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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 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. 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).
  2. Starsky & Hutch
    A perfect example of a really good not-great movie, the kind that would be classified as a guilty pleasure were it not executed with guilt-free honesty and good nature.
  3. Scooby-Doo
    You don't want to love this, but you will. Although Scooby-Doo falls far short of becoming the "Blazing Saddles" of Generations X, Y and Z, it is hard to resist in its moronic charms.
  4. Mulan
    Mulan may be exotic, but it's hardly a risky enterprise, what with its sentimental show tunes, wholesome morals and plucky teen heroine.
  5. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    A lucid, emotionally affecting portrait not just of one man but of his times.
  6. I'm Not Scared
    Good but it SEEMS even better because of its evocative setting.
  7. White Oleander
    A lot of White Oleander is heavy sledding of the waa-waa, touchy-feely kind. But just as much of it has the sting of something so real it hurts.
  8. The Last Seduction
    A spirited attempt at modern film noir, and huge parts of it are enjoyable.
  9. The Dreamers
    By equal measure tragic and hopeful, it is both a love song to escapism and a warm embrace of the real world.
  10. Galaxy Quest
    Funny without being flip.
  11. The Last Shot
    Despite its generic title and flat ending, tickles most of the way through.
  12. Voices of Iraq
    Fairly fascinating little documentary.
    • Washington Post
  13. George of the Jungle
    Brendan Fraser breathes loopy new life into the swinging '60s TV cartoon icon.
  14. Along Came Polly
    Is Along Came Polly a great film? No, probably not, but it is a very amusing one.
  15. The Boxer
    Where the movie succeeds-and succeeds wonderfully-is when it stays a heartbeat away from politics. For two-thirds of the movie, it's an involving, boxing saga and romance.
  16. The Sixth Sense
    It's like an enema to the soul as it probes the ways of death ? some especially grotesque in a family setting. You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger.
  17. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    A shorter version of which was shown last year in a series of house parties sponsored by the anti-Bush organizations MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress -- Greenwald marshals dozens of impeccably credentialed witnesses to debunk the case made for going to war.
  18. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    If you love the theater, you've got to see the film.
  19. The Patriot
    Mostly, the movie is riveting, well-done fare -- the stuff of Hollywood epic adventure.
  20. 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.
  21. Recess: School's Out
    The movie's great fun, particularly for kids used to that satirically hard-edged kind of kid show.
  22. Scream 2
    [Craven's] stroke of genius is to offer the horror movie in an ironic mode. He's winking at viewers and inviting them to share a clever conspiracy that we on the cholesterol-clogged side of 30 cannot begin to understand.
  23. The Thin Red Line
    A big, fat, gorgeous, mesmerizing mess.
  24. Waking the Dead
    This wonderfully acted romance brings the touching fantasy "Truly, Madly, Deeply" to mind.
  25. The Alamo
    Its egotistical, wishy-washy and otherwise flawed protagonists are no less heroic because they look -- and act -- like you and me. On the contrary, they are more so.
  26. Valentin
    Quietly, with pathos and tinges of melancholy humor, Valentin pays homage to the heroism of creating your own world when the one that's on offer breaks your heart.
  27. Something's Gotta Give
    It is a well written, nicely acted and smoothly directed battle of the sexes.
  28. A Home at the End of the World
    Watching Spacek dance around the bedroom, slowly loosening up while Laura Nyro plays, is one of the joys of this cinematic season.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lightning in a Bottle
    The movie manages to educate without losing steam.
  30. Snatch.
    Although the plot is crucial, it's the interaction among characters that makes Snatch percolate. Ritchie knows when to stop and smell the comedy.
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