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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. Grazia's Island
    This is one of those films that can accurately be described as small. Mostly, you just appreciate the time spent with these particular people in this particular place.
  2. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    Separate interviews with Flansburgh and Linnell inject the most life and gentle conflict into the film, peeling back their unique musical marriage and friendship.
  3. Ichi the Killer
    Any serious message has been sacrificed on the altar of excess, making us realize why the stylish story probably worked better as a graphic comic book than as a film.
  4. A Woman Is a Woman
    Moves us now because it's so playful and the players are so young - and because later, when Godard tried to play for keeps, in his self-consciously radical films of the late '60s and '70s, he began to lose his game.
    • 50 Metascore
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    Everybody Says I'm Fine!
    Rahul Bose's pleasant little flick, could have been much more than just fine had the director taken more risks. Instead, this movie pulsates with lost opportunity and unanswered questions.
  6. The Sea
    The Sea isn't just brooding Scandinavian domestic tragedy, a lesser Bergman-Ibsen pastiche. It's also hilarious and rowdy, and it plays with our sympathies and expectations in such surprising ways, with such brilliant actors, it's easy to see why it won the equivalent of eight Icelandic Oscars.
  7. Sweet Sixteen
    Loach is a super-realist, and Sweet Sixteen has the disarming feel of a documentary. It's a film that miraculously catches life on the fly, without apparent embellishment, cliche or melodrama.
  8. Pokémon Heroes
    An insubstantial addition to the cycle. It looks cheap and feels slapped together.
  9. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    The overriding sense one gets from this short but powerful film is awe.
  10. L'Auberge Espagnole
    Klapisch frequently uses voiceovers to express Xavier’s thoughts, and Duris expresses those thoughts beautifully, with a quirky open face, tuned perfectly to whatever his character is thinking.
  11. The Matrix Reloaded
    For such a rich visual movie, "Reloaded" tells far more than it shows; the pivotal scenes involve people explaining things to Neo. Too many plot turns resemble detours, and even the ever-amusing Smith feels like a red herring in the scheme of things.
  12. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Magnificently sensuous and macabre.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Down with Love
    An irritation, more fizzle than sizzle.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. The Dancer Upstairs
    A promising film rather than a fully realized one.
  21. X2: X-Men United
    This movie lets the characters and tropes borrowed from the original Stan Lee comic live and breathe.
  22. 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.
  23. Blue Car
    Captures the complex dynamic of a mentoring relationship like few movies before it.
  24. 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.
  25. Spellbound
    Boasts all of the drama and suspense of any reality TV show, but it actually stars smart people. And they're kids.
  26. Identity
    A slick, bloody thriller, but it's also, to its credit, a genuine whodunit.
  27. Confidence
    You find yourself tricked and having enjoyed the experience after all.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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