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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. Paragraph 175
    Speaks so eloquently for itself, there's not much more for me to do than urge you to get over to the Nuart for the one week it's playing in Los Angeles.
  2. Almost Famous
    Crowe has made a hugely entertaining, nearly pitch-perfect film about rock & roll.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Way of the Gun
    Isn't a bad film, but as we watch it we're constantly rewriting it in our minds to make it a better one.
  4. Pola X
    The film is at once breathtaking and ridiculous, and it's the tension between these two extremes, as well as Carax's own intoxicating style, that makes it essential viewing.
  5. My 5 Wives
    The deliriously deficient new excuse for a comedy.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Backstage
    An entertaining trip, one for which fandom in the genre isn't necessarily a prerequisite, though it doubtlessly helps.
  7. Nurse Betty
    This delightful and compassionate romp achieves precisely that rare quality -- grace -- that sets Betty apart from the pack.
  8. Solas
    As a tactfully quiet story of mother-daughter estrangement and psychic rescue, Solas can hardly fail to excite the longing so many of us have to right domestic wrongs.
  9. The Watcher
    Fails to fulfill.
    • L.A. Weekly
  10. Turn It Up
    Gormless, gutless little home movie.
  11. Whipped
    As repellent as their characters are, one feels a degree of pity for the three male leads, who give fresh evidence that hungry actors can't say no to a studio feature, no matter how humiliating the script.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Titanic Town
    A rare treat -- a mix of politics that avoids reductive simplicity and a story that's entirely engaging.
  13. Highlander: Endgame
    While the film is well-paced, visually it is deathly dull.
  14. Wildflowers
    The biggest problem is that the character of Sabine is such a lame male fantasy of the enigmatic woman-child.
  15. Dark Days
    Designed neither to warm your heart nor shelter you in the comfort of liberal guilt, the movie does what so many style-conscious, "subjective" documentaries have long forgotten how to do. It shows you a world, and stays the hell out of it.
  16. The Art of War
    Slick, noisy thriller.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bring It On
    Starts strong, but then falters.
  18. Solomon & Gaenor
    First-time writer-director Paul Morrison has a gift for evoking a time and place.
  19. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    The best I can say for Smiling Fish is that it's capable and pleasant, which ought to sound a warning note louder than if I'd said it was awful.
  20. Bittersweet Motel
    Never really gets across the essence of who the band members are and why they inspire such fidelity.
  21. Orfeu
    Unfortunately, the innovations that attend this updating dilute the iconic weight of the original.
  22. Love & Sex
    Janssen proves herself an actress of delightful range.
  23. The Crew
    There are moments that suggest the comedy that could have been.
  24. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
    Consistently undermined by a script that swings between the duller side of quirky and facile sentiment.
  25. God's Army
    A fine cast of unknowns in a story of faith -- lost, found and continually challenged -- that neither romanticizes nor condescends to its milieu.
  26. Place Vendôme
    It's all about having your intelligence -- emotional, spiritual, cerebral -- respected. Garcia does that; Place Vendôme does that.
  27. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    A kind of folktale, rooted in poignant personal experience.
  28. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Both funny and furious -- on why black people are different from white people.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Steal This Movie
    Throws in a lot of detail but withholds the real secrets of Abbie Hoffman. His life was no fairy tale. Why should it be filmed to end like one?
  30. The Cell
    Jennifer Lopez's butt? Alas, the moment is over all too soon; the movie, sadly, is not.
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