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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. Umberto D (re-release)
    A film that lets life flood into our souls.
  2. Wendigo
    Fessenden cooks up a likably offbeat horror movie. But somehow, it never jells, never really scares us.
  3. Crossroads
    Spears delivers a performance with the same sincerity she invests into a Pepsi commercial, only this film contains twice the sugary calories.
  4. Scratch
    It lays the groundwork for such collaborations by suggesting that all forms of music must come full circle before evolving into something new.
  5. Return to Never Land
    Takes us to familiar lands but without any of the original's magic.
  6. Collateral Damage
    This is one of those would-be blockbusters that wants to have it both ways: It includes enough political commentary to have pretensions of seriousness, yet it's engineered to satisfy the explosion cravings of Schwarzenegger action fans, if any are left.
  7. Swiri
    A beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism.
  8. Scotland, Pa.
    Think about the worst movie ideas you've had in your life, the ones so embarrassing they make you wince. Now imagine this: a modernized version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" titled Scotland, Pa.
  9. Rollerball
    Some movies should never have been made, and high on that list is the addled new remake of Rollerball.
  10. Big Fat Liar
    Plays so flat, so to close its "movie message" formula, that it seems as if we've seen this movie before.
  11. Birthday Girl
    A paper-thin wish-fulfillment comedy about escaping small-town repressions and blasting conformity.
  12. Slackers
    Not only is Slackers painfully bad, but it's also about as morally unpleasant as a teen sex comedy can be.
  13. Domestic Violence
    Be forewarned: The movie lasts three hours and 16 minutes, and nearly all of it deals with subjects that polite society (and even rude society) tends to ignore or evade.
  14. Storytelling
    Almost as uncompromising, and sometimes as funny, as "Dollhouse" or "Happiness."
  15. Maelstrom
    Another of those excellent foreign films that sometimes slip though cracks, considered too strange or eccentric for domestic tastes. Strange it is, but delightfully so
  16. The Son's Room
    Moretti gives us something different but very important. He shows us how life goes on.
  17. The Count of Monte Cristo
    This seems to be a movie made by people who love the old classic movie swashbucklers but don't have a clue how to make or modernize them.
  18. The Mothman Prophecies
    A gaudy yet grim science-fiction horror movie of such surpassing silliness, humorless intensity and stylistic overkill that watching it may actually put you in a state of paranoia.
  19. Metropolis
    Here is a film of staggering technical and visual virtuosity, filled with utterly amazing images, that's also entertaining and engaging for children and adults on several levels.
  20. Escaflowne: The Movie
    Plenty of dramatic action, stunning imagery and an operatic score add weight to Escaflowne. It may not appeal to fans of traditional animation.
  21. A Walk to Remember
    Good performances in bad movies are nothing new, but it's sad that Moore's first major cinematic outing scrapes the bottom of the melodramatic barrel.
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. Beyond the Ocean
    Never quite measures up to Pemberton's reach, but there remains enough to be excited about to wonder what will follow this imperfectly made though valuable work.
  23. Ha-Hesder
    Hobbled with pedestrian direction, a dull visual style and a last act awash in obvious bang-bang melodrama.
  24. Italian for Beginners
    This is a movie that doesn't depend for its effects on star performers or stylized wish-fulfillment sexuality but on realism, sharp observation and honest humor.
  25. Snow Dogs
    Amiable Gooding still smiles through it all, weathering the cold, physical abuse and implied racism, doing his best to make his audience believe that Snow Dogs isn't offensive mush. But he can't bring it off.
  26. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    Avoid it if you object to seeing people devoured by wolves, but see it if you want to howl at the moon.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Orange County
    Black delivers the best line (“Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?”), and Lithgow scores a giggle for calling his ex-wife “coyote ugly” to her face, but neither of them can disguise this lemon.
  28. Impostor
    It's a Hitchockian "wrong man" story, but there's a twist.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    I know of no documentary on a contemporary artist that conveys so much about the artist's work so lyrically and directly.
  30. Black Hawk Down
    It's one of the most ferociously convincing physical re-creations of warfare ever put on screen.
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