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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. Burnt Money
    Those who hang in for the long haul are rewarded with a sexy, moving love story.
  2. A Galaxy Far, Far Away
    Jalil penetrates a carnivalesque subculture of self-reinvention and obsession, emotional need and materialist greed, with a camera that is, by turns, cruel, kind and incisive.
  3. From Hell
    Their discretion makes From Hell less a horror movie than a classical film noir.
  4. The Last Castle
    Lurie manages, despite these obstacles, to inspire Redford to give one of the most layered and interesting performances of his career.
  5. Riding in Cars with Boys
    In many ways, Marshall and Barrymore are an equal match -- while both have a flair for the small touches that build a good comic scene, each lacks the complex layering of motive and emotion that make a human life believably real.
  6. Waking Life
    Individual artists were assigned their own characters and given free rein -- characters and locations shift on a dime from naturalistic to baroque -- with the result that the movie's formal imagination surpasses and redeems the banal tedium of some of the dialogue.
  7. My Voyage to Italy
    Has power not only as film scholarship, but as an inquiry into cinema's interplay with our collective memories and the nature of history itself.
  8. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    Iguana runs hot and cold, being engaging and dull by turns depending on the plausibility of the character before the camera.
  9. The Human Body
    There's no denying the overwhelming force of the giant IMAX screen, as we're reminded that each of us is the coolest special effect ever.
  10. Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop
    Belongs to the small rank of hip-hop films that actually have something to say -- and that say it with both style and intellectual bite.
  11. Bandits
    Too long, too slow, too self-consciously chatty and too much at the mercy of a slim premise that doesn't wear well under endless repetition.
  12. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    There's some funny erotic business with gas masks, but neither that nor the unfolding love story is quite as engrossing as the raucous bunch of former Soviet citizens.
  13. Corky Romano
    What at times feels like a maniacal romp becomes just another sporadically funny, but mostly lame, piece of disposable product.
  14. Iron Monkey
    A pure font of high-flying kung fu artistry, the likes of which has since transformed the way Hollywood's good guys and bad kick the crap out of one another.
  15. Mulholland Dr.
    Not just everything you want in a David Lynch movie, but damn near everything else you want in ANY movie.
  16. My First Mister
    Christine Lahti, making her directorial debut, wrings good laughs and strong emotion throughout, largely through the performances.
  17. Max Keeble's Big Move
    Its overall view of 12-year-old life is essentially one of high-spirited fun.
  18. The Learning Curve
    Opens the floodgates of cartoonish villainy and pitiful sentiment.
  19. Grateful Dawg
    Grisman's warm, loving home movie in the guise of a documentary.
  20. Chop Suey
    Chop Suey really captivates with surfaces; look away for an instant, and the spell is broken.
  21. Joy Ride
    Director John Dahl ("Red Rock West," "The Last Seduction") has a pronounced knack for snap reversals and out-of-the-blue shocks.
  22. The Hidden Half
    Ultimately, The Hidden Half is shopworn feminist soap opera, enacted in a political echo chamber.
  23. The Debut
    Having built his cast from friends and family, the director is left with some stilted acting, but that's easily outweighed by the film's infectious enthusiasm.
  24. Training Day
    One of those movie equivalents of a freeway pileup -- it's a mess, at once insistently watchable and a total dead end.
  25. Serendipity
    As Serendipity moves into the final stretch, Chelsom's direction becomes frenzied but still lethargic; he never breathes life into the film.
  26. La Ciénaga
    Martel's off-the-cuff candor and intelligent eye for the quietly telling detail charts the progressive rot not only of a family, but of an entire social class.
  27. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    Va Savoir doesn't so much flow as wander, trailing off into drama one minute, slapstick the next; it tries your patience, but ever so gently, masterfully.
  28. Born Romantic
    Kane believes in happy endings, but he makes his characters earn theirs, as each couple is forced, ever so subtly, to face its own inner nonsense. The filmmaker has divine actors at his disposal.
  29. Diamond Men
    But its quiet, solid center is Forster's Eddie, a man who can keep his cool under pressure and, with the merest twitch of a facial muscle, reveal a capacity for change.
  30. Jabberwocky (re-release)
    Jabberwocky is not a Python film, a fact most obvious in its marked lack of humor.
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