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For 2,973 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: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Towers, while not quite so varied as Fellowship in its moods and settings, has a grave gusto that energizes every moment...a thrilling work of film craft.
  2. Maid in Manhattan
    Maid in Manhattan is not so much a movie as a collection of career moves. J. Lo needs a comedy hit to support her principal activity, adorning magazine covers. Fiennes needs to warm his austere British image if he hopes to become a true international star.
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  3. About Schmidt
    Sublime and sorrowful movie.
  4. Adaptation.
    The movie ends in a burst of violence that we are unprepared for and don't believe. Maybe it's the film's final joke. It's a miscalculation -- though a calculated one -- but it does not erase one's fond memories of all the odd, deeply humorous behavior that preceded it.
  5. Russian Ark
    A coda that will have the movie's audience gasping in exhilarated exhaustion, whispering astonished gratitude to Sokurov for having created vigorous art out of 21st century video technique and asking themselves, "What's the Russian word for Wow!?"
  6. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    This is a chase movie (Simon Legree after three Little Evas) across parched outback terrain, captured with rapturous authenticity by cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
  7. Solaris
    Can't touch the 1972 film's austere poignancy, and McElhone lacks the bewitching beauty of Natalya Bondarchuk in the original Solaris. But the project's gravity and ambition can't be denied.
  8. The Emperor's Club
    May leave viewers emotionally disconnected from this distinctly unchipper Mr. Chips.
  9. The Quiet American
    As thoughtful as it is handsomely acted. Caine's subtle, bold performance should guarantee him an aisle seat on Oscar night.
  10. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country.
  11. 8 Mile
    There's something old-fashioned and dauntless about the way the film pushes past our initial resistance to its setting and subject matter, past pain, past defeat, to make this point. Because it rejects easy victories, this may be one of the few inspirational movies that could actually inspire someone, somewhere, sometime.
  12. Far From Heaven
    Ironizes without parodying an antique screen manner, then reaches out from beneath this smooth cover to grab us.
  13. Treasure Planet
    Take a while to get their vehicle to sail and soar. But when it does, this Planet is a treasure.
  14. The Truth About Charlie
    Donen got it gloriously right the first time. Why do it again? And why do it like this?
  15. Frida
    Julie Taymor's inventiveness has diminished to a kind of strained cuteness. Everything that makes an artist an artist -- the obsessions, the egotism -- is ignored in favor of upbeat movie conventions.
  16. The Ring
    An edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish.
  17. Auto Focus
    Schrader's objectification of sad and stupid material is neither tragic nor transgressive. It is just undramatic and uninvolving.
  18. The Rules of Attraction
    Sex, drugs and rack 'n' ruin; pretty people doing nasty things to one another...honestly, what more could you want in a movie?
  19. Bowling for Columbine
    Rambunctious, disturbing, often hilarious new documentary.
  20. Safe Conduct
    Comic, suspenseful, romantic.
  21. White Oleander
    Lohman's pensive loveliness carries the film.
  22. Punch-Drunk Love
    There is something arresting about it too. The damned thing keeps gnawing at your mind -- if only for its almost perfect lack of conventional sentiment. Or movieness.
  23. Red Dragon
    This darkly seductive, flawlessly acted piece is worlds removed from most horror films. Here monsters have their grandeur, heroes their gravity. And when they collide, a dance of death ensues between two souls doomed to understand each other.
  24. Sweet Home Alabama
    The film (directed by Andy Tennant) has more problems than Melanie, and they're insoluble. Its lazy calculation telegraphs each plot turn and underlines emotions with corn-pone music.
  25. Moonlight Mile
    The film is full of sharp acting and home truths, but its ambition to be different finally surrenders to its need to be loved.
  26. The Banger Sisters
    Dolman's comedy isn't exactly a barrel of emotional surprises, but its great cast underachieves admirably. There are worse ways to pass 94 minutes.
  27. Secretary
    Writer-director Shainberg seems to be aiming for a dark comedy, but mostly his movie is coy without being funny, ugly without being truly transgressive, stupid when it needs to be smart.
  28. 8 Women
    Seduction is more important than deduction in this chic display of star quality to the eighth power.
  29. Spirited Away
    Artful but not arty, Spirited Away is a handcrafted cartoon, as personal as an Utamaro painting, yet its breadth and heart give it an appeal that should touch American viewers of all ages.
  30. S1m0ne
    Simone is a funny, smart, improbably successful satire on contemporary celebrity obsessions, the waning summer's most delirious comedy.
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