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For 12,889 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,598 out of 12889
  2. Mixed: 5,126 out of 12889
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 12889
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  1. The Aviator
    Scorsese has crafted a rip-roaringly gorgeous-looking, beautifully acted biographical epic. But while firing on all cylinders, there's something oddly distancing about the picture.
  2. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Devolves into a repetitive comedy that squanders a hugely talented cast.
  3. Million Dollar Baby
    Under Eastwood's painstakingly stripped-down direction -- his filmmaking has become the cinematic equivalent of Hemingway's spare though precise prose -- the story emerges as that rarest of birds, an uplifting tragedy.
  4. A Talking Picture
    A thoughtful, provocative effort that makes up for its narrative failings with its astute philosophical musings.
  5. Dolls
    Dolls soon becomes overloaded with symbolism, and consequently suffocates the audience.
  6. Ocean's Twelve
    Stephen Mirrione's fast-paced editing and David Holmes' pop-rock score propel the story ever forward whether one follows the twists or not.
  7. A Tale of Two Sisters
    Although A Tale of Two Sisters has some excellent suspense sequences, it falters badly during the dramatic parts.
  8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Wonderfully weird and wistful adventure-comedy about a fish-out-of-water oceanographer.
  9. Freeze Frame
    Repetitive and ultimately a victim of its own hysteria, the U.K. indie is nonetheless an impressive exercise in high-tech gothic style, with a convincingly deranged Lee Evans.
  10. Bandido
    If ever there was a lusty, lowbrow genre film destined for a life on video, this is it.
  11. Shwaas
    While the film sometimes plays like an hour TV medical drama padded to reach feature length, Sawant achieves touching, naturalistic performances from a fine ensemble cast.
  12. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    This is a work of art so deep and resonant that it puts most narrative films to shame.
  13. Blade: Trinity
    Should reasonably please fans of the genre before assuming its place in the horror section of your local video store.
  14. House of Flying Daggers
    A glorious new addition to martial-arts cinema.
  15. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Tells a gripping story that resonates with numerous subtexts.
  16. Conspiracy of Silence
    A challenging, thought-provoking debut that compassionately questions the relevance of celibacy in the Catholic Church.
  17. The Deserted Station
    Both intensely thoughtful and wonderful to look at.
  18. I Am David
    The picture is essentially a tearjerker, with little originality or insight.
  19. The Green Butchers
    Pitch-perfect performances bring it all home, particularly that of Danish leading man Mikkelsen.
  20. The Aryan Couple
    Definitely third-rate Holocaust material.
  21. Closer
    Determined to be faithful to the strong, often shocking language and in-your-face drama in Marber's mannered writing, Nichols and his actors find no way to lift Closer into a realm that enlightens.
  22. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    That a ragtag group of intellectuals and misfits could so blindside the FBI and hold the media in its grip is an especially sobering aspect of this dynamically told story.
  23. Easy
    Weinstock takes you down a well-trod path in romantic comedy, but her characters are smart and funny, the twists are unexpected.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Very Long Engagement
    Jeunet provides numerous pleasures, particularly visual, along the way.
  25. Ae Fond Kiss...
    Things are too predictable. Perhaps the viewpoint is to blame.
  26. Straight-Jacket
    Wastes its promising premise with a wavering tone that veers uneasily between camp humor and, pardon the expression, straightness.
  27. Christmas with the Kranks
    A Christmas comedy where laughs and even Christmas joy are in short supply.
  28. Alexander
    Since the movie lacks a vision of what Alexander was really about as a man and a figure in history, it falls back all too frequently on movie spectacle.
  29. National Treasure
    If you're going to tell a wildly implausible tale of fortune hunting and unlikely heroes, you could do worse than National Treasure.
  30. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The result is an animated adventure that's funnier than "Shark Tale" and more charming than "The Polar Express."
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