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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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Willard
    This faithful resurrection of the original "Willard," a twisted gem in its own right, also is funny.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Spun
    Makes you want to run home and shower, but Rourke's performance gets under your skin.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Nowhere in Africa
    A lovely film with a deeply humane perspective.
  8. Bringing Down the House
    Leans on just as many stereotypes as it tweaks.
  9. 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.
  10. Laurel Canyon
    Laurel Canyon itself feels musical: languid, rich in color and light, and deliciously sensual.
  11. The Safety of Objects
    Presented with such confidence, such care, that we love all of the characters, even if we don't like them.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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."
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Lawless Heart
    So well crafted, so original, that each overlapping scene swells with new life and interpretation.
  20. Open Hearts
    An emotionally honest character piece that avoids moralizing or offering soggy excuses.
  21. Dark Blue
    Unlike the intrigue and winding switchback of moral mysteries that defined "L.A. Confidential," Dark Blue travels on flat, predictable terrain.
  22. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    Told with such sadness and exaltation, such mastery of image and sound, that watching it makes you feel renewed and hopeful.
  23. All the Real Girls
    A small movie about big emotions, with Green capturing the rush of love and sting of heartbreak with great vividness.
  24. Gerry
    Casual moviegoers may enjoy it, too, if they follow a simple rule: Stop looking for the way out and let yourself get lost.
  25. Painted Fire
    Another masterpiece from one of the world's more neglected great directors, a master artist who here reveals the soul of another.
  26. The Jungle Book 2
    At its core, a movie for children. There is no hidden adult story line, not much sexual innuendo and very little dry humor.
  27. Daredevil
    Slick, expensive and filled with good-looking actors flexing muscles, but once it grabs our attention it doesn't really reward it...this movie doesn't have fear -- or sheer wonder and marvel -- enough.
  28. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Though I wouldn't call He Loves Me a total success, it's smart, intriguing and quite ambitious, a first film by a talented young filmmaker that displays superstar Tautou's gifts in an eerie new light.
  29. Stone Reader
    Moskowitz may soon find himself in the same boat as many of the artists he is analyzing, because Stone Reader is going to be one tough act to follow.
  30. Shanghai Knights
    Chan and Wilson's easy camaraderie remains eminently watchable, but the rough edges from last time out are missed.
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