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For 4,492 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 'Round Midnight
Lowest review score: 0 Couples Retreat
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,780 out of 4492
  2. Mixed: 1,361 out of 4492
  3. Negative: 351 out of 4492
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  1. Thirteen Ghosts
    The movie's one good performance is given by the house, full of ominous inscriptions, inscrutable chambers, and fiendish machines. The human characters are played with various degrees of manic overacting.
  2. Intimacy
    Plays like a warmed-over "Last Tango in Paris," with more explicit sex but a lower level of originality and acting skill.
  3. Focus
    The result would be an important drama if the screenplay (based on an early Arthur Miller novel) didn't lapse into preachiness and imprecision at times.
  4. From Hell
    The movie works well as a straight-out horror yarn, proving that the Hughes Brothers are more versatile than their previous "ghetto pictures" suggest.
  5. Waking Life
    Few American filmmakers put more faith in the ability of words to stimulate mind and heart.
  6. Mulholland Dr.
    It will frustrate viewers who like stories to make instant sense, but fans of provocative puzzles will have mind-teasing fun.
  7. Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures
    Rigorous and riveting.
  8. Werckmeister Harmonies
    This is as challenging as movies come, alluding to everything from philosopher Thomas Hobbes to the history of Western music.
  9. Fat Girl
    This disturbing drama has many telling moments, but it ends with an out-of-the-blue shock episode that raises more questions than it answers.
  10. Serendipity
    This exceedingly romantic comedy begins with flair but lapses into clichés long before the sentimental (and predictable) finale.
  11. La Ciénaga
    The title means "The Swamp," and you may feel you're in one after 103 minutes with such a generally unlikable gang.
  12. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    Magical movie, which has brilliant fun with the contrasts between film and theater, love and infatuation, reality and fantasy.
  13. Diamond Men
    Loses its way in a crime-movie subplot and a less-than-believable love affair.
  14. Jabberwocky (re-release)
    Gilliam's first solo flight as a director is more notable for its inspired visual ideas than for the frequency of its laughs, but Python devotees will have fun.
  15. Don't Say a Word
    The movie has promise as a psychological thriller, but the filmmakers show far more interest in chases and shoot-outs than characters and ideas.
  16. Hearts in Atlantis
    Hicks doesn't always keep the story clear and compelling, but Hopkins is in top form.
  17. The Iron Ladies
    The movie has enough color and spirit to make lively viewing.
  18. Rock Star
    The acting is excellent, and the movie has a good-natured spirit to match its ultimate faith in the hero's deep-down goodness.
  19. L.I.E.
    Paints a sincere and serious portrait of the seductiveness of evil and the self-destructive nature of depravity.
  20. Djomeh
    The performances of this quiet Iranian drama are utterly genuine, and the story is a delicate blend of slice-of-life realism and soft-spoken social commentary.
  21. Together
    An amiable look at a bygone time and a set of ideas about the world that once held far more power and magic than it does today.
  22. Ghosts of Mars
    Carpenter pulls out all the action-adventure stops, but he and coscripter Larry Sulkis forgot to write dialogue the audience could listen to without howling in disbelief.
  23. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Een fans of Jay and Silent Bob may find the story too slender and the jokes too repetitive to be much fun.
  24. Cupid's Mistake
    The acting is uneven and most of the romancing seems so mismatched.
  25. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    There are lots of plot twists and romantic angles. What's lacking is laughs.
  26. Innocence
    This unusual romantic drama is sensitively acted by a well-chosen cast and subtly directed by Cox.
  27. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    The only aspect that emerges a winner is the gorgeous Mediterranean scenery.
  28. The Turandot Project
    Music buffs may wish there were a lot more Puccini and a little less talking-head chitchat.
  29. All Over the Guy
    The movie means well, but neither its emotions nor its performances ring very true.
  30. American Pie 2
    It delivers all the raunch and ribaldry its designated audience could hope for, but others may find it more deliberately disgusting than effervescently outrageous.
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