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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. Bootmen
    Bootmen, which proves to be a real heart-tugger, is in fact accomplished in all its aspects.
  2. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    It's an awfully confusing journey, unless you're of pro-Digi-ous intelligence. Or a digimaniac. Or just 6.
  3. Yi Yi
    Wonderfully humanistic film. Yi Yi investigates the entire melody of life.
  4. Meet the Parents
    This buoyant, giddy comedy of catastrophe is the funniest film of the year so far, possibly the most amusing mainstream live-action comedy since "There's Something About Mary."
    • Los Angeles Times
  5. Requiem for a Dream
    A work of art whose beauty has the eternal power of redemption.
  6. Beautiful
    This film's wise and compassionate view is that, for many young women of limited opportunities, winning a beauty contest represents their best hope.
  7. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    Berlanti brings a smart, witty, mainstream style to his well-crafted picture, which surely enhances its crossover appeal.
  8. Girlfight
    A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings.
  9. Remember the Titans
    A shrewd, pulpy crowd-pleaser.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Barenaked in America
    Priestley doesn't exploit the dramatic devices that fell into his lap.
  11. Best in Show
    Has both bark and bite. Its low-key but sharp and amusing sense of humor is a nice fit with the frenetic world of competitive dog shows.
  12. The Specials
    The Specials is an unfortunate name for a film that's anything but.
  13. The Tavern
    Foote pulls off a daring and unexpected finish for The Tavern that takes it to a rigorous, uncompromising level.
  14. The Fantasticks
    Manages to honor the theatricality of the source yet becomes a fully cinematic experience. A gem.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Has promising raw material to burn--and that's pretty much what's been done.
  16. Under Suspicion
    Offers the pleasures of a chamber drama's bravura performances from a pair of supremely accomplished pros.
  17. Woman on Top
    If Penélope Cruz were any less attractive, maybe someone would have noticed how dull this mild, would-be romantic fairy tale has turned out.
  18. Left Luggage
    Becomes disarmingly warm and even a little folksy at times, but Edwin de Vries' script proves devastatingly deceptive.
  19. Tigerland
    Consistently fresh, engrossing and unpredictable.
  20. Dancer in the Dark
    So exasperating in its contradictions, so frustrating in its fakery, so deeply irritating in its pretensions, it's frankly hard to know where to begin to dissect it.
  21. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Because Into the Arms of Strangers is as much a story about childhood as it is about the Holocaust, it's an especially moving and effective piece of work.
  22. Duets
    By the time Duets faces the music, hardly anyone is going to care.
    • Los Angeles Times
  23. Urbania
    Such a powerful experience that it is equally effective whether you have figured out from the start where it is headed or whether its denouement comes as a complete surprise.
    • Los Angeles Times
  24. Human Resources
    Concerned with fathers and sons, expectations and dreams, ideals and reality, this completely engrossing film gets more involving as it goes on.
    • Los Angeles Times
  25. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    The "crime" was that it was made in the first place and the "punishment" is having to watch it.
    • Los Angeles Times
  26. Goya in Bordeaux
    Superb, contemplative.
    • Los Angeles Times
  27. Bait
    But what little humor there is in the movie becomes subservient to the grisly violence, gratuitous cruelty and ugly car chases.
    • Los Angeles Times
  28. The Price of Air
    Smartly shot in digital and transferred to 35 mm, suggests that Evans needs more seasoning to make genre conventions and characters work for him rather than against him.
  29. Paragraph 175
    Illuminating, poignant and heartening.
  30. Almost Famous
    See it and it'll stay with you as your own memories do: funny, poignant, bittersweet and irreplaceable.
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