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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. Bandido
    A bust. As murky as its release print, it is a stale, incoherent spy caper.
  2. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Seven years in the making, it demands to be experienced not just because of the good it does but because of how unexpectedly good, even buoyant, it makes you feel.
  3. Blade: Trinity
    Has the great sleek, dark look of its predecessors and, most important, it has Snipes.
  4. House of Flying Daggers
    House of Flying Daggers finds the great Chinese director at his most romantic in this thrilling martial arts epic that involves a conflict between love and duty carried out to its fullest expression.
  5. After Midnight
    It has a droll sensibility but is marred by dirge-like pacing and is seriously under-lighted -- so much so that it's all but impossible to get a good look at its principal setting.
  6. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    The highly partisan Game Over ably illustrates the often-silly psychological gamesmanship that accompanies world-class chess and nearly catalogs enough circumstantial evidence against IBM to convict.
  7. The Green Butchers
    Mikkelsen and Kaas are up to the demands of their roles, revealing impressive range and skill.
  8. The Aryan Couple
    This handsome film is a splendid, stirring feat of the imagination.
  9. Closer
    Despite involved acting and Nichols' impeccable professionalism as a director, the end result is, to quote one of the characters, "a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully."
  10. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Plays out smaller and less climactic than the way anyone old enough to recall will remember.
  11. Purple Butterfly
    As atmospheric and moody as a film noir, the stylish, sometimes perplexing Purple Butterfly is a remarkable period piece, evoking the bustling, dense and increasingly dangerous Shanghai of the '30s
  12. Easy
    Moreau is this film's irreplaceable epicenter. With her radiant smile and unquenchable spirit, she carries this film on her shoulders, and makes it all look, well, easy.
  13. A Very Long Engagement
    A resolutely odd, occasionally absurd movie, but it's as charming and stylish as one could expect from this pair - if you like that sort of thing.
  14. Ae Fond Kiss...
    All of Loach's formidable strengths, which include a sense of humor, come together in the wrenching A Fond Kiss.
  15. Straight-Jacket
    Whatever pleasures it holds, Straight-Jacket is highly uneven.
  16. Paper Clips
    Paper Clips arrives with an authentically persuasive message of hope.
  17. Notre musique
    A film of flowing, redemptive beauty and poetry, at once immediate yet classic in its simplicity of form.
  18. Christmas with the Kranks
    A flat parable about the virtues of homespun conformity and the perils of defying family tradition.
  19. Alexander
    If, as the Virgil quote that starts the film claims, fortune favors the bold, Alexander has not been nearly bold enough.
  20. Fear and Trembling
    A dark comedy that reveals the stultifying rigidity of Japanese office life - which the film persuasively suggests endures to this day.
  21. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Director Wong is at his best in this rerelease of the 1991 film.
  22. National Treasure
    National Treasure is as doggedly hokey and ham-handed as a Disneyland ride.
  23. Bad Education
    With Bad Education, Almodóvar is at his most breathtakingly complex and mature, and at his most pessimistic.
  24. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    Its instinctive, unstoppable cheerfulness can be, as all those millions of viewers have found, something of a tonic if you're in the mood.
  25. Ya lyublyu tebya
    Comedy is ever an effective weapon against hypocrisy and oppression, but to be effective it has to cut a lot sharper and deeper than it does in You I Love.
  26. Muhammad: The Last Prophet
    For the most part successful, focusing on the struggles of Muhammad's followers in 7th century Arabia. The reliance on point-of-view shots, however, is at times disorienting and creates the unintentionally comedic effect of a prophet-cam panning back and forth or up and down as Muhammad moves his head.
  27. Little Lili
    La Petite Lili itself is pretty good, but it is also assured to the point of glibness.
  28. Noel
    A thick and gooey slice of holiday hokum.
  29. Seed of Chucky
    Chintzy-looking gore-bore.
  30. After the Sunset
    An unalloyed delight, bright and breezy escapist fare that's pure entertainment, filled with romance, adventure, humor, action, suspense, beautiful scenery and beautiful people.
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