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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. Amores Perros
    A stunner: a fiercely brilliant film of such wrenching impact, nonstop drive and unpredictability that watching it becomes an exhilarating ride.
  2. 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."
  3. Tomcats
    Just a schlock romance pumped with testosterone.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Someone Like You...
    Soft and predictable -- which might be OK if there were more laughs and insight.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. 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.
  6. The Brothers
    Overall, The Brothers is glossy fun, but it should have given us more ideas and energy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Heartbreakers
    Heartbreakers itself is something of a con game: an expensive imitation of older, better films from older, often better times.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Memento
    A puzzle movie in which the puzzle is actually worth the time and effort to solve.
  12. The Dish
    The kind of movie some audiences are starved for, a comedy with a human face, warmth and spirit.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Delivers that rare combination of winning traits. It's a low-key comedy with a risque hook -- a seemingly straight woman dabbles in lesbianism -- yet it maintains an old-fashioned faith in literate dialogue, believable behavior and themes that reach beyond the plot points.
  14. When Brendan Met Trudy
    This is only a movie. But a good one. May Roddy Doyle give us many more.
  15. Simon Magus
    An engaging character study, steeped in religion, demonology and community politics.
  16. 15 Minutes
    The surprise here isn't that 15 Minutes isn't a masterpiece; it's that the movie works at all.
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. The Gleaners & I
    Of all the movies I've seen in the past several years, this is one of the ones I love the most.
  18. Blow Dry
    A cute, well-acted film that tries to mix tones sharply.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. The Caveman's Valentine
    The movie loses its magic by the time the solution is revealed.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Series 7: The Contenders
    Series 7 does exactly what independent cinema should -- challenge audiences while it entertains.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Me You Them
    Manages to find the magic through its documentary style, and manages to find the erotic in the commonplace. Not since the glory days of Italian neo-realism has lust among the peasants looked so good.
  22. See Spot Run
    Give David Arquette credit. He shares nearly all his screen time in See Spot Run with a clever canine and a cute kid and still manages to pull off his usual nutty-slapstick routine with gusto.
  23. The Mexican
    Plays like a drawn-out outline of a better movie; no one got around to fleshing out the details or providing some soul.
  24. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    A mind-numbing, bloody, ridiculous experience.
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Monkeybone
    Isn't much more creative than your average gross-out comedy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Last Resort
    A film that celebrates simple human kindness. If the ending feels somewhat unsatisfying, it is perhaps because one hates to see this too-brief film end at all.
  27. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    Has the resonance, eloquence and formal rigor of a piece of great literature.
  28. The Price of Milk
    This rich, gorgeous music and the wistful pastoral scenes create a rhapsodic mood that the rest of the film doesn't really sustain.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Company Man
    The political movie satire from hell.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Recess: School's Out
    An amusing and entertaining animated feature, and it's harmless enough for the elementary-school set.
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