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For 16,534 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 2.2 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: 8,704 out of 16534
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16534
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16534
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  1. Fixing Frank
    Fixing Frank is "good theater," and in the writing and in Butler's quietly chilling, ever-so-civilized portrayal, Apsey emerges as a veritable Svengali.
  2. Second Best
    The strongest scenes are those between Elliot and Richard, which give Second Best a verisimilitude lacking in the rest of the film. The truest thing here is that these two guys have been friends forever and always will be.
  3. Sex, Politics & Cocktails
    Julien Hernandez's Sex, Politics & Cocktails gives all three a bad name.
  4. Stolen Childhoods
    An impassioned plea for change, the film balances bleak, Dickensian conditions with details of a growing number of international programs designed to combat the epidemic.
  5. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The most energetic of the prequels, the only one at all worth watching. But that doesn't mean it is without the weaknesses that scuttled its pair of predecessors. Quite the contrary.
  6. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Dallaire is not only the protagonist of Shake Hands, he is a compelling reason to see it.
  7. Mindhunters
    Turns out to be a thudding dud, crammed with clunky dialogue, bad acting and gruesome but unpersuasive gore. Mindhunters will pass muster with only the most undemanding horror fans.
  8. Kicking & Screaming
    A threadbare comedy glomming onto the ample talent of its star, Will Ferrell.
  9. Monster-in-Law
    All I could think about while watching Jennifer Lopez prance through Monster-in-Law was how cool and poised she was in "Out of Sight."
  10. Unleashed
    Includes a few scenes of impressively choreographed mayhem, but they're all but buried in Freeman and Condon's mystical grandpa and weirdo teeny bopper routines.
  11. Mad Hot Ballroom
    A documentary experience to savor. Warm, funny and very difficult to resist, this engaging film combines the charm of "Spellbound" with the kinetic energy of "Strictly Ballroom" in a way that will make you want to laugh, cry and do a little dancing yourself, maybe all at the same time.
  12. My Mother
    Degrading, disgusting and depressing.
  13. Layer Cake
    A sleek, effective entertainment that is a refreshing respite from the slick emptiness of recent American crime dramas.
  14. Kings & Queen
    A complex, boldly experimental movie plotted like a thriller and paced like a farce, Kings and Queen is category-defying film that's as smart and emotionally resonant as it is entertaining.
  15. Lost
    Lost is consistently clever, amusing -- and scary.
  16. Modigliani
    Deeply silly and tendentious.
  17. Tell Them Who You Are
    A remarkable work -- lively, painful, humorous, deeply revealing of both father and son -- that is worthy of one of Hollywood's finest directors of photography.
  18. Crash
    Any glimpse of emotional honesty comes courtesy of the actors, who manage to do a credible job despite the material.
  19. House of Wax
    Related to the 1953 Vincent Price film in name, embalming technique and Warner Bros. pedigree only, the new House of Wax is a dreary, predictable tale.
  20. Kingdom of Heaven
    Scott and company have gotten so accomplished at re-creating history that the results have a welcome offhanded quality, making them spectacular without seeming to be showing off.
  21. Fighting Tommy Riley
    This small, lovingly crafted film continually surprises with its depth and resonance.
  22. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    A giddy, gassy piece of lunatic fluff that recounts Jiminy's rise to fame. In interviews, Short has described Glick as a moron with power, and in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, he takes us back to the early days, when he was merely a moron.
  23. Mysterious Skin
    It's hard to imagine a more serious or persuasive indictment of the horrors inflicted on children by sexual abuse than Mysterious Skin.
  24. The Great Role
    It is a most tender love story, first and foremost, and a warm, affectionately humorous depiction of Kurz's close-knit Jewish friends and colleagues.
  25. Brothers
    The end result was that the performances reached a remarkable level of intimacy and intensity.
  26. A Hole in One
    The anesthetized, deadpan performances -- except for Meat Loaf as Anna's gangster boyfriend, who's so over-the-top it appears he stumbled in from another movie -- and dull storytelling result in an unsuccessful mix of screwball comedy, melodrama and noir.
  27. Up for Grabs
    A winning combination of humor and crafty filmmaking.
  28. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    There are some inspired off-the-wall moments, but they are more than offset by a pervasive aura of tedium and the lack of any sense of the forward momentum necessary to sustain an adventure of this kind.
  29. xXx: State of the Union
    Opens explosively and never lets up.
  30. 3-Iron
    Alternately witty, caustic, tender and endlessly imaginative and unpredictable.
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