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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. Assassination Tango
    The movie is an odd mix of tones and styles, and the thriller plot is casually introduced, shoved aside and reintroduced. But, like all Duvall's work, Assassination Tango breathes with humanity.
  2. Basic
    The movie, one of those surprise-twist detective stories, doesn't really stand up to scrutiny in the cold light of the theater lobby.
  3. Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
    Advertised as having a Southern-influenced point of view, the jokes are witty and universal enough for everyone.
  4. Head of State
    The difference between Head of State and a good comedy is like the difference between Chris Rock and a real actor.
  5. Raising Victor Vargas
    In the tradition of indie films "Girlfight" and "George Washington," Sollett's emotive, sub-improvising style leads to pitch-perfect performances from a watertight cast in a loose, joyfully fresh film.
  6. View from the Top
    Why Paltrow, who was accepting a best actress Oscar four years ago, would take this clumsily written role is anyone's guess.
  7. Dreamcatcher
    Most novels can't be encapsulated well enough in a conventional two-hour movie format, and Dreamcatcher may be one of them -- a miniseries gone wrong.
  8. Boat Trip
    Technically it does not qualify as one of the worst American-made movies ever. It only feels that way. The movie's offenses are too numerous to catalog.
  9. Down and Out with the Dolls
    The movie belongs to the women, and they perform with attitude and power.
  10. Piglet's Big Movie
    With its welcome lessons on friendship and self-esteem, is not only appropriate for preschoolers, but it also has enough sophistication for older kids.
  11. Japan
    The work of a remarkable new talent. By the movie's towering, final tracking shot, this imaginative, dazzling film achieves distinction.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Willard
    This faithful resurrection of the original "Willard," a twisted gem in its own right, also is funny.
  13. The Hunted
    Engrossing as it is, The Hunted is more a showcase for formidable talent than anything else. It's a brainy, exciting but shallow show -- an expert's action movie that almost runs out of breath.
  14. Agent Cody Banks
    With her low voice, jumpsuits, cleavage and Segway, Miles (Harmon) is all satire all the time, and we love her for that.
  15. Spun
    Makes you want to run home and shower, but Rourke's performance gets under your skin.
  16. Bend It Like Beckham
    Much of the value -- entertainment and otherwise -- of seeing a culture-specific movie is to connect with a larger world than your everyday life offers.
  17. Tears of the Sun
    Fairly entertaining and often exciting, expertly done in a way, but not especially engaging or new, and not as emotionally involving as its title suggests.
  18. Nowhere in Africa
    A lovely film with a deeply humane perspective.
  19. Bringing Down the House
    Leans on just as many stereotypes as it tweaks.
  20. Irreversible
    What's wrong is the decision to let all the actors improvise their lines...At the end, Irreversible looks less like captured or even distorted life than an acting class.
  21. Laurel Canyon
    Laurel Canyon itself feels musical: languid, rich in color and light, and deliciously sensual.
  22. The Safety of Objects
    Presented with such confidence, such care, that we love all of the characters, even if we don't like them.
  23. Ten
    A film made by a master, with a simplicity that is really revolutionary. It's a work capable of changing the ways you look at the movies - and at life.
  24. Poolhall Junkies
    Like too many sports-related movies, this one falls back on that One Big Game, the final score that will set everything right.
  25. Cradle 2 the Grave
    Replete with audience-insulting writing and blatantly hateful jokes, storytelling like this makes most video game plots look like "Moby Dick."
  26. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Pearce and Bonham Carter are remarkably photogenic, but the movie is fitful and mannered to a fault, full of watery allusions and stormy scares.
  27. Old School
    The movie is never more than the sum of its scattershot jokes; it's sloppily put together, with scenes seemingly cut mid-dialogue.
  28. The Life of David Gale
    By turns brilliant and simplistic, moving and preposterous, the movie takes one of the ultimate hot-button American issues -- the morality of capital punishment -- and dissolves it into a volatile mix of psychological thriller and socio-political fable.
  29. Gods and Generals
    Has the unfortunate effect of overtipping the dramatic scales in favor of the Southern generals and turning almost everybody into waxen idols who spout flowery rhetoric.
  30. Lawless Heart
    So well crafted, so original, that each overlapping scene swells with new life and interpretation.
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