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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. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    It's great fun, propelled by a terrific musical score by Roque Banos that combines the hammering doom of Bernard Herrmann, the antic jollity of Nino Rota and the urgent sprints of Lalo "Mission: Impossible" Schifrin--often in the same crazy scene.
  2. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    It's all a little ultra-cool for me. Shakespeare was right. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold, not cool.
  3. Valiant
    It's perhaps the first animated kids' film that can claim to be "based on a true story."
  4. Supercross
    The movie itself has no edge. It barely has a movie.
  5. Reel Paradise
    Since Reel Paradise doesn't make the mistake of lionizing Pierson while it keeps up with him and his family, the results stay with you, like memories of an unexpected and surprising vacation.
  6. The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    If you don't believe film can change the world, you haven't seen the documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Skeleton Key
    For all its dark, Gothic intentions and supernatural twists, it lacks the emotional and intellectual punch of similarly themed films, most notably Alejandro Amenábar's "The Others."
  8. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    The director is first-timer Mike Bigelow. Nothing's paced or shaped for maximum payoff; the shooting and editing rhythms add only clutter and noise, and the slapstick is strictly of the skull-banging, ear-splitting variety.
  9. Four Brothers
    Proficiently made trash.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Great Raid
    The action is brilliant, the combat sharp and rattling, and the film follows the historical record more closely than most Hollywood films.
  11. Asylum
    Natasha Richardson glides through the film version of Patrick McGrath's novel Asylum in various states of fear, desire and undress, a swan among Yorkshire frumps.
  12. Grizzly Man
    The movie here is Treadwell's footage--some of it beautiful, much of it difficult to watch.
  13. Pretty Persuasion
    Not funny because it's not true.
  14. Pulse
    It's a horror movie for aficionados. But it's also for people who don't usually like horror movies at all, who regard them as cheap, crude and over-obvious.There's nothing cheap or crude in Pulse," a fine, shivery movie about the terror of solitude and emptiness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Clean
    Clean is above all a movie about making peace with uncertainty and doubt and living with the aftershocks of the choices we make. Not the easiest task, but it may be what redeems us in the end.
  16. Chaos
    A loathsome shocker... Watching it almost turned my stomach.
  17. The Dukes of Hazzard
    Commenting on performances here is like critiquing the production design of a porno--it's beside the point. Briefly: Knoxville, bad choice, man. Reynolds, you make a good villain. Simpson, lovely posing. Scott, you're from Minnesota and it shows--but I bet stunt driving school was fun.
  18. Broken Flowers
    A dark subject certainly, but in Murray's bouquet-bearing hands, it can still hand us a laugh.
  19. 2046
    iIt's a film for art- and foreign-movie devotees. But it's also a movie for audiences who simply want to get turned on.
  20. Duma
    Duma, at its best, reminded me exactly why we loved movies as children: because they told stories like this, with images just as rhapsodically colorful and exciting.
  21. My Date with Drew
    Viewed through the right lens, "My Date…" succeeds as a warm, heartfelt story about childhood crushes and the pursuit of lifelong dreams. (Through another, it's downright unnerving.)
  22. Secuestro express
    Exploits the epidemic of kidnapping in Venezuela without offering solutions or insight--only sophomoric platitudes. Jakubowicz's talents as a filmmaker are many, but crafting an articulate, well-examined social theory isn't among them.
  23. Junebug
    Sometimes one performance makes a film worthwhile, and Junebug has one: an astonishing, moving portrayal of down-home innocence and optimism by Amy Adams.
  24. Must Love Dogs
    Writer-director Gary David Goldberg's script is full of complex and lively love patter, which Cusack especially rattles off with sometimes breakneck speed.
  25. Stealth
    Though Stealth's strengths are obvious -- high-tech marvels and a good cast -- so are its flaws. At its worst moments, a mad robot seems to have taken over the movie, too.
  26. The Aristocrats
    But though you'll laugh your head off, the whole film kind of morphs into a blur, with one poop/sex/abuse joke after another. It's exhausting, really. And save for the very best tellings, you do start to wonder: What's so funny?
  27. Tony Takitani
    It's a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.
  28. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    An oddity: an adaptation of a popular novel co-written and directed by the novelist himself. It's also a fine, gentle film love story and a cinematic tribute to the power and manifold benefits of communications between different cultures and nations.
  29. Sky High
    Sky High doesn't aim for the highbrow and doesn't employ lowbrow toilet humor. Instead, it hits the exact middle -- a bull's-eye worthy of a superhero.
  30. Hustle & Flow
    Brewer achieves near perfection in this tense, intimate meeting between two lifelong hustlers.
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