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For 8,156 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Falling from Grace
Lowest review score: 0 Jupiter Ascending
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,085 out of 8156
  2. Mixed: 1,243 out of 8156
  3. Negative: 828 out of 8156
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  1. Serendipity
    The plot risks bursting under the strain of its coincidences, as Sara and Jon fly to opposite coasts at the same time and engage in a series of Idiot Plot moves so extreme and wrongheaded that even other characters in the same scene should start shouting helpful suggestions.
  2. La Ciénaga
    It's better to know going in that you're not expected to be able to fit everything together, that you may lose track of some members of the large cast, that it's like attending a family reunion when it's not your family and your hosts are too drunk to introduce you around.
  3. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    The kind of movie you settle into. It's supple and sophisticated, and it's not about much. It has no message and some will say it has no point. But it is a demonstration of grace and wit.
  4. Diamond Men
    It looks and listens to its characters, curious about the unfolding mysteries of the personality. It is a treasure.
  5. Don't Say a Word
    The movie as a whole looks and occasionally plays better than it is.
  6. Zoolander
    There have been articles lately asking why the United States is so hated in some parts of the world. As this week's Exhibit A from Hollywood, I offer Zoolander.
  7. Hearts in Atlantis
    Rarely does a movie make you feel so warm and so uneasy at the same time.
  8. Dinner Rush
    There are enough plots here to challenge a Robert Altman, specialist in interlocking stories, but the director, Bob Giraldi, masters the complexities as if he knows the territory. He does.
  9. The Endurance
    What made Shackleton's adventure so immediate to later generations was that he took along a photographer, Frank Hurley, who shot motion picture film and stills.
  10. Liam
    Some will find Dad's last big act in the movie too melodramatic. I think it follows from a certain logic, and leads to the very last shot, which is heartbreaking in its tenderness.
  11. Glitter
    And above all, the film is lacking in joy. It never seems like it's fun to be Billie Frank.
  12. Go Tigers!
    A documentary about a town of 33,000 so consumed by football it makes South Bend and Green Bay look distracted.
  13. The Glass House
    If you want to see a great movie about a couple of kids endangered by a sinister guardian, rent "Night of the Hunter." Watching The Glass House has all the elements for a better film, but doesn't trust the audience to keep up with them.
  14. Hard Ball
    It drifts above the surface of its natural subjects, content to be a genre picture. We're always aware of the formula--and in a picture based on real life, we shouldn't be.
  15. Two Can Play That Game
    The movie does have charm and moments of humor, but what it doesn't have is romance.
  16. The Musketeer
    I cannot in strict accuracy recommend this film. It's such a jumble of action and motivation, ill-defined characters and action howlers.
  17. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The film's title is appropriate. A desperate Catholicism flavors the doomed city.
  18. The Iron Ladies
    That the movie is fun is undeniable. That it is bad is inarguable.
  19. Rock Star
    By the end of the film I conceded, yes, there are good performances and the period is well captured, but the movie didn't convince me of the feel and the flavor of its experiences.
  20. L.I.E.
    The ending is a cheap shot. An inconclusive ending would have been better, and perhaps more honest. The movie and the ending have so little in common that it's as if the last scene is spliced in from a different film.
  21. O
    A good film for most of the way, and then a powerful film at the end, when, in the traditional Shakespearean manner, all of the plot threads come together, the victims are killed, the survivors mourn, and life goes on.
  22. Fighter
    In this movie the war is not quite over. For those who survived it, maybe it will never be.
  23. Tortilla Soup
    The movie is cast so well that the actors bring life to their predictable destinies, and Elizondo casts a kind of magical warm spell over them all.
  24. Together
    It may be that Together only wants to remember a time. That it does with gentle, observant humor. If it has a message, it is that ideas imposed on human nature may be able to shape lives for a while, but in the long run, we drift back toward more conventional choices.
  25. Ghosts of Mars
    A brawny space opera, transplanting the conventions of Western, cop and martial arts films to the Red Planet.
  26. Happy Accidents
    Essentially silliness crossed with science fiction. The actors make it fun to watch.
  27. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Whether you will like Jay and Silent Bob depends on who you are. Most movies are made for everybody. Kevin Smith's movies are either made specifically for you, or specifically not made for you.
  28. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Never quite lifts off. The elements are here, but not the magic.
  29. Innocence
    Here is the most passionate and tender love story in many years, so touching because it is not about a story, not about stars, not about a plot, not about sex, not about nudity, but about LOVE itself.
  30. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    In this film there is a scene where something is said in English pronounced with one accent, and a character asks, ''What did he say?'' and he is told -- in English pronounced with another accent.
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