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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. Fahrenheit 9/11
    A brisk and entertaining indictment of the Bush Administration’s middle East policies before and after September 11, 2001.
  2. The Terminal
    The Terminal is Spielberg's shortest feature since the first "Jurassic Park," yet it drags, plods, piling one lifeless situation atop another. For all the effort and good intentions, the movie is in-terminal-ble.
  3. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    If you surrender to the film's often inexplicable rhythms, if you let its dark materials reach out and envelop you, it can be a curiously rewarding experience -- a blend of silences and sudden bursts of violence that, despite its highly stylized manner, feels more edgily lifelike and more disturbing than most movies.
  4. The Stepford Wives
    A film full of smart laughs.
  5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Enjoy the savory witches' brew that Cuaron has cooked up in his Harry pot. For on its own terms, this one is truly wizard.
  6. The Five Obstructions
    The next time you hear a director complain about the studio or his stars or the weather or whatever, think of what Jorgen Leth achieved with Lars von Trier as his boss -- when five obstructions became five splendid opportunities.
  7. Shrek 2
    This wonderfully animated movie is a little more softly pitched than its predecessor, but it still has plenty of rollicking spin on the ball.
  8. Troy
    In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war.
  9. Coffee and Cigarettes
    It feels as if it has been recovered from a time capsule, and what larger meaning it may have is anyone's guess. But it is way cool -- and funny -- in ways that more expensive comedies trying harder rarely are.
  10. Strayed
    Elegant and understated.
  11. Valentin
    Agresti's just out to give us a sentimental good time. Which some people, heaven help us, will have -- while the rest of us choke on the cutesiness.
  12. New York Minute
    It's pretty awful.
  13. The Saddest Music in the World
    In a movie age when there's hardly a garde, let alone an avant-garde, Maddin proves there are many languages to cinema, including the dead one of antique film. And in that language, he sings, he soars.
  14. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    This being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces.
  15. The Alamo
    Politics aside, this is a handsome film with orange skies to die for, or under, and a lovely score by Carter Burwell. The picture has some ponderous and snooze-worthy stretches, but it attains a certain melancholic grandeur, with the actors and crew fighting as desperately as Crockett and Bowie to make the best of a fated adventure.
  16. The Ladykillers
    The Coen brothers merrily subvert that standard caper trope.
  17. Dogville
    It's a brilliant idea, for about 10 minutes. Then the bare set is elbowed out of a viewer's mind by the threadbare plot and characterizations.
  18. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Kaufman may be counting on the audience's will, insistence and yearning to create a coherent love story from the shards and shrapnel he provides us.
  19. Starsky & Hutch
    Starsky & Hutch has moments of hilarity a little greater than you might expect of a movie that is just out for a lazy good time.
  20. Goodbye Lenin!
    A romantic comedy so smart and sweetly mature, it's liberating.
  21. The Passion of the Christ
    A serious, handsome, excruciating film that radiates total commitment.
  22. Kitchen Stories
    What a pleasure it is not to be hectored by a director as we laugh our own little laughs, watching a profound story unfold.
  23. The Dreamers
    Dispassionate, curiously lifeless, lacking the energy of either youthful commitment or a deeply engaged re-examination of the past.
  24. Teacher's Pet
    Has a whirligig wit, and 11 songs crammed into its 67 minutes: that's more melodic content than in most Broadway musicals.
  25. Japanese Story
    Japanese Story is a simple, austerely told tale. But there is something memorable, even haunting, about it.
  26. Cold Mountain
    A grand and poignant movie epic about what is lost in war and what's worth saving in life. It is also a rare blend of purity and maturity -- the year's most rapturous love story.
  27. Mona Lisa Smile
    Maybe Wellesley isn't the only injured party here. Can an audience sue for cruel and edifying punishment?
  28. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    This is spellbinding reality cinema about duplicity and, worse, ignorance at the highest level.
  29. House of Sand and Fog
    As reversible misunderstandings grow into irreversible tragedy, it slowly dawns on you that this is a superior, heartbreaking film.
  30. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The second half of the film elevates all the story elements to Beethovenian crescendo. Here is an epic with literature's depth and opera's splendor -- and one that could be achieved only in movies. What could be more terrific?
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