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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 8.7 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. The Fluffer
    Saturated with deep, rich color and low-key visual wit, and graced with sympathetic performances.
  2. The Wash
    What the film suffers from most, though, are its own low aspirations: stroking the libidos and funny bones of brain-dead 12-year-old boys immersed in the shallow end of hip-hop.
  3. I Remember Me
    Startlingly affecting -- What emerges is a picture of an illness that causes enormous suffering but whose origins and treatment continue to elude even those doctors who pay attention to it.
  4. Snide and Prejudice
    The Marat/Sade irony of setting these scenes in a madhouse helps, but Macfadyen's volcanic magnetism and spot-on mimicry of Hitler's body language and speech patterns make insight flesh.
  5. Maze
    Holds its potentially problematic ingredients together remarkably well, summoning outstanding performances from Morrow and Linney, while never dipping into sentiment or patronizing the ailment's sufferers.
  6. Shallow Hal
    Shallow Hal is "Shrek" for grown-ups, a fairy tale right down to its reverse-Cinderella plot.
  7. Heist
    Can he do the thing? Well, yes and no. He -- Mamet, David, celebrated celebrity playwright and less-certain maker of movies -- can do some of the things, like assemble a cast sleek as a cat.
  8. King of the Jungle
    Overall, King of the Jungle never quite achieves a necessary, culminating insight about charity, or mercy -- though Leguizamo's performance puts one in reach.
  9. The One
    There's nothing like a feature-length video game to make you feel you're being played.
  10. Everything Put Together
    Mitchell -- gives a harrowing, beautifully conceived performance, the depth and arc of which can't be fully appreciated until the film's final scene.
  11. Happenstance
    Fate plays both prankster and deliverer in Firode's never-too-clever scheme, buoyed, like his often-winsome images, by romantic fancy.
  12. Punks
    For a film purporting to tell it like it is for black gay men, race is the most poorly handled aspect in Punk's equation; it's almost as if it had no relevance. That might have flown if its most telling moment didn't suggest otherwise.
  13. Monsters, Inc.
    The story's charming, the set pieces are wildly inventive, and even the throwaway one-liners, about everything from movie-animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen to the old Oscar Meyer jingle, are hilarious.
  14. Amélie
    Sucks -- because it's a frenetic bore that insists on its audience's adoration while making no demands upon their intelligence.
  15. Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
    Nauseating, tasteless and offensive -- but in all the best ways.
  16. Tape
    A tedious exercise in ethical hand wringing.
  17. Domestic Disturbance
    Absurd beyond belief or reason.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Coens have resurrected a hardscrabble California of wooden porches and gravel driveways, of rolling, oak-wreathed hills and one-lane roads, and of a restless people whose meager dreams are wrecked the moment money, sex or a bottle get in the way. Never has the past seemed so familiar.
  19. K-PAX
    Manipulative, feel-good drivel wrapped around a cloying performance by Kevin Spacey.
  20. High Heels and Low Lifes
    Director Mel Smith (Bean) struggles to make up for the lack, clumsily juggling screwball dames and criminal elements, and trying to disguise the film's marked lack of vitality with split-screen tricks, jokey camera angles and a limp musical montage.
  21. On the Line
    Bass isn't a gifted actor, but he retains his dignity, mostly by keeping his head down and avoiding the eyes of the idiots around him.
  22. The Town Is Quiet
    Leaves you reeling from the force of the humanity it captures and -- in its own gut-wrenching way -- honors.
  23. Life as a House
    There's nothing particularly wrong with this movie, except that it's too nice for words.
  24. Better Than Sex
    This is a small, funny movie drawn from the radical notion that a love born of late-night lust can survive the glaring light of day.
  25. Thirteen Ghosts
    A brutish affair replete with sliced bodies, a diced storyline and enough clanky dialogue to wake the dead.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Donnie Darko
    It is funny, sad and beautiful. And it's right on time.
  27. Bones
    Director Ernest -- doesn't skimp on style in a film that bluntly exploits social conscience to pump up its taste for gore.
  28. Trembling Before G-d
    Remarkable exploration of sexuality and the Jewish faith.
  29. Intimacy
    Although much has and will be made of the film's sexual explicitness -- and, yes, it is a bit -- this less-than-perfect but deeply felt film is finally most daring for its hard-core insistence on our need for connection.
  30. Focus
    A hyperreal, visually layered period style that finds film noir shadows creeping in at the edges of a blue-sky, get-along-to-go-along America.
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