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  • 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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    • 58 Critic Score
    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    It's pleasing to see Jones triumph, digging his way out of sand traps with miraculous wedge shots, but ''Stroke of Genius'' is proof that when a movie is nothing but inspirational, it can sink and disappear into a field of dreams.
  2. The Saddest Music in the World
    Hard to say who's luckier -- those who have seen the work of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin before and know what to expect, or those who haven't and for whom The Saddest Music in the World serves as an eye-popping introduction.
  3. Mean Girls
    A vinegary fable with a Splenda aftertaste -- is a harbinger of hope not only for future feminist comedies of any grit but also for ''SNL''-staffed feature films that don't disproportionately suck.
  4. People Say I'm Crazy
    People Say I'm Crazy doesn't defuse, or romanticize, the trauma of mental illness. It just humanizes it.
  5. The Agronomist
    As Demme's audienc we're at the mercy of political passion overshadowed by style.
  6. MC5*: A True Testimonial
    Wide-ranging and beautifully edited -- it's a vivid evocation of a moment when even the ugliest guitar feedback could be taken as a serious political statement.
  7. Close Your Eyes
    A cheaply made piece of ''psychological'' occult schlock, subjects you to that depressing stop-and-go rhythm that defines inept fantasy thrillers.
  8. Man on Fire
    The movie's mortal failing is echoed in the religious medal Pita gives Creasy in a gift of innocent, uplifting love: Finding heft or coherence within all the lugubrious agitation is a lost cause worthy of St. Jude.
  9. 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.
  10. 13 Going on 30
    The rare commercial comedy that leaves you entranced by what can happen only in the movies.
  11. Morlang
    A portentous and goopy Dutch drama.
  12. This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    Almereyda's fascination with creative creatures and their mysterious ways is abundantly clear. And distracting.
  13. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    There's no denying that when it comes to communicating a certain delirious romanticism of character shaped by thousands of hours spent sitting in the dark, the artist who made this showpiece is a master.
  14. The Punisher
    The Punisher is a moronically inept and tedious piece of death-wish trash.
  15. Connie and Carla
    The surprise -- and intermittent delight -- of Connie and Carla is the way that it taps into the everybody-is-a-star passion of the new sing-along culture.
  16. 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.
  17. Twentynine Palms
    This is one of those films in which the Act of Driving becomes a 10-minute statement of high emptiness; Dumont even manages to make sex in the desert boring.
  18. The Girl Next Door
    "Risky Business" had a great opening act and then descended into contrivances. This genial cardboard knockoff is contrived from the start but gets better as it goes along.
  19. The Whole Ten Yards
    It's every bit as nonsensical and overitalicized a mess as ''The Whole Nine Yards.''
  20. I'm Not Scared
    With a taste for dark lyricism, the director delicately emphasizes the contrast between surface innocence and subterranean danger, and between grown-up secrets and boyhood bravery.
  21. The Alamo
    Never harmonizes into a cinematic experience any more resonant than the average, manly, why-we-fight pic, or coalesces into a stirring cry for freedom.
  22. Ella Enchanted
    The hoot and giggle of a girl-power fairy tale blended from potions of ''Monty Python,'' ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,'' and ''Shrek.''
  23. Johnson Family Vacation
    Strands Cedric the Entertainer behind the wheel and forces him to motor a collection of laugh-and-learn wacky situations by sheer force of his outsize charm.
  24. Walking Tall
    There's not a guy I know who hasn't been looking forward to seeing The Rock pick up the big wooden stick first swung by Joe Don Baker more than 30 years ago.
  25. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    The triumph of ''Spring, Summer'' is that even those of us who don't happen to be Buddhists can catch a glimpse of ourselves in the spinning wheel of hope, destruction, suffering, and bliss.
  26. The Prince and Me
    In a series of endings, she, and the audience, are falsely promised that she can have it all. In other words, The Prince & Me is committed to the controversial American policy of No Fantasy Left Behind.
  27. Hellboy
    Directed by Guillermo del Toro with a colorfully kinetic visual imagination that seldom lets up.
  28. Home on the Range
    The conservatively cheery artistic style suggests that the animation team has been reading Sundance merchandise catalogs.
  29. Son frère
    Son Frère is hushed, clinical, grimly paced, and moving.
  30. The United States of Leland
    The United States of Leland is tedious yet infuriating, since its characters, all of whom seem to have emerged from a screenwriter's manual, are like exhibits in a thesis meant to indict the middle class for the crime of its collective dysfunction.
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