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For 2,974 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,807 out of 2974
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2974
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2974
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  1. The Anniversary Party
    Everyone in the cast has his or her solo, and all rise brilliantly to their occasions, notably Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, Mina Badie and a divinely neurotic Jane Adams.
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  2. Pearl Harbor
    The net result of this mighty effort is perhaps predictable: near total inconsequence.
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  3. Shrek
    It is the hilarious business of Shrek, a delightful new animated feature based on the William Steig book, to subvert all the well-worn expectations of its genre.
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  4. Moulin Rouge!
    The film dances; the heart sings.
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  5. Startup.com
    This gripping documentary doesn't exactly say what went wrong, but the pain and puzzlement of its principals as things inexorably fall apart is palpable and saddening.
  6. A Knight's Tale
    The result is half Python, half Ivanhoe--and not as much fun as either.
  7. One Night at McCool's
    The smartest, funniest, most cleverly structured comedy of the year.
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  8. Harry Is Here to Help
    This criminal comedy remains deliciously deadpan about the wages of psychopathy.
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  9. Blow
    Blow works for a scene or two, then stalls.
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  10. The Tailor of Panama
    The film finally collapses under the burden of implausibility.
  11. Amores Perros
    As fine--hard, soft, approachable--as any in movie history.
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  12. Enemy at the Gates
    Law, sexy and crafty as ever, and here with a flinty innocence, proves again he has the star-quality goods.
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  13. Memento
    The film takes this attempt to shatter narrative into little pieces about as far into incoherence as it can go; yet it is also full of odd, hypnotic menace.
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  14. Kissing Jessica Stein
    An edgy exploration of role playing and sexual choice in a climate where all options are acceptable.
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  15. The Caveman's Valentine
    Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director of Eve's Bayou.
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  16. The Mexican
    Half comedy, half action piece, the movie runs sputteringly on the not inconsiderable charm of its stars. But basically it is languid, indeterminate and uninvolving.
  17. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity.
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  18. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    Binoche is especially subtle and radiant in another splendid drama from Leconte.
  19. Hannibal
    A banquet of creepy, gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal. but this superior sequel has romance in its dark heart.
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  20. In the Mood for Love
    This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition.
  21. Snatch.
    O.K., Ritchie mistakes flash for style. Perhaps that's the price you pay for storytelling exuberance. If he keeps making films as down and witty as Snatch, we may learn to forgive him.
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  22. Traffic
    Finally, though, Traffic, for all its earnestness, does not work. It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied.
  23. Malèna
    Things finally work out all right--except for audiences, who will find this thin movie bereft of the more richly textured sentiments of Tornatore's "Cinema Paradiso."
  24. Thirteen Days
    The players don't particularly look like their historical models, but they make us feel their life-threatening pain and puzzlement.
  25. All the Pretty Horses
    A perfectly coherent, handsomely rendered couple of hours, animated in particular by Damon's good performance -- shrewd, innocent, angry, wistful and, above all, likable.
  26. Cast Away
    The 80 minutes it spends on the atoll alone with Hanks make for engrossing storytelling. The film is less sure-footed back in civilization.
  27. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Toss in enough gorgeous bluegrass music to make the movie's CD a must-have, and you have prime, picaresque entertainment.
  28. The Family Man
    A film that's fun to argue with.
  29. Finding Forrester
    Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily employing the realist manner of his early films, is goodwill hunting in all the wrong places.
  30. The Gift
    She (Blanchett) seems the only guardian of sanity in this good-old-boy Bellevue.
  31. What Women Want
    It just runs on and on -- like a slightly stupid story you wish you hadn't overheard in a singles bar.
  32. Pollock
    The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from.
  33. The Emperor's New Groove
    Doesn't aim too high or strain too hard; it is at ease inhabiting its pretty, miniature realm.
  34. Chocolat
    Made with a sort of tasteful vulgarity, this movie never disappoints the slack-minded audience's anticipation of the humanistically healing banality, the life-crushing behavioral cliché.
  35. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger is contemplative, and it kicks ass. Or put it this way: it's a powerful film and a terrific movie.
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  36. Quills
    This is soft-gore porn, obvious in its strategies, witless in the play of its ideas, absurdist only in its pretense to seriousness.
  37. You Can Count on Me
    Maybe these lives are, objectively speaking, inconsequential. But they have a resonance that big, sappy "relationship" pictures ought to envy.
  38. Men of Honor
    There's something refreshing about its utterly unembarrassed embrace of the familiar. The director, George Tillman Jr., either doesn't notice or doesn't give a hoot about the way Scott Marshall Smith's script piles up cliches.
  39. Suzhou River
    Whatever city this one is showing in...move there.
  40. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    The actors, especially the ever appealing Smith, do what they can to ground the movie in reality, but it stubbornly remains dawdling, remote and pretentious.
  41. Charlie's Angels
    The best you can say for this version of Charlie's Angels is that it retains a sort of chipper, eerie good nature as it wastes the studio's money and our time.
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  42. George Washington
    It stands, soars on its own. It moves to a seductive rhythm and vision.
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  43. Lucky Numbers
    Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
  44. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Few movies have spread their fibs or facts as clumsily as this one. There's not an emotionally plausible moment in the picture.
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  45. Bedazzled
    The skitcom format soon becomes tiresome.
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  46. The Yards
    So muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory.
  47. Pay It Forward
    As rigged as a casino slot machine, preying on people's hopes but paying off only for the house.
