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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. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    Faraldo's most engrossing and inventive script, alternately serious and comic, is beautifully realized by Binoche, Auteuil and Kusturica, all of whom reveal a nobility of spirit and stylish gallantry so cherished by the French.
  2. Company Man
    Too often we feel that left-out-in-the-cold draft that blows over the shoulder whenever actors appear to be having more fun than the audience.
  3. Down to Earth
    Rock is undisputably gifted and charismatic, but when Down to Earth takes his edge away, the film's energy goes with it. And without energy, no comedy can survive.
  4. Sweet November
    A film that means to be seductive but merely progresses from the contrived to the manipulative.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Recess: School's Out
    Complacent yet competent animation kids will enjoy despite its mundane nature.
  6. The Price of Milk
    It's weird, wacky territory you enter in The Price of Milk, and we don't just mean New Zealand.
  7. Bad Company
    Succeeds by never tipping its hand or losing its equilibrium while its characters often seem to be doing nothing but.
  8. Hannibal
    Creepy and grotesque rather than terrifying. It's more distasteful than anything stronger, a sour bottle of a celebrated vintage that a gourmet like Lecter wouldn't hesitate to send back with the sommelier.
  9. Journey to the Sun
    Sensitive, gritty and courageous, this film gathers a power and focus not foreshadowed in its deliberately rambling earlier sequences.
  10. Signs & Wonders
    Abounds in psychological suspense and plays like a mystery film, even though the mystery at hand may be purely one of the human heart.
  11. Saving Silverman
    A standard-issue numskull comedy that aims low but is high in energy.
  12. The Taste of Others
    All of this romantic back and forth unfolds gradually and in charming ensemble style. As the characters think about seducing each other, as they inevitably complicate their lives without being able to help themselves, the film is simultaneously seducing us.
  13. The Invisible Circus
    There are any number of aspects to The Invisible Circus that simply don't ring true.
  14. The Million Dollar Hotel
    A fantasy, a fairy tale, but its characters and the emotions they elicit become painfully real.
  15. Valentine
    A smart, stylish horror picture that offers a fresh twist on the ever-reliable revenge theme and affords a raft of talented young actors solid roles that show them to advantage.
  16. Head Over Heels
    Although Head Over Heels moves swiftly, has an appealing cast and a serviceably diverting plot, it is nevertheless hard to fall head over heels over it.
  17. In the Mood for Love
    The result is a kind of ultimate romantic film, joining an almost Jamesian sadness and discipline to that extraordinary visual sensibility. It's not the kind of thing you see every day.
  18. Nico and Dani
    An exceptional coming-of-age film--subtle, humorous, compassionate, acutely perceptive.
  19. Trolösa
    Complex, challenging and richly rewarding, it glows with the kind of wrenchingly selfless portrayals that are the hallmark of the Bergman classics.
  20. Glamour
    An elegant, poetic fable of endurance.
  21. Two Ninas
    It is amazing how writer-director Neil Turitz, a seasoned journalist, has taken the familiar ingredients of the spiky New York dating game movie and made them seem so fresh and original, filled with individuals acutely detailed and compassionately observed.
  22. Sugar & Spice
    Amusingly subversive, thanks to sharp writing and direction, by Mandy Nelson and Francine McDougall, respectively.
  23. The Wedding Planner
    The picture is never less than pleasant -- but it's not more than that often enough.
  24. Amy
    A skilled heart-tugger from Australia that verges on rock opera.
  25. The Amati Girls
    Has plenty of warmth, affection and conventional wisdom, but too much of the time it plays out in routine fashion with moments of contrivance.
  26. The Pledge
    A forced march toward certain disaster, a scenario only passionate believers in predestination are likely to savor.
  27. Snatch.
    Even if it's not quite as lighter than air as its predecessor, Snatch remains a lethal diversion.
  28. Zheng hun qi shi
    Director Chen Kuo-fu adds a refreshingly wry humor to this view and then deftly throws in some wrenching moments and an ultimately astounding final twist.
  29. Panic
    A lot of this is quite well done, but Bromell has a tendency to have too schematic an aesthetic agenda for his story: treating film noir like kabuki is not necessarily the best way to go, no matter how beautifully you do it.
  30. Antitrust
    It is ultimately more routine than provocative, despite the timeliness and seriousness of the issues it raises.
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