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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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    • 25 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Double Take
    An even-handed mixture of suspense and comedy that aims to play fair with the audience on both fronts.
  2. Save the Last Dance
    The story comes full circle in a way that might seem overly schematic did it not have the courage to wear its heart on its sleeve without losing its head.
  3. Chunhyangdyun
    Im Kwon Taek's exquisite Chunhyang brings to the screen one of Korea's most cherished folk tales, a timeless romance in which the lovers are challenged by differences in class.
  4. The Claim
    Sadly the film is so elusive, so distant, that it never seems more than half-alive.
  5. Shadow of the Vampire
    Willem Dafoe's performance in Shadow of the Vampire is so irresistible it not only breaks that cycle but turns an otherwise just adequate film into something everyone will want to take a look at.
  6. Traffic
    So though it takes important steps in that direction, the film pulls back from what seems to be its own logical conclusion.
  7. All the Pretty Horses
    In an odd way Pretty Horses has been too faithful to the spirit of this somber, fatalistic, melancholy romance, too much a stubborn ode to stoicism, to light any emotional fires.
  8. Vatel
    Boldly distinctive in its depiction of individuals caught up in a veritable infernal machine designed solely to give pleasure to a monarch, Vatel is a timeless tale of love and sacrifice in a world as opulent as it is cruel.
  9. Thirteen Days
    Dealing with all these crises and decisions gives Thirteen Days a surprising amount of tension and watchability for a story whose outcome we already know.
  10. An Everlasting Piece
    This late-in-the-year gem glows with Levinson's characteristically warm embrace of a wide range of people and his superlative sense of time and place.
  11. Malèna
    Malena the film is as beautiful and seductive as its heroine, with its ravishing Lajos Koltai cinematography and sweepingly romantic Ennio Morricone score.
  12. Before Night Falls
    Anchored by a charismatic and accessible performance by Javier Bardem as star-crossed Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, this florid examination of an artist's coming of age, of cultures in collusion and conflict, is difficult to resist.
  13. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    For all his mastery of his medium, Lee is no less effective in directing actors than in creating images.
  14. The House of Mirth
    Above all else expresses the timeless impact of Lily Bart's plight.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dracula 2000
    Dracula 2000 is at heart a solidly old-fashioned cloak-and-fangs vampire flick. It honors the central traditions of the form a lot more often than it skewers them.
  16. Miss Congeniality
    A mainstream Hollywood escapist fantasy that in the end melts satire into sentimentality, but it is funny and knowing, detached enough to take a bemused stance toward its calculated tone.
  17. State and Main
    A quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish.
  18. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Enlivening things to an unprecedented extent, the songs turn O Brother into perhaps the warmest production in the Coens' repertoire.
  19. Cast Away
    Comes off as convincing but never compelling. There's a ponderous quality to it, as if it's forever clearing its throat to say something of value that doesn't quite get articulated.
  20. The Family Man
    Not even a sincere and heroic effort by Nicolas Cage can redeem the film's essential phoniness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Neighbors the Yamadas
    Rendered in Japanese ink wash, it is a surreal look at nuclear family dynamics. [21 Oct 2014, p.D5]
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  22. Finding Forrester
    Even fairy tales could use a bit more substance than this.
  23. The Gift
    Overly familiar material, even well done, cannot be made more intrinsically interesting than it is. Not even by Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves.
  24. Pollock
    Stands out among creative bio-pics for an ability to show art being made in a way that's as realistic and exciting as it's ever been on screen.
  25. South of Heaven, West of Hell
    Overlong, overwritten.
  26. The Visit
    This is a film that stays with you long after the lights have gone up.
  27. The Emperor's New Groove
    A delightful, effervescent morality tale for children conveyed with such wit and sophistication that adults are likely to be enchanted as well.
  28. What Women Want
    A vaguely amusing formulaic comedy with a premise that turns out to be more discomforting than endearing.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dude, Where's My Car?
    There's a benign, peace-loving air about it all that forces you to accept and embrace the film's two central characters.
  30. Chocolat
    A work of artistry and craftsmanship at the highest level.
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