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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. Gender Bias
    Transfixed is a solid, engaging example of how a genre plot can illuminate a marginalized world.
  2. Thunderbirds
    Aside from a couple of rescue set pieces that bookend it, the film is strictly low-wattage in terms of action.
  3. The Village
    It's tedious instead of provocative and so unconvincing as to be preposterous.
  4. Intimate Strangers
    Patrice Leconte has long ago mastered a Gallic specialty: the knack of making impeccably polished, graceful films with an unpretentious ease while allowing them to emerge seeming fresh and spontaneous. Leconte's latest film to reach the U.S. reveals him to be at his slyest best.
  5. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    That Cho and Penn are such likable actors and are so funny in their roles earns the movie more slack than it probably deserves and prevents it from being just another gross-out comedy.
  6. The Manchurian Candidate
    The strength of sensational material joined to excellent acting, superior filmmaking and uncanny political relevance has made The Manchurian Candidate into exceptionally intelligent entertainment and a high point of director Jonathan Demme's career.
  7. Proteus
    Proteus is involving and affecting even if it is not completely coherent or fully realized.
  8. The Burial Society
    The gimmicky nature of the flashbacks weakens the story and lessens the film's suspense. Nevertheless, The Burial Society is a clever, spiritual film that argues that God sees all and, what's more, he's always right.
  9. She Hate Me
    Lee's energy never flags, and She Hate Me resonates with authority and impact and daring, but the messages it sends are mixed.
  10. Garden State
    Garden State illuminates a young man's overdue coming of age with unexpected depth and grace.
  11. Los Angeles Plays Itself
    It is a remarkable work, quite likely the best documentary on the City of Angels ever made.
  12. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    Enlightening, at times disturbing, and always provocative, but Pappas manages to end with a glimmer of hope.
  13. This Old Cub
    Though at times sentimental, the documentary is a terrific character sketch, capturing both the rough edges and the compassion of its subject.
  14. Catwoman
    Not everybody will be able to swallow its heady romanticism, yet its French director, Pitof, has brought sophistication to a comic book sensibility, which helps some purple patches of dialogue along with other absurdities.
  15. Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
    “Donnie Darko" was one of the best pictures released in 2001. Now that it has returned in a 20-minute longer--and richer -- director's cut, it seems sure to be ranked as one of the key American films of the decade.
  16. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    The film is especially strong in its second half, which is dominated by contemporary footage of Zinn.
  17. A Home at the End of the World
    Charged by a passion for life, A Home at the End of the World is a major achievement.
  18. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    Kitano uses exaggerated acting, choreo-graphed violence and, most radically, the rhythms of everyday life -- farmers pounding the earth, the syncopated plop of falling rain -- to turn this genre story into a crypto-Kabuki play and one blissfully idiosyncratic diversion.
  19. Ju-on: The Grudge
    The film's repetitious, episodic structure seems to unnecessarily alleviate the building tension, making it a far less frightening film than it might have been.
  20. The Bourne Supremacy
    Rarely does pop come with such sizzle.
  21. Zhou Yu de huo che
    Seems at once overwhelmingly romantic and elliptical, yet all the while it has been building to a conclusion that is surprisingly affecting in the jolt of recognition it elicits.
  22. A Cinderella Story
    Unfortunately, "Cinderella" feels like a pro forma TV movie from the get-go and relies almost entirely on Duff's likability to hold the audience's attention.
  23. Maria Full of Grace
    In its vitality and finesse, Maria Full of Grace is all of a piece -- and both artistically and spiritually itself full of grace.
  24. Touch of Pink
    Lively and often comical.
  25. I, Robot
    More disturbing, yet another robot, or maybe two, seems to have written a Hollywood script and hijacked a major studio production. Given the film's assembly-line screenplay and mechanistic storytelling, no other explanation seems viable. Certainly no one with a heartbeat or taste would blow so much talent, time and resources on such rubbishy writing.
  26. Flavors
    Aims for a kind of hip cultural fusion but lacks the sharp satirical perspective to pull it off.
  27. Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
    Even if you have no previous interest in or extensive knowledge of hip-hop, Freestyle will draw you in, accomplishing that rare feat of making the creative process interesting while also telling a story.
  28. The Door in the Floor
    Bridges turns a two-dimensional image into a presence so vital, so filled with breath and blood, that you uneasily fall in love with his character and abandon all thought of the artifice that's brought it to life.
  29. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    By turns exasperating, appalling and surprisingly empathetic -- sometimes all in the same moment -- the three members of Metallica quickly emerge as the main attractions in Some Kind of Monster, but not for the reasons you might expect.
  30. The Inheritance
    A powerhouse. Highly dramatic and intensely emotional, blessed with strong themes and an unstoppable narrative drive, it is adult, intelligent entertainment of a kind we rarely see these days.
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