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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. Once in the Life
    May lack any transcendent point that would make it exceptional, but it is certainly a worthy start, and worth catching.
  2. What's Cooking?
    Despite some grace- ful performances, especially from Ruehl and Kazan, the result is a tepid repast at best.
  3. Lucky Numbers
    Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
  4. A Time for Drunken Horses
    A central work in the new, boldly politicized Iranian cinema.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Stardom
    With Woody Allen's "Celebrity," Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter" and MTV's "House of Style" predating it by half a decade, this is kind of like clubbing harp seals in a meat locker.
  6. The Little Vampire
    Slight and goofy, this cut-rate attempt to mine "Harry Potterville" is undermined by its ostensible draw: the lead casting of Jonathan Lipnicki.
  7. Loving Jezebel
    What's meant to be a colorblind story, plays up age-old stereotypes.
  8. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A schizoid monster slapped together by uneasy bedfellows.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sound and Fury
    Perfectly situated in the maelstrom of the personal and the political, Sound and Fury creates a space for serious, obstinate contention.
  10. Bedazzled
    It's nowhere near as funny, largely because of an exhaustingly hyperactive performance by Elizabeth Hurley.
  11. Calle 54
    Trueba reveals his subject organically, letting the music speak for itself.
  12. The Legend of Drunken Master
    A half-baked classic.
  13. The Yards
    There's so much that's right in it that its blunders are all the more frustrating.
  14. Just One Time
    Audiences will probably be miles ahead of the plot, but may not mind, since the cast bring a committed, lived-in quality to their performances.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    MVP: Most Valuable Primate
    Has its moments.
  16. Pay It Forward
    (Leder's) camera won't sit still long enough to complete a scene and tell a coherent story, skittering all over the map until you're dizzy from all the degrees of separation and spurious connection.
  17. Dr T and the Women
    About the only good thing to say about this mess is that it's rotten enough that even Altman cultists may be forced to reconsider their devotion.
  18. The Ladies Man
    The story sinks, along with any deeper laughs, under boringly formulaic motivations and plot twists.
  19. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    Reiss guides the film with a firm hand, ratcheting up the tension and ably guiding his actors. It's his protagonists that undo the film, making it a chore to sit through.
  20. Animal Factory
    What enrich the film are its layers of detail -- moronic racial protocols, turf wars, pecking orders, men as livestock -- the authenticity of the dialogue and the rich range of characters.
  21. Billy Elliot
    Good, colorful fun, and by virtue of its emphasis on escape through individual initiative rather than class solidarity, more likely to succeed with American audience.s
  22. Just Looking
    This sort of nostalgia-drenched, sexual-coming-of-age saga has been done to death.
  23. Lost Souls
    While Kaminski understands that movie terror comes in at the eyes, he has little skill for connecting sensation to hearts and minds.
  24. Ratcatcher
    Ramsay has made a movie in which a universe of hopelessness and decay is penetrated by shafts of light that remake these bleak surroundings in strange and beautiful ways.
  25. One
    Barbieri is a natural filmmaker, with an eye for film space and a gift for pacing. Both of his leads are wonderful, but it's Picoy who will break your heart.
  26. The Contender
    What Lurie has made is "The West Wing" without the constraining niceties of prime time.
  27. Get Carter
    If you've never seen the original, you may have no idea what's going on.
  28. Two Family House
    Tenderhearted Staten Island Christmas comedy.
  29. CyberWorld
    Until the IMAX 3-D format is used to produce effects that are not trivial, it will never be anything more than what it is right now: a grandiose amusement park attraction.
  30. Yi Yi
    Generous, soulful film.
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