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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. Brown Sugar
    Ambitious, yes. Does it work? Not really. While it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records (Sugar Hill Gang, etc.), the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audiences.
  2. Below
    Twohy pulls all the strings to create an inventive genre piece.
  3. The Transporter
    Muddles through as a film so uninterested in character, it doesn't bother assigning names to them.
  4. Tuck Everlasting
    Although bright, well-acted and thought-provoking, Tuck Everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action.
  5. Welcome to Collinwood
    Even at a mere 82 minutes, the movie is guilty of killing time. It's not a complete Kaputschnik, but it's sure no Bellini.
  6. Heaven
    The result is both engrossing and moving, a poem about a love that breaks barriers and passes understanding.
  7. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Jonah may resemble an 83-minute Sunday school lesson, but at least it's a playful, colorful one, with spunky peas and tomatoes, chirpy kids' tune-- and bright animation that may not rival "Monsters, Inc." or "Shrek" but gets its points across.
  8. Bloody Sunday
    By re-imagining a pivotal, terrible 24 hours, Greengrass has made a must-see film that is timely - and timeless.
  9. Red Dragon
    Red Dragon is very much a product, and a superior one, of our times. So is Anthony Hopkins' top-notch fiend, the bad doctor.
  10. Wasabi
    At least Reno is around -- and he's the only spice in this stale, slick stew
  11. Skins
    Dark as it is, the humor makes it work, especially Greene's typically witty and compassionate portrayal of Mogie.
  12. The Man from Elysian Fields
    It's a movie that starts off nicely, offers two marvelous performances (by James Coburn and Mick Jagger) and then slowly, unaccountably loses itself.
  13. Shanghai Ghetto
    A salute to those who were blessed not only with savvy and courage, but something between an uncanny sense of foresight and an unforeseen stroke of good fortune.
  14. The Tuxedo
    A breakthrough for karate comedy king Chan, but not necessarily the kind we've all been waiting and hoping for. It's an ultra-digitized DreamWorks show crammed with elaborate special effects, the kind that physical-stunt specialist Chan has always avoided.
  15. Biggie and Tupac
    Those not well versed in the rap music world may be a little lost at times, but you don't need to know your Ice-T's from your Cool-J's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned, something is rotten in the state of California.
  16. Sweet Home Alabama
    This movie is phony, phony, phony -- from its Disneyland version of the Deep South to its pious lessons about the values of simple rural living.
  17. Moonlight Mile
    The movie doesn't really jell. Glossy, good-looking and well-produced, it affects you and even sometimes moves you, but it doesn't really convincingly connect.
  18. Just a Kiss
    Marisa Tomei turns in a blitzkrieg performance.
  19. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    While the filmmaking is standard documentary fare and the approach overtly biased, the narration, with tales of intelligence intrigue and ruthless foreign policy, is compelling and convincing.
  20. Lawrence of Arabia (re-release)
    It's perhaps only because it can't be seen in its full glory on television that "Lawrence" isn't ranked more highly on some recent all-time "best film" lists. But it belongs near the very top. It's an astonishing, unrepeatable epic.
  21. The Ignorant Fairies
    A work about memory and loss, His Secret Life becomes a forum of Antonia's liberation of consciousness and feeling, but there are too many contradictory moods sharing the same space, resulting in a tentativeness and uncertainty.
  22. The Banger Sisters
    A lot of fun, with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers. Juicy roles for older women? Let the revolution begin.
  23. The Four Feathers
    At its best, this new film does mix grandeur with skepticism, excitement with reflection. In the end, like Harry, it redeems itself.
  24. Secretary
    Though I would agree it's original -- it's the first aboveground romance movie I've seen in which the heroine is repeatedly spanked, verbally tormented and tied to a chair by her lover--- it's not an experience I much enjoyed.
  25. Invincible
    Erratically acted and, at times, clumsily written.
  26. Spirited Away
    It's a movie full of bewitching images and timeless fun and beauty.
  27. 8 Women
    An ebullient toast to grande dames: part homage, part camp, all artifice and a thoroughly entertaining, if light, confection.
  28. Trapped
    Splashes its drama all over the screen, subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured, but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings.
  29. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    Offers the most onscreen explosions in recent memory. It's almost pornography for arsonists.
  30. The Experiment
    For all its slickness, is an R-rated version of "Survivor," "Big Brother" or any number of reality-TV shows that present voyeurism as entertainment and exploitation as insight.
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