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For 16,532 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: 8,702 out of 16532
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16532
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16532
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  1. Better Than Sex
    It's a good thing Better Than Sex, which is pretty raunchy and absolutely not for prudes, does have more than sex on its mind, because otherwise audiences might be tempted to dismiss it as a tease.
  2. Thirteen Ghosts
    Although not for the faint of heart, it's a potent -- and very tricky -- treat.
  3. Donnie Darko
    If you let it be what it is, Donnie Darko will knock you flat.
  4. Bones
    The movie is over the top and garish. Its transitions often are sloppy and crude. But it brandishes its excesses like a loud, retro suit.
  5. Trembling Before G-d
    DuBowski has cast admirably far and wide for his interviews, giving the work global scope. In some instances, DuBowski is pretty clearly a proactive documentarian, inspiring some of his interviewees to dare to take steps that are risky and revealing.
  6. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    A well-crafted film, and it must be said that its actresses, in being prepared to come close to baring all for art, reveal stunning figures and perform scorching routines.
  7. Focus
    While Macy is persuasive, much of Focus is not.
  8. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Buried under the miscalculations, the shamelessness, the off-putting and inappropriate broadness are sporadically visible souvenirs of a good project gone bad, hints of the unusual, bittersweet story that got away.
  9. Intimacy
    A triumph for all concerned, it is especially so for the multitalented Chereau.
  10. The Last Castle
    It's not objectionable (which is saying something these days) but neither does it have any compelling reason to be seen.
  11. From Hell
    It is deeply unpleasant to see women abducted, tortured and eviscerated by a methodical and meticulous butcher.
  12. Burnt Money
    It is a bravura work that attests to Pineyro's command of a style rich in texture and nuance and also of multilayered material.
  13. Waking Life
    The effect is dazzlingly beautiful and surreal.
  14. My Voyage to Italy
    Superb.
  15. My First Mister
    In its first two-thirds, My First Mister, which marks Christine Lahti's feature directorial debut, looks to be a winner. But it takes a disastrously wrong turn toward the end that all but destroys the good work that's come before.
  16. Iron Monkey
    If Asian martial arts movies interest you even a little bit, you're going to want to see Iron Monkey. Not only that, you're going to want to see it more than once.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Corky Romano
    Truly makes you laugh. At its best it recalls the animated antics of a Jerry Lewis escapade, the pratfall follies of a Buster Keaton flick and Rowan Atkinson's outsized physicality.
    • Los Angeles Times
  18. Bandits
    An amusing tale of larceny triumphant, Bandits is an entertainment with a rogue's imagination.
  19. Mulholland Dr.
    Likely as not, these things mean nothing in a conventional plot sense, but as powerful images, as pictures from a dreamlike world, they are unforgettable. And that, David Lynch would probably say, is exactly the point.
  20. Fat Girl
    The film's concluding sequence is bound to polarize audiences.
  21. The Learning Curve
    May not offer anything new, but it has terrific vitality.
  22. Grateful Dawg
    It's to be expected that the music is going to be wonderful, and it is. But there is more to this film, a surprising amount more.
  23. Joy Ride
    Terrific escapist fare, stylish, outrageous and compelling.
  24. The Debut
    Illuminating as it is entertaining.
  25. Serendipity
    A blithe and unapologetic fairy tale about affairs of the heart, it's a spun-sugar confection that's so light and airy it threatens to simply float away.
  26. The Hidden Half
    Courageous but uneven The Hidden Half landed the director in jail.
  27. Training Day
    Though Training Day doesn't resolve itself as well as it deserves and ends strictly cops-and-robbers style, it's given us some great acting and something to ponder. Not every cop show can lay claim to that.
  28. Max Keeble's Big Move
    The impulse to shtick it up to burlesque-level inanity is encouraged at every turn.
  29. Chop Suey
    Of the many remarks Weber makes in the course of his beautifully fashioned film, none may be more significant than his observation, "We photograph things we can never be."
  30. La Ciénaga
    Martel's sharp observations of the foibles of human nature are expressed perfectly in the telling images of cinematographer Hugo Colace and tight editing of Santiago Ricci.
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