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For 20,323 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. Seven Years in Tibet
    Beyond his struggles with an unwieldy accent and the screenplay's hokum, Mr. Pitt gives a sincere if labored performance enhanced by a sense of genuine struggle.
  2. Not Another Teen Movie
    A happy, nasty and frequently hilarious assault on 20 years' worth of youth pictures.
  3. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    The film's warm, sweet sentiments are genial and unchallenging, and its jokes are low-key and gentle.
  4. Starsky & Hutch
    The movie's advertising tagline ("Starsky & Hutch — they're the Man") needs to be amended. The film belongs, completely and utterly, to Snoop Dogg.
  5. Notting Hill
    The movie has lots of glossy charm even if Ms. Roberts and Grant seem less like lovers than members of a support group for the desperately attractive.
  6. Selena
    On its own good-natured terms, Selena' is both pleasant to watch and instructive in familiarizing a movie audience with the Texan-Mexican borderland music known as Tejano.
  7. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Too fixated on 1939 for its own good. Its passionate immersion in a past that only dimly resonates with younger audiences may be a badge of its integrity, but that immersion trumps its vision of the future and leaves us in a land of nostalgia.
  8. Undertow
    As with the 70's films of Terrence Malick, one of Undertow's producers, the more intoxicated it becomes with rural desolation and fecundity, the more deeply in touch it puts you with its characters' souls.
  9. Before Sunrise
    What Mr. Linklater does best here is to come up with conversational gambits that have just the right fancifulness to suit this situation.
  10. The Corporation
    The Corporation is a dense, complicated and thought-provoking film, but it simplifies its title character.
  11. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Going Upriver is a small, valuable contribution to the continuing project of sorting out and making sense of Vietnam, a war that, among other things, opened a fissure at the heart of American liberalism that has yet to heal.
  12. Behind the Sun
    The blend of grim violence with romantic whimsy tilts toward sentimentality. Mr. Salles has the confidence of a storyteller too entranced by his tale to worry about the resistance of his audience, which he thus effortlessly overcomes.
  13. Training Day
    Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur -- the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth -- deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination.
  14. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    It conveys plenty of wonder while mostly avoiding any saccharine preachiness.
  15. Antz
    Antz works best just showing off its prodigious voice talent.
  16. Contact
    The movie, adapted from a novel by Carl Sagan, presents one long chain of teasingly open-ended questions about reason versus faith and technology versus religion, and ends up tentatively embracing mysticism over rationality.
  17. Everything Put Together
    A finely acted expressionistic critique of the suburban baby culture and its joys, fears and fetishes.
  18. Galaxy Quest
    It keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek, offers a few genuine laughs, moves swiftly, if not at warp speed, and is led by a talented cast.
  19. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    Smoothly incorporates archival material, including scenes of Mr. Zinn's public appearances, interviews with Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Berrigan and Alice Walker (his student at Spelman). Matt Damon also reads well-chosen excerpts from Mr. Zinn's writing.
  20. Spun
    A swaggering journey into hell that conveys a chortling amusement at its own apocalyptic imagination.
  21. George of the Jungle
    The kind of silly summer fun that gives family entertainment a good name.
  22. Liberty Heights
    If Liberty Heights is much too soft at its center, it still offers a deeper immersion in that old '50s feeling than any other Hollywood film in recent memory.
  23. An Everlasting Piece
    The director serves up a nice helping of blarney, but he seems to have left his schmaltz in Baltimore.
  24. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Americans now want a rooting interest in their journalism, just as they do in their sports and entertainment. Mr. Moore knows how to give that to them, and so - in a much more dignified, documented way - does Mr. Greenwald.
  25. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    Anyone who attended Broadway shows in the days when ticket prices were reasonable and the actors and singers performed without amplification will feel a rush of nostalgia as these troupers offer what amounts to a breezy compilation of after-dinner remarks.
  26. Japan
    Luckily Mr. Reygadas has talent to match his ambitions; or, rather, gifts that undercut them sufficiently to give his film a prickly, haunting poignancy.
  27. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
    A searching and wide-ranging debate has unfolded about America's response to terrorism and, more broadly, about the history and future of its role in the world. Mr. Junkerman's film is best understood as a necessary, if partisan, text in that continuing argument.
  28. Scream 2
    Even if you haven't spent as much obsessive time at the video store as these guys have, you might enjoy helping 'Scream 2' laugh all the way to the bank.
  29. The Thin Red Line
    One more film that could have been helped by excising repetition and focusing performances, but it wanders almost randomly instead. The heart-piercing moments that punctuate its rambling are glimpses of what a tighter film might have been.
  30. Me, Myself & Irene
    The humor in Me, Myself and Irene is often outrageous but rarely cruel.
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