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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Stage Beauty
    In the end, viewers are left with a nagging feeling that this was a long way to go for the incongruous pleasure of watching 20th-century method acting on a 17th-century stage.
  2. Wedding Crashers
    Wedding Crashers is unashamedly profane and, for its first two acts, very funny, a classic guilty pleasure that revels in its basest elements.
  3. Blood Diamond
    There are times when his message threatens to overwhelm his story line, and the last 15 minutes or so of Blood Diamond demonstrate what happens when sentimentality wins out over style and grit.
  4. Freedom Writers
    Freedom Writers is the rare inspirational-teacher film that is filled with genuine, jaw-dropping coups of real-life poetry.
  5. Something New
    It does offer that most pleasant and valuable of viewing experiences: A message movie in which story and character come first.
  6. Proof
    You never believe that Paltrow's character is insane, even when she herself does. She has too sturdy a core.
  7. Peter Pan
    Even at its most hyperactive, Peter Pan has a core of good and bad feeling that will hit home to kids and to adults with honest memories.
  8. Robots
    Full of wit, charm and wonder. It's so hilarious, you might blow a gasket.
  9. The Mystic Masseur
    At its best, The Mystic Masseur is like a tall tale that grows more beguiling and credible the taller it gets.
    • Baltimore Sun
  10. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Replete with so many wisecracks, puns, double entendres and visual jokes that you almost need a flow chart to keep up with them all. But try; the effort is definitely worthwhile, and the results are hilarious.
  11. Blood Work
    If you put the word Tired first, it would perfectly describe the movie.
  12. Shortbus
    Shortbus is nothing if not over-the-top, replete with consummated sex acts, both gay and straight.
  13. Fast Food Nation
    Fast Food Nation offers no easy answers, but plenty of food for thought.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Defending Your Life
    If you're looking for a pleasing, reassuring film, try this one.
  15. Dancer in the Dark
    A film of so much daring, a film that takes so many chances, it's impossible not to be impressed.
    • Baltimore Sun
  16. 16 Blocks
    As good as Willis is, he's no match for Mos Def.
  17. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    A remarkable film about a remarkable man who's lived the kind of life usually reserved for adventure novels and pulp fiction.
    • Baltimore Sun
  18. Songcatcher
    Whenever the movie threatens to become just another visit to hillbilly-land, the music starts up and the film's gentle, irresistible wonder takes hold. Songcatcher is a film very much worth catching.
    • Baltimore Sun
  19. Unfaithful
    American movies are generally so skittish about sexuality that Adrian Lyne's appetite --and aptitude -- for exploring it in Unfaithful is a relief.
    • Baltimore Sun
  20. Under Our Skin
    This compelling account of the explosive growth of Lyme disease grows to encompass all the peculiar politics, corruption and inertia of American medicine.
  21. Backbeat
    The movie has trouble getting beyond the winking stage and is always letting you know that these are the soon-to-be famous Beatles. [22 Apr 1994]
    • Baltimore Sun
  22. Secretary
    What's hilarious about the build-up is that Secretary proves to be the softest, most middle-of-the-road movie that could have been made about this subject.
  23. The Patriot
    Overblown sanctimony and sentimentalism as corny as the Fourth of July.
  24. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    For 45 minutes, it zings along on perfectly pitched overstatement.
  25. Planet B-Boy
    The shows themselves are extraordinary, especially Japan's Ichigei group, which has the all-out fun and athleticism of a vitaminized Twyla Tharp troupe.
  26. The Merchant of Venice
    It makes for quite a rumpus, but the material never catches fire.
  27. Kingdom of Heaven
    What sucks the wind out of the movie's sails is the vacuum at its core.
  28. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Sarah Silverman says things you wouldn't expect a nice, attractive Jewish girl to say. But that's only half her appeal.
  29. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Part irritating, part inspired.
  30. Dear Frankie
    For anyone who has ever had to balance what the heart yearns for against what the head insists must be, this film should hit home.
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