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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. Safe Conduct
    Comic, suspenseful, romantic.
  2. White Oleander
    Lohman's pensive loveliness carries the film.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 8 Women
    Seduction is more important than deduction in this chic display of star quality to the eighth power.
  10. 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.
  11. S1m0ne
    Simone is a funny, smart, improbably successful satire on contemporary celebrity obsessions, the waning summer's most delirious comedy.
  12. Possession
    When Possession finds its true home, lodging in the convulsive certitude of Victorian romance, it does indeed catch fire -- and warms any viewer in the mood for love.
  13. Mostly Martha
    Nettelbeck is a sharp observer of life's surprises, and Gedeck has an appraising, intelligent beauty. Her Martha is like the film: tart on the outside, sweet on the inside, with a delectable aftertaste.
  14. Secret Ballot
    The film's spare wit is as applicable to Broward County as to the Persian Gulf. Secret Ballot offers further evidence that an Islamic regime can foster humanist satires with a critical, political edge.
  15. The Good Girl
    What makes The Good Girl worthwhile is its performances. All the actors play their entrapment with a weirdly convicted blankness. That's especially true of Aniston.
  16. Full Frontal
    The result is Soderberghs liveliest experiment since the strenuously weird "Schizopolis" six years ago -- except that this one works.
  17. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    Occasionally succumbs to Mika's legato rhythms, but it is more often a sly, subtle comedy about the oh-so-gentle art of murder.
  18. Tadpole
    This is, alas, one weary ride--77 minutes that sometimes feel like that many hours.
  19. Sex and Lucia
    These people are fools for heedless love and, perhaps, needless complication, and you can't help responding to the heat of their passion.
  20. Read My Lips
    The comedic first part of Jacques Audiard's film doesn't achieve a seamless connection with its melodramatic second half, but you can't deny the originality of his conceit or the tart cynicism of its development.
  21. Lovely & Amazing
    This feels the way a lot of us are living now -- on desperation's dull yet still cutting edge.
  22. Minority Report
    Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the finest of the season's action epics.
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  23. Lilo & Stitch
    It's a bright, engaging bauble with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass -- Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot -- to keep the tweeners giggling.
  24. The Bourne Identity
    The result is an escapist fantasy that is -- Damon's and Potente's persuasive performances aside -- as weightless and inconsequential as a musical. And at the moment every bit as welcome.
  25. Scooby-Doo
    The cast does great impressions of the original cartoon characters, and the computer-generated Scooby is convincing, but it turns out that what we liked about Scooby-Doo in the first place was that nobody was trying.
  26. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    This is potentially near tragic material, and playing it as an all-forgiving comedy is a waste of everyone's time.
  27. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    It is a ripping yarn and a spectacularly new and odd vision.
  28. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    It's a pretty, high-strung story, handsomely done in traditional animation (mostly by hand) that you can take the kids to without wincing.
  29. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    An exhilarating two hours of serious fun.
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  30. Hollywood Ending
    Is comedy a young man's game, like skateboarding or sex? Writing jokes, creating droll characters -- these take ambition, ingenuity and energy, and after decades of devotion to this voracious muse, a fellow can get pooped.
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