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For 16,535 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: 8,705 out of 16535
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16535
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16535
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  1. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    If this strikes some as some kind of gallingly blasé, ostentatious Parisian sophistication, it's far from it.
  2. Major Dundee (re-release)
    It's hard to imagine "The Wild Bunch" having the depth and grace it did without Peckinpah having this experience to draw on, and for that masterful film alone we're grateful to have Major Dundee back among the living again.
  3. Eros
    The only real reason to catch Eros is to see Wong Kar-Wai's beautiful opening piece, "The Hand."
  4. Voices in Wartime
    A thoughtful, provocative exploration of the ways poets have dealt with the experience of battle throughout history.
  5. First Love
    An elegantly told tale of obsession that, in failing to take on any larger meaning, rapidly becomes depressing to watch.
  6. Sin City
    For a relentlessly violent and exploitive noir knockoff, Sin City is mystifyingly flat and static - cartoonish, even, if you want to get tautological about it.
  7. Dust to Glory
    Like his father, Brown inserts himself into the action via folksy narration. His husky, laid-back voice sounds something like Kevin Costner, lending a regular-guy aura to the reverential treatment he affords his subject.
  8. Control
    Kontroll is in fact an allegory, but one that oozes a gritty, dynamic realism.
  9. Look at Me
    What makes Look at Me such a deeply satisfying experience is its ability to combine insightful character portraits like this with wickedly funny situations that slyly skewer all-too-human weaknesses.
  10. Beauty Shop
    For all the vivid, amusing characters that surround Gina, Beauty Shop rightly belongs to Latifah, who comes into her own as a star and an actress in this film.
  11. Oldboy
    It says something when you come out of a film as weird and fantastical as Oldboy and feel that you've experienced something truly authentic. I just don't know what. I can't think of anything to compare it to.
  12. Guess Who
    Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan milks the film's one joke for all it's worth - which isn't much - before settling into the rote rhythms of a buddy picture.
  13. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Powered by an exceptional performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, this artfully disturbing film is a compelling, imaginative look at the potent emotional bond that forms not between romantic lovers but between fathers and daughters.
  14. D.E.B.S.
    For an unabashedly silly spoof of a girly action flick, D.E.B.S. is unexpectedly fresh, thanks mostly to the sweetly exuberant love story at its center.
  15. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    What makes Lipstick & Dynamite its own animal is that, intentionally or not, the director has allowed something else into the mix, a glimpse of the unvarnished and the unsanitized.
  16. Nina's Tragedies
    Has too much depth, too much freshness and imagination ever to be adequately described in any of its aspects as merely "quirky" or "off the wall."
  17. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    As awful as the original was inspired.
  18. Mondovino
    An entertaining film that is neither stuffy nor pretentious.
  19. Ice Princess
    Although this is the kind of entertainment designed to send its audience home happy, Ice Princess has its share of stinging moments and has a good deal more edge than one might have expected.
  20. The Ring Two
    The movie is as side-splitting as it is creepy, especially when it ventures into surrealistic nightmare imagery.
  21. Melinda and Melinda
    Allen's view of what's "deeply real" feels ever more deeply bogus as the movie progresses, his trademark wit having calcified into pastiche and unintended self-parody.
  22. Fifty-Fifty
    Schizo is an ugly name for a dark and lovely piece of work, but maybe that's the point. The world this film depicts can be a casually pitiless one, half modern and half tribal, but it can also offer compassion and beauty.
  23. Steamboy
    A stunning-to-look-at film marred by a less than searing pace and some narrative incoherence.
  24. The Rider Named Death
    The force of the film is not as profound as Shakhnazarov clearly intended, and The Rider Named Death is easier to respect than enjoy.
  25. Hostage
    Made with energetic flair and no small dose of violence, mercifully handled with discretion, Hostage exemplifies taut, confident filmmaking.
  26. Robots
    The animated tale has flashes of brilliance but seems assembled from cultural flotsam.
  27. The Upside of Anger
    A squarely suburban movie with a distinctly bourgeois-shaped window on the world, but it's genuine and exceptionally well observed.
  28. Millions
    Despite being a pure fantasy that relishes not making literal sense, Millions retains a conviction about what it's doing that makes us believe and enjoy.
  29. In My Country
    Boorman's stars Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson are valiant - even impressive - but they cannot rescue this grueling film or its mechanical plot.
  30. Mail Order Wife
    A wickedly funny satire.
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