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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. Yossi & Jagger
    Performances are crisp, as is everything else about this vital, economical film, proof that less really can be more.
  2. Bolivia
    There are no big surprises in Caetano's film, which plays out exactly as ordained, only a sense of life at its most precarious and real.
  3. Borstal Boy
    But if the film flirts with being sentimental, it never completely gives in: The inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth.
  4. One True Thing
    One True Thing demonstrates that the power of simple things, the transcendent nature of the ordinary, can make for riveting filmmaking.
  5. Amen.
    A handsome period production of fluidity and subtlety, intimate and large-scale.
  6. Osama
    Raw and wretchedly current, it is a story that packs a cruel emotional wallop.
  7. Gerry
    About as non-narrative a film as you're likely to see in commercial theaters. This makes it a curiosity and, less charitably, something of a gimmick, but mostly it makes it a challenge.
  8. Hearts in Atlantis
    Assisted by a well-crafted script by the veteran William Goldman and a masterful performance by Anthony Hopkins, Hicks has turned two King short stories into a somber meditation on the dreams and frustrations of childhood and the ways the adult world makes its darker qualities known.
  9. The Company
    Makes the world of ballet, seen by so many as rarefied, accessible and exciting, a rigorous art that yields breathtaking results.
  10. There's Something About Mary
    The Farrellys here show a gift not just for finding humor where others have feared to look but for presenting it in a way that is surprisingly close to irresistible.
  11. Ash Wednesday
    Suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast.
  12. 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.
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  13. Winged Migration
    At its best, Winged Migration is a marvel, and if that seems like a gee-whiz word, that's because this film has a lot to be gee-whiz about.
  14. The Eye
    Their (filmmakers Oxide and Danny Pang) sense of pacing is nicely arrhythmic, which makes the "boo" moments all the more heart-thudding, but what's even more pleasurable are the pockets of quiet, those lacuna of low-frequency dread when nothing much happens.
  15. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever, amusing and unpredictable.
  16. Intact
    A sharp brainteaser of a film, a compelling mind game you compulsively play along with.
  17. Adorenarin doraibu
    A rip-roaring romantic comedy that's as funny as it is light on its feet.
  18. Chopper
    A most ambitious first film. Dominik pulls it off impressively, assisted by a selfless cast, a driving score by Mick Harvey, and gifted cameramen Kevin Hayward and Geoffrey Hall.
  19. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Sleek...This is one "return" that's surely welcome.
    • Los Angeles Times
  20. X2: X-Men United
    Brisk and involving with a streamlined forward propulsion, it's the kind of superhero movie we want if we have to have superhero movies at all.
  21. Joe Gould's Secret
    A series of subtly interlocking character studies.
  22. Shattered Glass
    What is a most pleasant surprise is how emotionally involving a story writer-director Billy Ray has fashioned, how he's turned Shattered Glass into a film for anyone who cares about strong drama.
  23. Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Their personality types match up splendidly with the characters they play as well as each other, and Mrs. Brown's greatest pleasure is seeing and hearing them spar. Even with the gloves on, this is a battle well worth observing.
  24. The Parent Trap
    Irresistible family entertainment.
  25. About Adam
    A sly romantic comedy made with wit and style.
  26. Songcatcher
    Has enough virtues to make it successful, including an unusual story and some fine acting, especially by the powerful Janet McTeer.
  27. 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
  28. American Outlaws
    It's a handsome and skillful retelling of a legend that imaginatively draws on conventions of both the western and the gangster movie to create an energetic yet thoughtful contemporary action-adventure.
  29. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    An impressively assured and confident first film and has been made with such attention to detail and mood that it's possible to regret not paying closer attention to its cleverly deceptive first part. It is ultimately unsettling in the utmost, its creepiness leavened by only the slightest touch of pitch-dark humor.
  30. The Legend of 1900
    Tantalizingly structured to intrigue us right from the start.
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