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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. Where the Heart Is
    In comparison to Where the Heart Is, the Wal-Mart commercials seem like cinema verite.
  2. Timecode
    A clever way of providing crucial layering and heightening a hip, satirical take on bad old Hollywood ways.
  3. Committed
    With its capacity to surprise, the film comes to life when you don't expect it to, in tiny but wonderfully off-center moments.
  4. The Big Kahuna
    A drama of extraordinary power and insight with dazzling performances from not only Spacey but also Danny DeVito (who may well be at his best ever) and from newcomer Peter Facinelli.
  5. From the Edge of the City
    Brutal yet lyrical film.
  6. The Last September
    A luminous, piercing film from the Elizabeth Bowen novel, richly evokes a world of privilege on the verge of disintegration.
  7. Gossip
    A total waste of time.
    • Los Angeles Times
  8. U-571
    Gets high marks for tension and excitement.
    • Los Angeles Times
  9. Croupier
    Intense, hypnotic, assured, Croupier mesmerizes from its opening image of a roulette ball on the move.
    • Los Angeles Times
  10. The Virgin Suicides
    Successfully venturesome, but you need to know that it's also a real downer.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love & Basketball
    In her first feature, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood tells a familiar tale with first-rate acting and an underlying sense of authenticity.
    • Los Angeles Times
  12. Where the Money Is
    The only way the film could have had a prayer of working--and thereby tapping its stars' considerable strengths--is by taking a much harder edge and going for dark, even bleak humor.
  13. The Girl Next Door
    Insightful and thoughtful.
    • Los Angeles Times
  14. Keeping the Faith
    All the more rewarding because of the challenge the material presented.
  15. East Is East
    Above all a man's confrontation with self in middle-age and his need to accept the fact that his children, beyond their mixed ancestry, are after all native-born English citizens.
  16. Third World Cop
    Main lure is what feels like a very authentic visual sense of the nontourist side of Kingston, where the ambience of zinc-walled shacks wallpapered with old newspapers is captured by cinematographer Richard Lannaman.
  17. American Psycho
    Stillborn, pointless piece of work.
  18. 28 Days
    Too glib too often to make much of an impression any way you look at it.
  19. Return to Me
    Duchovny and Driver have distinctive good looks and they both combine attractiveness with talent and intelligence. Best of all, they possess that essential quality all screen lovers must have: terrific chemistry.
  20. Southpaw
    Warm and appealing, but there clearly was a far more informative and comprehensive film to be made of the life and world of Francis Barrett.
  21. Me Myself I
    Griffiths' Pam holds your attention without any gratuitous mannerisms or broad asides. It's a sleek, rangy performance that all but redeems the hackneyed familiarity of the premise.
  22. Rules of Engagement
    Passable, moderately diverting dramatic entertainment.
  23. Est - Ouest
    Takes the most somber of predicaments, and makes it involving, romantic and ultimately intensely suspenseful.
  24. The Filth and the Fury
    A film as arresting and at times as frustrating as the Pistols themselves.
  25. Joe Gould's Secret
    A series of subtly interlocking character studies.
  26. Ready to Rumble
    A movie made for wrestling fans that makes fun of wrestling fans? That cuts a little too close to the vicarious masochism at the heart of pro wrestling's core constituency. Also, it's not funny.
  27. Black and White
    The voyeuristic indulgences of a middle-aged filmmaker playing out his most deep-seated and unresolved sexual fantasies and anxieties.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Price of Glory
    The specificity of Glory's setting and the ethnicity of its characters enrich the story without moving it one iota away from a mainstream frame of reference.
  29. The Road to El Dorado
    Reasonably diverting, but don't count on it lingering in your memory.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Skulls
    It contains, perhaps, one pinkie-toe bone of surprise in its skeleton of cliche.
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