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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. Open Hearts
    An emotionally honest character piece that avoids moralizing or offering soggy excuses.
  2. Dark Blue
    Unlike the intrigue and winding switchback of moral mysteries that defined "L.A. Confidential," Dark Blue travels on flat, predictable terrain.
  3. 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.
  4. All the Real Girls
    A small movie about big emotions, with Green capturing the rush of love and sting of heartbreak with great vividness.
  5. Gerry
    Casual moviegoers may enjoy it, too, if they follow a simple rule: Stop looking for the way out and let yourself get lost.
  6. Painted Fire
    Another masterpiece from one of the world's more neglected great directors, a master artist who here reveals the soul of another.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Shanghai Knights
    Chan and Wilson's easy camaraderie remains eminently watchable, but the rough edges from last time out are missed.
  12. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    I can't think of much that might happen on a date evening that could be more annoying than this movie.
  13. Deliver Us from Eva
    A welcome respite from verbal nastiness and sexual cynicism. It's nice to see characters who enjoy falling in love, even if it's to a schmaltzy light-soul score.
  14. May
    McKee, like Amenabar, knows how to position his film against type -- which ultimately makes May a refreshing, macabre tale.
  15. Lost in La Mancha
    You can interpret Lost in La Mancha as a sort of triumph of the creative spirit. Gilliam's darkest gallows humor always comes with a smile.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Biker Boyz
    Unintentional comedy that will bore even the 15-year-olds at which it is undoubtedly aimed.
  17. The Recruit
    It suddenly morphs into one more overly slick, empty show.
  18. Final Destination 2
    Despite some imaginative fatalities, is less a movie than a slick video game.
  19. The Guru
    Hits more laughs than it misses and its characters are likable, empathetic people.
  20. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    The movie, in the end, is devastating because of the banality it reveals, and because its terseness and plainness cut a mass killer down to size.
  21. Amen.
    Costa-Gavras' powerful, awkward Amen is a dramatically uneven historical thriller.
  22. Darkness Falls
    A lamebrained attempt at horror that is just a derivative pastiche of ideas lifted from other bad films.
  23. A Guy Thing
    Sometimes funny, often strained comedy.
  24. National Security
    Lawrence and Zahn generate enough comic tension and mayhem to jump-start this mass of action-comedy cliches into a fairly amusing show.
  25. Divine Intervention
    About the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it treats war as a cosmic joke and its participants as hapless but recognizably human clowns.
  26. City of God
    A visual and aural feast that combines elements of classic gangster melodramas, crime epics such as "The Godfather" and playful non-linear narratives such as "Amores Perros," City of God explores a deadly culture while feeling more alive than anything that's hit the big screen in years.
  27. Kangaroo Jack
    The film's crude humor and violence -- cartoonish, but still violent -- should offend parents of younger kids. Yet its ultra-broad, pratfall-filled comedy will satisfy only the most indiscriminate teens.
  28. Crimson Gold
    A stark, minimalist near-masterpiece about the creation of a murderer in modern Iran.
  29. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    Watching Le Cercle Rouge, we're caught up in a world that, however improbable some of its twists and turns seem, strikes us as a perfect, imaginative creation.
  30. The Son
    It's a movie imbued with a fierce intimacy -- a tone and style similar to cinema verite documentary -- but it's not a banal realism, even if the characters and settings in contemporary working-class Liege initially seem mundane.
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