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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. Lost in Translation
    It gets at something exquisitely human, so human that even movie stars feel it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Blair Witch Project
    The Blair Witch Project is terrifying. It's also an exuberant prank of genius.
  3. Do the Right Thing
    A movie made by filmmaker working in sync with his times -- an exciting, disturbing, provocative film.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Taste of Others
    There are some things the French do better than we do, and this small movie is one.
  5. Blade II
    To appreciate the movie, you have to be okay with vampire violence. I don't mean subtle little nips at the neck and, ooooh, it's directed by Werner Herzog.
  6. Ocean's Eleven
    One thoroughbred of a movie. Sleek, well-muscled and brisk, director Steven Soderbergh's newest offering delivers just about everything anyone could possibly want from filmed entertainment -- except deep thought.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Moonlight Mile
    It's a combination of good story, nice moments and appealing texture.
  8. Unforgiven
    Exults in the hard-riding romanticism of classic Westerns, but it takes revisionist stock too. It dismounts at places usually left in the dust -- the oppressed lot of women, the loneliness of untended children, adult illiteracy and the horrible last moments of the dying.
  9. I'm Going Home
    Viewers who come to this delicate creation with expectations of just another quaint or sad story are in for a surprise.
  10. Mystic River
    If Mystic River is just a bit overplayed, a tad too highly pitched, it still resonates with grief and fury and feeling.
  11. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    The summer's most rousing action picture.
  12. The Silence of the Lambs
    A smart, restrained entertainment, it doesn't splash around in blood and hysteria. It doesn't have to.
  13. Cape Fear
    Martin Scorsese brings honor back to the remake. He shines up this reprise of the original with original brilliance
  14. Gangs of New York
    Scorsese creates a film so resonant that it is both a work of great art and an anthropological document.
  15. The Big Lebowski
    With their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana-but a sort of neo-Americana that is entirely invented-the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre.
  16. The Machinist
    Psychological suspense at its finest.
  17. Notre musique
    Notre Musique is really a poetic essay, masterfully intermixing the director's mournful-toned, philosophical narration with documentary and staged moments.
  18. Whale Rider
    Evokes its spirituality with deft strokes and wonderful humor.
  19. Being John Malkovich
    So full of creativity, so subversive, so alive.
  20. The Others
    It's the atmospheric sideshow that earns the highest marks.
  21. Finding Nemo
    May be a fish tale, but its story of the paradox of love -- knowing when to hold on means knowing when to let go -- is profoundly humane and human.
  22. Dead Poets Society
    Sure, the heroes and villains are arranged in a convenient moral gallery. But the performances, Weir's adroit direction and John Seale's superb cinematography take care of that banality.
  23. Hero
    You can feel the movie's sensibility and its powerful emotions in every aching image, which leaves you so caught up in these ancient times, you're loath to return to present-day normalcy.
  24. Dogville
    It plays like a baldfaced, brazen insult, but it is a stunningly accomplished one.
  25. 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.
  26. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    Reconfirms Tarantino's status as the master of pop cinema and puts a sense of excitement into the year. He has matched, if not eclipsed, the power and scope of 1994's "Pulp Fiction," though not its human charm.
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  27. Bad Santa
    Suddenly, you're looking at life in his (Thornton's) jaundiced way and laughing with a sense of vicarious liberation, even when he says the most outrageous things -- to children, no less. And I daresay you can still recover your holiday spirit when you're through laughing.
  28. Diamond Men
    Genuine, amusing and, best of all, humanly scaled and humanely oriented.
  29. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Neither wholly cynical nor wholly romantic, Kaufman's story is a balance of smarts and sentiment. It's the most fully realized working out of his two favorite obsessions: the subjective nature of experience and the psychological mysteries of pair bonding.
  30. Ghost World
    A character so real and poignant (yet hysterically funny), she'll linger for months or years.
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