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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. Under The Wire
    The film unfolds as a sort of first-person procedural, a vivid step-by-step account of a reporting trip to hell.
  2. Divine Intervention
    As pristine a distillation of Palestinian rage as I've seen outside the evening news.
  3. Tony Takitani
    This gossamer work is one of the loveliest examples of minimalist cinema I've seen in a long time.
  4. The Gleaners & I
    It's both surreal -- and wholly accessible.
  5. Sex and Lucia
    Climaxes in a flood of revelations that, like so much of the film, take us where we least expect to go.
  6. The Transporter
    Immensely exciting and funny.
  7. Billy the Kid
    But what you ultimately take from the film is the awareness that this smart, self-aware, uncensored kid has been playing to a camera in his own head since well before Venditti came along.
  8. Margot at the Wedding
    Margot at the Wedding gives its characters (and us) something to laugh about.
  9. The Manchurian Candidate
    If Demme's version lacks the wallop of its predecessor, it is more likely to be popular with contemporary audiences, who will enjoy not only its labyrinthine twists but its stars' burnished professionalism.
  10. The Score
    You begin to wonder whether a story is ever going to show up. When it does, it's worth the wait for a long and well-turned set piece coordinating the heist, and two lovely flips in the plot.
  11. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    It's hard to know whether to be impressed or appalled by Eva Mozes Kor, the Holocaust survivor in Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's fascinating documentary who has made forgiving the Nazis her life's work.
  12. Saw III
    That may not exactly thrill those who admire the Saw films only for their splatter quotient, but all told, this is a more affecting study in grief, guilt and human frailty than "Babel."
  13. Shrek
    Shrek's first 20 minutes are so devilishly funny that letting go of pure belief doesn't seem like such a bad thing.
  14. American Wedding
    The movie is enormously, convulsively funny, and it never lets up -- it has no shame.
  15. Bandits
    Equal parts big-house B-feature, hammer-down road movie, post-feminist consciousness-raiser and rock & roll pipe dream.
  16. Find Me Guilty
    Shot quickly and cheaply in high-definition video and almost entirely on one set, the movie has almost zero visual energy, but it teems with snappy dialogue and the same carnival anarchy Lumet brought to "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network."
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Cherry Orchard
    Cacoyannis lays on the atmosphere a bit thick with multiple repetitions of a lyrical Tchaikovsky motif underscoring unrequited love, one that is nonetheless beautifully rendered by pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
  18. Charlotte Sometimes
    Lovely ensemble piece.
  19. Khab-e sefid
    The movie often seems as innocent and goodhearted as its subject. Still, Jebeli is possessed of an impish visual sense. He also has the Iranian gift for bringing to vivid life people we wouldn't give a second glance.
  20. Shall We Kiss?
    Witty, insightful portraits of hyperverbal, self-conscious young people falling in and out of love.
  21. A Prairie Home Companion
    For a film about death and endings, A Prairie Home Companion is a cracking good time - a warm, golden bauble within which to shelter, like the radio show that inspired it, from the misery and ennui that engulf us in and out of the multiplex.
  22. Girls Will Be Girls
    By the end of this likely cult classic (only 80 minutes long), when Evie has an amphetamine-induced meltdown during her cable-access comeback show, these divas are as recognizably human as you and me, only sluttier, and with cattier one-liners.
  23. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Amusing, beautifully drawn one-hour film.
  24. Space Cowboys
    It's a rare pleasure to see these senior citizens given so much screen time, droopy butts and all.
  25. Irreversible
    Noé calls Irreversible his "Eyes Wide Shut," though it's really more like "A Clockwork Orange."
  26. Forty Shades of Blue
    This is still powerful, undiluted stuff -- a jolt of backwoods moonshine whiskey injected into the veins of the atrophied American relationship drama.
  27. Millions
    Millions is an intelligent children’s film that may prove to be a guilty pleasure for adults.
  28. Girl on the Bridge
    Leaves you with a bland message -- titillation may get your wicky-wack going but love and partnership stay the course -- but the way it gets you there is divine.
  29. The Town Is Quiet
    Leaves you reeling from the force of the humanity it captures and -- in its own gut-wrenching way -- honors.
  30. 51 Birch Street
    Open-minded, probing but never prurient, 51 Birch Street is much more than a portrait of suburban ennui. It's a loving, painful map of the gulf between thought and word, between word and deed, that props up good marriages, and sends bad ones to hell.
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