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For 16,524 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 2.3 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Fighting Tommy Riley
    This small, lovingly crafted film continually surprises with its depth and resonance.
  2. Mysterious Skin
    It's hard to imagine a more serious or persuasive indictment of the horrors inflicted on children by sexual abuse than Mysterious Skin.
  3. Brothers
    The end result was that the performances reached a remarkable level of intimacy and intensity.
  4. Kings & Queen
    A complex, boldly experimental movie plotted like a thriller and paced like a farce, Kings and Queen is category-defying film that's as smart and emotionally resonant as it is entertaining.
  5. Lost
    Lost is consistently clever, amusing -- and scary.
  6. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Dallaire is not only the protagonist of Shake Hands, he is a compelling reason to see it.
  7. Fixing Frank
    Fixing Frank is "good theater," and in the writing and in Butler's quietly chilling, ever-so-civilized portrayal, Apsey emerges as a veritable Svengali.
  8. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
    Informativeand endearing film.
  9. Lords of Dogtown
    As beautifully structured as one of the Z-Boys' graceful and intricate maneuvers. It is economic yet possesses depth and is visually striking, capturing an idea of what life is like in a very fast lane.
  10. Rock School
    Immensely entertaining.
  11. Apres Vous (After You)
    This delightfully spirited film is perfectly cast, and it's hard to imagine how Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia and Sandrine Kiberlain could possibly improve upon their irresistible, multifaceted portrayals.
  12. Deep Blue
    Numerous films have explored undersea life, but few as comprehensively and as consistently compelling as Deep Blue, by the creators of the "Blue Planet" TV series.
  13. Caterina va in città
    Smart, sassy, compassionate and critical.
  14. Wild Side
    This process unfolds in terse, compelling fashion with ravishing camerawork by Agnès Godard.
  15. Rize
    José Cancella's original score complement the tremendous wit, vitality and sensuality of the dancers.
  16. Yes
    Bold, vibrant and impassioned, Yes is the work of a high-risk film artist in command of her medium and gifted in propelling her actors to soaring performances.
  17. The Last Mogul
    A smart, well-paced documentary that balances the man's triumphs with his rare failures and discerningly explores the darker side of his power.
  18. Tropical Malady
    Mysterious and original.
  19. The Beautiful Country
    It is a straightforward, conventional narrative, charting seemingly endless cruelty and hardship, but rewards the patient with an eloquent climactic sequence that is impossible to predict.
  20. Wedding Crashers
    Witty, unhinged and fearless, it's exactly the kind of movie we need now.
  21. Happy Endings
    Why aren't there more American movies like this? I mean smart, unpretentious, sophisticated, un-condescending and cheap.
  22. The Warrior
    It is chockablock with brutality, but the violence is of the high-minded, self-congratulatory sort that indicates without actually showing.
  23. Hustle & Flow
    Unfolds in the satisfying fashion of classic Hollywood movies that strike a balance between grit and heart.
  24. Bad News Bears
    A straightforward, surprisingly faithful and definitely loving adaptation of the original.
  25. The Edukators
    A sweet, funny and gripping romantic adventure, it's about the limitations of political activism in this day and age, and what happens when your girlfriend and your best friend fall in love.
  26. Last Days
    What Last Days offers is a blank and narrative-free, but pitch-perfect, dreamscape on which to project your own personal ruminations on Kurt, fame, whatever, nevermind. If you have none, you're on your own.
  27. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    For an exquisitely melancholy story steeped in a sense of the past as a succession of great waves of political, ideological and economic change, it's fitting that the movie should end with an underwater sequence. It looks like a dream of a memory of a place about to be wiped out by the next great flood of history.
  28. Red Eye
    The plot is not absolutely airtight, but Craven's filmmaking is too fast-moving and too involving for this to matter. As a movie, Red-Eye is in every way as well crafted and sharply designed as the Boeing 767 Lisa fatefully boards.
  29. Clean
    Clean is one of those movies that's slightly off the mark in ways that are hard to put a finger on, but it is shot so soulfully and features such beautiful performances that it's easy to forgive the occasional false note.
  30. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    Perfectly delightful.
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