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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. Shadow Magic
    Shadow Magic is rich with detail.
  2. The Tailor of Panama
    The movie is crudely jokey and, finally, a wimpy betrayal of its source.
  3. Amores Perros
    There's something overly studied, almost clinical, in how it all pulls together.
  4. Spy Kids
    It's whiz-bang, techno fun, with a touch of Latino flavor.
  5. Tomcats
    Grotesque and ugly.
  6. Someone Like You...
    In supporting roles, Ellen Barkin and Marisa Tomei are marvelously light-footed.
  7. Too Much Sleep
    Maquiling offers us the unexpected pleasures of taking the side streets in a film about how even minor-key adventures can make a life stuck in low gear something to look back on.
  8. The Brothers
    If it registers at all, it'll likely be more because of the fuckability of Morris Chestnut -- a star waiting for a worthy film -- than any insights or memorable moments from the movie itself.
  9. Heartbreakers
    Although the film is a tad long, Mirkin ("Romy and Michele's High School Reunion") has managed to pull off a classy, gently funny movie in which no one throws up, a rare blessing these days.
  10. Say It Isn't So
    The humor stays on one low level throughout, and thus fades fast.
  11. Exit Wounds
    Silver, manages the deft balance of making Seagal seem both genuinely courageous and charmingly blockheaded.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    The Shapiros, whose film is intercut with hilarious clips from vintage TV interviews with Mike Douglas and Charlie Rose, ultimately reveal a frail but mentally robust old man.
  13. Enemy at the Gates
    Despite the success of these action sequences, Annaud and his ultraserious cast are so determined (admirably) to keep war from seeming romantic that we are never quite pulled into the movie.
  14. Memento
    If nothing else, Memento is a savvy comment on the queasy uncertainties of the postmodern condition, in which history goes no further back than yesterday's news, and knowledge is supplanted by "information" from a tumult of spin-controlled, unreliable narrators.
  15. The Dish
    Surprisingly moving -- prompting lumps in the throat over what was, after all, a historic moment of the most luminous hope.
  16. Kissing Jessica Stein
    These women are smart, funny and wonderfully real, traits that one might safely attribute to Westfeldt and Juergensen, who also wrote the screenplay.
  17. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges.
  18. Long Night's Journey Into Day
    Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffman's heart-stopping, Oscar-nominated documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is narrow in focus, but broad in its reach for insight into the power of public drama.
  19. Simon Magus
    Unfortunately, it's our knowledge of what's actually to come that puts much of the chill and complexity in Hopkins' rather formulaic script.
  20. Biandan, guniang
    So moving and so timely.
  21. Get Over It
    A lobotomized updating of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
  22. 15 Minutes
    Isn't just rotten -- badly acted, badly written, badly conceived -- it's dead inside.
  23. The Gleaners & I
    It's both surreal -- and wholly accessible.
  24. Blow Dry
    There are gruelingly unfunny gags, an unspeakable soundtrack featuring BTO and Billy Ocean, and Victoria's Secret mannequin Heidi Klum as a model who demands that her pussy hair be styled into a bushy red heart.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Carman: The Champion
    Drags through one tough-love moment after another without much energy or originality from its single-monikered star.
  26. The Caveman's Valentine
    Especially disappointing that Lemmons, who in "Eve's Bayou" gave us insightful glimpses into the emotional world of black adults, has lost her balance, elevating formula over revelation.
  27. Series 7: The Contenders
    As with "The Blair Witch Project," one must swallow one's irritation at paying yet again for big-screen video -- but even so, the spectacle of an America falling apart is acutely and hilariously embodied by Dawn.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Me You Them
    Skirting overt politics, Waddington opts instead for a subtle portrait of emotions, and a story that's told through glances, languorous pacing and breathtaking landscapes.
  29. See Spot Run
    It's finally a hilarious and cuddly flashback from the dog's point of view, to his training as a pup, that marks the moment when the film finds its sweetly moronic legs.
  30. Hit and Runway
    Surprisingly smart film.
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