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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Off the Map
    This is a character study more than a forward-moving drama, plopped down with exquisite photographic care in a beautiful New Mexico desert, and starring good actors who make a feast of their flavorful roles.
  2. Be Cool
    The hell of it is, Be Cool is tepid entertainment that could be cool if it spent less time entertaining us as if we were demanding a definition of rhythm.
  3. The Jacket
    Director John Maybury has a feel for shock rhythms, and he's skillful at keeping you guessing, but after a while you want your questions to cohere into compelling answers, and in The Jacket they don't, quite.
  4. The Pacifier
    A yawn-by-numbers romper-room dud.
  5. Dear Frankie
    A Scottish weepie of such bathos and balderdash that it deserves a drinking game in its rotten honor.
  6. Face
    Face becomes a study of the immigrant embrace of freedom in America - a bridge built over time and generations.
  7. Gunner Palace
    The film's fragmentary structure, though, is suspect. It says that the soldiers find no real meaning in their combat actions, yet Gunner Palace presents the operations we're seeing in so little context, reducing them to a random hash of ''sensational'' moments, that Tucker at times appears to be exploiting the war to create a didactic canvas of manic military unease.
  8. Intimate Stories
    But while this piquant, tapas-like movie (a 2003 film- festival favorite only now being released) asserts that landscape is a kind of destiny from which one cannot escape, Sorin takes delighted, serious interest in how far a person can advance psychologically, even if all roads lead back to a home at the end of the world.
  9. Walk on Water
    At times too movieish, yet Ashkenazi creates a memorable figure: a spy who operates - admirably - out of the most unyielding nationalist conviction, only to learn that he needs to let some of that conviction go.
  10. The Best of Youth
    Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema.
  11. Cursed
    Screenwriter Kevin Williamson (the Scream trilogy), having bottomed out in the horror genre, now dips below bottom (there isn't a line that has his knowing sweet-and-sour zing).
  12. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    A bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good - or, at least, more arresting than it has any right to be.
  13. Man of the House
    Walking the path grooved by such stone-faced confreres as De Niro and Schwarzenegger (and following up on his own more successful self-parody in "Men in Black"), Jones positions himself as a Man in a Stetson.
  14. Up and Down
    Up and Down captures Prague life with a fervor that's comical but a longing that's serious; no one is easy to pigeonhole.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Turtles Can Fly
    Lacks grace, coherence, and a surface vivid enough to make it an alarm that many will hear.
  16. Because of Winn-Dixie
    To Winn-Dixie's great credit, both as a book and as a dandy, dignified movie, there's nothing condescendingly lesson-like in the wisdom India acquires.
  17. Constantine
    The movie is ornate, arbitrary, and fetishistic, too, with the added challenge of being hell to follow for those without access to crib notes. Intellectually, I can admire the emphasis on visual style over plot clarity.
  18. Son of the Mask
    The characters twirl around like mini tornadoes, but between random brash moments of technological eye-tickling, Son of the Mask sags more than it spins.
  19. Nabbeun namja
    Really, who needs a bad guy who's this guilty about being bad?
  20. Bigger Than the Sky
    A huge pile of horsefeathers is being peddled as fairy dust in Bigger Than the Sky.
  21. Downfall
    If I respect Downfall more than I was enthralled by it, that's because its portayal stops short of revelation. Once you witness Hitler's denial, the film has little more to say about him.
  22. Cinévardaphoto
    What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
  23. Ong Bak
    Ong-Bak (taken from the name of the sacred statue) is delivered raw, with an on-the-fly compositional approach from director Prachya Pinkaew that includes dim lighting and jumbled editing.
  24. Bride & Prejudice
    Under the direction of "Bend It Like Beckham's" Gurinder Chadha, this festively busy and exuberantly multicultural charmer is its own intriguingly postmodern creation.
  25. Hitch
    Will Smith, taking a break from summer sci-fi smashfests, certainly shows a gift for modulation. Far from coasting, he plays a world expert at romance by ratcheting his charm up and down in supple, exacting degrees.
  26. Inside Deep Throat
    Nimble, engrossing, and journalistically eye-opening, a movie that pulls into focus 30 years of porn in America. It also pulls no punches.
  27. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    In watching the birds and the man with an affectionate, curious eye, the filmmaker builds a story of surprising emotional resonance.
  28. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie is a harmless little ''ex-po-tition'' (to use a Pooh-ism). Still, making this your kids' first Pooh experience would be like weaning them on New Coke.
  29. Nobody Knows
    Yagira's performance is so extraordinary, it won him the best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes film festival.
  30. Boogeyman
    This is strictly substandard stuff, with imitative creepy noises, vertiginous camera angles, and long pauses.
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