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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. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Searing dramatization of a story of remarkable courage, stamina and spirit.
  2. Russian Ark
    For the truth is, given the audacity, the organization, the seriousness of purpose, the movie isn't nearly as provocative as you think it might be.
  3. Solaris
    It could hardly be called rip-roaring. I should report that it drives about a quarter of the audience out of the theater before it is half over. That's because it's slower than molasses in Siberia.
  4. Eight Crazy Nights
    In this vile contribution to the animated holiday genre, Sandler proves himself once again determined to get rich by setting the bar just a little bit lower each time out.
  5. Die Another Day
    Beginning to creak not only with age but with the strain of constant self-one-upmanship in giving us exotic locales, explosive geopolitics and unbelievable stunts.
  6. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    Embraces reality, humanity and compassion, as leavened by wisdom and wit.
  7. The Emperor's Club
    It's a simpering, ineffective ersatz-drama, so simple-minded and unrealistic and so full of fussy stupidity, it exiles you.
  8. The Quiet American
    Thanks to Caine's subtly nuanced performance, there's a deeper dimension to everything. He's snappily ironic at times, sometimes amazingly delicate, always engaging.
  9. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
    Its important if inflammatory message will bore all but Chomsky's fellow travelers to death.
  10. Talk to Her
    A movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling.
  11. Friday After Next
    Lacks the spirit of the previous two, and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck.
  12. The Way Home
    Simple without being slight, and profoundly moving without dipping into mawkishness.
  13. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    The film is a testament to art, life and survival like the similar but superior "Buena Vista Social Club."
  14. Interview with the Assassin
    It's just a gimmick, right down to its Washington release date.
  15. Half Past Dead
    Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets.
  16. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    May be morally tangled, pessimistic, lurid and foreboding, but it's also humanistic.
  17. Ararat
    Doesn't connect with its audience in the one place that matters most: the heart.
  18. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Big, dull and empty -- nobody associated with this production appears to have thought hard about storytelling.
  19. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    Too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style to get down to telling a story.
  20. The Bread, My Sweet
    The film would be insufferable if it weren't for the total sincerity and commitment of its players.
  21. Far From Heaven
    The movie has the sense of being embalmed, or pickled. With its stilted dialogue not quite kitschy enough to be funny and not quite authentic enough to be realistic, the whole movie feels as if it's taking place in formaldehyde.
  22. 8 Mile
    There's no doubt that Eminem has the talent and presence of a star. It's just a shame that the filmmakers didn't capture his power with mad skillz of their own.
  23. Femme Fatale
    A passionate film buff's valentine to the two directors he loves most: Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma. The film that this worship has inspired is pretty amusing when the director apes Hitchcock, and pretty awful when he apes himself.
  24. Treasure Planet
    Boasts the purest of Disney raptures: It unites the generations, rather than driving them apart.
  25. Tully
    It resides in that cinematic middle ground of not-bad, not-great, just okay.
  26. Love in the Time of Money
    Manages to make sex look like no fun at all.
  27. Daughter from Danang
    Maybe Thomas Wolfe was right: You can't go home again
  28. The Santa Clause 2
    Allen, who's a natural charmer, seems to be at half-strength here.
  29. I Spy
    Nothing is real, but at the same time, nothing is fake. Nothing is, period. You don't believe a second of it for a second, so banal and predictable is it.
  30. Santa vs. the Snowman
    This is sweet-natured fun for the very young.
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