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For 16,550 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. The Yards
    So strong and secure in its remorseless movement that you buy into what's happening, its people so firmly gripped in the vise of fate and their own character flaws.
  2. Everybody's Famous!
    Hearty mainstream comedy with a sharp satirical edge balanced with just enough sentimentality to send audiences home happy.
  3. The Turandot Project
    More concerned, and with good reason, with the opera's extravagant visual look. The gorgeous pageantry of sets and costumes is frankly dazzling.
  4. A Time for Drunken Horses
    A film of simplicity and power, beautifully shot and effortlessly acted by nonprofessionals.
  5. Luminous Motion
    What counts here is the acute psychological validity with which Gordon evokes a coming of age that's seen with a darkly outrageous sense of humor--and no small amount of compassionate detachment.
  6. The Visit
    This is a film that stays with you long after the lights have gone up.
  7. Happenstance
    It brims with the charm, wisdom and light touch that have endeared French films to international audiences for more than a century. It doesn't hurt that its star is "Amelie's" Audrey Tautou.
  8. Big Bad Love
    Brave and admirable for the trust that it puts in a viewer's intuition and willingness in going along with it right through to its rewarding finish.
    • Los Angeles Times
  9. 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.
  10. The Tavern
    Foote pulls off a daring and unexpected finish for The Tavern that takes it to a rigorous, uncompromising level.
  11. The Era of Vampires
    A swift and amusing martial-action, adventure-horror picture with a bold, larger-than-life comic-book sensibility and richly atmospheric production design.
  12. La bûche
    With its lovely images of wintertime Paris and its lyrical Michel Legrand music, La Bu^che does take the cake.
  13. Play It to the Bone
    A wonderfully entertaining, raunchy, hilarious and savage foray into the lives of a couple of beat-up middle-weight boxers who get a second chance.
  14. The Musketeer
    For his robust and handsome The Musketeer, Hyams enlisted veteran Hong Kong stunt coordinator Xin-Xin Xiong to stage a clutch of spectacular action sequences that are amusing in the imaginative intricacy of their bravura.
  15. Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
    You might expect its beauty but not its intelligence, its ability to reflect the texture of some extraordinary lives.
  16. Down and Out with the Dolls
    The music is sensational, the energy level high, and Down and Out With the Dolls is a wise and funny treat.
  17. Rosetta
    Grabs you by the throat and won't let go.
  18. The Lady and the Duke
    Just as interesting, if not more so, is how Rohmer integrates his very contemporary concerns into a period drama, how he creates characters who manage to be true to our times as well as their own.
  19. Washington Heights
    This well-paced film's realistic style and authentic locales are a perfect fit for the characters and their story.
  20. A Housekeeper
    A summer treat for sophisticated moviegoers -- graceful and serious, yet not overly so. This easy-to-take movie gets everything just right and is a pleasure to watch.
  21. Est - Ouest
    Takes the most somber of predicaments, and makes it involving, romantic and ultimately intensely suspenseful.
  22. Stuart Little 2
    Like many modern children's films, Stuart Little 2 can't decide between teaching good values ("You're only as big as you feel") and tossing out fake-hip jokes. Though it doesn't happen as often as it should, this is a better film when it allows itself simply to be sweet.
  23. The Gleaners & I
    Captivating new documentary, The Gleaners and I, is charged with the pleasure of discovery.
  24. Holy Smoke
    At once hilarious and serious, cruel and tender, and bristling with vitality, Holy Smoke is the right movie for the millennium, envisioning new possibilities in the way people view and relate to one another.
  25. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    One of the five most popular films of the year in France, "Wolf" is a cross-cultural hoot that no one should take too seriously.
  26. L.I.E.
    L.I.E. has embraced tragedy, folly, perversity and outrageous dark humor. Like "Happiness" and "American Beauty," it takes an unflinching look at the darker aspects of life in American suburbia.
  27. Chaos
    Mixes satire and suspense in unexpected ways in a film that is as darkly amusing as it is bitterly critical of bourgeois society's indifference to suffering.
  28. Assassination Tango
    A wonderfully eccentric piece of filmmaking -- to demand it cohere to formula would be to miss the point.
  29. The Fantasticks
    Manages to honor the theatricality of the source yet becomes a fully cinematic experience. A gem.
    • Los Angeles Times
  30. Dr T and the Women
    Rapp is clearly in sync with Altman's peerless sense of rhythm and knows how to write incisively and economically for Altman's cherished large ensemble casts.
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