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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Inland Empire
    It is Lynch's most experimental endeavor in the 30 years since "Eraserhead," that it will do nothing to draw new fans to the director's work and that, after two viewings, I cannot wait to see it again.
  2. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    One of the most haunting, viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory.
  3. Wordplay
    Wordplay offers a running tutorial in how crosswords are created - lessons that are enhanced by the onscreen graphics of designer Brian Oakes, which, come tournament time, allow moviegoers to see the clues and grids the contestants are working on, theoretically allowing us to solve the puzzles along with them.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Derrida
    The result is fascinating, whether you're smitten by him or his work, or simply intrigued by contemporary thought.
  5. The Son's Room
    The film portrays a family undone by grief over the death of a loved one; that, in any event, is its plot synopsis. More accurately, the film is a wallow of authorial narcissism, and a tedious, unrelenting, uninteresting wallow at that.
  6. Himalaya
    Captured extraordinary performances from a cast of non-actors, as well as magnificent images of a vast landscape.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Coens have resurrected a hardscrabble California of wooden porches and gravel driveways, of rolling, oak-wreathed hills and one-lane roads, and of a restless people whose meager dreams are wrecked the moment money, sex or a bottle get in the way. Never has the past seemed so familiar.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Bourne Supremacy
    In Supremacy, Damon is left to play basically one droning, humorless note, which, unfortunately, he does with his eyes closed.
  9. The Proposition
    The Proposition is a very hard and harsh movie, but it also has a hypnotic, lyrical velocity. As Arthur, Huston exudes dead charisma.
  10. Les Destinées
    An exquisite metaphor for the high cost and higher returns of an enduring marriage.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary
    An involving new documentary by Hilari Scarl, uncovers an interesting entertainment subculture of deaf comedians, actors and musicians.
  12. Somersault
    This remarkable film from Australia, the debut feature of writer-director Cate Shortland, moves to the lyrical rhythms and unhurried pace of a 1970s road movie.
  13. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
    This sensational documentary, which follows German avant-garde musician Alexander Hacke around the city with his mobile recording studio, crosses all kinds of bridges.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
    Both the documentary and the candidate lose their naiveté along the way without abandoning the idealism that inspired the endeavor in the first place.
  15. Cuban Rafters
    What's fresh for these people is, frankly, old news for anyone who has seen even one or two documentaries on similar subject matter.
  16. Urbania
    The story of what happens when everything dies but love. It's a simple story, artfully told.
  17. Black Cat, White Cat
    Kusturica's always masterful orchestration of chaos, coincidence and caricature really pays off as a sweet, soulful celebration of old friends, new loves and the mad scramble of life at the fringe.
  18. Spider-Man
    Perhaps the real question, then, isn't how you update Spider-Man but why you would even try. Introduced in 1962, the original superhero helped to initiate the age of modern comics. Raimi hasn't figured out how to reconfigure him for the blockbuster age, and there are suggestions.
  19. The Wings of the Dove
    Softley starts out a little awkwardly, as he tries to capture turn-of-the-century flux by opening several London scenes from disorienting, too-obvious camera positions.
  20. The Cave of the Yellow Dog
    The Cave of the Yellow Dog has an abundance of gentle humor, much of it provided by an adorably scruffy toddler, but there's also impressive strength and wisdom in the family's uncomplaining, shoulder-to-the-wheel approach to the world.
  21. The Memory of a Killer
    Director Erik Van Looy has filmmaking chops to spare, and while he has created a sharply shot and crisply paced film, he isn't able to make it all cohere.
  22. Meet the Parents
    While Stiller and De Niro can play hilariously off one another, the film -- despite its happy ending -- feels unresolved.
  23. The Matrix
    Bill Pope's swooping, noir-inflected cinematography is wonderfully complemented by Owen Paterson's inventive production design, a great soundtrack and the best fight choreography this side of Hong Kong. And even if this isn't "Blade Runner," it is very cool shit.
  24. After the Life
    This overcrowded, overheated scenario, with many scenes repeated from the first two films, keeps us so busy tracking all the overlapping storylines, we have no time to imagine what they might mean.
  25. Super Size Me
    The speed with which a healthy, relatively young stud can morph into a tub of lard is as horrifying as it is entertaining to watch.
  26. Last Life in the Universe
    A brilliantly atmospheric, sweetly nutty film.
  27. Heading South
    An absorbing extension of Cantet's abiding obsession with the seeding of political inequality in intimate relations.
  28. High Art
    What makes High Art remarkable is Cholodenko's refusal to put her characters or story through a filter, her unblinking willingness to dive right in.
  29. Cold Mountain
    Zellweger looks like a big movie star roughing it à la Paris Hilton, and as if this weren't distracting enough, the hills are alive with big acting names from both sides of the Atlantic who pop up as help or hindrance to Inman's pilgrim's progress while straining, with variable success, for credible Southern twangs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beyond the Mat
    Blaustein's journey seems not to have shaken his convictions; he still embraces pro wrestling, warts and all.
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