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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 8.9 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. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Mercifully there's more Hitchcock than Lacan in this slickly enjoyable little number, which cannily plays off the ingénue image of "Amélie's" Audrey Tautou.
  2. Wendigo
    The film's best and scariest moments come when Miles is confronted with scenes that he translates into proof of the Wendigo's power.
  3. Out of Time
    The movie is casually, glamorously multiracial, and Washington is great fun, but the final glory belongs to actor John Billingsley, who plays one of those rumpled minor characters plugged into thrillers to keep you guessing whether they're light relief or something more sinister, and who, in a few memorably funny scenes, shuffles away with the movie.
  4. The Patriot
    Patriot reflects on nothing, except perhaps that the American Revolution was a golden opportunity for Mel Gibson to go postal.
  5. The Merchant of Venice
    It all collapses under an atrocious performance by Pacino, whose laughably bad accent and scene-chewing delivery serve up thick slabs of that rarest of delicacies: Jewish ham. There may be grounds here for a class-action lawsuit.
  6. Kingdom of Heaven
    In its depiction of a fleeting, but nevertheless factual, peace in the Middle East, Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven may seem a more quixotic Hollywood fantasy than all six Star Wars movies lumped together.
  7. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    For all its shock-driven, laugh-out-loud moments, what makes Jesus so entertaining is that it puts you in the presence of a dementedly sharp mind -- one that understands that leftist subversion doesn't have to coddle or breast-feed the choir.
  8. Chronicles
    Writer-director Sebastian Cordero wrings nerve-racking suspense, and complex performances, from these dynamics.
  9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    This very funny, very British movie -- directed by newcomer Garth Jennings -- has sci-fi effects that are impressive yet appropriately cheesy.
  10. Dahmer
    The purest of horror films.
  11. The Way Home
    A conventional if appealing tear-jerker, The Way Home would like to grandmother us all.
  12. Dear Frankie
    The movie’s glib trafficking in illness, death and pinched little faces to jury-rig our emotional responses (Gibb was inspired by the equally likable, equally pandering Czech film "Kolya") lost me at hello.
  13. Little Jerusalem
    Absorbing tale of coming of age in a multi-ethnic Paris suburb.
  14. A State of Mind
    The stadiums and performance halls of Pyongyang become staging grounds for massive, highly choreographed political pageants that make the Nuremberg rallies look like dinner theater. You’ve never seen anything quite like these dazzling displays of groupthink.
  15. Family in Transition
    The Tsuk children, with remarkable equanimity, evince the least surprise at their parents’ later actions. Hebrew speakers may be better able to appreciate nuances that the sometimes stilted, distracting subtitles seem to obscure. But those open, honest faces — the story they tell transcends words.
  16. Cachorro
    Albaladejo turns his film into a banal, mildly entertaining trifle of affirmation, eliciting a shrug more than any real emotion.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Blood of My Brother
    Their access is far broader than any TV network's, and in the end, they transcended the body counts and bland abstractions that characterize most Western reporting on the war.
  18. Reel Paradise
    There's something magical about seeing a packed house of 300 Taveuni locals laugh equally uproariously, and, without a nanosecond’s worth of culture shock, at Queen Latifah in "Bringing Down the House" and Buster Keaton in "Steamboat Bill, Jr."
  19. The Komediant
    Slight but enjoyable documentary.
  20. Spy Game
    The supremely attractive leads, exotic locations (Vietnam, Berlin and Beirut) and fetishized violence imbue the whole intelligence game with undeniable glamour.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Two Brothers
    Annaud presents a meticulously structured fable about the importance of family, particularly the relationship of fathers and sons, to both man and beast.
  22. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Anchorman has one amusing character, a dumb weatherman played by Steve Carell, and a nicely observed set piece about what newscasters really say to one another when they're shuffling papers between segments. Otherwise it's a long string of heavy-footed sight and sound gags.
  23. Revolution #9
    So riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along, while McCann's overly broad strokes miss crucial details as he tries to mount an attack on both the power of the media and an indifferent medical profession.
  24. Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    There’s nothing postmodern about this "family," unless postmodern means never having to grow up.
  25. Rocky Balboa
    What gives Rocky Balboa its unexpected pathos is the titanic humility of Stallone's performance, the earnestness with which he plays a man knocked down (but not out) by the ravages of time.
  26. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    The booty here is 100 percent fool's gold.
  27. Lunacy
    Lunacy feels programmatic, the repetitive working through of an idea that had me checking my watch.
  28. Biggie and Tupac
    Deceptively rambling, shrewdly ragtag documentary.
  29. The Grace Lee Project
    Niftily shot and edited, The Grace Lee Project isn't just a witty unpacking of stereotype. It's also a welcome freshening of the old documentary saw that there's no such thing as an ordinary person.
  30. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    This often gripping but also unremittingly grim and drab account of these events is a "Taxi Driver" without the cathartic finale.
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