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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    Kitano the filmmaker makes sure that everything is beautiful, from the wonderful colors and passing tableaux to the intricate fighting choreography. This blind swordsman, you realize, has vision to spare.
  2. Ju-on: The Grudge
    It's creepy, all right. It's just that HOW it goes about creeping you out is sometimes just plain cheesy.
  3. The Bourne Supremacy
    I had some trouble with the plot, but I'm not the only one -- so did the screenwriter.
  4. Zhou Yu de huo che
    Less a tale of mysterious, tragic love than a three-way Harlequin romance.
  5. A Cinderella Story
    It is horrible. Time curls up and dies while this Hilary Duff vehicle wheels its weary, conventional way along.
  6. Maria Full of Grace
    A gripping, deeply moving film
  7. Touch of Pink
    It goes so far -- way too far -- as having a known actor play Grant.
  8. I, Robot
    Smith makes it look easy, but underneath the physical high jinks and slick veneer of I, Robot lies a performance of real discipline and intelligence.
  9. Let's Get Frank
    The outspoken congressman is just as entertaining as his liberal fans already know him to be.
  10. The Door in the Floor
    Bridges can't be a whole movie. But he's the main reason to watch.
  11. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Documentary about rock history's biggest heavy metal band is -- variously -- serious, funny, frustrating and touching.
  12. The Inheritance
    The cast, all classically trained on the stage, is simply commanding.
  13. Sleepover
    It wants us to believe that being popular and getting the cutest guy in school really is the key to happiness. Like, how totally last century is that?
  14. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Wonderfully silly all the time.
  15. Riding Giants
    By land or by sea, there aren't many movies that can move you like that.
  16. King Arthur
    By going back to its origins and dusting itself off, the King Arthur story has proved itself to have a very contemporary resonance.
  17. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    Modest and winning.
  18. America's Heart and Soul
    This is Disney at its live-action best and brightest.
  19. The Clearing
    Ultimately, we find ourselves looking for the wrong sort of clearing: a way out.
  20. Before Sunset
    All foreplay and no climax.
  21. De-Lovely
    The movie drains Cole and Linda Porter of blood and fills them with embalming fluid.
  22. Spider-Man 2
    This movie, directed with precision and an appreciation for (relatively) rich character texture by Sam Raimi, remembers all the fine elements of the original film (and the comic book story). It reprises them perfectly, including wonderfully choreographed, skyscraper-hanging fights.
  23. The Notebook
    May be one hundred percent sap, but its spirit is anything but cloying, thanks to persuasive performances, most notably from Rachel McAdams.
  24. Time of the Wolf
    I would rather have a more interesting group of desperate people to spend my post-apocalyptic time with.
  25. Two Brothers
    The story, which features an apparently lobotomized Guy Pearce as an opportunistic explorer and hunter who learns the errors of his ways, is deeply dull.
  26. White Chicks
    Laugh? I thought I'd never start.
  27. Fahrenheit 9/11
    In Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore largely stays out of the picture, and the film is the better for it. But otherwise his style hasn't changed.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Hunting of the President
    Something far more consequential looms in the wings. And that renders The Hunting of the President the feel of a sideshow
  29. Facing Windows
    There's something diverting but not wildly stirring about this Italian drama.
  30. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    Most important, the film has a terrific supporting character in St. Marie herself, portrayed by the real Canadian island of Harrington Harbour (pop. 300).
  31. Father and Son
    Here was my question for most of this movie: Wha-? I was clueless. Did not understand. Count me among the stupid.
  32. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    It has great mood and a sense of the toughness of the London underworld, but it never really gets into gear.
  33. The Terminal
    Hanks is great; the movie isn't.
  34. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    On the whole, it feels like a cross between a PBS special hosted by a series of low-rent Deepak Chopras and an infomercial for self-help audio tapes.
  35. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Modestly amusing teen summer comedy.
  36. Around the World in 80 Days
    The gags are physical but rarely funny.
  37. My Sister Maria
    A heartfelt but eccentric, pseudo-documentary tribute to his sister Maria.
