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THE MOST OVER/UNDERRATED FILMS OF 2002
Copyright 2003 Steve Rhodes

Continuing with the tradition that I started a couple of years ago, I am sending out a list of what I consider the most overrated and underrated films of the year. A film in my overrated list doesn't mean necessarily that I disliked it but that I feel that it did not deserve the amount of praise that it got. And conversely, an underrated film is not necessarily one that I loved but one that I feel did not get the amount of praise that it deserved. This year, for example, I would recommend or come close to recommending a little over half of the films in my overrated list. (As most critics, I consider *** and above to be the thumbs up demarcation point.)

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My list of 2002's most overrated films (in alphabetical order):

24 Hour Party People (*, R)
All or Nothing (** 1/2, R)
Bloody Sunday (** 1/2, R)
Bowling for Columbine (***, R)
City of God (**, R)
Elling (**, R)
Gangs of New York (**, R)
Midnight Mile (** 1/2, PG-13)
Monsoon Wedding (** 1/2, PG-13)
Punch-Drunk Love (** 1/2, R)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (***, PG)
Talk to Her (** 1/2, R)
The Fast Runner (**, NR/R)
The Grey Zone (** 1/2, R)
The Hours (**, PG-13)

My list of 2002's most underrated films (in alphabetical order):

Das Experiment (*** 1/2, NR/NC-17)
Eight Legged Freaks (***, PG-13)
Equilibrium (***, R)
ivans xtc. (****, R)
Reign of Fire (***, PG-13)
S1m0ne (*** 1/2, PG-13)
Sweet Home Alabama (***, PG-13)
The Sum of All Fears (*** 1/2, PG-13)
The Time Machine (***, PG-13)
Trapped (***, R)
Tuck Everlasting (***, PG)
We Were Soldiers (*** 1/2, R)

See you at the movies,
Steve

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