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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Wedding feels a bit anachronistic. Still, not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak, and a happy ending is no cinematic sin.
  2. The Scorpion King
    Of course, The Rock looks the part, though with a headband and buckskin, he'd also look like Tonto on steroids.
  3. Murder by Numbers
    The result is two or three cuts above genre standard.
  4. Nine Queens
    If you want a brain puzzler that will ensure a lively conversation on the way home, Nine Queens is the real deal.
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  5. Changing Lanes
    If it's not conventionally speedy, it is almost always gripping.
  6. Frailty
    The payoff isn't worth the time invested, but at least the actor-turned-filmmaker underplays an inherently queasy project that could have been over the top.
  7. The Sweetest Thing
    Aspires to be a cinematic "Sex and the City," but it's more like South Park Goes West.
  8. High Crimes
    It's no crime the movie has one or two endings too many, given that many thrillers of the past quarter-century have had the same. But Judd's latest is too harmless to be anything but a misdemeanor.
  9. Big Trouble
    The script is consistently humorous, even if a few punch lines are predictable and the wit is neither highbrow nor split-a-gut funny.
  10. Van Wilder
    Even by teen gross-out movie standards Van Wilder makes "Sorority Boys" look like "Some Like It Hot."
  11. Crush
    After "Chocolat" and this, how about a moratorium on candy-centered comedies?
  12. The Rookie
    Even when there are lulls, the emotions seem authentic.
  13. Death to Smoochy
    Smoochy, like the cuddly character, tries to be loved and ends on an unrealistically upbeat note. But it's in better, wittier form just being vicious and biting.
  14. Clockstoppers
    Tries and winds up with a pleasant, if forgettable, romp of a film.
  15. Panic Room
    Things move fast enough to make it a movie to enjoy and then forget.
  16. Blade II
    Snipes gives a looser, cooler performance this time around, though emotionally, it's closer to dead than undead. Blade II is for the horror faithful only; others will be grasping their crucifixes.
  17. Son of the Bride
    One of the best films of the year.
  18. Resident Evil
    Evil's one strong presence is lead Milla Jovovich -- and not because the script gives her supercop/soldier anything interesting to say.
  19. Y Tu Mamá También
    Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.
  20. Showtime
    De Niro's scowl and Murphy's sass are inherently funny, though in this case both actors are forced to call in moviegoers' long-established goodwill.
  21. Harrison's Flowers
    As far-fetched as it sometimes seems, the film resonates in the wake of the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
  22. Ice Age
    A minor delight but a delight just the same.
  23. The Time Machine
    Drab as it is, the movie is not impossible to endure -- in part because the concept has a timeless appeal.
  24. All About the Benjamins
    Such overkill might seem like an asset to teenage boys (and those who think like them). The rest of us are better off not wasting our Washingtons.
  25. We Were Soldiers
    This also is the rare combat movie that deals substantially with mourning widows on the home front.
  26. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    Within a certain narrow range, Hartnett shows some comic flair -- though not enough to carry the picture over its considerable rough spots.
  27. Queen of the Damned
    If you're going because you want to see an entertaining horror movie, good luck.
  28. Monsoon Wedding
    Some of the movie's best scenes -- knockouts, in fact -- involve musical interludes.
  29. Dragonfly
    When Kevin Costner goes into sensitive-guy mode, beware.
  30. Crossroads
    Less a movie than a mind-numbingly dull road trip.
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