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For 9,316 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,171 out of 9316
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9316
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9316
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  1. The Ring
    So good it's scary.
  2. Formula 51
    It isn't simple bad taste that Formula 51 deals in, but a total vacuum of feeling.
  3. Comedian
    Entertaining.
  4. Brown Sugar
    Delightful love story.
  5. Family Fundamentals
    Earnest, heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives. It's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views.
  6. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    At best this is a film for the under-7 crowd. But it would be better to wait for the video. And a very rainy day.
  7. Knockaround Guys
    Lackluster mob picture.
  8. Below
    The dialogue, heavy on sarcasm and puncturing insults, never captures the World War II period but sounds ridiculously anachronistic.
  9. The Rules of Attraction
    Nearly every bodily fluid makes an appearance in "Rules," a mean-spirited paean to hedonism set at an East Coast college where students attend class only occasionally, and then only to perform oral sex on instructors.
  10. The Transporter
    That the movie becomes silly isn't necessarily a problem, but it also becomes tiresome, degenerating into a series of martial arts interludes -- everyone unaccountably leaves his guns at home.
  11. Punch-Drunk Love
    Sweet-natured, meticulously observed love story.
  12. Safe Conduct
    The details feel authentic: The empty Paris streets, the profanation of German anti-aircraft guns atop belle epoque buildings. And Devaivre's adventures provide high tension.
  13. Tuck Everlasting
    Perhaps the best teen date movie ever set in the year 1914, "Tuck" represents a brave leap against the tide. No sex, no car crashes and minimal violence. It just might be a hit.
  14. White Oleander
    Lacks emotional power.
  15. Bowling for Columbine
    Documentary reaches an exalted level of filmmaking. It explains the very fabric of American society.
  16. Swept Away
    Even camp status eludes this tepid and misguided picture.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Draw a Bunny
    How to Draw Bunny won the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, which must go to show how scarce noteworthy documentaries are.
  18. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Kids will enjoy the wisecracks and foolishness, and the big musical production numbers are toe-tappers -- or would be if the veggies had feet.
  19. Heaven
    A mystical tale of two souls, joined in love but divided in society, seeking redemption and understanding before they pass to another plane.
  20. Bloody Sunday
    A great achievement: tense and passionate, a film that one feels not just emotionally but also physically.
  21. Red Dragon
    In Hollywood, where integrity is rapidly consumed and careers defined by market value, there's trash and there's trash with a pedigree.
  22. Just a Kiss
    Gets everything wrong, starting with a title that indicates a somewhat innocent romantic transgression.
  23. The Tuxedo
    Marks Chan's full arrival as an actor. Take away the violence - - and there's plenty of it for those who crave Chan's physical pyrotechnics -- and he's still an immense pleasure to watch onscreen.
  24. Skins
    Graham Greene ("Dances With Wolves") in one of the year's best performances, he's a fully dimensional character: pathetic and shrewd, tragic and bitterly funny.
  25. Shanghai Ghetto
    Consisting mostly of talking-head interviews, the film isn't especially dynamic, but it brims with insightful, poignant memories from survivors.
  26. Biggie and Tupac
    Has been called an exploitation of a tragedy, but in fact it's an expose of tragic exploitation.
  27. The Man from Elysian Fields
    A listless, predictable effort, occasionally redeemed by witty lines and charismatic performers.
  28. Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
    A pedestrian film that provides little more than a superficial treat.
  29. Wasabi
    A silly, cross-cultural shoot-'em-up -- the sort of movie that will work for those with some time to kill (no pun intended).
  30. Sweet Home Alabama
    There's a certain formulaic and familiar quality about Sweet Home Alabama, but it doesn't matter.
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