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For 8,778 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,774 out of 8778
  2. Mixed: 2,557 out of 8778
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8778
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  1. Woman on Top
    Thanks to this relentlessly likable film's playful sexuality and utter lack of pretension it's surprisingly easy to let all of one's objections float away on a fragrant cloud of kitchen sweat, pheromones, and sweet lime zest.
  2. Left Luggage
    Not for everyone's taste, I'd think, but a notably thoughtful effort nonetheless.
  3. Dancer in the Dark
    Two-and-a-half hour slice of unmitigated depression.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Alma
    It's an exploration by the audience, the filmmakers, and the subjects themselves of a kind you've never quite seen in a documentary before.
  5. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Unfamiliar to most these days and it goes without saying that Harris performs a great service in the eyes of history with his film.
  6. Duets
    Only the most indulgent would fail to notice that this movie can't hold a tune.
  7. Urbania
    Leaves you scratching your head a bit, wondering what just happened, and worrying if maybe it could happen to you too.
  8. Human Resources
    Human Resources, which gets my vote for most sarcastic title of the year, isn't a stand up and cheer kind of film.
  9. Goya in Bordeaux
    Sumptuous to behold, although one will not leave the theatre with a much deeper knowledge and understanding of this great Spanish painter's career.
  10. Bait
    Bait equals bad.
  11. Almost Famous
    Crowe has created a genuine love song for all those who've ever felt their lives to have been saved by rock & roll.
  12. Pola X
    Searingly potent and suggestively supple, Carax's images are rich with emotion and ideas.
  13. The Watcher
    Leaves me wanting to watch Tomei and company in something more worthy of their abilities.
  14. Solas
    Fernandez is excellent as the maladjusted daughter, but the film's heart and soul is embodied in Galina's noble, understated performance.
  15. Nurse Betty
    Its uneven comedy may leave moviegoers yearning for the confidently choreographed banter and moral sludge that marked LaBute's previous outings.
  16. The Way of the Gun
    All the players deliver performances that kill.
  17. Turn It Up
    Definitive modern cinematic eye-candy with all the connotations of empty calories that term implies.
  18. Highlander: Endgame
    And next time around... show the courage of your lowbrow convictions and get back to the gonzo, unapologetically senseless mayhem that made this saga so much fun in the beginning.
  19. Whipped
    I was consistently aghast at how unabashedly alpha-male, heartless, and chauvinistic this film is.
  20. Titanic Town
    With its understated moral power, generous spirit, and bracing flashes of dark humor, Titanic Town offers a fresh, subtly illuminating take on an ancient sorrow.
  21. Dark Days
    Compelling, relentless cinema.
  22. The Art of War
    The Art of War must ultimately be chalked up as a strategic defeat.
  23. God's Army
    At it's best, it's a wishy-washy treatise that fails to elicit much of any reaction.
  24. Orfeu
    All in all, though, this Brazilian import is a small curiosity, intriguing more for its failures than its accomplishments.
  25. Fastpitch
    It's such high sports drama you'd swear this documentary is fiction.
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  26. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    Just sputters along, albeit pleasantly, while revisiting the realm of the abundantly familiar.
  27. The Crew
    Most folks are just plain bored -- and I mean cross-eyed, wall-climbing, deep-down-to-the-molecular-level bored -- with this ubiquitous Endearing Wiseguys school of movie comedy.
  28. Bittersweet Motel
    Manages to capture the essence of one of the world's most surprising success stories.
  29. Solomon & Gaenor
    The landscape and the lovers are pretty to look at, but two households divided should really pack more of a punch.
  30. Love & Sex
    The script negates anything heartfelt with its flippant, almost vulgar tone.
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