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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. Open Hearts
    The gritty, low-budget realism approach of the Dogme manifesto gives immediacy and edge to the raw emotions Bier and her cast uncover. Best of all, Bier never forgets that a little humor can relieve an awful lot of pain.
  2. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Kept in check by his character's neuroses, Pearce holds our attention throughout, but it isn't until near the end that he manages to break free of his character's and his director's inhibitions.
  3. Dark Blue
    Sensitively directed by Ron Shelton and helped by what just might be the best performance of Kurt Russell's career, Dark Blue is as interesting and successful as it can be within its limits, but those limits make this a more generic film than its makers intended.
  4. Lawless Heart
    Charming, disarming and in some ways humbling film.
  5. Gods and Generals
    Maxwell has populated his film with paragons rather than people. Worse, they talk and talk and talk; this film is in danger of talking itself to death before the Union and the Confederacy are able to decimate each other.
  6. Old School
    The disconnect between what men say and what they do makes Old School funnier than most of its gags and it also invests the movie with curious pathos.
  7. The Life of David Gale
    Frankly, the film's real surprise is that it doesn't collapse under the weight of its sanctimonious posturing and howling pretension. The film is crammed with high-cultural references and people playing "smart," but none of it adds up.
  8. Missing Young Woman
    Chillingly, Portillo reveals that 50 women were killed in the 18 months it took her to make her film.
  9. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    It leaves you stirred and uplifted not only by its music but also by the determination and courage of the people who sang and danced it on the way to a freer life.
  10. The Ballad of Bering Strait
    What makes the story worthwhile is the candor and personality of the band members.
  11. Ordinary Sinner
    It is a slack and preachy business that never comes to grips with its underlying theme of homophobia.
  12. Painted Fire
    Im recounts the painter's life in bold strokes rather than with the literalist's painstaking detail, and in the process tells us more about the mysteries of genius than a bushel full of quotidian fact.
  13. The Jungle Book 2
    A work of such charm and imagination it should enchant, as the old circus phrase goes, "children of all ages."
  14. Gerry
    About as non-narrative a film as you're likely to see in commercial theaters. This makes it a curiosity and, less charitably, something of a gimmick, but mostly it makes it a challenge.
  15. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    An impressively assured and confident first film and has been made with such attention to detail and mood that it's possible to regret not paying closer attention to its cleverly deceptive first part. It is ultimately unsettling in the utmost, its creepiness leavened by only the slightest touch of pitch-dark humor.
  16. All the Real Girls
    It's a sad love story that's insightful at its core and indulgent around the edges, a film whose instincts are impeccable when focusing on that romance but less than compelling when it wanders elsewhere.
  17. Daredevil
    Unfortunately, Garner doesn't have as much screen time as her prominence in the advertising would indicate: Daredevil has a hard time staying alive when she's not on the scene.
  18. Stone Reader
    The film has been hailed as something of a literary thriller; it's not. The stultifying pace and Moskowitz's filmmaking laziness are forgivable, but it's exasperating and indicative of our low expectations for the documentary form that a film that taps the likes of Leslie Fiedler could be so devoid of ideas. Reading is fundamental; so is thinking.
  19. Deliver Us from Eva
    Flows smoothly, looks great and probably cost lots less than it looks. One can't help resist saying it delivers the goods.
  20. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    A concept, no matter how promising, is not a movie, and this picture has the bad luck to illustrate the difference.
  21. Shanghai Knights
    Loving Jackie Chan has always been easy, which is why it would be nice if he could find better material in which to bask in his long-sought American stardom or, alternately, ease into bad movies as effortlessly as his co-star.
  22. May
    A stylized work of unflinching control and discipline, reflecting an artistic maturity unusual in a first film.
  23. Biker Boyz
    There's more than a little Oedipal melodrama tossed into the mix. But the movie rarely gets as sappy or as contrived as one keeps expecting.
  24. Lost in La Mancha
    Records an accident while it's happening, revealing a situation that makes you laugh again and again while weeping, metaphorically at least, for the sheer frustration of it all.
  25. The Guru
    The Guru turns out to be just a flirtation with the musical rather than a full-on embrace. That's a shame because the musical interludes are where the film wears its heart and finds its soul.
  26. Final Destination 2
    The horror sequel is less philosophical than the original, but it's just as intelligent.
  27. The Recruit
    No matter how seriously everyone works to make the CIA impossibly sexy, the illusion that these pencil pushers are incarnations of Bond, James Bond, is difficult to sustain.
  28. Suddenly Naked
    Crewson is a game, experienced actress but hasn't sufficient star charisma to lift Suddenly Naked out of the doldrums.
  29. Chaos
    Mixes satire and suspense in unexpected ways in a film that is as darkly amusing as it is bitterly critical of bourgeois society's indifference to suffering.
  30. Darkness Falls
    Darkness Falls -- with a thud. But it does not go gently into the night, for director Jonathan Liebesman and his large crew cram as much style and energy as they can into a hokey and morbid supernatural thriller plot. It's a downer to see so much effort expended on such junk.
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