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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. Spirited Away
    A triumph of psychological depth and artistic brilliance offered as the magical adventures of one skinny little girl.
  2. The Experiment
    Rigid, airless, and browbeatingly repetitive, Das Experiment is an overly didactic piece of thesis hectoring; it's like ''Lord of the Flies'' set in a Skinner box.
  3. Igby Goes Down
    Gets weirder and meaner and darker and sadder as it progresses, which is amazing since it simultaneously remains funny and horrifying right up to the end.
  4. Barbershop
    The mixed-up rhythms of the story rescue Barbershop from bland goodness.
  5. Alias Betty
    A nifty, entwined, ultimately gripping adaptation of British crime writer Ruth Rendell's novel ''The Tree of Hands'' by French director Claude Miller.
  6. Stealing Harvard
    It doesn't help that most of the jokes (like a rip-off of ''There's Something About Mary'''s dog-in-the-crotch bit) are themselves stolen.
  7. Swimfan
    Proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot, expertly cast, paced with crisp professionalism...and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report.
  8. City by the Sea
    Moves along with a quietude, a scruffy direct plainness that has long gone out of style.
  9. In Praise of Love
    Godard, as always, sounds full of insight, yet he uses the past to damn the present in a way that may be reflexively self-serving. In Praise of Love leaves a taste as bitter as poison ash.
  10. FeardotCom
    The film squanders every opportunity (and international-coproduction cent) on by now imitative Nine Inch Nails-video-style visual Goth-goo, and, scarily, forgets to input a plot or script that makes any sense.
  11. Red Satin
    Undoubtedly downplays the seamier, less attractive experiences of Arab women and men in Tunisian cabaret culture, and plays up the fairy-tale charm of the universal ''Flashdance'' formula in an unusual setting.
  12. Undisputed
    Undisputed is a shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.
  13. Little Secrets
    The kids in this syrupy family picture are spunky tykes and the adults are dolts, but Wood is worth watching because she's so clearly ready to play nobody's girl but her own.
  14. Serving Sara
    The few jaunty, ''Friends''-inflected lines Perry does get off are lost among the cow pies.
  15. Amy's Orgasm
    The orgasm, it turns out, is low on the list of Amy's issues. The title is faked.
  16. How I Killed My Father
    The script is a steady accretion of small stabs to the heart, propelling the gorgeous performances of Berling, Regnier, and especially the 76-year-old French cinema veteran Bouquet, whose every faint smile is killing.
  17. S1m0ne
    The movie pretends to warn against such shallowness -- but flaunts its arousal at how exciting such a controllable world is for those with access to the software.
  18. One Hour Photo
    In One Hour Photo, Williams is a snapshot of human complexity worth framing.
  19. Possession
    The movie is intelligent yet lifeless; it's all wisps and abstractions.
  20. Mostly Martha
    Nettelbeck has a particularly lovely sense of behind-the-scenes restaurant choreography. And her warm, patient understanding of little girls' psyches guides young Maxime Foerste, as the turbulent niece, to a terrific performance.
  21. Blue Crush
    The final 20 minutes of Blue Crush can stand as one of the few highlights in a movie summer of mostly hollow action-carnival fireworks. The trick, for once, isn't that we're watching superhuman stunts; it's that we're watching deeply human stunts.
  22. I'm Going Home
    The result is something as original as it is unlikely: a study in grief that is flooded with happiness.
  23. The Château
    If anyone steals the movie, though, it's Sylvie Testud, who never lets on whether the sexy French country maid she's playing is mournfully obtuse or embodies the wisdom of the ages.
  24. Scarlet Diva
    Has a voyeuristic tug, but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be.
  25. Secret Ballot
    Charms with its amalgam of absurdity, optimism, humor, and avuncular regard for the million small daily chores, rituals, suspicions, and courtesies of dwellers on even the sparsest spots on earth.
  26. xXx
    Even in the summertime, the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities. Movies like XXX -- a big 000 -- don't deserve our $$$.
  27. 24 Hour Party People
    An insider nostalgia trip for graying art punks. It could have been called ''When We Were Cool,'' and it's finally so cool that it freezes you out.
  28. Blood Work
    Eastwood is now playing a man whose will is stronger than his body, and it's that tension -- between anger and frailty, steel and decay -- that powers the movie.
  29. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    The inventiveness is still superior and the network of fiends and family is extended.
  30. The Good Girl
    Only pretends to care about good people who sometimes do bad things. In fact, it hasn't got time for the pain.
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