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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. Werckmeister Harmonies
    An indelible statement on loneliness and spiritual thirst.
  2. Fat Girl
    This is a different kind of girls' movie, and certainly not a pretty one, especially its horrific head-scratcher of an ending.
  3. Grateful Dawg
    For music fans, there's great pleasure in hearing new audio tracks to "Sitting Here in Limbo," "Friend of the Devil" and more songs -- each one complete and unedited.
  4. Joy Ride
    Turns out to be the most unnerving film of the year. Easy.
  5. The Debut
    A melodramatic yarn that transcends some of its technical and storytelling flaws through the cheery energy and sincerity of its cast.
  6. Serendipity
    Serendipity is a throwback to a more innocent era in American life, 25 days ago.
  7. Training Day
    It is so propulsive so much of the time, it almost looks as if it's going to go the distance. If Washington & Co. don't quite manage to bring it home, the getting there sure is something.
  8. Max Keeble's Big Move
    A movie like this depends on clever bits and incidents, but there's little invention here to disguise the film's formulaic nature.
  9. Chop Suey
    Faye's presence provides an unexpected context for the photographer's circle, where the gay and straight worlds overlap, and adds a delightful dimension to Chop Suey.
  10. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    Delicious but complex.
  11. Dinner Rush
    Benefits enormously from Aiello's down-to-earth magnificence.
  12. Hearts in Atlantis
    Unabashedly sentimental, it's meant to touch our hearts in profound and important ways, but misses the mark by drawing too deeply from a pool of schmaltz.
  13. Zoolander
    It's probably pointless to complain when a movie sets out to be stupid and actually is. (And the people who came up with a couple of these ideas think male models are dumb.)
  14. Don't Say a Word
    Don't even try to make any sense of this --none of it elicits a moment of genuine concern.
  15. Liam
    Downbeat, ultimately tragic, but there's a wondrous, sad beauty here.
  16. Vampire Hunter D
    The animation is rich and densely detailed, the characters well defined.
  17. The Endurance
    A remarkable documentary about an almost unfathomable ordeal.
  18. Glitter
    It doesn't help that Glitter is such a derivative mishmash of cinematic and real-life situations that it's nearly impossible to count all the ways.
  19. Haiku Tunnel
    The result is a winning comedy.
  20. The Glass House
    This is trash on a big budget, but trash nonetheless.
  21. Hard Ball
    Hardball works where it counts, on the emotional level.
  22. Tell Me Something
    A complicated and stylish Korean thriller that will make viewers' skin crawl.
  23. Two Can Play That Game
    The best scenes are the ones that Fox shares with Tamala Jones, Wendy Raquel Robinson and the full-figured Monique as her sassy girlfriends. There's a ripe, crackling spontaneity when these women get together.
  24. A Matter of Taste
    The writing, by Rapp and Catherine Dussart, is exquisite, and the performers, including Francois Truffaut's old colleague Jean-Pierre Leaud as a magistrate, are all first-rate.
  25. The Musketeer
    The movie lacks the one thing that the classic "Three Musketeers" story can't do without: panache.
  26. L.I.E.
    A provocative, upsetting film.
  27. Soul Survivors
    A truly awful mix of bad direction, nonsensical story line and dialogue that appears to have been made up on the spot.
  28. Our Lady of the Assassins
    A marvelous film.
  29. Rock Star
    An irresistible movie about a guy who goes on a journey, the kind an audience can't wait to take with him.
  30. The Iron Ladies
    Queeny, corny and impossible to resist.
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