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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. Berlin Babylon
    This film would be an excellent companion piece to Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," which deals with angels looking down on this scarred city. Berlin Babylon isn't nearly as lush, but in its own curious way, it's every bit as spiritual.
  2. Bandits
    The picture is written and acted as a lark and a romp.
  3. Iron Monkey
    The characters may be speaking Chinese, but such rousing entertainment needs no translation.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Mulholland Dr.
    Like "Memento," Mulholland Drive is an amnesiac noir in the tradition that goes back to "Spellbound" and "Somewhere in the Night."
  5. My First Mister
    Offers something rare for a modern movie: an uncynical depiction of the redemptive power of human relationships.
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Corky Romano
    Worth your time and money? Fuhgeddaboutit.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Fat Girl
    It's sensuality with a stinger, and Fat Girl is an adolescent sex drama that takes no prisoners.
  8. Grateful Dawg
    A multilayered documentary that explores music and friendship, and in its own quiet way, the battle with fame.
  9. Chop Suey
    A gentle film, not very controversial despite its gay content, Chop Sue is valuable as a record of beauty and obsession, much less interesting as a human document.
  10. Joy Ride
    There's good pulp and bad pulp, and for most of its duration, Joy Ride is quality stuff.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Debut
    Delightful coming-of-age film that becomes universal by way of its subject matter.
  12. Training Day
    This is a movie that rocks and socks you, and has a performance by Washington that's ruthless and scary. But in the end, it leaves you unmarked.
  13. Serendipity
    There is a thrill in seeing them wooing and pursuing each other through the streets of New York, a city that here again, for a while, becomes a movie isle of joy.
  14. Max Keeble's Big Move
    It's the pre-teen set who will revel in the adolescent angst and anarchic high jinks of Max Keeble.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. The Learning Curve
    A pair of decent performances does not a movie make, however, as Mazur and Giovinazzo are surrounded by fourth-tier actors (Ventresca and Steven Bauer) and spotty directing of a mediocre script.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. La Ciénaga
    Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel takes fundamental risks with form and style, and it pays off brilliantly.
  17. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    It may be the most serene and optimistic film Rivette has made in France. Yet even the art-house audience may undervalue it, miss the beauty, style and wit.
  18. Don't Say a Word
    Almost nothing new to offer -- despite its good actors, flashy visuals and well-textured New York gloss and grit. But there are teasing hints of another, better movie buried inside somewhere.
  19. Zoolander
    The main problem is the director-star's choice to play so far beneath his intelligence for so long. Stiller lacks the physical gifts and projected sweetness of, say, Jim Carrey in "Dumb and Dumber," and unlike Peter Sellers in the "Pink Panther" movies, he can't keep a straight face.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Hearts in Atlantis
    Sometimes thrilling, sometimes suffocatingly tasteful adaptation of Stephen King's 1999 novel.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Dinner Rush
    It's rare to find an American movie that works so well structurally from beginning to end, including a second act that withstands the plethora of fast-moving action, and a climax that is satisfying and well earned.
  22. Diamond Men
    Diamond Men's potential as a diamond in the rough turn out to be more "rough" than "diamond."
  23. The Endurance
    If Shackleton's adventure was to be the swan song for those 19th century explorers whose exploits stirred the imagination of young men around the globe, it was a magnificent way to say farewell.
  24. Liam
    The acting -- especially by Borrows, Ian Hart and Hackett -- is strong and transparent, utterly convincing. The whole movie has a seamless flow and an utterly convincing sense of time and place.
  25. Go Tigers!
    A superbly crafted piece of humanistic cinema.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. The Glass House
    Something that gets your motor racing briefly, but which you've seen all too often.
  27. Wisconsin Death Trip
    The film is not exactly a documentary, and not quite a period horror movie either. But it has elements of both. At its best, it's hypnotic and provocative.
  28. Haiku Tunnel
    A funny movie, but like "Josh" himself, it's too self-absorbed, and maybe too nice, for its own good.
  29. China: The Panda Adventure
    The landscapes and backgrounds of the Min Valley and the Nanking Road, not to mention the cuddly pandas themselves, are the big-ticket items here.
  30. Hard Ball
    Remains watchable when it's not hitting you like a baseball bat with poignancy. But by the time you've endured all of the shamelessly manipulative plot turns and heart-yanking speeches that close out the movie, all you can do is cry foul.
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