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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 8.6 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. Spring Forward
    A resonance that is moving beyond all measure.
  2. Boys Life 3
    More problematic is "Inside Out," starring Jason Gould, who also wrote and directed, based on his own experiences as the son of Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    102 Dalmatians
    An unnecessary remake.
  4. Quills
    Remarkable energy and wit, and is probably the most purely enjoyable entry in Kaufman's suboeuvre of literary excursions.
  5. Unbreakable
    The movie feels oddly undercooked and aimless.
  6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    This new feature has replaced the original's benevolence, taste and wit with cynicism, armpit humor and manic, desperately unfunny padding.
  7. Bounce
    Thrillingly unpredictable.
  8. La bûche
    Sweet but slight pièce de fluff.
  9. Lies
    If Lies were better, the most obvious point of reference would be "In the Realm of the Senses," but the filmmaking isn't good enough to warrant such comparison, and the ideas are half-baked.
  10. The 6th Day
    Achieves a level of hypocrisy astounding less for its brazenness than for its sheer stupidity.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    A running spoof of "The Godfather" is especially hilarious, as are numerous, sly digs at all things Disney.
  12. One Day in September
    Macdonald's singular achievement is to restore -- through interviews and archival footage -- the dead to such vivid life, you weep for them and for their families, who have only memories to live off.
  13. Little Nicky
    Juvenile, sloppy and frequently, idiotically hilarious.
  14. Non-Stop
    Sabu takes an already wildly original concept and launches it toward brilliance.
  15. Restless
    Writer and director Gilfillan has an estimable biography, having studied at the Beijing Film Academy and worked as an assistant to John Woo, but there's nothing in her prosaic feature debut that suggests this means a thing.
  16. You Can Count on Me
    (Linney and Ruffalo) are just beautiful enough, in fact, to be in the movies and still remain convincing as authentic folk, and their performances are tremendously moving.
  17. Looking for an Echo
    Assante, restrained and thoughtful, reveals Vinnie's midlife bewilderment as much as his bred-in machismo. His performance is too delicate, though, to stand up to the rigidly formulaic schemes
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red Planet
    A fun movie. Not scary-fun. If you're a male over 10 years old, that should be enough.
  19. 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."
  20. Suzhou River
    A waterlogged little jewel of a Chinese movie that you must rush out and see at once or else.
  21. Blue Moon
    What this turkey produces in the way of hang-ups is a transparently phony class conflict.
  22. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Leven's tepid screenplay and the passionless self-control of Redford's direction make this bloodless movie a chore to sit through.
  23. Boesman and Lena
    A labor of love -- a swan song repaying a lifetime of happy debts to the theater, by grace of two terrific performances.
  24. Kippur
    Though Kippur seems a creature radically different -- more nakedly autobiographical, more naturalistic, more forgiving -- from Gitai's highly conceptual and stylized body of work, there are clear thematic continuities.
  25. The Weekend
    Shrill and gloomy.
  26. Charlie's Angels
    Of course, it's terrible -- but did it have to be this bad?
  27. George Washington
    May turn out to be the finest American indie of the year.
  28. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Director Tonie Marshall has taken a very simple story and laced it with potent details that make the film a rich map of her lead character's inner life.
  29. The Sculptress
    A hodgepodge of psychosexual horror gimmicks, from the virginal psychic artist to the impotent psychotic actor.
  30. A Room for Romeo Brass
    Indeed, one of the nicest things about this jewel of a film is that there isn't much of a story at all -- just a handful of delicately drawn characters moving through life that is at once familiar and yet slightly elevated by a director who loves the good in people more than the bad.
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