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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. The Letter: An American Town and the 'Somali Invasion'
    It could have been even more powerful with more context, clarity and a well-defined timeline. Undeniably strong, The Letter is at times misleading and confusing, possessing the raw materials for a much more coherent and potent film.
  2. Nobody Knows
    Beguiling but long-winded.
  3. Boogeyman
    Has little to offer in the way of entertainment or originality.
  4. The Wedding Date
    Winds up an oddly depressing, lost, little movie that eventually caves in on itself.
  5. Emile
    At heart a reverie, a meditation on the past and its treacheries.
  6. Harry + Max
    To consider Harry and Max as being about incestuous feelings would be shortchanging it, because the film is really about the evolving nature of love and the need to define it.
  7. The Nomi Song
    Horn, who knew Nomi, does an excellent job of evoking the exhilaratingly hedonistic period the film covers as well as the long shadow that the coming of AIDS casts over it.
  8. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    A shameless heart-tugger of considerable appeal that, like many movies that start off with much going for them, could have been so much better had its makers aimed higher.
  9. Swimming Upstream
    Swimming Upstream evokes time and place without being showy about it and offers an altogether invigorating experience.
  10. Sunset Story
    The result is a wonderfully humorous take on a seldom-broached subject.
  11. Assisted Living
    Only 22 when he began shooting the film, Greenebaum displays a prodigious understanding of the treatment of the elderly in contemporary America.
  12. Daybreak
    Strongly acted by a highly competent ensemble.
  13. Fear X
    Barely credible, but in the hands of the film's dedicated minimalists, "barely" is enough, and they turn the precious little they have to work with into a plus.
  14. Travelers and Magicians
    A warm, embracing film of transcendent beauty and spirituality.
  15. Alone in the Dark
    Since the film is based on the Atari video game of the same name, it also has much to appeal to headbangers: fast pace, lots of gadgets, monsters, explosive special effects, plenty of inscrutable plot twists and turns.
  16. Hide and Seek
    Unless you're a connoisseur of movies that are so bad they're good, Hide and Seek is one game you're not going to want to play.
  17. Aliens of the Deep
    Though Aliens of the Deep flirts with Zissou-Murray's divine madness, Cameron's vision seems somehow cozier. No wonder he's not yet ready for dry dock.
  18. Fascination
    A stupendously torpid thriller without a single redeeming quality.
  19. Lost Embrace
    It's a film of unexpected, almost indescribable off-center charm that deepens as it goes on.
  20. Are We There Yet?
    Gets nowhere. Its star Ice Cube remains characteristically amiable, but this thuddingly miscalculated comedy is way beneath him.
  21. Beautiful Boxer
    This altogether remarkable film is as much of a paradox as Nong Toom: at once poetic and sensitive yet as gritty and hard-hitting as any boxing movie.
  22. Head-On
    Impeccably made, uncompromising in its implacable vision of the deranging power of love, sex and controlled substances, this savage and staggering film knows how to take our breath away.
  23. Monsieur N.
    An elegant, sophisticated mystery.
  24. Watermarks
    Wonderful, heartwarming.
  25. Assault on Precinct 13
    Smart, satisfying action entertainment that is also a perceptive work of considerable artistry.
  26. Machuca
    One of those special films that broadens and deepens as it goes on.
  27. Coach Carter
    So, while the movie at times warmed my own middle-class, private school-educated cockles to a toasty complacency, there's an undercurrent of friendly fascism running through it like a nasty draft.
  28. Elektra
    No fun at all.
  29. Racing Stripes
    No "Babe" but should delight youngsters, although parents likely will find it is sentimental in the extreme, with a plot that telegraphs every development.
  30. The Chorus
    A runaway hit in France last year and the country's official Oscar entry, is a well-nigh irresistible film celebrating the redemptive power of music.
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