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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 8.8 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. Boys Life 4: Four Play
    The jewel in this well-rounded collection of gay-themed shorts is Alan Brown's "O Beautiful."
  2. Tokyo Godfathers
    The film is as lively as a cricket and often very funny, but it's not for the cyberpunk crowd.
  3. Shanghai Noon
    A modest pleasure, driven by a jumble of Old West signifiers and goofball modern flourishes.
  4. Pop & Me
    The film quickly becomes a vortex of father-son bonding and rivalry, and what could have been a mere travelogue becomes a bumpy exploration of male identity and communication.
  5. Shine a Light
    To call Shine a Light a documentary doesn’t quite nail it; it’s more of a macro-mentary, shot in such tight close-up that you can see the fillings in Mick’s teeth and the sweat stains in the armpits of his sequined magenta top.
  6. Hoodlum
    Too long by about 20 minutes, the film drags a bit, but the acting--fine throughout--carries the whole thing.
  7. Monster
    This gifted actress (Charlize Theron), who hasn't always chosen her roles well, treats this as her big chance to show what she can do, and she's convincing enough that you're not constantly looking for a Hollywood star of more than average pulchritude under all the cosmetic baggage.
  8. Cecil B. DeMented
    Neither Waters' funniest film nor, by a long chalk, his most radical. But it is, as promised, a passing of the torch and an article of suitably perverse faith in the next generation of nutso cinéastes.
  9. The Pursuit of Happyness
    For a movie conceived and executed in the mainstream Hollywood idiom, it has uncommon depth and honesty.
  10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Columbus' sequel is faster, livelier and a good deal funnier than his original, due to the presence of some new characters.
  11. The Mystic Masseur
    The film is being sold as a comedy, and it is amusing. Secretly, though, it's a romance, with Merchant's roving camera discerning the tempestuous love triangle at the heart of Naipaul's novel.
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  12. Murder by Numbers
    Even as the psychological interdependencies of the two boys take the foreground, the movie gets more and more crowded with fun-house surprises and cliffhanging set pieces.
  13. Men of Honor
    The main body of the film earns comparison with the military parables of John Ford, particularly "The Long Gray Line" and "The Wings of Eagles."
  14. Rules of Engagement
    Worth it, though, for the conviction and ramrod-erect bearing that pros Jackson and Jones bring to their roles.
  15. Travelers and Magicians
    In this lovely film, writer-director Khientse Norbu (The Cup) shifts smoothly between a kind of Buddhist "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and depicting the bonds that form among Dondup and his companions.
  16. Sobreviviré
    The film's jarring shifts in tone ultimately serve well the complexity of the film's narrative entanglements; they feel more honest than similar Hollywood offerings.
  17. Lakeboat
    Mamet's fixation on language is, nonetheless, more effective onstage than onscreen, where the technical and visual requirements distract from the sounds of the words -- the heart of Mamet's work.
  18. Little Jerusalem
    Absorbing tale of coming of age in a multi-ethnic Paris suburb.
  19. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Looks like no other recent release...certainly rich enough to warrant more than one viewing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Game 6
    For viewers counting the minutes until opening day, Game 6 provides a quirky cinematic alternative to next week's "Benchwarmers."
  21. There's No One Like You
    Paying off a somewhat laborious buildup in the first act with an escalating series of revelations and reunions in the final reel, Krrish is hearty pulp cinema that really sticks to your ribs.
  22. Bad Boys II
    The bigger-than-big, rambunctious spectacle is way too much of a questionably good thing.
  23. School of Rock
    Still, the big-show musical payoff is good fun, and Black and his little doppelgangers have it all over "Daddy Day Care."
  24. Once in the Life
    May lack any transcendent point that would make it exceptional, but it is certainly a worthy start, and worth catching.
  25. The Promise
    Some critics are badly selling the film short, when the story it tells, measured strictly in terms of emotional power and overall fun, is as moving and pleasurable as any matinee item by Ford, Hawks or Raoul Walsh.
  26. Chasing Amy
    Smith has created the raunchiest romantic comedy in recent American film, and one of the most good-natured.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Bright Shining Moment
    The strength of One Bright Shining Moment lies in its reminder of McGovern's critical role in reforming the way his party chose its convention delegates, and how prescient he had always been about the looming disaster of Vietnam.
  29. The Dish
    Surprisingly moving -- prompting lumps in the throat over what was, after all, a historic moment of the most luminous hope.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Why 3-D?
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