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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. Hearts in Atlantis
    Sometimes thrilling, sometimes suffocatingly tasteful adaptation of Stephen King's 1999 novel.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. 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.
  3. Diamond Men
    Diamond Men's potential as a diamond in the rough turn out to be more "rough" than "diamond."
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Go Tigers!
    A superbly crafted piece of humanistic cinema.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The Glass House
    Something that gets your motor racing briefly, but which you've seen all too often.
  8. 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.
  9. Haiku Tunnel
    A funny movie, but like "Josh" himself, it's too self-absorbed, and maybe too nice, for its own good.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. The Musketeer
    A grotesque slumgullion of kung fu, studio schlock and pseudo-Dumas swashbuckling that leaves you longing for Doug Fairbanks --or even Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The director's return home here parallels that of Fernando, metaphorically and artistically. Our Lady of the Assassins is a film of clarity, feeling and electric intensity.
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Soul Survivors
    One of those frustrating movies that takes forever to get where it's going, and once arriving, the frustration is increased because one realizes how much better it should have been.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Rock Star
    The movie can't quite embrace its characters or their scene; Wahlberg even cracks a joke over the end credits that heralds the late-'80s ascendance of hip-hop, which, of course, spawned Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
  16. Vengo
    Filled with dazzling moments, Vengo never quite reaches the heights those moments promise.
  17. Two Can Play That Game
    Throws its obvious predecessor, "Waiting to Exhale," into relief, making that 1995 syrupy revenge fantasy look positively Shakespearean next to the moronic Two Can Play That Game.
  18. Djomeh
    May strike some audiences as even more real than Kiarostami's work, because the story is so luminously open. Watching it, we enter, without barriers, a world.
  19. O
    A sign of O's effectiveness is that it works regardless of whether you know Shakespeare's play.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Jeepers Creepers
    Plays like an amateur debut effort written over a weekend during which its writer wasn't entirely sober.
  21. Fighter
    A movie that celebrates and mourns heroism and friendship, while reminding us how seldom we truly see either on our big screens.
  22. Tortilla Soup
    Appeals to a universal appetite for stories that are as rich and warm as they are flavorful.
  23. Ghosts of Mars
    Carpenter writes his own scripts -- here with past collaborator Larry Sulkis -- and their "Ghosts" screenplay lacks the density, character and humor of a Hollywood genre classic.
  24. Happy Accidents
    Doesn't have the negative qualities of many big-studio romantic comedies, but it doesn't quite take flight.
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Now that Smith has gotten these characters and jokes out of his system, here's hoping he can turn to material that doesn't require winking at the audience.
  26. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Seemingly a simple comedy, it actually -- like all Allen's "simple" comedies -- has a lot to say. Will the audience listen or just dismiss it as minor, out-of-date Woody? If they do, it's their loss.
  27. Together
    Exquisitely captures the irony and hopefulness of the era.
  28. Summer Catch
    Neither drama nor comedy, Summer Catch is a long, slow lob of a movie that never crosses the plate.
  29. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    It's a nice little film, likable but not exceptional, and it will probably appeal most strongly to actors, would be-actors, wannabes and ex-actors.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Innocence
    A beautiful, almost defiant film on an unusual subject: love among the elderly.
    • Chicago Tribune
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