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For 7,964 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Someone Like You...
    There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd.
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  2. Spy Kids
    Wacky enough and gadget-driven enough to appeal to bored kids looking for fresh energies.
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  3. Tomcats
    Isn't as funny as it is crude, and isn't as crude as it is labored.
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Faat Kiné
    The situation is comic and yet quite serious, as are the ways in which language is used.
  5. The Brothers
    What saves the film is the charm and earthy humor the actors wring from the spectacle of these four guys getting an early jump on their midlife crises.
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  6. Heartbreakers
    Cries out for the brisk pacing of a Sturges or a Wilder. As is, it's too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone.
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  7. Say It Isn't So
    There are laughs here and there, and Graham and Klein aren't nearly as grating as what surrounds them. But there's no getting around the fact that far from seeming a labor of love, Say It Isn't So seems merely labored.
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  8. Too Much Sleep
    There are moments when faltering levels of energy and inventiveness threaten to turn Too Much Sleep into a nonevent. But it signals the arrival of a promising filmmaker and is worth sticking with.
  9. Exit Wounds
    Its pile-driving succession of set pieces comes at you with numbingly relentless efficiency, presumably in the hope that you won't notice or care how dumb it all is.
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Ynever seen a documentary quite like this one, and aren't likely to again.
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  11. Memento
    The most disorienting and trippiest data-retrieval caper in years.
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  12. Enemy at the Gates
    It's too circumscribed and polite for the story it's telling, curiously deficient in the unexpected.
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  13. The Dish
    Warm, wry, endearing.
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  14. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Small, sharply written, incisive comedy examines, with smarts and style and sexiness, the very nature of modern romance - gay, straight, and in between.
  15. Simon Magus
    An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world.
  16. 15 Minutes
    In a season mostly given over to unwatchable movies being cleared off studio shelves, it's at least about something. And there's no denying the lurid urgency with which it jumps off the screen.
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  17. Get Over It
    Comes off more like a series of painful cliches than a comedy or a love story.
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  18. Blow Dry
    The characters, in short, are never given enough dimension, enough chance to develop the individual tics and eccentricities on which this kind of comedy thrives.
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  19. The Gleaners & I
    Varda's charmingly eccentric amble, wise in its seeming waywardness.
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  20. Hit and Runway
    A mildly diverting gay-straight odd couple comedy that has just enough bright one-liners to carry it past its plot structuring.
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  21. The Caveman's Valentine
    Dramatically speaking, The Caveman's Valentine is a dead end.
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  22. See Spot Run
    See Spot Run isn't solely responsible for the dumbing down of movies, but it's part of the dismal phenomenon.
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  23. The Mexican
    Isolated offbeat moments aside, The Mexican mostly fires blanks.
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  24. Series 7: The Contenders
    A gritty, immediate, down-and-dirty satire with a down-and-dirty look.
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  25. Monkeybone
    For all its antic grasping it lies flatter on the screen than its graphic novel source lies on the page.
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  26. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    An exercise in excess, but it's the best of the month's crop of mindless films, if only because it jumps off the screen with acertain pop and playfulness.
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  27. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    A grand, dark, grave, severe piece of first-rate cinema.
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  28. Company Man
    It's not that the film is devoid of honestly earned laughs here and there. The problem is that there are too few of them and that the film can't connect them.
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  29. Down to Earth
    A little too shipshape, too eager to please, not quite as anarchic as the best comedies.
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  30. Sweet November
    It's a small film, and a far from perfect one, but it allows her (Theron) to extend her range as no previous role has done.
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