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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 Five Obstructions
    A complete original. This ingenious, almost indescribable film won't remind you of anything else because there's nothing else like it.
  2. Raising Helen
    The agreeable cast led by Hudson and Cusack manage to extract a handful of laughs from the forgettable dialogue, but at nearly two hours, the film goes on far too long.
  3. My Mother Likes Women
    The attempt to find humor in mean-spiritedness is way beyond Paris and Fejerman's abilities, and their last-reel attempt to portray Sofia as an ultimately liberating force for her daughters is as contrived as My Mother Likes Women is repellent.
  4. Stateside
    The film is plagued by Anselmo's inability to focus on the heart of his story.
  5. Love Me If You Dare
    The film is loaded with striking visuals, high energy and all-stops portrayals from its actors, but for all of Samuell's imaginative cinematic bravura, it is, finally, mainly exasperating. Phooey on Julien and Sophie's excruciating l'amour fou.
  6. Control Room
    Think of Control Room as a through-the-looking-glass movie. Like Lewis Carroll's Alice, viewers of this remarkable documentary will be disconcerted by a glimpse of a world where everything is reversed.
  7. Twist
    Under Tierney's admirably low-key, unexploitative direction all his actors are memorable and never seem to be acting. Twist is decidedly dark but consistently engaging.
  8. Shrek 2
    Its cleverness and its good heart enable it to overcome a slow start, which is how all good fairy tales end.
  9. With All Deliberate Speed
    Rather than merely chronicling the events leading up to the May 17, 1954, Supreme Court decision that ordered the desegregation of public schools in the U.S., the film explores both its effect and ways in which it has fallen short in creating true equality.
  10. Carandiru
    Carandiru is Babenco's fourth film set inside some type of incarceration facility and meshes his documentary style and fondness for realism with the escapism of storytelling found in "Kiss of the Spider Woman." It plunges us deep inside a corrupt system and its sincere empathy creates a stirring mix of emotions.
  11. Breakin' All the Rules
    The hard-sell comic delivery one expects from contemporary date movies is pleasantly tempered here.
  12. A Slipping-Down Life
    The casting of Taylor gives the film a powerful center, a bright light that keeps it on course.
  13. Strayed
    What makes this film special, as in his other films, is the getting there. Téchiné is the master of subtle shifts in mood, an acute delineator of psychological interplay, and therefore demands the utmost of his actors.
  14. Springtime in a Small Town
    For Tian, who was banned from directing by Chinese authorities for a decade, it marks a triumphant return; for those who have loved the filmmaker's work in the past, few resurrections have seemed as welcome.
  15. A Day Without a Mexican
    Much of the humor is overly familiar, and the broader elements feel strained when it veers toward melodrama in its final third.
  16. After Freedom
    A deeply personal film that is also a mature, assured work rich in telling details and shot through with humor to offset its serious concerns.
  17. Coffee and Cigarettes
    Known for an elegant visual style, Jarmusch has a great gift for playing actors against one another, for finding complementary eccentrics (Murray and RZA) and uncovering rare gems (Bill Rice and Taylor Mead in "Champagne").
  18. Troy
    Given everything, it's no surprise that the verdict on the film has to be a split decision. Troy is a movie you believe in physically...Believing in Troy emotionally, however, presents a greater challenge.
  19. Off the Lip
    There's some technical dexterity in melding the various formats and capturing some impressive surf footage, but the shaggy dog nature of the story proves exhausting.
  20. The Mudge Boy
    A deadly earnest drama tripped up by clumsy plotting and unintentional bursts of humor.
  21. A Foreign Affair
    Neither funny enough to be a comedy nor serious enough to pass for drama, and it ambles along aimlessly before grinding to an unconvincing halt.
  22. Valentin
    His constant chatter may grate, but Noya does the wide-eyed wonderment thing very well.
  23. Oasis
    An unforgettable experience from yet another filmmaker who is making South Korean cinema one of the most vibrant of any emerging on the international scene.
  24. Super Size Me
    Packs a lot of good information, witty visual aids and expert testimonials into its fast 96 minutes, and all the bad eating certainly makes for compelling if at times repugnant viewing. But the film ends up too short and, as a consequence, frustratingly glib.
  25. Van Helsing
    Kind of like a basketball team of all-stars -- no names, please -- that has difficulty jelling into one smooth and efficient unit.
  26. Seeing Other People
    Along with the performances, there is a languid truthfulness in some of the dialogue that keeps Seeing Other People from being one of those completely forgettable indie romances that play in perpetuity on cable.
  27. New York Minute
    A coy, frantic attempt at screwball comedy, lightly seasoned and more than a little gummy.
  28. Superstar in a Housedress
    The film is full of flamboyant personalities, and they all contribute to the impression that Highberger above all wants to pay tribute to Curtis' brave determination to discover and express his ever-changing identity at all costs.
  29. Bulgarian Lovers
    Sly, swift, succinct -- and very sexy.
  30. Laws of Attraction
    Unlike Tracy and Hepburn, the loving and loathing here are absent music and wit and tend to imply that what Moore's character really needs is a good frolic.
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