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For 9,303 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 2.1 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: 5,160 out of 9303
  2. Mixed: 2,657 out of 9303
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9303
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  1. Punch-Drunk Love
    Sweet-natured, meticulously observed love story.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. White Oleander
    Lacks emotional power.
  5. Bowling for Columbine
    Documentary reaches an exalted level of filmmaking. It explains the very fabric of American society.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Heaven
    A mystical tale of two souls, joined in love but divided in society, seeking redemption and understanding before they pass to another plane.
  10. Bloody Sunday
    A great achievement: tense and passionate, a film that one feels not just emotionally but also physically.
  11. 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.
  12. Just a Kiss
    Gets everything wrong, starting with a title that indicates a somewhat innocent romantic transgression.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Shanghai Ghetto
    Consisting mostly of talking-head interviews, the film isn't especially dynamic, but it brims with insightful, poignant memories from survivors.
  16. Biggie and Tupac
    Has been called an exploitation of a tragedy, but in fact it's an expose of tragic exploitation.
  17. The Man from Elysian Fields
    A listless, predictable effort, occasionally redeemed by witty lines and charismatic performers.
  18. Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
    A pedestrian film that provides little more than a superficial treat.
  19. 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).
  20. Sweet Home Alabama
    There's a certain formulaic and familiar quality about Sweet Home Alabama, but it doesn't matter.
  21. Moonlight Mile
    Too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama.
  22. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    Haunting music, the seriousness of the allegations and riveting interviews with Alexander Haig, Christopher Hitchens (whose book inspired the film) and others give "Kissinger" extra drama and urgency.
  23. Invincible
    A strange but oddly memorable film.
  24. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    Movies don't get much worse.
  25. The Four Feathers
    Its virtues can't outweigh the disappointment of a movie that might have been a rousing old-fashioned epic, or better yet a provocative reworking of an old epic, and instead became a muddle.
  26. The Banger Sisters
    What The Banger Sisters offers in place of an eloquent statement is the charm of two actresses at the top of their game in flashy roles and a smart script that's decidedly more coarse than sentimental.
  27. The Ignorant Fairies
    Pure of intention and passably diverting, His Secret Life is light, innocuous and unremarkable.
  28. 8 Women
    So original, so funny, so alive with drama, intrigue, mystery and colors that you want to see it again and again.
  29. Secretary
    It provokes nothing but yawns, and the sex it explores is stuff everybody knows about and says, "So what?"
  30. Spirited Away
    A lovely, evocative tour de force. So why does it seem we should be enjoying it more?
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