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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. Ong Bak
    However shrewdly he's been packaged, Tony Jaa is the real thing.
  2. Bride & Prejudice
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that had Jane Austen lived to see the profits that have been squeezed from her most marketable premise, she'd doubtless have wept, then lobbied for her share of the royalties.
  3. Hitch
    The film moves in fits and starts, and is way too long, but it may prove memorable, if only for the sweet, marvelously inventive performance of Kevin James.
  4. Inside Deep Throat
    Seeks to establish a pioneering role for the movie in liberating America’s sex life. To me it’s far from clear that that cheerfully cheesy slice of hardcore, made for $25,000 by a middle-aged hairdresser named Gerard Damiano, has spawned much in the way of a cultural legacy.
  5. Uncle Nino
    There's not a single surprise or moment of dramatic tension in Uncle Nino, which has already proved itself a hit as a self-distributed film in the Midwest.
  6. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Amusing, beautifully drawn one-hour film.
  7. The Letter: An American Town and the 'Somali Invasion'
    The result is a carefully wrought, historically grounded and thoroughly absorbing look at a quintessential American experience.
  8. Boogeyman
    Unexpectedly gripping horror movie.
  9. The Wedding Date
    Anemic.
  10. Harry + Max
    It's one of those rare movie failures that truly warrants being called ambitious.
  11. Nobody Knows
    Unfolds with such leisurely, terrible beauty, it takes a while to realize that what we are witnessing is the children's long slide into beggary, exacerbated by the slow torture of faint hope.
  12. The Nomi Song
    Dazzles with rare performance footage.
  13. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    O'Donnell's directing is assured and glossy as befits a former maker of television commercials, and Jeffrey Caine's exuberant script sidesteps cliché -- just.
  14. Swimming Upstream
    A passionately told tale.
  15. Sunset Story
    It's the cinematic equivalent of glancing up at the sky and taking a good deep breath.
  16. Assisted Living
    Yet for all its willful blurring of the lines between documentary and fiction, Assisted Living is the least self-conscious of movies.
  17. Daybreak
    Though the acting is uniformly excellent, especially Petren in her bilious rage, Daybreak doesn't provide anything like the cumulative catharsis of, say, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." We don't really care about these people - we just want someone to make them stop.
  18. Fear X
    Turturro keeps Fear X fascinating, practically in spite of itself.
  19. 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.
  20. Alone in the Dark
    Director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead) pulls off a nicely staged fistfight in an open-air market at the start, but soon loses his way amid mind-glazing exposition and endless gunfire aimed at bulletproof giant lizards.
  21. Hide and Seek
    While the final revelation is laughably absurd, DeNiro and Fanning are so far inside their roles that one can't giggle for long.
  22. Fascination
    So tedious is Fascination that the plot, the embittered characters and, yes, the sexuality are merely insipid.
  23. Lost Embrace
    This delightful riff on the identity crisis of a young Jewish Argentine man deserves both the Grand Jury prize and Best Actor awards it won at last year's Berlin Film Festival.
  24. Are We There Yet?
    Surely the only thing more excruciating than being trapped in a car with a bratty child is having to sit through a road-trip movie that features two of them.
  25. Beautiful Boxer
    It’s a good story, and Uekrongtham, making his feature debut, captures the camaraderie of camp life and the subsequent matches with the panache of a veteran studio hand, but the insights into Toom's psyche never extend past the fun he has applying powder and eyeliner.
  26. Head-On
    In its breathlessly claustrophobic way the movie is vital and passionate, and lit with a lyric beauty that washes over love scenes and violent acts alike.
  27. Monsieur N.
    And though at over two hours the movie is too long and too slow, de Caunes sustains a sense of mystery and ambiguity to the end of what is both a satisfying character study and a stately quasi-thriller for amateur historians.
  28. Watermarks
    Not especially lively filmmaking, but Zilberman has unearthed some terrific footage of the club in its heyday.
  29. Assault on Precinct 13
    Excitably puppyish homage.
  30. Coach Carter
    The corniness and predictability feel, if not quite fresh, then not so groaningly stale.
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