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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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  1. Out Cold
    This sophomoric little gimmick picture -- although at times, serving as no more than a showcase for daredevil snowboarding -- provides enough powder power to keep the audience laughing, even over the rocky parts.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. The Devil's Backbone
    Fine ensemble performances and a tight balance of the supernatural against the historical make The Devil's Backbone a well-crafted, white-knuckled cinematic journey.
  3. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    Too full of worship and the culture of celebrity to ever pose the questions that should be asked.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Novocaine
    The absurd meets the violent meets the droll, and we just watch from the outside, never having been drawn in by anything resembling believable feelings or behavior.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Bombay Eunuch
    A short film with a unique subject matter. But you won't soon forget its people, its places or its sad, surprising revelations about all the sexes.
  6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Does it immerse the uninitiated into a new, fabulous world? Yes. To the book's many readers, does this feel like the real "Harry Potter"? For the most part, yes.
  7. Shallow Hal
    So intent on driving home its worthy if not mind-blowing message that it becomes surprisingly conventional.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Heist
    Mamet takes exactly those qualities that we most prize in genre movies -- characters, cleverness and high style -- and refines them to a high shine.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Everything Put Together
    Takes a couple of curious turns that you will either applaud or hiss at, depending on the type of film you are looking for.
  10. Happenstance
    The movie is funny, but it's also touching and poetic -- and Bertin's scenes are devastating.
  11. Monsters, Inc.
    The climax, featuring what's essentially a suspended roller coaster of closet doors, is as thrilling as it is imaginative.
  12. Amélie
    This is the Paris -- and the mad, beautiful young Parisienne -- we look for in dreams.
  13. Tape
    Tape may not be a great movie, but it's a great demonstration of creativity within severe limitations.
  14. Domestic Disturbance
    There's almost no reason to see the movie, unless you have no qualms about wasting your time.
  15. The One
    Hits the ground running and never lets up.
  16. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Like all the Coens' movies, "Man" is supremely self-aware and darkly, hellishly funny. It's also brilliantly written and acted to a fare-thee-well by an outrageously good cast.
  17. K-PAX
    The images are lustrous, the cutting is brisk and the acting of the two leads is right on the money.
  18. The Town Is Quiet
    The movie may not be as toxic and ultimately hopeless as Todd Solondz's "Happiness," but it also fails to find humor, dark or light, in anything.
  19. Life as a House
    This movie lets you feel something. Like George's house, if not his life, it's built well and full of heart.
  20. Thirteen Ghosts
    It's an event film, all about flash and spectacle, even though the movie itself is void of any real substance.
  21. Donnie Darko
    Just another self-absorbed teen chronicle, with the added twist of a little time travel and a surprise ending.
  22. Trembling Before G-d
    The rigidity of most of the rabbis interviewed in the film is balanced by the presence of openly gay Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg, who offers a more liberal, but no less scholarly, interpretation of the Torah.
  23. Cool and Crazy
    It's so thoroughly engaging, so beautifully made, strikingly shot and chock-full of humor and humanity, I can't imagine any intelligent audience not falling in love with it - if only they take the leap of faith to see it.
  24. Intimacy
    Vibrating with humanity, it's a potent portrait of love, ranging from the purely carnal to the impurely sublime.
  25. Focus
    It's a good film but an over-obvious one. I wish I'd liked it more.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. From Hell
    Lacks the energy and urgency of its source material.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. The Last Castle
    An outrageously unlikely prison action movie made with lots of eye-catching pizzazz and undeserved expertise.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. Riding in Cars with Boys
    It's just another case of mourning over what might have been.
  29. Waking Life
    The film is truly special, truly different -- a wondrous talky roundelay about and for people who love life.
  30. One Week
    Deftly uses the conventions of the urban buddy/ romance film to create a fast and loose, often humorous, atmosphere.
    • Chicago Tribune
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