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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. Billy Elliot
    A surprisingly wise and funny meditation on the nature of what it truly means to be a man.
  2. Lost Souls
    A lugubrious sub-"Exorcist" demonic possession film that's absolutely no fun at all.
  3. Ratcatcher
    A large part of the movie's problem is that both the characters and the actors who portray them serve as vehicles for Ramsay's stylistic flourishes.
  4. The Contender
    The most gutless and naive political drama of recent memory.
  5. Get Carter
    Stallone returns in a gangster remake that wears itself (and the audience) out trying to be cutting-edge stylish.
  6. Two Family House
    The epitome of the small, character-driven film that the indie movement was supposed to champion before it became a hip mirror of the Hollywood star system.
  7. Yi Yi
    Quietly overwhelming.
  8. Bamboozled
    Spike Lee's explosive, near-masterpiece media satire balances between brilliance and incoherence.
  9. Meet the Parents
    De Niro's performance works because it isn't exactly likable -- he's totally at ease with his own jokes, but he's not out to make us feel relaxed.
  10. Requiem for a Dream
    The tremendous power of Aronofsky's filmmaking -- its omnivorous omnipotence, if that makes any sense -- has the curious effect of diluting its emotional impact.
  11. Girlfight
    A little more flair and polish could have made Girlfight a terrific movie instead of just the decent one it is.
  12. Remember the Titans
    Herman Boone was no doubt a terrific football coach, but the lessons to be drawn from his success in Alexandria are ambiguous, and Remember the Titans is too wrapped up in its weepy macho sentimentality to address them clearly.
  13. Best in Show
    Guest revels in the eccentricities of dog lovers everywhere, but there's kindness at his core. He's a mensch among mutts.
  14. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.
  15. Woman on Top
    Just a string of cute gags and pouting on Isabella's part that's supposed to signify soul-searching.
  16. Dancer in the Dark
    Lars von Trier is a mechanic, not an artist. And his movies are meat grinders he feeds his characters through.
  17. Under Suspicion
    An engrossing, gem-hard little popcorn-cruncher.
  18. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Even dressed up in tabloid lighting and cut with jagged edits, this pulp nihilism never goes beyond daytime TV banality.
  19. Bait
    It's long. Long movies almost always mean the audience member has time to think, and in this context that's not a good thing.
  20. Duets
    A simple entertainment that's by and large carried on the backs of its actors, some who are wonderful and others who are merely likable.
  21. Almost Famous
    Like rock 'n' roll itself, the movie's really all about girls. Even when -- no, especially when -- it's pretending not to be.
  22. The Way of the Gun
    The directorial debut of the writer of "The Usual Suspects" keeps tossing the genre hand grenades one might expect, but they all wind up duds.
  23. Nurse Betty
    LaBute is some kind of find: an auteur for people who don't like movies.
  24. The Watcher
    It stinks pretty bad, but not so bad you'd go out of your way to avoid it.
  25. Turn It Up
    This awkward fable of ghetto redemption mixes painfully earnest message-delivery with occasional scenes of brutal violence.
  26. Titanic Town
    In some ways it's not a very good movie... tries to mix comedy and tragedy...but the movie has an exciting subject -- a true story.
  27. Highlander: Endgame
    This is a movie full of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't plot points.
  28. The Art of War
    Grade-B blockbuster.
  29. Bring It On
    Unexpected late-summer treat.
  30. Love & Sex
    It's sharply chiseled but not cynical, and that's a delicate line to walk.
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