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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. Rana's Wedding
    Starts out slowly, unfolding a family history through the poetic use of black-and-white photographs -- blending the figures of Rana's ancestors into the frame as if they still watched the family.
  2. The Medallion
    A magic-meets-macho cop movie that's more gimmick than actual movie.
  3. My Boss's Daughter
    This is a movie that boggles the mind: a bad-taste comedy that makes the average effort by the Farrelly Brothers (mysteriously thanked in the credits) look like a Merchant-Ivory film.
  4. Thirteen
    An excellent, unforgettable film.
  5. Uptown Girls
    In Uptown Girls Murphy is like a puppy in traffic; you're confident she'll reach the curb but only because the cars are swerving, not because her moves are so deft.
  6. American Splendor
    Such a stylistic inconsistency might be bothersome in another film, but here it's just part of the texture.
  7. Passionada
    It's a good small film for intelligent audiences who like to watch the movie camera explore other regions and other communities -- something all our movies should do more often.
  8. Open Range
    A blend of the classical and the trite, the beautiful and tawdry, the genuinely moving and the cornball. Oddly, producer-director-star Costner often can't seem to tell the difference.
  9. Grind
    This movie is just not cool or hip or in any way extreme. Sitting through Grind is a real grind.
  10. Shaolin Soccer
    The movie overflows with action, slapstick and cliches, but the cliches never impede the action, and the slapstick is so expertly performed, it doesn't annoy you -- much.
  11. Freddy vs. Jason
    Succeeds as a guilty pleasure, a monster mash that clobbers the recent lackluster sequels plaguing both legacies. If only that were a higher compliment.
  12. Le divorce
    Somehow lacks lightness and weight. This is a movie that tries to work a bloody suicide attempt and a murder into a comedy of manners, with almost everything registering in the same narrow spectrum of inconsequence.
  13. S.W.A.T.
    Technically clever but emotionally bankrupt...it's an almost laughably opportunistic movie.
  14. Step Into Liquid
    As a bonus, "Liquid" also includes eye-popping footage of the top surfers in the world (Taj Burrow, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama) -- wave riders who make the impossible look easy.
  15. Freaky Friday
    Freaky Friday commits a lot of sins; luckily, it has Curtis and a few others to cover them up.
  16. The Magdalene Sisters
    A fierce, brilliant film that breaks (and then mends) your heart.
  17. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    A movie best suited for a lazy afternoon or a languorous night, particularly if you're a Francophile. Charming, glamorous, emotionally suggestive but slight, it's full of beautiful and colorful people.
  18. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    A surprisingly insightful, non-judgmental meditation on a troubled marriage-with-kids.
  19. American Wedding
    The crass sentimentality of American Wedding increasingly fits Norman Mailer's definition: "the emotional promiscuity of the basically unemotional." The jokes are unemotional, uncouth and mostly unfunny.
  20. Gigli
    Put together enough pointless, random details, and you get Gigli, a movie that's less incompetent than bewildering.
  21. Buffalo Soldiers
    A well-told story. It pits a compelling central character against a formidable adversary in an intriguing setting while keeping you riveted to the cat-and-mouse strategizing, surprise turns and a few moments of actual warmth.
  22. Mondays in the Sun
    The tired and washed-out Spanish town is a fitting backdrop for these men - a place where life moves on around them at an uninspiring pace.
  23. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    The filmmaker's imagination is too rich for Spy Kids 3-D to be written off as a failure. But it's too bad that while the visuals have gained a dimension, the story has lost one.
  24. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times ridiculous, at least has a modicum of logic at its core. I still had to slap myself to stay awake.
  25. Seabiscuit
    A grand ride. Sleek, beautiful and packed with emotion, not too flashy but full of heart, this is a movie worthy of its unlikely yet glorious subject: Depression-era America's best-loved racehorse and the two races that made him a legend.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lucía, Lucía
    What a vivacious-looking, tartly-scored bore of a movie.
  27. Camp
    Does have heart and enthusiasm. But it might have worked better if it had been glitzed up and energized the way "Fame" was. It's not a script that can survive this kind of minimal, earnest, self-congratulatory treatment.
  28. Hotel
    Hotel might be best described as the art-house version of "Cannonball Run."
  29. Masked and Anonymous
    "Masked" is erratic and volatile, too, from scene to scene, moment to moment. The script is chaotic, but the top-flight actors play their hearts out.
  30. Dirty Pretty Things
    It's an exciting but brainy, cross-cultural thriller about modern London and life in a contemporary urban pressure cooker, and it depends more on plot, character and atmosphere than it does on chases and gunfire.
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