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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. Ocean's Eleven
    Soderbergh won't hit the Oscar jackpot with Ocean's Eleven, but he has come up with a stylish winner.
  2. Texas Rangers
    Maybe it's me, but I find it difficult to dislike any movie that has horses, guns and big hats in it.
  3. Behind Enemy Lines
    War is hellishly entertaining, especially in Behind Enemy Lines, a 21-gun salute to the commitment and preparedness of the U.S. military.
  4. In the Bedroom
    Short of good, better than awful, it opens brilliantly, then just goes on, toward self-negating absurdity.
  5. Black Knight
    This time-travel scenario is by now shopworn, and the normally riotous Lawrence, a manic and gifted clown, is hamstrung in his efforts to eke humor from the anemic script.
  6. Sidewalks of New York
    Dramatically and conceptually, the movie sits there, flat, naked and trying too hard with too little.
  7. The Devil's Backbone
    This film is much more atmospheric; it builds, not so much logically as viscerally, until you feel you can't escape. Lurid and overdone as it is, it's still a real disturber of the peace.
  8. Spy Game
    With its cast of back-stabbing functionaries and desk jockeys, Spy Game makes the sport and hard work of espionage seem chillingly real.
  9. Out Cold
    I can't imagine why anyone would pay money to see this sorry excuse for a film, which plays more like a home movie than something from cinema professionals.
  10. The Fluffer
    More tasteful, sensitive and original than you might imagine.
  11. Novocaine
    A coarse, witless and stunningly violent black comedy.
  12. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Potter-philes are sure to get what they want -- if what they want is, in fact, an exacting version of J.K. Rowling's charming children's fantasy. If it's enchantment they are after, that's quite another matter.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Wash
    There's precious little to listen to, laugh at or ogle in The Wash, a sudsy slog that gets sidetracked by, of all things, a plot.
  14. Heist
    Mamet doesn't just give us an enthralling heist flick, he makes the language something to savor. You're biting your nails with your ears peeled.
  15. Shallow Hal
    Nothing could save this movie. These guys make a fortune off the comedy of cruelty. How dare they climb on a soapbox?
  16. Happenstance
    Utterly delightful fable of romantic destiny.
  17. Tape
    A typical student film with its arty angles, bad lighting and pretentious observations.
  18. Domestic Disturbance
    The most surprising thing about the movie is that somebody bothered to make it in the first place.
  19. Monsters, Inc.
    Marvels of animation abound in Monsters, Inc. -- when it comes to irreverent humor and real heart, Monsters doesn't quite measure up.
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  20. Amélie
    Amelie is joie de vivre in a nougat.
  21. The One
    Whatever the title of the next installment, this movie is certainly One best forgotten.
  22. The Man Who Wasn't There
    It's the latest and one of the best entries in a genre whose highest philosophical expression is the whiplash realization that the universe doesn't play fair.
  23. On the Line
    Harmless romantic and musical high jinks abound, and sentimentality prevails.
  24. K-PAX
    Entertaining for so long it's a downer to sit through the dumbed-down finale.
  25. Life as a House
    Built with fine materials and boasts a gorgeous ocean view. Unfortunately the family dramedy's design is overblown and the construction is pretty flimsy.
  26. Thirteen Ghosts
    Tries to combine humor with ghostly horror but excels at neither.
  27. Donnie Darko
    Appealingly, the movie has a certain lightness -- like the aforementioned butterfly -- which makes its foreboding qualities surprisingly user-friendly.
  28. Bones
    Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like "Hellraiser," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Evil Dead."
  29. Trembling Before G-d
    Short but emotionally effective movie.
  30. Focus
    The topic certainly suits the times, but the director's approach is as alienating as it is old-fashioned.
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