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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. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Magnificently sensuous and macabre.
  2. Daddy Day Care
    A likable little movie without much to offer but cute tots, recycled gags and a talented cast amiably wasting their time and ours.
  3. The Shape of Things
    LaBute never loses sight of what shape he wishes this crafty story to take. In the end, his aim is true.
  4. Only the Strong Survive
    The frustrating part is that Only the Strong Survive includes at least as many mundane moments as soul-stirring ones -- and the film isn't much more than a collection of moments.
  5. Down with Love
    An irritation, more fizzle than sizzle.
  6. Man on the Train
    The movie -- simple, pure and powerful -- makes us feel the intensity of both life in transit and life lived, if only for a moment, in another's skin.
  7. A Family Affair
    Lesnick seems to be saying that lesbian characters on screen can also meet cute significant others, spar in a lite Woody Allen fashion, and have a happy, sappy Hollywood ending. But a sitcom is still a sitcom -- gay, Greek or otherwise.
  8. The Trip
    Call it a weepy for the gay community:The Trip is an oddly marketed, oddly titled romance. Yes, there is a trip, but it takes place during the last 15 minutes of the film and seems almost tangential.
  9. The Dancer Upstairs
    A promising film rather than a fully realized one.
  10. X2: X-Men United
    This movie lets the characters and tropes borrowed from the original Stan Lee comic live and breathe.
  11. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    By filling in what the story lacks in originality with easy attractions like pretty faces, set to fluffy music, the filmmakers lose the outsider edge the Lizzie McGuire franchise was built on.
  12. Blue Car
    Captures the complex dynamic of a mentoring relationship like few movies before it.
  13. Owning Mahowny
    Kwietniowski turns up the tension so incrementally, we don't realize the scope of Mahowny's moral wreck until it is too late.
  14. Spellbound
    Boasts all of the drama and suspense of any reality TV show, but it actually stars smart people. And they're kids.
  15. Identity
    A slick, bloody thriller, but it's also, to its credit, a genuine whodunit.
  16. Confidence
    You find yourself tricked and having enjoyed the experience after all.
  17. It Runs in the Family
    Never quite transcends its movie-of-the-week trappings. But either you're glad to have spent time with these three generations or you aren't. Bottom line: I was.
  18. The Scoundrel's Wife
    The shame is that Pitre, shooting entirely in his home state, wasn't more engaged himself. His intimate connection to the people, place and story, which certainly inspired him to write the film in the first place, is wasted.
  19. Manic
    This clear-eyed, low-budget drama is populated by troubled teens whose stories aren’t packaged in neat little bows. Their histories are sad, their feelings raw, their futures uncertain.
  20. City of Ghosts
    In some ways it's not a film that surprises us much. But it's a notable directorial debut anyway -- smartly written, very well cast and skillfully done.
  21. House of Fools
    A humane and fantastic work, and it touches us precisely because Konchalovsky shows the reality of both the soldiers and the madhouse inmates. His movie is just what he intended: a nightmare that speaks the truth.
  22. The Real Cancun
    This movie thrusts you so close to these intoxicated idiots that you practically have to wipe off secondhand tequila, sweat and spit stains afterward.
  23. A Decade Under the Influence
    As wide and deep as the directors fish for anecdotes, it's surprising that there isn't more focus, more context.
  24. Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    The movie is rich with detail, characters and a specific historical context, even if its narrative is incoherent. But its cheap, gauzy veneer and primitive special effects are fun on their own terms.
  25. Lilya 4-Ever
    What's remarkable as we watch Lilya's plunge (and the brief, false rays of light that illuminate it) is how real Moodysson makes her plight, how intensely he makes us empathize with Lilya.
  26. Holes
    With the movie's attentions spread so thin, almost everything begins to seem peripheral - even if almost every loose end is tied together, no matter how unlikely the connection.
  27. Winged Migration
    This French documentary gives us unprecedented intimacy and sweep.
  28. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Doesn't aim for more than padding a plot around Kennedy so he can do his Brad "B-Rad" Gluckman character full-force. And the joke soon wears thin.
  29. Chasing Papi
    It's a shame that these actors, stars already in the Latino community, with most also having played small parts in Hollywood's more white-bread movies, got such a poorly written script for their American coming-out party.
  30. A Mighty Wind
    The tweaking here feels affectionate, yet you soon suspect that these subjects make for awfully easy pickings.
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