  38. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    If you love the theater, you've got to see the film.
  39. The Chronicles of Riddick
    The muddy, convoluted story revolves around the star's cool-guy poses and one-liners.
  40. The Stepford Wives
    None of it appears to be well thought out, or thought through, and it's consequently never remotely believable.
  41. Garfield
    Bland, workmanlike and instantly forgettable.
  42. Napoleon Dynamite
    I laughed. And I laughed primarily over Heder's hilarious performance. You ain't seen nothing till you've seen Napoleon attack that tether ball.
  43. Imelda
    But even though Marcos, in this film, provides enough material for a few hundred giggles and head-shakings, she also shows a pathetically human side.
  44. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    Strangely moving film.
  45. The Corporation
    This is another unhelpful screed, uncontaminated by sense or perspective, that preaches loudly to the choir.
  46. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Put delicately, this is one long sit, made all the more so by a turgid story, a dour visual palette and uninspiring action.
  47. I'll Sing for You
    It never really feels like we've gotten to know the man himself, leaving the figure at the heart of I'll Sing for You a cipher.
  48. Bukowski: Born into This
    About as good a picture of a writer's real life as we are likely to get. It is wide-ranging, it is fair, it is thorough, and although it admires, it is also tough enough to condemn.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Soul Plane
    An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up Soul Plane.
  50. Saved!
    If you're mocking holier-than-thou-ness, you can't very well strike a hipper-than-thou tone.
  51. The Mother
    You may not enjoy The Mother (I certainly didn't), but it's a movie so heavy on truth, its spell cannot be denied.
  52. Baadasssss!
    While the younger Van Peebles certainly looks the part, Baadasssss! never feels like anything more than kids playing dress-up.
  53. The Day After Tomorrow
    Utterly shatters the illusion with a trite plot, banal dialogue, clunky sentimentality and, worst of all, a sort of narrative arbitrariness.
  54. Raising Helen
    You are likely to encounter more surprises on the way to the bathroom each morning than you do in this film.
  55. My Mother Likes Women
    What's troubling about "My Mother" is not the way the sisters respond to the news, but the way that Paris and Fejerman have opted to make lighthearted comic fodder out of the daughters' responses.
  56. Stateside
    It's hard to know which is more annoying: The fact that writer-director Reverge Anselmo makes Dori's schizophrenic look like little more than a cute, sexually available lush or that he makes Mark's Marine act like a jarhead with nothing inside except fireflies.
  57. Love Me If You Dare
    In this toxic tale of young psychopaths in love, the stylish, often stunning visuals are ultimately outmatched by the repellent protagonists at the story's center.
  58. Control Room
    Enlightening, if structurally relaxed documentary.
  59. Twist
    An intriguing idea for about two seconds.
  60. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    Cinema at its most intellectually honest and morally necessary.
  61. Shrek 2
    One wishes the same wit and energy had gone into the story. That's Shrek 2 in a nutshell -- very pretty to look at, very hard to care for.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With All Deliberate Speed
    Misses almost every opportunity to break new ground on the issue.
  63. Carandiru
    The movie is powerful, if numbing. What movie about a massacre isn't?
  64. Breakin' All the Rules
    A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters.
  65. A Slipping-Down Life
    As a whole, the film is a perplexing, dark and brooding exercise, which only makes its inappropriately cheery ending feel all the more slight.
  66. Strayed
    A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.
  67. Coffee and Cigarettes
    The skits that comprise Coffee and Cigarettes aren't fully realized short pieces as much as riffs or fragments; their appeal is mostly in their stars.
  68. Troy
    Far from great, but much farther from awful, Troy offers several popcorn buckets' worth of good old-fashioned time at the movies.
  69. Godzilla
    Its images of the destruction of the cities is far more powerful than in American films, where the cities are trashed for the pure pleasure of destruction, without any real sense of human loss.
  70. Valentin
    The kid chews up the scenery like a baby T-Rex, egged on, no doubt, by director Agresti.
  71. Super Size Me
    This is a compelling cautionary tale hot-wired to your gag reflex.
  72. Van Helsing
    A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.
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