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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. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    Preserves and resuscitates the hard-boiled genre.
  2. Just Married
    You know a movie is in trouble when its biggest laughs come not from its lead players but from a dog and a car
  3. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    A picture that is surely one of the oddest ever made.
  4. Love Liza
    Sadly, the filmmakers haven't given viewers enough context or information about their protagonist to know whether he's utterly free or utterly unmoored -– or to care very much either way.
  5. Nicholas Nickleby
    Whether the entire production comes off as classy or cloying depends entirely on the viewer's mood.
  6. Max
    Mad Max just sails off into nonsense.
  7. The Hours
    With its deft intercutting of place and time, the film creates a powerful sense of mysticism and fate.
  8. The Pianist
    A beautiful story, told in measured cadences by a master of old-timey narrative compression and expression.
  9. Chicago
    Not since the 1972 'Cabaret' has there been a movie musical this stirring, intelligent and exciting.
  10. Catch Me If You Can
    It's brilliantly acted. But best of all, it's brilliantly made.
  11. The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Pleasant enough and its ecological, pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome.
  12. Two Weeks Notice
    A numbingly unfunny romantic comedy. I hated every minute of it
  13. Morvern Callar
    As Morvern, Morton is disconcertingly enigmatic, often bordering on catatonic. But she carries the movie effortlessly. And even though we're on the outside looking in, she carries us along, too.
  14. Spider
    An eensy-weensy movie sustained by two utterly gigantic performances.
  15. Narc
    This is a stirring movie, if relentless intensity, handheld camera work, cover-your-eyes violence and ear-splitting yelling matches are what you're craving.
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  16. Gangs of New York
    Under its scope and reach and passion, Gangs of New York is pretty ordinary stuff.
  17. Antwone Fisher
    Blessedly free of the self-righteous histrionics and sentimentality that so often cheapen powerful personal stories.
  18. 25th Hour
    It's the usual undisciplined, overextended Spike symphony: more fun than it is any good.
  19. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Gripping, whole and nourishing. Certainly of the fantasy film series currently in American theaters -– I include "Harry Potter and the Secret Toity" and "Star Trek: Halitosis" -– The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is the best, and not by just a little.
  20. The Guys
    An Upper West Sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute.
  21. Evelyn
    As vivid as many scenes are, there are just as many that seem taken directly out of the Cute Irish Movie notebook.
  22. Maid in Manhattan
    This fairy-tale shtick, even when dressed up with a little class-war garnish, is hard to swallow.
  23. Star Trek: Nemesis
    An offering so endearingly lame it seems to have missed the past 10 years' worth of special-effects breakthroughs.
  24. Intact
    Consistently absorbing -- thanks in large part to strong performances from the actors -- but not particularly rewarding.
  25. Drumline
    Shakes, rattles and rolls the house, building to a climax that makes you almost forget you're in a movie theater and not a football stadium at halftime.
  26. About Schmidt
    What gives About Schmidt its ultimate boost, what pushes it into the stirring heavens is Nicholson, who produces the most understated -– and one of the most powerful –- performances of his career.
  27. Analyze That
    So dull and awful, you actually wonder if this is some kind of Andy Kaufmanesque in-joke, a deliberate attempt to douse the spark that made the original film so enjoyable.
  28. Empire
    Doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is.
  29. Equilibrium
    Equilibrium is like a remake of "1984" by someone who's seen "The Matrix" 25 times while eating Twinkies and doing methamphetamines.
  30. Adaptation.
    May not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant.
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