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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. D.E.B.S.
    Alas, the movie isn't nearly as amusing as its premise, but it's refreshingly different from most run-of-the-mill teenage fare.
  2. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    An entertaining look at a genuinely offbeat subject.
  3. Nina's Tragedies
    This wry comedy drama has excellent acting and surprises galore.
  4. Oldboy
    As mysterious as it is sinister.
  5. Beyond the Sea
    Full of fascinating eye-witness accounts.
  6. Mondovino
    The real subject, though, is how globalization fosters a homogeneous, "same-old-stuff" conformity that molds almost everything on the planet into an ever-shrinking number of shapes, sizes, and varieties.
  7. Ice Princess
    It's great to see so many smart girls in a Hollywood movie!
  8. The Ring Two
    Watts is wonderful, and the story's forsaken-child theme still has plenty of horrific power.
  9. Melinda and Melinda
    This is closer to an Allen comeback than anything else he's made recently. Maybe he'll achieve it with his next movie, "Match Point," due this year.
  10. 16 Years of Alcohol
    The pacing soon grows dull and the frequent narration is a nonstop string of clichés, platitudes, and truisms that should have been flung out the cutting-room window.
  11. Steamboy
    Visually stunning animation.
  12. Milk and Honey
    Smart and surprising.
  13. After the Apocalypse
    Dark, eccentric, silly.
  14. Hostage
    The action is dynamically filmed and Willis is at his best. Suspense is soon hijacked by outright gore and grisliness, though.
  15. Robots
    The visuals are spectacular at times, but the screenplay is trite, intermittently vulgar, and just not funny.
  16. The Upside of Anger
    What's lacking in The Upside of Anger is a steady sense that we're watching real people cope with real, jolting emotions.
  17. Millions
    You never know what to expect from Boyle, and that goes triple in this offbeat comedy drama. It's a movie about family that family viewers will find good, quirky fun.
  18. In My Country
    Boorman treats this moving, important subject with restraint, tact, and candid views of horrors suffered by the nation.
  19. The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    Lots of lively tunes and spirited acting.
  20. Don't Move
    The story wants to be a sort of "Last Tango in Paris" redux, but it falls into mere melodrama after a brilliant beginning.
  21. Off the Map
    Scott has the courage to let the imaginative story unfold at its own leisurely pace, and it's not surprising that the acting is excellent, considering that he's among the very best American screen actors.
  22. Sheriff
    Some of the material is dramatic, other bits are dull.
  23. Be Cool
    The overlong comedy has few laughs and flirts far too much with racist, homophobic humor. A waste of a fine cast.
  24. The Jacket
    The result is what you might call a mass-audience art film. It doesn't entirely succeed, but it's certainly a change from today's standard mysteries and horror movies.
  25. Dear Frankie
    Well acted, capably directed, not as substantial as it might have been.
  26. Face
    Well made, nice performances, very slowly paced.
  27. Gunner Palace
    Illuminating, disturbing, evenhanded.
  28. Intimate Stories
    Gentle, humanistic, delicious.
  29. Walk on Water
    Compassionate and marvelously acted, although a subplot about the gay grandson slows the story down for a while.
  30. The Best of Youth
    This is epic filmmaking on a profoundly human scale, directed to perfection and magnificently acted by everyone in sight.
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