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For 2,984 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: 1,815 out of 2984
  2. Mixed: 939 out of 2984
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2984
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  1. School of Rock
    Three of the hippest indie film princes make a perfect commercial comedy.
  2. Casa de los babys
    This wisp of a movie turns out to be more thoughtfully affecting than many a more high-flying film.
  3. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    It's an exercise in style by Robert Rodriguez and not to be taken any more (or less) seriously than his giddy "Spy Kids" movies.
  4. Lost in Translation
    Watch Murray's eyes in the climactic scene in the hotel lobby: while hardly moving, they express the collapsing of all hopes, the return to a sleepwalking status quo. You won't find a subtler, funnier or more poignant performance this year than this quietly astonishing turn.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Splendor
    A kind of bipolar movie, not exactly haha funny but true to life.
  6. Open Range
    It's a real and rare pleasure to see Costner and Duvall together -- these masters of intense passivity, who know how to be watched when they're listening.
  7. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    Its visual thrills are chilly and wearying compared with the other films' quirky humanity. It's not a megamovie; it's a Sega movie.
  8. Seabiscuit
    Ross is a filmmaker with a taste for inherently sentimental tales…but the discipline not to play mawkishly to our sentiments. You will be moved by Seabiscuit--but not to tears.
  9. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    This is an original work in an antique mood. The actors and authors all have fun with the genre without making fun of it. Rather, they revive it.
  10. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    We're talking fables, not reality, here, and this is a fine and merry one--"Ms. Woods Goes to Washington"--played to airy perfection by Reese Witherspoon and a light-on-its-feet cast.
  11. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    At its metallic heart, T3 is another chase movie -- one figure relentlessly tracking three others, mostly in cars, at high speed through implausibly underpopulated Los Angeles streets.
  12. 28 Days Later...
    Boyle's ingenuity with the camera gives this fraught journey plenty of menace and pizazz.
  13. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    After “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Hulk,” there's something refreshing about this movie's complete lack of intellectual pretense.
  14. Hulk
    Lee must have thought he could work a similar magic on this clunking, clanking machine. But despite a few witty wipes and split-screen tricks, he fails. Hulk is no better than hulking.
  15. Together
    Isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love?
  16. Finding Nemo
    Nemo, with its ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar films.
  17. The Matrix Reloaded
    You are never exactly bored by The Matrix Reloaded. But there is something alienating about it, maybe because it fails to fulfill its possibly loony intellectual aspirations.
  18. Down with Love
    The new film is conflicted about its subject -- it both derides and adores what it means to parody -- and it's miscast at the top. Still, the Eve Ahlert -- Dennis Drake script has a gentle heart to humanize its sharp sitcom wit.
  19. Man on the Train
    An elegantly polished little film.
  20. The Dancer Upstairs
    Patient and plodding -- but as realized by John Malkovich, in his directorial debut, utterly absorbing.
  21. X2: X-Men United
    Wants to contain multitudes -- high ideals and high tech, the poignant and the silly. Doing so, it becomes a lexicon of modern filmmaking. It could be its own creature: Super-Generico. That's not the worst thing for a movie to be, but it's not quite Marvel-ous either.
  22. Marooned in Iraq
    You'll have to seek it out in its limited release, but no current movie is more worth the effort.
  23. Winged Migration
    Intellectually austere but technologically and aesthetically riveting documentary.
  24. A Mighty Wind
    The sweetest and funniest of Guest's true-life fake-umentaries.
  25. Anger Management
    It should make audiences happy. But then so did most of his earlier movies, and they were lame, gnat-brained pieces of demagogic doo-doo!
  26. The Man Without a Past
    Droll, reticent, flawlessly filmed fable of generosity.
  27. Stevie
    Can one recommend this unblinking film to the average moviegoer, out for a good time? Only in this way: if James and his crew can spend years with these blighted souls, surely you can spend two hours with them, exploring compassion's outer limits.
  28. Dreamcatcher
    Kasdan has been a serious filmmaker, so he gives the goofiness a smart look and some pertinent metaphors about Americans wrongfully detained. But the aim is no higher than the impulse of old schlockmeisters like Roger Corman and Ed Wood: to get the audience to scream.
  29. Willard
    Glover, as usual, is phenomenal.
  30. All the Real Girls
    Green shoots his groping lovers in the art-film style -- long takes, static frame -- but his tone isn't at all minimalist; it's achingly, breathtakingly romantic, like the old Hollywood love stories his kids have never seen.
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