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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. Impostor
    Isn't really a movie, it's only impersonating one.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    The trouble with this art movie is that it's more a movie than it's art.
  3. Charlotte Gray
    Those who do go with the fantasy are probably hopeless romantics.
  4. I Am Sam
    The movie that Disney uses to explore this premise drips with so much corporate good-neighbor syrup, you might want to wear something waterproof. And Penn's performance is, at best, ripe for discussion.
  5. Dark Blue World
    The movie's ambitions (to pay tribute to the Czech pilots who fought for their country only to be interned later) are not matched by the actual story.
  6. Black Hawk Down
    You're drawn in, like it or not. You can't get away from the immediacy. Or the feeling that you're getting sucked in, too.
  7. Gosford Park
    It's a very funny movie in that sniffy Brit way.
  8. Monster's Ball
    The movie's stroke of sheer genius is its wondrous ending.
  9. The Shipping News
    Awash in hackneyed old-time secrets and hydrophobic metaphor, never consumes us as it should.
  10. Ali
    Watching Ali, you can be sure of experiencing two opposing things: a sterling performance from Will Smith as Muhammad Ali and a bewilderingly punch-drunk movie from Michael Mann.
  11. The Majestic
    It can't fake sincerity. It tries ever so hard, but it doesn't have a single believable second. Every word in it is a lie.
  12. Kate & Leopold
    Is Meg Ryan going to play the goofy romantic gal forever?
  13. A Beautiful Mind
    Instead of an originally conceived movie that reflects Nash's troubled but brilliant mind, we have one of those formulaically rendered Important Subject movies -- the kind that seem exclusively designed for Best Picture nominations.
  14. A Song for Martin
    August, who also made "Pelle the Conqueror" and "House of the Spirits," steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.
  15. How High
    The drug-fueled romp turns ugly, sexist and misogynistic, as so many rap-star vehicles do.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    Frenetic and uninvolving.
  17. Joe Somebody
    It's not great; it's also not idiotic.
  18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    With its spectacular scenery, stupefying effects and epic scope, is a dream come true.
  19. Kandahar
    That's the movie: It's taking us inside the burqa to the woman.
  20. Lantana
    Perceptive, powerfully acted psychodrama.
  21. Piñero
    This character was an abusive swine. Perhaps it would be best to let his art stand on its own.
  22. Iris
    Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema.
  23. Not Another Teen Movie
    If there is a Hell, Not Another Teen Movie will be playing for all eternity on every screen there.
  24. The Royal Tenenbaums
    This is not a movie that wraps up its story in a tidy bow, but it's a lot more fun than most of the ones that do.
  25. Vanilla Sky
    Overblown and idiotic, this new "erotic thriller" is neither erotic nor thrilling; it's long, boring and self-indulgent.
  26. In July
    Unabashedly, un-graphically romantic.
  27. Baran
    Majidi has discovered a wonderful cast of players to bring this gentle allegory to life, especially Naji as the irascible but generous Memar, who displays nearly perfect comic timing.
  28. Last Orders
    The movie's pace is unhurried by Hollywood standards, but it's all the richer in character detail.
  29. The Business of Strangers
    After an hour of brilliant, bitchy dialogue and deceit, it simply runs out of energy; or possibly the budget ran out.
  30. No Man's Land
    A well-mounted, macabre seriocomedy with passing punchlines. And for about half the movie, it's compelling stuff.
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