As good as it is, Before Night Falls might not work if Schnabel hadn't found a leading man to hold it together and the Spanish actor Javier Bardem has the understated charisma to pull it off.
  27. The House of Mirth
    Anderson's Lily is the kind of heroine who earns our protectiveness by never begging for it; it's an astonishing performance.
  28. Cast Away
    It's mournful and troubling in a way that goes beyond ordinary movie manipulation. It burns clean.
  29. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    From moment to moment, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a pleasure. But when the Coens are really cooking, when the acting and the conception and the music all come together, it's something more -- Dogpatch rapture.
  30. The Family Man
    But in the end conventional sentiment, rather than any actual morality, is all that the script for The Family Man (by David Diamond and David Weissman) has to offer.
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