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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. Hellboy
    Surprisingly smart, graphically faithful live-action adaptation of the Mike Mignola series
  2. Ice Age
    This digitally animated movie, filled with a cast of charming, funny critters from long ago, is family entertainment at its most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Incredibles
    The movie is full of wonderful little touches: Syndrome, the bad guy, is drawn to remind viewers of "Heat Miser" from the classic Christmas cartoon "The Year Without a Santa Claus."
  4. Maria Full of Grace
    A gripping, deeply moving film
  5. The Polar Express
    A truly satisfying holiday picture, the kind everyone can enjoy.
  6. School of Rock
    A movie for almost everyone, from boomer parents (who remember their teens and twenties) to their teenage kids (who can't wait to get started with same). And if there's anyone who can bring so many into the same mosh pit, it's Black, who so occupies the role you can't believe he's acting.
  7. Sweet Sixteen
    It's a classic story in form, and in this country it used to star Jimmy Cagney.
  8. A Very Long Engagement
    In its insistence on the centrality of the war to the collective consciousness of mankind, it's of a piece with "The English Patient," rather than "Saving Private Ryan."
  9. Thirteen
    It feels like real life unfolding before your eyes.
  10. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    You will laugh. Then you will laugh some more. Then you will laugh still again.
  11. The Twilight Samurai
    Combines novelistic detail with cinematic sweep.
  12. Riding Giants
    By land or by sea, there aren't many movies that can move you like that.
  13. The Bourne Supremacy
    Spy movies just got thrilling again.
  14. Collateral
    The best kind of genre filmmaking: It plays by the rules, obeys the traditions and is both familiar and fresh at once.
  15. 8 Mile
    This is about the rise of a pop star, plain and simple. The real deal –- and the movie's greatest fun –- is in the rap contests.
  16. Forrest Gump
    Zemeckis, an undisputed master of film technology, shows off an equal aptitude for vivid storytelling.
  17. I, Robot
    Fabulous mental escape. It's fun and playful, rather than dark and foreboding. And there doesn't seem to be an original cyber-bone in the movie's body. But it's put together in a fabulous package.
  18. The Manchurian Candidate
    A stylish hoot: entertainingly edgy and ludicrous all at once.
  19. Spider-Man
    An exuberance, a celebration, a hoot, a kick and a half.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vera Drake
    Sweet, strange and ultimately heartbreaking.
  21. Napoleon Dynamite
    Jon Heder in the magnificent Napoleon Dynamite, is one of the most winning movie creations in years.
  22. Hotel Rwanda
    Magnificent.
  23. Mission: Impossible
    Exciting, smart and enormously enjoyable.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    When We Were Kings
    For those who want to relive Ali's glory days, and for those who think Ali was nothing but a prizefighter, this movie, which took the struggling Gast 20 years to get financed, is required viewing.
  25. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
    There's nothing bogus about this locomotivated follow-up; it's a truly excellent adventure, hilariously inventive, greased-lightning paced and dumb-bunny brilliant.
  26. Eve's Bayou
    Eve's Bayou is a movie unto itself, a rousing, original yarn about family life that includes everyone, whether they're from Louisiana or miles away. [07Nov1997 Pg N.48]
    • Washington Post
  27. Face/Off
    As an example of the art of casting, the movie is brilliantly engineered. It allows two major stars to each play the showy villain for a time, and also for each to do an imitation of the other.
  28. Welcome to Sarajevo
    What is so impressive about Welcome to Sarajevo is its cool restraint: Like the best of journalism, it never stoops to sensationalize or sermonize, but merely observes. It's about the facts rather than something called The Truth. [9Jan1998 Pg. D.01]
    • Washington Post
  29. Stealing Beauty
    What's more, Bertolucci's voice is stronger, clearer and more effortlessly confident than it has been in years. He's stolen the beauty of Tuscany and his youthful star and transformed it into an exquisite work of movie art.
  30. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    A riot from start to finish, Carrey's first feature comedy is as cheerfully bawdy as it is idiotically inventive.
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