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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 5.2 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. Topsy-Turvy
    A 160 minute work of sustained brilliance and delicacy.
  2. Cruel Intentions
    A witty, raunchy comedy, which proves that a well-written piece of business – oozing with sex, wit and nasty intrigue – works for any generation.
  3. Vanity Fair
    Witherspoon's simply terrific, and it's amazing how quickly and easily she sheds speculation that she was too modern for the role.
  4. The Return
    It's not the sort of film one can be said to enjoy, but it is the sort of film that has the clarity of a dream and lingers for hours.
  5. To Be and to Have
    Amounts to a rare gift and an opportunity to appreciate the end of an era and celebrate one of the screen's most subtly etched heroes: the soft-spoken Monsieur Georges Lopez.
  6. Flirting with Disaster
    Writer-director David O. Russell's exhilarating follow-up to "Spanking the Monkey," is even wilder, giddier and more unpredictable than that irreverent debut.
  7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    It's a new new thing, classic myth from both literature and the movies, commingled, set to great folk music, and untrammeled by any sense of predictability, urgency, realism or believability but hypnotic, graceful and seductive.
  8. Sense and Sensibility
    This rapturous romance is not only laugh-out-loud funny but demonstrates how little humankind has evolved in matters of the heart.
  9. America's Heart and Soul
    Harbors some indelibly arresting images and characters whose stories, even at their most superficial, manage to be authentically inspiring.
  10. The Battle of Algiers
    The greatness of The Battle of Algiers lies in its ability to embrace moral ambiguity without succumbing to it.
  11. Monsoon Wedding
    Exploding on the screen in a riot of movement, music and color.
  12. Boys Don't Cry
    The longest, hardest sit of the season -- you are stuck there, a single tube of puckered muscle, waiting for the extremely ugly violence to occur -- but it is driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart.
  13. Fargo
    The brothers, who have always seemed fond of their characters, have never taken quite so overt a stand for life's simple joys.
  14. Spy Game
    The movie is sleek and shiny as a new bullet, reflecting Scott's patented surplus of style.
  15. House of Sand and Fog
    The movie's intense watchability can be traced directly to superb performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.
  16. Spider
    His story is sad, compelling and morbidly, tragically watchable.
  17. Shall We Dance?
    But the movie has a great deal of zest and charm, and Yakusho gets so exactly that crest of melancholy that is a man’s early 40s, until he decides to go for another kind of life, that the movie is infinitely touching.
  18. Roger Dodger
    Takes both its characters and the audience to the depths, but it's a journey Kidd redeems with wit and fluency and, ultimately, a deeply persistent humanism.
  19. Sunshine
    It's a brilliant, profound movie, but it's almost no fun at all.
  20. Tears of the Sun
    The film is a strictly no-bull proposition.
  21. All the Real Girls
    The movie may take five extra minutes to end and could do with one less sunset but . . . other than that it's damned near perfect.
  22. Festival Express
    A delirious piece of pop ephemera.
  23. Ten
    Shows us, in an extraordinarily simple way, the hopes and frustrations of one woman's life.
  24. American Beauty
    Hilarious, painful and brutally frank.
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