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For 9,302 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 2.2 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: 5,160 out of 9302
  2. Mixed: 2,656 out of 9302
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9302
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  1. Nico and Dani
    Sweet and harmless -- a beach movie in more ways than one -- but it doesn't run awfully deep.
  2. Trolösa
    Much of the film is so wrenching there's no time for idle thoughts.
  3. Sugar & Spice
    It means to be knowing and cynical but is just callow.
  4. The Wedding Planner
    Manages to do the impossible: It makes Lopez bland.
  5. The Amati Girls
    We all know how actors overact when they play Italians, and we all know how actors overact when they play brain-damaged characters, so just imagine Knight's performance as a brain-damaged Italian American.
  6. The Pledge
    Sets off depth charges of the psyche.
  7. Snatch.
    There's talent here, but for directing, not writing. If Ritchie wants to last, he's going to have to allow somebody else to write his screenplays.
  8. Panic
    Not the kind of movie anyone will remember at Oscar time. But no one who sees it will forget it.
  9. Antitrust
    Taps into a fear hitherto unexplored by cinema: fear of Bill Gates.
  10. Double Take
    Decidedly lowbrow.
  11. Save the Last Dance
    The result is more like an epic "After School Special" -- preachy, runny and oddly warm.
  12. Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
    Disarmingly intelligent if scattered documentary.
  13. Chunhyangdyun
    Chunhyang is an extravagantly beautiful movie that many viewers are going to love and others are not going to be able to sit still for. That's their problem.
  14. The Claim
    It overcomes some patchiness to turn into a rich emotional experience, ranging in degree from fire to ice.
  15. Shadow of the Vampire
    Dafoe never reverts to campy, movie-monster gestures but seems liberated, consumed by his character, inspired to give a performance that's intuitive and otherworldly.
  16. Traffic
    Explosive entertainment, with the tension and volatility of its subject matter.
  17. All the Pretty Horses
    An elegiac, visually hypnotic film about love, honor, reverence for nature and the loss of tradition.
  18. Thirteen Days
    Fascinating in its depiction of presidential leadership in action.
  19. An Everlasting Piece
    This is a funny novelty, no denying it.
  20. Malèna
    Qualifies as director Giuseppe Tornatore's second full-fledged masterpiece. His first: "Cinema Paradiso."
  21. Before Night Falls
    It's an horrific and tragic story, but somehow made beautiful through the care and attention of Schnabel's direction and Bardem's tender, unforgettable performance.
  22. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    A Korean film that takes an American genre and gets fancy with it.
  23. The House of Mirth
    Her (Anderson) performance is a study in the difference between hubris and pride, remarkable for how unshowy but profoundly devastating it is.
  24. Miss Congeniality
    A mannerless, styleless brute, Bullock's Grace Hart is Eliza Doolittle in sweats.
  25. State and Main
    Mamet finds an angle just new enough to be fresh.
  26. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Joyously unhinged and outrageously inventive.
  27. Cast Away
    It will bring joy in a way certainly not intended, as one of the most gloriously and unwittingly silly films ever devised by a major American filmmaker.
  28. The Family Man
    Cage gives a performance that invites audiences to lay cynicism aside in a romantic fable.
  29. Finding Forrester
    Rich supplies some eloquent grace notes, and Van Sant uses them to make understated music.
  30. The Gift
    Pure ham and cheese.
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