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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. In This World
    This is an amazing movie, released at a frightening time and made under remarkable circumstances.
  2. Mambo italiano
    Likable but relentlessly trivial.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    The film itself is such a measured primer of talking heads and footage -- a broad, slick Tibet 101 -- that it seems better suited to the classroom than the big screen, despite its Himalayan scenery and rustic colors.
  4. To Be and to Have
    A deceptively simple French film about teaching that keeps enlarging as you watch it, becoming beautiful and inspiring in a way most films never touch.
  5. Cold Creek Manor
    Perhaps Figgis proves his unconventionality with Cold Creek Manor after all, creating a thriller without resorting to the genre's usual bag of tricks.
  6. The Fighting Temptations
    Breaks through as a delightful, surprisingly fresh comedy.
  7. Underworld
    Has one other thing in common with "The Matrix Reloaded" -- too much story, too many angles.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cabin Fever
    It's just a watery, undeservedly smug update of the low-budget, kids-stranded-in-the-sticks bloodfests of the 1970s and '80s.
  9. Matchstick Men
    This movie is a model of technique, beautifully crafted, often brilliantly acted by Cage and the others, but it's a bit hollow at the center.
  10. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    An epic unhinged, and while its best sections suggest a Loony Tune done by Sam Peckinpah and Emilio Fernandez, "Mexico" needs to be even crazier than it is.
  11. Lost in Translation
    Dislocated from their native country and former lives, Bob and Charlotte come to establish a language of their own. Coppola has done the same, proving she boasts one of today's truly distinct filmmaking voices.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Millennium Actress
    Fabulous for many reasons. Most important, this movie is Chiyoko's story, not an anime adventure. It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply.
  13. So Close
    So Close is a beautiful mess. I didn't really understand what was going on, but I loved every stylized minute of it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    No Good Deed
    Lacks both mystery and urgency.
  15. The Same River Twice
    The title of Robb Moss' documentary, The Same River Twice, draws directly from Greek philosopher Heraclitus' claim that "It is impossible to step in the same river twice."
  16. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    The best thing about star and co-writer David Spade's Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star is the end-title sequence, a big, sassy sing-along in which dozens of old TV child stars spew out defiant jokes about their old careers and fame's fickle fingers.
  17. Party Monster
    In the end you don't believe what you're watching, and you don't care. This party is a drag.
  18. Taking Sides
    A rarity -- an intelligent and moving drama of ideas that becomes increasingly thrilling as the ideas unfold.
  19. The Order
    Schlock that could and should have been better.
  20. Carnage
    Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Jeepers Creepers II
    Horror movies don't have to make sense in the real world, but when you have to help their internal logic along this much, it's pretty much a cue for heckling -- or checking your watch.
  22. The Other Side of the Bed
    A smart, sprightly little movie with beguiling actors and few inhibitions. Though there's nothing startlingly new here, there's a freshness and vigor to the acting, and the crisscrossing love affairs hold your interest.
  23. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    Meadows clearly has a flair for working with actors and for depicting the rough-and-tumble of ordinary provincial lives. If he could go just a bit deeper, the truly great Midlands movie just might surface.
  24. Civil Brand
    Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence.
  25. Suddenly
    At first look, it's a stark and thin story of misguided youth. But give it a week. The girls stay with you, the small moments echo, and you realize that, though this movie doesn't lend itself to a punchy summary, it lends itself to the screen.
  26. Dog Days
    Be forewarned: Dog Days, like many of Seidel's films, will drive some moviegoers to rage and walkouts with its unrelentingly depressing tone. But it also a remarkable, deeply disturbing work by a brilliant filmmaker.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Don't Tempt Me
    If the filmmakers wanted to talk so much, they should have just gotten together for a long, anecdote-filled, wine-soaked Spanish dinner party and amused themselves.
  28. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    Painfully blasé coming-of-age story.
  29. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Rogowski's transition from youth-culture poster boy to murderer demands deeper analysis.
  30. Marci X
    The actors had little to work with in this passe social satire, but sharper performances might have saved Marci from total humorless ruin.
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