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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. Freddy Got Fingered
    Bad decision after bad decision occurs over 93 minutes.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. The Center of the World
    All Center of the World has is the double entendre of its title, some unremarkable dramatic and sex scenes, and some embarrassing moments for its very game co-stars.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Lakeboat
    Though this film shows flashes of the electric writer Mamet was to become, Lakeboat is mostly distant thunder over choppy waters.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Brigham City
    Reminiscent of classic old Westerns.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The Zellweger-Firth-Grant triangle works as irresistibly as Hepburn-Grant-Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story."
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. The Circle
    Panahi's simplicity accentuates the movie's power: its sense of life caught unobserved.
  7. Joe Dirt
    For all its promise of lively trailer-park humor, Joe Dirt digs, then lies in its own grave, killed by blah characters, lame jokes and cliches you can see coming a mile away.
  8. Josie and the Pussycats
    It’s a big, frothy, high-tech, cutesy-poo musical comedy.
  9. Kingdom Come
    A hit and miss proposition, with an abundance of laughs and emotional highlights to help brighten the dimly lit corners of cliche-mongering.
  10. Chopper
    A point is being made about how a criminal creates his own myth, but the ways Read twists and embellishes the truth become progressively less interesting.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Blow
    It's a real disappointment: too hasty, too scattered and superficial, and, in the end, disappointingly sappy and sentimental.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Along Came a Spider
    Freeman gives his overwrought, over-familiar scenes an unlikely shot of intelligence and dignity that cuts through the formulas and almost makes them work.
  13. Beautiful Creatures
    That it is a pseudo-hip filmmaking fantasy doesn't make it any less pretentious, or any less a turnoff.
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. The Day I Became a Woman
    Announces the arrival of an undeniable talent (Meshkini) that has come of age.
  15. Just Visiting
    Recycled French farce isn't a bad thing, but do they really like all those pratfalls?
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    This predictable, uninspired third installment to the endless saga won't win over non-believers.
  17. Shadow Magic
    Succeeds as a paean to movies and movie-watching.
  18. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Farmanara, a gifted director, seems to be getting his artistic legs again, but he spends far too much time following his protagonist in and out of buildings as he smokes cigarettes and otherwise mopes about.
  19. The Tailor of Panama
    Like a Bach toccata or a frosty drink on a sunlit veranda, a first-class movie spy thriller can offer one of life's cooler, more elegant treats. The Tailor of Panama fits that category.
  20. Amores Perros
    A stunner: a fiercely brilliant film of such wrenching impact, nonstop drive and unpredictability that watching it becomes an exhilarating ride.
  21. Spy Kids
    A throwback to the family films of the 1970s, like one of Disney's goofy capers crossed with "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
  22. Tomcats
    Just a schlock romance pumped with testosterone.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Someone Like You...
    Soft and predictable -- which might be OK if there were more laughs and insight.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Too Much Sleep
    No revelation, but it’s a more honorable, interesting effort than many of the crass, dopey recent big-studio schlockfests like "Say It Isn’t So" or "Tomcats" that tell similar coming-of-age tales.
  25. The Brothers
    Overall, The Brothers is glossy fun, but it should have given us more ideas and energy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Heartbreakers
    Heartbreakers itself is something of a con game: an expensive imitation of older, better films from older, often better times.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Say It Isn't So
    Aside from providing a lesson about movies with titles that provide their own bad review, Say It Isn't So gives low humor a bad name.
  28. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    It's worth seeing simply to make the acquaintance of Tobias, a really extraordinary old guy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Enemy at the Gates
    A physically gorgeous production with a strong, clear conflict at its center. It's grueling but also exhilarating. Perhaps its ambitiousness is the film's biggest problem. Trying for dramatic sensitivity, historical scope, touching romance and shocking violence and suspense, it gets stretched too thin.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Memento
    A puzzle movie in which the puzzle is actually worth the time and effort to solve.
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