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For 17,777 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,133 out of 17777
  2. Mixed: 7,008 out of 17777
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17777
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  1. The Contender
    The large, talented cast elevates the film above the trappings of its loquacious debates, particularly Allen.
  2. Billy Elliot
    Strikes a delicate balance of comedy and pathos with an uplifting final act that delivers a resoundingly satisfying emotional payoff.
  3. The Ladies Man
    The question isn't where is the love but where are the laughs?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Factory
    In one of his best leading screen turns, Dafoe makes a potentially unlikely construct into a fascinating, full-blooded figure.
  5. Ratcatcher
    There’s a light touch in evidence, balancing the bleakness with odd lyrical moments and unexpected humor and tenderness that infuse the gentle drama with a bracing freshness.
  6. Taboo
    Walks the line between conviction and camp with a not entirely steady step.
  7. CyberWorld
    An OK mishmash.
  8. Mercy Streets
    No mere crime drama, but rather the latest in the recent resurgence of independently financed, spiritually themed pics that seek to couch religious dogma within the shells of B-grade genre entertainment.
  9. Two Family House
    For all the pic’s sentimentality, De Felitta refuses to back away from some unpleasantly realistic touches.
  10. Bamboozled
    Occasionally biting but excessively melodramatic.
  11. Get Carter
    A useless remake of Mike Hodges' 1971 British gangland cult classic.
  12. Bootmen
    Feel-good quality fare.
  13. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Voice work is weirdly awful and funny at the same time.
  14. Meet the Parents
    A flat-out hilarious mainstream comedy.
  15. Requiem for a Dream
    It’s technically striking filmmaking, to be sure, but what it’s presenting is nothing that many people will want to look at.
  16. Beautiful
    There's no particular reason to see this disappointingly trivial picture on the bigscreen.
  17. Girlfight
    Blends in a most satisfying manner the conventions of several genres, resulting in a coherent picture that is at once a poignant inner-city drama, a rousing sports movie, an emotional family yarn and, above all, a sweet romance.
  18. Remember the Titans
    Earnest and well-intentioned.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Barenaked in America
    An only occasionally interesting look at a rather ordinary bunch of musicians.
  20. Best in Show
    A barkingly funny new "mockumentary" that does for those canine pageants what the helmer's 1996 "Waiting for Guffman" did for smalltown theatrics.
  21. The Specials
    A vulgar, Z-grade variant on last year's "Mystery Men" for those who didn't get their fill the first time around.
  22. The Fantasticks
    The resulting film is one of too much reverence and not enough satire.
  23. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose.
  24. Woman on Top
    A fantastical romp with a buoyant pace, exotic locations, a finger-popping score, appealing leads and spicy cooking demonstrations.
  25. Double Parked
    The picture is stronger the closer it sticks to the streets and raw emotions and the more it avoids routine dramatic crutches and forced comedy.
  26. Left Luggage
    A well intentioned but uneven and overly sentimental film.
  27. Tigerland
    A tautly focused, well-executed drama. Demonstrates that it's still possible to make small, intimate and personal movies within the Hollywood studio system.
  28. Dancer in the Dark
    A 2½-hour demo of auteurist self-importance that's artistically bankrupt on almost every level.
  29. Twilight: Los Angeles
    The camera's closer scrutiny doesn't flatter this unique theatrical reportage.
  30. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Heartbreaking yet truly inspirational.
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