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For 7,613 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 1.4 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Duplex
    It's stylish, it's sort of smart, it's full of misplaced talent. But it's not funny enough, and maybe, in a way, not dark enough either.
  2. The Rundown
    Has what we usually want to see in movies like this: bravura action, tongue-in-cheek humor, but most of all attitude.
  3. Under the Tuscan Sun
    Most definitely a chick flick.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Luther
    Aside from a couple of unintelligible conversations with himself, there's barely any God here. The film would rather just be inclusive. Luther might have wanted it that way, but as moviegoers, it's hard not to want more.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Life Without Me
    The inescapable problem with this film is that everything is precisely as you expect it. And so, cheated out of anything interesting, you just want "My Life Without Me" to be a movie without you.
  6. Prey for Rock & Roll
    It's a raw and raucous rock story that, for once, gets the big picture and the small details right.
  7. Yossi & Jagger
    Most of the film's action takes place on the base, where Fox smartly concentrates on how this relationship -- tormented at times, lighthearted at others -- exists in Israel's military bubble.
  8. Demonlover
    Unlike almost every other sexy modern thriller (especially most recent studio blockbusters), this one gives you a lot to think about.
  9. Anything Else
    Has some of the wit, sass and sexual candor of an "Annie Hall." But it covers the same kind of territory with more bite and bile.
  10. Secondhand Lions
    With such a bang-up cast, this setup could at least elicit some tears, but in its 107 minutes, nary a one welled up in my eyes.
  11. Casa de los babys
    Sayles accomplishes another of his coups here. Eschewing all sentiment, avoiding all pathos, keeping his film and most of the women hard as nails, he manages to tell a compelling story.
  12. In This World
    This is an amazing movie, released at a frightening time and made under remarkable circumstances.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. The Fighting Temptations
    Breaks through as a delightful, surprisingly fresh comedy.
  18. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  24. 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.
  26. 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."
  27. 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.
  28. Party Monster
    In the end you don't believe what you're watching, and you don't care. This party is a drag.
  29. Taking Sides
    A rarity -- an intelligent and moving drama of ideas that becomes increasingly thrilling as the ideas unfold.
  30. The Order
    Schlock that could and should have been better.
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