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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. American Wedding
    If you do not bring pride, good taste or sense to this third American Pie installment, you'll have a good time.
  2. Cellular
    This unpretentious little bit of superior craftsmanship will be utterly mesmerizing to two kinds of people in particular: those who love cell phones and those who hate them.
  3. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Absorbing, funny, exhilaratingly entertaining ride through two years in the life of the most successful heavy metal band in history.
  4. Facing Windows
    The film is slick, beautifully acted and completely entrancing.
  5. 25th Hour
    Lee has created that rarity in filmmaking: a movie we need, right now.
  6. The Cooler
    Still, it's difficult to hold his whoppers against him. In creating characters of such spirit and life, and in imagining such a vibrant, imaginative homage to the transformative powers of love, Kramer, more than most, has earned the right to push his luck.
  7. Mostly Martha
    Sweet without being saccharine and funny without being forced, the closely observed romantic comedy treats the culinary arts as a metaphor for personal healing.
  8. Mallrats
    The movie is a piece of junk...However, it's also immensely likable and hysterically, irreverently funny.
  9. The Other Side of the Bed
    Peppy, funny and sensual. If you have to see any romantic comedy that's not directed by Billy Wilder, or written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, this wouldn't be a bad choice.
  10. Shanghai Knights
    Far from great but greatly entertaining.
  11. THX 1138
    Testament to the emergence of a visually masterful filmmaker, capable of ingenious, low-tech special effects.
  12. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    So disarming, it's hard to say anything but good things about it. So get in line. The doctor is in.
  13. The Iron Giant
    Still, the movie -- as beautifully drawn, as sleek and engaging as it is -- has the annoyance of incredible smugness.
  14. Sexy Beast
    A Molotov cocktail of a movie, an engaging conflagration of British B-flick, cockney wit and gallows humor. There's even a delicate little love story in there.
  15. Notting Hill
    So the film has this weird postmodernist taint: It has a self-aware script that cleverly plays off the reality of its own cast and their famous real-life contretemps. It's smart and knowing.
  16. Changing Lanes
    Far richer than you'd ever think possible.
  17. Selena
    The film's many musical scenes can be riveting. But Selena is less concert film than family drama, particularly focusing on Selena's struggles with her father after she falls in love with, and eventually marries, her guitarist Chris Perez (heartthrob Jon Seda).
  18. We Were Soldiers
    Gibson may get top billing, but it's Sam Elliott who steals all the scenes. As Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley, a man who fires with his own .45 revolver rather than the standard M-16 rifles, he's full of hilariously colorful comments.
  19. Undertow
    The movie builds slowly to its grinding climax, and the suspense -- the standard by which a thriller must primarily be judged -- is first-rate.
  20. Before Sunrise
    Though Linklater allows the movie to wander, he never allows the pace to slacken, and more often than not he finds some unexpected bit of found poetry or cultural kitsch to make the digressions worthwhile.
  21. Father and Son
    If the setting is claustrophobic, it's also bracingly beautiful, a contradiction that is every bit in keeping with Sokurov's preference for ambiguity over clarity.
  22. I'm Not Scared
    Deliberate disorientation keeps the audience constantly off balance, and it's brilliantly effective.
  23. The Bourne Identity
    There isn't a dull or dumb moment in this movie.
  24. Open Range
    It's a fine, old-fashioned 2 1/4 hours at the Bijou.
  25. Training Day
    As exhausting as it is exhilarating to watch, the film in the end is less than fully satisfying.
  26. Dancer in the Dark
    You may leave this movie exhilarated by its no-holds-barred boldness or annoyed and bewildered at the unpredictable course it takes.
  27. The Last Seduction
    A steely neo-noir thriller with a nasty comic veneer.
  28. Antz
    Sorry, stinging fire ants couldn't make me reveal the outcome of this witty and, yes, surprisingly suspenseful adventure.
  29. Amadeus
    Amadeus isn't meant to be a biography of the composer's life, but a bawdy, black fantasy, a fiction based on a few curious facts. [21 Sep 1984, p.23]
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  30. Magnolia
    As intoxicating as the flower it's named for, and its characters, most of them as flawed and fascinating as the film itself, seem intoxicated by the overpowering scent.
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