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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. What Women Want
    It just runs on and on -- like a slightly stupid story you wish you hadn't overheard in a singles bar.
  2. Pollock
    The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from.
  3. The Emperor's New Groove
    Doesn't aim too high or strain too hard; it is at ease inhabiting its pretty, miniature realm.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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  6. Quills
    This is soft-gore porn, obvious in its strategies, witless in the play of its ideas, absurdist only in its pretense to seriousness.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Suzhou River
    Whatever city this one is showing in...move there.
  10. 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.
  11. 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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  12. George Washington
    It stands, soars on its own. It moves to a seductive rhythm and vision.
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  13. Lucky Numbers
    Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
  14. 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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  15. Bedazzled
    The skitcom format soon becomes tiresome.
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  16. The Yards
    So muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory.
  17. 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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  18. 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.
  19. Billy Elliot
    The better class of moviegoers will love Billy Elliot. And I loved hating it.
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  20. Ratcatcher
    Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama.
  21. Girlfight
    Gives its fine actors room to breathe and behave--and in Michelle Rodriguez's case, glow.
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  22. Beautiful
    You don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission.
  23. 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.
    • Time
  24. 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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  25. The Way of the Gun
    What aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy.
  26. 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.
  27. Cecil B. DeMented
    Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun.
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  28. 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.
  29. Saving Grace
    Grace is not as tightly wound as the best of its breed, but it is a genial way to pass the time.
  30. 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.
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