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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Smokers Only
    Too predictable to leave much of an impression.
  2. Thorns
    Following Bollywood's tradition of excessive generosity, Mr. Gupta tosses in too much of just about everything, resulting in a two-and-a-half-hour film that may exhaust some viewers.
  3. Two Weeks Notice
    Breezing along on gusts of stale air and perky inanities, Two Weeks Notice is a romantic comedy so vague and sadly undernourished that it makes one of Nora Ephron's low-cal strawberry sodas seem as tempting as a Philip Barry feast.
  4. Morvern Callar
    This minimalist film is slightly hobbled by its minimal plot; it's the crucial difference between a movie with moments of greatness and a great movie.
  5. Spider
    Brilliantly realized but bone-chillingly bleak.
  6. Narc
    Narc is convincing, an entertaining, grimy view of the traps of machismo tucked inside a cop thriller.
  7. Gangs of New York
    This is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology, either liberal or conservative. Gangs of New York is nearly a great movie. I suspect that, over time, it will make up the distance.
  8. Antwone Fisher
    A movie so profoundly in touch with its own feelings that it transcends its formulaic tics.
  9. 25th Hour
    If 25th Hour does not quite work as a plausible and coherent story, it produces a wrenching, dazzling succession of moods.
  10. Devils on the Doorstep
    In its dry and forceful way, it delivers the same message as Jiri Menzel's "Closely Watched Trains" and Danis Tanovic's "No Man's Land." While acknowledging that war is hell, it goes further to suggest it is ludicrous.
  11. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Never has a film so strongly been a product of a director's respect for its source. Mr. Jackson uses all his talents in the service of that reverence, creating a rare perfect mating of filmmaker and material.
  12. The Guys
    What limits The Guys -- what makes it an exercise in art therapy rather than a work of art -- is its decorous refusal to probe deeply into its characters, or to exploit any of the dramatic potential their accidental relationship might contain.
  13. Evelyn
    Slight and dogged; its surprises are likable but minor.
  14. Maid in Manhattan
    Blandly charming.
  15. Star Trek: Nemesis
    An amiably klutzy affair whose warm, fuzzy heart emits intermittent bleats from the sleeve of its gleaming spacesuit.
  16. Intact
    The latest movie from Spain to use the conventions of the thriller to explore knotty and fascinating philosophical questions.
  17. The Jimmy Show
    The kind of movie that is a must to avoid on a bad day. Even on a good one, it could send you into a funk.
  18. Drumline
    If all this does not quite add up to a coherent movie, it does produce a bouncy, boisterous and charming one, which becomes downright thrilling when it shows the bands in action.
  19. The Hot Chick
    Rob Schneider runs an obstacle course of taste and emerges remarkably unsullied, considering the choices he faces.
  20. About Schmidt
    What makes this exquisitely observed slice of American screen realism transcend itself is finally its moral sensibility.
  21. Pellet
    As blunt as it is in depicting child abuse, El Bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance.
  22. Analyze That
    Although there is the germ of a very sharp comedy in the intersection of real mobsters and make-believe thugs in a Hollywood mob comedy, Analyze That is far too lazy to do much with it.
  23. Empire
    Serves a reheated notion on a creaky TV tray.
  24. Blackboards
    An indelible and ultimately moving vision of humanity buffeted by the elements and by international political tides.
  25. Equilibrium
    If someone left "1984," "Fahrenheit 451," "Brave New World," "Gattaca" and the Sylvester Stallone potboilers "Judge Dredd" and "Demolition Man" out in the sun and threw the runny glop onto a movie screen, it would still be a better picture than Equilibrium, a movie that could be stupider only if it were longer.
  26. Adaptation.
    I realize that the fear of contracting writer's block from a fictional character is crazy, but in the brilliantly scrambled, self-consuming world of Adaptation it has a certain plausibility.
  27. Massoud, the Afghan
    I was struck by how personal this movie is, and by the delicate symbiosis that develops between biographer and subject. Mr. Ponfilly's presence in the film (mostly on the soundtrack and once or twice on camera) does not overshadow Massoud so much as filter our understanding of him.
  28. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Although the movie, adapted from a book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, pushes emotional buttons and simplifies its true story to give it the clean narrative sweep of an extended folk ballad, it never goes dramatically overboard.
  29. Dead or Alive: Final
    The home-movie crudeness of Dead or Alive: Final indicates it was made on the cheap with minimal preparation.
  30. Russian Ark
    A magnificent conjuring act, an eerie historical mirage.
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