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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 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. The Taste of Others
    Jaoui handles her crowd of vivid characters so naturally, and shoots her scenes so unobtrusively, that the diagrammatic cleverness of the plot never overwhelms the intelligence of the observations.
  2. I'm Going Home
    The result is something as original as it is unlikely: a study in grief that is flooded with happiness.
  3. Gangs of New York
    Everything is vast and hugely ambitious in Martin Scorsese's magisterial, scrambled historical epic.
  4. Shrek 2
    Has a rowdy, jumpin'-jive vivacity. It's not quite as emotionally rounded as ''Shrek'' was... but it's got heart and delirium in equal doses, as well as a firecracker rhythm all its own.
  5. Primer
    Consider Primer a successful lab experiment with, as they might say in techie chat rooms, significant indie-cred applications, IMHO. Oh, and :-).
  6. Dogville
    This galvanizing cinematic work is also gorgeous, experimental, alive with a Scandinavian strain of chutzpah, and artistically elegant.
  7. Infernal Affairs
    Dazzling psychological cat-and-mouse drama.
  8. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    The film may be bloody, but it's also bloody gorgeous: a grandly fetishized epic of cinematic aggression. It's a tale of vengeance that hinges on Tarantino's love of ferocity as spectacle -- his immersion in action and exploitation, his addiction to the jazzy catharsis of junk-film kicks.
  9. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    Mitchell directs and stars in the riotous, loving, and only occasionally pathos-milking film adaptation of his own acclaimed Off Broadway play, with great up-your-ante music and lyrics by Stephen Trask.
  10. Baadasssss!
    The beauty of Baadasssss! is the way Mario Van Peebles salutes his father's truth by coaxing it into legend.
  11. Coffee and Cigarettes
    Just when you're certain that Jarmusch is treading water with his borderline-tedious cleverness, something happens: Coffee and Cigarettes turns into a movie FULL of talk -- rich, supple, hilarious, masterfully orchestrated talk.
  12. Ghost World
    A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt.
  13. In the Realms of the Unreal
    A singular and haunting experience.
  14. Kinsey
    Kinsey is patient and educational and never (darn it) rude or shocking.
  15. Ray
    As a musical biography, Ray is driven by the primal excitement of rock-and-soul at the moment of its discovery.
  16. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Turns out to be the funniest, most risk-taking, most incisive movie of the summer.
  17. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Minghella makes an enticing, intelligent, well-shaped picture about the extreme perils of class envy and sexual panic.
  18. A Very Long Engagement
    This is a movie that considers graphic violence with a refined taste for the sensuous: Guts spill, blood spurts, corpses stink, but there is a handsome, absurdist humanity to the way Jeunet (who wrote the script with Guillaume Laurant) maps out the crossroads of human carnage and human caring.
  19. Young Adam
    The clammy power of Young Adam lies as much in the frank, emotional nakedness the actors bring to their roles under Mackenzie's care as in the baroque hopelessness of the plot.
  20. The Twilight Samurai
    It's wonderful to see a Japanese movie in which a samurai, for all his somber discipline and skill, is also a touching and complicated ordinary man.
  21. Riding Giants
    Traces the sport to its Polynesian beginnings, then zooms in on the genesis of 20th- century Southern California surf culture -- the boards, the bikinis, the laid-back cowabunga.
  22. Chicago
    Freshly transplanted from the stage, is a thrilling ode to the intertwined glories of sex, showmanship, and lying: what the film calls ''the old razzle-dazzle.''
  23. 13 Going on 30
    The rare commercial comedy that leaves you entranced by what can happen only in the movies.
  24. 8 Mile
    Movie stars radiate a power -- physical, erotic, spiritual -- that draws an audience into their orbit. Yet watching Curtis Hanson's gritty and electrifying 8 Mile, the first thing you notice about Eminem, the most scaldingly powerful artist in pop music today, is how vulnerable he looks.
  25. Bad Education
    It's a film noir that grows more potent as its secrets are revealed.
  26. Black Cat, White Cat
    A warm embrace of tradition and boisterous, ethnographically rich local culture.
  27. The Birdcage
    Enchantingly witty.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Tin Cup
    Has a genial, funky charm.
  29. Afterglow
    Romantic comedies usually strike one or two moods, but in Afterglow, the writer-director Alan Rudolph runs through rainbows of feeling in a single scene.
  30. Breakdown
    Breakdown feels at first so casual, so comfortable with its own small expectations (a good but unglamorous cast, a sturdy but unspectacular plot), that the authentic feelings of suspense are a surprise.
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