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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. Baby Boy
    An easy movie to pick apart, but it lives, breathes and switches moods from humor to despair better than any American release this year.
  2. The Princess and the Warrior
    The film has its moments as a mood piece.
  3. The Fast and the Furious
    High-grade B flick about illegal street racing among gangs in Los Angeles applies the brakes only for the bare minimum of plot injection.
  4. Dr. Dolittle 2
    It's the kind of material that is either going to make your day or not.
  5. Songcatcher
    With a half-dozen characters sorting out life's woes, the pacing is a couple of beats faster than languorous — just enough to sustain one's interest.
  6. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    If only the story that surrounds this watchable heroine were as well-stacked.
  7. Swordfish
    So much luck is pressed with an absurdly overblown finale that 60 seconds will likely be Swordfish's shelf life after a couple of noisy opening weekends.
  8. Evolution
    Instead of scoring belly laughs, there's a run on randy guy banter between Duchovny and Jones.
  9. The Anniversary Party
    If one of its points is to show that underused thirtyish actresses still are attractive, it succeeds with Leigh and Cates -- and Jennifer Beals, who also provides a flashback feeling playing Cummings' ex-squeeze.
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  10. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    What Atlantis gains in chills and thrills, it loses in pure emotion.
  11. Bride of the Wind
    Stuffing painters, writers and, naturally, Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce) into about 90 minutes, the film comes off as little more than a handsomely mounted scorecard of sexual escapades.
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  12. The Animal
    Schneider, with his cherub curls and scrawny physique, adopts a pussycat persona that engenders goodwill.
  13. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    This dispensable comedy has a few unexpectedly loopy surprises, including an outlandishly gay detective (played by versatile actor William Fichtner), who loves the Ice Capades but loathes insurance fraud.
  14. The Road Home
    It's a sweet tale, but the movie's real subject is Zhang, the camera's muse that the lens adores.
  15. Pearl Harbor
    It's an extravaganza worth seeing once -- and maybe later on DVD.
  16. The Man Who Cried
    A curious but intriguing movie that leaves you bemused and more than a little confused.
  17. Angel Eyes
    A wisp of ghost story that promises insight but is strictly soft focus.
  18. Shrek
    A riotous and wee bit PG-racy computer-animated family fable, is the most thoroughly enjoyable cartoon feature since "Toy Story" burst out of its box.
  19. Moulin Rouge!
    May be a spectacularly awful movie, but it's also spectacularly drenched in color, décor and other visual oh-la-la.
  20. Startup.com
    A cautionary tale very well-told.
  21. A Knight's Tale
    From the moment he trudges through the woods in his scratched and smudged birthday suit, Paul Bettany as a saucy Geoffrey Chaucer takes command.
  22. Pavilion of Women
    It saves its clunkiest scene for the finale. No fair telling, but the key words are "political," "propaganda," "outdoors" and "orphans."
  23. The Mummy Returns
    There's much mumbo-jumbo about past lives and symbolic tattoos, but who cares when you can gaze at a sight as lovely as a dirigible floating in the night sky?
  24. Deuces Wild
    It would appear that director Scott Kalvert never met a cliché he didn't like. No telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie.
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  25. One Night at McCool's
    You may enjoy One Night -- but you may feel guilty about it in the morning.
  26. The Golden Bowl
    The movie establishes good will (or even great will) in the initial scenes because it's so gorgeous, but the rest is such a slog.
  27. Driven
    A race-car drama full of flashy but empty images and a soundtrack that makes you feel as if you're being shaken on a motel rumblebed.
  28. Harry Is Here to Help
    Director Dominik Moll knows how to make a gruesome-free thriller and even manages some dark laughs as he turns the screws.
  29. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    When movies have degraded to the point that Tyson is acting more than Quentin Tarantino is directing, maybe it is time for an industry shutdown, strike-induced or otherwise.
  30. Freddy Got Fingered
    Not since Andy Kaufman's reign of terror has a supposed funnyman been so self-indulgently persistent in testing a fan's patience.
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