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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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Lo's writing is generally solid, and he creates some genuinely funny and touching moments with his use of dream sequences and flashbacks. He may not have gotten his proportions perfect in this first try, but Catfish in Black Bean Sauce shows that Lo has sharp cinematic instincts.
  2. The Wind Will Carry Us
    A film poem of sometimes humbling beauty: a movie that opens up a new world to us - in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan - with an enchanting freshness and austerity of vision.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 19 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    Children's films can be thrilling affairs for parents and kids. Unfortunately, this film is not likely to thrill either group.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Loser
    Loser is anemic.
  5. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    If the mark of a successful documentary is its ability to make us examine a tired subject in a fresh way, then Eyes is a rip-roaring success.
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Alice et Martin
    It's a lovely, terrifying sight.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. What Lies Beneath
    A classy supernatural lady-in-distress thriller.
  8. Rififi (re-release)
    No matter how many heists you've seen, how many gangs you've watched fall apart or how many aging crooks you've seen walk up a mean street to a violent destiny, Rififi never loses its ruthless grace and force.
  9. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Mind-numbing sequel to "Pokemon the First Movie."
    • 14 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The In Crowd
    Insipid, ineffective, inept and insulting to our intelligence.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. The Five Senses
    Pseudo art can be fun, though, even if it doesn't quite awaken all your senses.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Shadow Hours
    About as interesting as watching paint dry.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. X-Men
    Superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons.
  14. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    As much a curiosity piece as anything else.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Chuck & Buck
    You wouldn't think the darn thing would have such lingering power.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. The Kid
    Falls flat on its face.
  17. All the Rage
    The trajectory of the film -- despite its excellent cast and intelligent mounting -- is too preordained.
  18. I'm the One That I Want
    If only the film had been a more visually satisfying experience.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Shower
    The beauties of Shower lie in its human observation, in its funny interplay, candor, lusty acting and hearty simplicity - and also in its warm imagery and the fascinating symbolic use it makes of water.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    But I'm a Cheerleader
    Certainly no comedic masterpiece, but it does offer a few fine moments of biting satire.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Scary Movie
    Usually what you're laughing at is ugliness, and that leaves a foul taste long before the 85 minutes have expired.
  22. The Perfect Storm
    Unabashedly designed to blow its audience away.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Stuffed with smart Internet gags, silly movie references and a happy energy that makes you forgive the sequences that don't work.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Trixie
    A cranky failure with brilliant moments.
  25. The Patriot
    As a whole, though, the movie is much less magnetic or believable than its star.
  26. Me, Myself & Irene
    The movie is dedicated, in a nice touch, to early Farrelly fan Gene Siskel. And Gene was right: The Farrellys are often very funny filmmakers. .
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Chicken Run
    A bizarre, thrilling, warmly funny spoof of the WWII Steve McQueen prison camp thriller, "The Great Escape" remade for a near all-chicken cast.
  28. Titan A.E.
    A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
  29. Shaft
    The new movie, like its predecessor, is a crime thriller with a moral viewpoint, an eye and ear for street color and a taste for macho movie fantasy.
  30. Jesus' Son
    A story of faith and redemption, as viewed through the blurry and bloodshot eyes of a young man.
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