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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Dig!
    Should be required viewing for youngsters thinking about a music career. It's a great reminder to be careful what you wish for.
  2. Jump Tomorrow
    Many try but few succeed as well as writer-director Joel Hopkins with his beguiling first feature, Jump Tomorrow, in giving a fresh spin to '30s screwball comedy.
  3. One Swallow Brought Spring
    Wise, understated, warm and witty, it presents stars Michel Serrault and Mathilde Seigner in roles that fit them so perfectly they could have been tailor-made.
  4. The Barbarian Invasions
    Bristling but finally surprisingly moving film.
  5. Cure
    With its gift for infusing uneasiness into every frame, Kurosawa's moody, unnerving film continues to spook us even after the lights have gone on.
  6. Stage Beauty
    Sly and witty.
  7. Suzhou River
    Daring and edgy, it's a German co-production (critical for avoiding censorship) that's filled with the intoxicating excitement of creating images for the screen.
  8. Girls Will Be Girls
    Writer-director Richard Day has come up with a delicious cliché of a plot to allow talented female impersonators Jack Plotnick, Clinton Leupp and Jeffery Roberson to strut their stuff. The result is a nonstop hoot.
  9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Has a sense of humor that is intellectual, even academic, at heart.
  10. Not One Less
    Has a warmth and sweetness that is especially hard to resist.
  11. Happy Times
    This is a film that goes its own way to the end as it asks the audience, "What you just saw, were they happy times or not?" The question is a good one, and the answer, like this film, is sure to stay with you.
  12. Defying Gravity
    A straightforward drama done with a maturity and conviction impressive for a first film.
  13. Girlfight
    A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings.
  14. Eyes Wide Shut
    This is finally a film that is better at mood than substance, that has its strongest hold on you when it’s making the least amount of sense.
  15. Being Julia
    The filmmakers have brought such breadth and depth to the material. Everyone counts in this film, not just Julia Lambert.
  16. Nico and Dani
    An exceptional coming-of-age film--subtle, humorous, compassionate, acutely perceptive.
  17. American Pie
    Unusual in its ability to mix bodily functions humor with a sincere and unlooked-for sense of decency.
  18. Connie and Carla
    The result is pure, unabashed and unpretentious entertainment of a sort once a staple of the movies but now rare.
  19. The Fighting Temptations
    A rousing, warmhearted comedy, as infectious as the gospel music it celebrates.
  20. Promises
    Promises takes a simple idea and just about breaks your heart with it.
  21. Scary Movie 3
    It is consistently entertaining and frequently hilarious, the violence of the slapstick so cartoonish that it does not spoil the fun.
  22. Scary Movie
    While undeniably silly and violent in a cartoon-like manner, is by and large a hilarious skewering of the clichés of teen pix.
  23. The Take
    Plays out like a Frank Capra movie with the "little people" taking on corrupt and indifferent officials. In the process the film strikes a strong blow for the dignity of labor and introduces an array of brave individuals.
  24. After the Sunset
    An unalloyed delight, bright and breezy escapist fare that's pure entertainment, filled with romance, adventure, humor, action, suspense, beautiful scenery and beautiful people.
  25. Birth
    What the intelligently spooky Birth does best is disturb us.
  26. Freaky Friday
    Turning ordinary life into movie magic is one of the most difficult, least-heralded challenges for any filmmaker. What makes Freaky Friday a charmer isn't how far-out things get for this mother and daughter, but how sweet and distinctly un-freaky a kid, her mom and their love for each other can be.
  27. Scream 3
    Genuinely scary and also highly amusing.
  28. Stander
    Crackles with forceful portrayals. Funny, violent, impassioned and inescapably poignant, Stander in no way sanctions Stander's turning to a life of crime yet has the courage to see him as a victim of apartheid himself.
  29. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Seven years in the making, it demands to be experienced not just because of the good it does but because of how unexpectedly good, even buoyant, it makes you feel.
  30. A Talking Picture
    An honest title for a film that is almost entirely conversation. Yet its rich contemplative tone proves deceptive, for its director, Portugal's preeminent filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, at 96, still knows how to pack a wallop.
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