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  48. Dr T and the Women
    The film's blithe misogyny soon becomes wearying; it refuses to see women as more than the sum of their private parts.
  49. Billy Elliot
    The better class of moviegoers will love Billy Elliot. And I loved hating it.
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  50. Ratcatcher
    Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama.
  51. Girlfight
    Gives its fine actors room to breathe and behave--and in Michelle Rodriguez's case, glow.
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  52. Beautiful
    You don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission.
  53. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    This moving tribute to a handful of candles flickering in the darkness has the power to summon us--one prays--to our better selves.
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  54. Almost Famous
    So Almost Famous is almost fabulous. Oh, all right. The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.
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  55. The Way of the Gun
    What aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy.
  56. Nurse Betty
    All in all, Nurse Betty is a wonderful movie, unpredictably alive to the fact that the American citizenry is a lot stranger than we like to admit.
  57. Cecil B. DeMented
    Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun.
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  58. An Affair of Love
    This wee, discreet little movie has a certain rueful intelligence about the ways we rather carelessly talk ourselves into love--and out of it as well.
  59. Saving Grace
    Grace is not as tightly wound as the best of its breed, but it is a genial way to pass the time.
  60. Space Cowboys
    It blends tension and emotion, computer wizardry and dramatic skill in a vigorous climax--and the most impressive, haunting final shot of the movie year.
  61. Hollow Man
    Too many special effects, many of them stomach churning; too much pornographically arranged death.
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  62. Girl on the Bridge
    A tangy frappe of a movie--preposterously comic, deliriously romantic, outrageously stylish in black-and-white.
  63. The Wind Will Carry Us
    The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous.
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  64. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Maybe this documentary is a bit too enthralled by her, but she emerges from it a game girl, a gay activist and a curiously sympathetic figure.
  65. The Five Senses
    Manages to make its point--that we are all impaired, short on that rarest quality, common sense--without being imprisoned by its complex format.
  66. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    From its first shot, of a mangled car high up in the branches of a tree, this cool, handsome thriller proceeds with an elliptical elegance.
  67. Chuck & Buck
    Crude and inept.
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  68. The Kid
    It's a modest little fantasy. But it's also well made, unpretentious and refreshing.
  69. Shower
    Take this Shower and feel refreshed; it's a cool dip on a hot day.
  70. The Perfect Storm
    What's true about The Perfect Storm is true of many effects epics: it's not a bad movie, except for the people.
  71. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    It's great to have the Moose back, but it would be greater still to see him in a humorous context fully worth of him.
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  72. Trixie
    If this retro crime comedy had been a Broadway play, it would have closed out of town.
  73. The Patriot
    It has everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions.
  74. Me, Myself & Irene
    You are hereby absolved of all guilt when you laugh your ass off in the first half of the film.
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  75. Titan A.E.
    When it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush.
  76. Shaft
    This is not necessarily an improvement, but it's not a total disaster either.
  77. Jesus' Son
    It's best to see this as a drug buffet. Graze through the vignettes... and you'll find three or four tasty bits to snack on.
  78. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    This is a serious filmgoer's treat: intelligence cloaked in elegance.
  79. Humanité
    Don't ask us why this minimalist drama won prizes last year at Cannes or why it is getting raves in its U.S. release.
  80. Butterfly Tongues
    A savory cocktail with a bitter twist.
  81. Sunshine
    Sunshine is a trifle schematic. But it also makes you feel, quite poignantly, the crushing tides of history: heedless, inhuman--and tragic.
  82. Love's Labour's Lost
    But this is a sloppy job, both in little goofs...and in the cast's gung-ho amateurism. It's like Shakespeare done by the "Fame" kids.
  83. American Pimp
    Loutishness without self-awareness remains loutishness--and it is finally depressing.
  84. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    In this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script.
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  85. Shanghai Noon
    He's (Wilson) a terrific sidekick to Chan's funny, earnest, often victimized righteousness. This kid could be a star.
  86. Dinosaur
    Maybe kids will like the movie; their lust for dinolore appears to be insatiable. But the rest of us will yearn for Robin Williams' giddy goofing in "Aladdin."
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  87. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    A film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high.
  88. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    The worst movie in living memory.
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  89. I Dreamed of Africa
    This film, based on a true story, transcends its handsomeness to present a subtle portrait of a woman's growing consciousness.
  90. Michael Jordan to the Max
    An adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics.
  91. Gladiator
    Quite a good movie--a big, fat, rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment.
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  92. Timecode
    This spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment.
  93. U-571
    Flouting all rules of the sea but honoring every war-epic cliche about guts under pressure.
  94. American Psycho
    But the carnage, like the sex scenes, is shot so pristinely that it becomes a nouvelle-cuisine feast; this is a splatter film Martha Stewart could love.
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  95. East Is East
    The actor (Puri) and the film make something fine, winning and memorable.
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  96. Est - Ouest
    This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive.
  97. Joe Gould's Secret
    There's a great story here, but Tucci's literate, civilized, wistful movie lacks savage impulse and refuses to show how mutual exploitation led to minor tragedy.
  98. The Color of Paradise
    This miniature epic is a film that, like its young hero, will enrich those who peer into its poignant heart.
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  99. Romeo Must Die
    Doesn't touch (Li's Hong Kong movies). But it is trying something clever.
  100. Erin Brockovich
    Erin Brockovich is slick, grating and false. We bet it makes a bundle.
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