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For 16,533 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: 8,703 out of 16533
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16533
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16533
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  1. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Soulful and reflective film, as gentle as it is potent.
  2. September Tapes
    The visceral thrills do not make up for the ultimate banality of the movie.
  3. Hollywood Buddha
    Isn't remotely funny or pointed enough to qualify as satire. Intentionally or not, it comes across instead as a portrait of a man whose self-regard knows no limits.
  4. 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.
  5. Cowboys & Angels
    For all its moments of pathos, Cowboys & Angels is lighthearted. It is an assured piece of work and wholly engaging.
  6. Merci Docteur Rey
    An elegant Merchant Ivory production, it is too slight and perhaps too precious. But it will be a witty pleasure for admirers of its grande dames: Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin and Bulle Ogier.
  7. Head in the Clouds
    Lacks freshness and vitality.
  8. Zelary
    It's a convincing romantic drama, written, directed and acted with so much skill it's able to break loose from its conventional moorings and become more effective, more moving than we anticipated.
  9. Mr 3000
    Good-looking and smooth, with a great soundtrack.
  10. Incident at Loch Ness
    An amusing mock documentary that spends considerable energy artfully trying to make you believe it's real as real can be. The movie is transparently a fake, but its counterfeit nature is the heart of its charm.
  11. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    A one-gag movie and that one gag isn't funny. Taylor and Lasser are reduced to playing sex-starved Norma Desmonds, and while Friedle and Owen are certainly game, their plan is a waste of everyone's time, especially the audience's.
  12. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    A lovingly rendered visual treat struggles with indifferent direction and torpid plot.
  13. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The dark sequel offers gorgeous images, with an updated and stylish design, but its characters' angst gets in the way of storytelling.
  14. Wimbledon
    The Bjorn Borg of romantic comedies: precise, good-looking, dependable and serviceable, if predictable. It never really heats up, which is too bad.
  15. Silver City
    A series of miscalculations caused this project to lose its way, until what we're left with is a film that should involve us more than it does.
  16. Reconstruction
    Everything blends in a haze of longing, so that watching it feels like being in love.
  17. Criminal
    Captures Los Angeles in a straightforward, naturalistic way, neighborhood-hopping like a native.
  18. Testosterone
    Surprise after surprise follows in this increasingly dark comedy, which is loaded with sharp observations and exceptionally complex characterizations.
  19. Cellular
    Illustrates what happens when a viable premise is spoiled by sheer preposterousness.
  20. Vlad
    In short, Vlad could have used a substantial transfusion of wit and energy, with a dash of dark humor.
  21. When Will I Be Loved
    With its improvisatory tone and loose, rambling structure, which often approaches a total breakdown of coherence, the story takes about half an hour to emerge.
  22. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Witt injects the film with plenty of razzle-dazzle on the visual side, but the pace deadens whenever the zombies are offscreen or the characters open their mouths long enough to do anything more than grunt.
  23. Evergreen
    Enid Zentelis' affecting and intimate Evergreen deals with family life and coming of age and is the kind of small, deeply personal American film that rarely surfaces even in art theaters these days.
  24. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
    Contends that doctrines, including promoting unilateralism, increasing military spending and protecting "access to vital raw materials, primarily Persian Gulf oil," can be traced from right-wing think tanks into U.S. foreign policy.
  25. A Letter to True
    An undeniably odd film, this ode to pooches is more than just a dog calendar come to life.
  26. Remember Me, My Love
    A decorative Italian soap opera with an asterisk for earnest aspirations. Its beautiful people say painful things to each other in gorgeous clothes, and though the film expects us to take their problems seriously, it's awfully hard to do so.
  27. The Cookout
    Good-natured but it's a dud.
  28. Big Girls Don't Cry
    A refreshing reminder that learning how to navigate danger is a big part of being a teenager, and that no kind of upbringing - or nifty home furnishings - can or should shield a young adult from life outside her doors.
  29. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    May be a period piece but there's nothing antiquated about it except an overly populated, initially hard-to-follow plot.
  30. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    With killing as an end in itself, combatants lose sight of what they were supposed to be taking up arms for in the first place. It's a terrible lesson, and one that Tae Guk Gi teaches with unexpected confidence.
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