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For 7,599 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. Bee Season
    Gere and Binoche are both terribly miscast--one far too charismatic, the other far too dowdy, which is something for Juliette Binoche. And the spelling bees? Dull. Dreary.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ellie Parker
    Welcome to the world of Ellie Parker, a faux-documentary and big, fat raspberry dedicated to L.A.'s underclass.
  3. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Pairing monumental insensitivity with a bright-eyed delivery, Silverman is the current valedictorian of the nothing-is-sacred school of comedy, a modern-day Lenny Bruce spared her forefather's legal woes by time, breasts and porcelain skin.
  4. Duane Hopwood
    Thanks to the actors and the way the movie lets them loose, it's often funny or moving at all the right moments.
  5. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    Sheridan's ensemble ensures that "Get Rich," the film, comes to life around the edges, if not at its center.
  6. Jarhead
    Inner dialogue is a hard sell on screen.
  7. Brooklyn Lobster
    The kind of smart, realistic indie family drama the movies should give us more often, just as they should more often offer performances as full-blooded and rich as Aiello's and Curtin's here.
  8. The Dying Gaul
    The Dying Gaul stays interesting even when it asks more and more--too much, probably--of the audience's disbelief suspension.
  9. Christmas in the Clouds
    I won't pretend there aren't moments of sweetness here--there are, aplenty. But the promise of true emotion goes bust with bad acting, cheap writing and false sentiment.
  10. Chicken Little
    For all the whiz-bang visuals, however, "Little" could use a little consistency in tone.
  11. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Largely male gay sex, with nary a lesbian in sight, or in mind.
  12. The Legend of Zorro
    Well, it's pretty bad, a long way from the dash and satisfactions of the earlier picture.
  13. Prime
    I found nothing likable or funny about either of these characters, who both deserve a pie in the face. (One of them even gets it.)
  14. Saw II
    It's not a film, it's an excuse to show victims bleeding at the mouth, or getting shot in the eye, or plucking out their own eyeballs. Most gruesome of all, the sequel oozes dialogue that is best described as "functional."
  15. The Weather Man
    In The Weather Man, Nicolas Cage, a great oddball movie star who sometimes takes enormous risks, has a good, risky part again.
  16. Paradise Now
    It's an intricate, sometimes implausible ideological thriller that might be better as a smaller-scaled, less% preachy psychological drama. Still, "Paradise" catches and keeps your attention because of its daring subject, real-life backdrops and the intensity of its actors.
  17. The Passenger (re-release)
    Still packs a wallop. It's also a movie with no easy passage to its dark heart.
  18. Three... Extremes
    A bloody strange movie--and a surprise. Who would have thought that you could put together an anthology of "extreme" Asian horror featurettes by three cutting-edge Asian directors where the most tasteful, restrained contribution was the one by Japanese mad dog moviemaker Takashi Miike?
  19. Ballets Russes
    May not be the greatest dance documentary ever made, but it could well be the most accessible and touching.
  20. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
    An eliptical puzzle that comes together beautifully in the last five minutes. Challenging, disturbing and at times brilliant. [21 Oct 1994]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Russell, who looks younger with each movie, holds his own against the formidable force that is Dakota Fanning.
  22. Shopgirl
    On the page Shopgirl was a small but fine Chekhovian thing, coasting along on Martin's omniscient narration and witty prose...The movie version locates roughly half of what worked in the novella.
  23. Stay
    Despite the actors, the visuals and Forster's directorial swagger, the movie lacks impact.
  24. Emmanuel's Gift
    An inspirational movie about a inspiring figure: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah of Ghana.
  25. Innocence
    An unashamed art picture, the kind of film where extreme aestheticism mixes with nightmare dread, where the story resembles a bad dream and where Freudian symbols cluster around the events like a swarm of insects. It's a very pretty film, but it's also lean, enigmatic and so obscure.
  26. Protocols of Zion
    In the end, Protocols of Zion is all context--a bit here about Father Coughlin, a minute there about the Holocaust, a stint with "The Passion" and a brief shot of Levin watching the beheading of Daniel Pearl--no soul.
  27. Doom
    Doom, the film, aspires to be more than just a gory shoot em' up--though it'd still be a stretch to call it a thinking man's action movie.
  28. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Black's retro-noir reminds us why we love movies: because they can surprise us, even when we're ankle deep in bullet casings, bodies and enough twists to tie us in knots.
  29. Ushpizin
    The new Israeli movie Ushpizin, a film about man's clumsiness and God's grace, is a touching and amusing tale that expands our horizon and also should open our hearts.
  30. Domino
    It's not so important to follow plot twists--I couldn't--but the emotional thrust Kelly and Scott want to drive home is plain: Once Domino is asked to use guns and knives and nunchucks for a purpose outside the law, she's alarmed, appalled, aghast.
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