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For 16,531 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: 8,702 out of 16531
  2. Mixed: 5,812 out of 16531
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16531
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  1. Distant
    A beautifully made, unapologetically artistic piece of work.
  2. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    As ingenious and lively as the original film.
  3. NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    A splendid example of pure cinema.
  4. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    Call this a brooding comedy or a darkly whimsical drama, "Wilbur's" willingness to mix gallows humor and real sadness make it something on which labels do not easily fit.
  5. Games People Play: New York
    Whitney takes having it both ways to new heights -- depths is perhaps more like it. He satirizes reality TV while showing total nudity and at times carrying sex to the verge of soft-core porn. As titillating and energetic as the film is, it is also rather sad because it reveals what aspiring actors will endure for what they apparently regard as an opportunity.
  6. Ghost River
    Directed by Olivier Dahan, Isabelle Huppert takes the most familiar type of material and attains impeccable results.
  7. Hidalgo
    Hokey though it is, with a horse-hugger ending thrown in to boot, Hidalgo has a sweet-natured appeal that welcomes sentiment without overdoing it.
  8. Starsky & Hutch
    Because no one involved with Starsky & Hutch actually seems to care about the movie, all Wilson can do is idle in neutral while Stiller frantically shifts gears, looking for an excuse to split.
  9. The Reckoning
    The Reckoning isn't great by any means and there are moments during the final stretch when it isn't even good. But for its first hour or so, the story moves at a steady clip, generating enough mystery to keep you guessing and enough atmosphere to keep you interested.
  10. Down by Love
    Never does Down by Love, handsome and fully crafted, have the feel of being a filmed play. It emerges as a fresh, challenging and unpredictable experience with a stunning finish.
  11. Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    So engaging and illuminating that it is enjoyable even for those unfamiliar with one of cinema's most dynamic forms.
  12. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    Devastating and amusing.
  13. What Boys Like
    Slight in the extreme, more tasteless than amusing, but at least its young actors manage to make promising impressions, especially Wiehl and Brenner, whose characters have a tad more dimension than the others.
  14. Club Dread
    Pretty dreadful.
  15. Greendale
    By the time Greendale reaches its rousing crescendo with the anthem "Be the Rain" and Young and Crazy Horse have blown off the barn doors, the Canadian-born artist has crafted one genuinely tasty slice of Americana.
  16. Tube
    The picture is sleek rather than merely slick, moves like lightning and is loaded with nail-biting incidents and dynamic action. What's unfolding for the most part is fun and exciting, but unfortunately it isn't always fully clear.
  17. Twisted
    Twisted is rubbish, but it looks good enough, moves fast enough and does improve as it progresses, principally because its plot disintegrtes to the point of outright comedy.
  18. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Sufficiently original and engaging to be called merely "Havana Nights" but will no doubt get a boost by the reference to the popular 1987 "Dirty Dancing."
  19. Goodbye Lenin!
    Funny but not a comedy, serious but never overbearing, emotional in an engaging and bittersweet way, Good Bye, Lenin! is a wonderful film unto itself about a world unto itself.
  20. Confessions of a Burning Man
    The four individuals' narratives are not always that compelling and make for a film best experienced on a strictly sensory level. Let the images wash over you and enjoy.
  21. Alila
    The film's drawback, and it is a serious one, is that few of its characters wear very well. The more we see them, the less they involve us and hold our interest, a situation not helped by the bombastic, theatrical style of acting a few of the performers have felt free to employ.
  22. The Passion of the Christ
    In effect, aspects of Gibson's creative makeup -- his career-long interest in martyrdom and the yearning for dramatic conflict that make him an excellent actor, coupled with his belief in the Gospels' literal truth -- have sideswiped this film. What is left is a film so narrowly focused as to be inaccessible for all but the devout.
  23. Against the Ropes
    If they had to make things up, couldn't they have made up something smarter?
  24. Clifford's Really Big Movie
    Though not exactly a gripping experience for adults, parents have reason to be grateful for a movie that has been so carefully tailored to preschool to first-grade sensibilities.
  25. EuroTrip
    While the cast members are all appealing, with characters that are barely penciled in it falls on their shoulders to make the film even passably watchable, which they only barely manage.
  26. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    At a time when crassness and dumbing down pervade popular entertainment, especially movies aimed at youthful audiences, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen dares to be smart.
  27. Kitchen Stories
    There's nothing casual about the way this film has been put together, yet that painstaking care leads to laughter that is completely unrestrained.
  28. Welcome to Mooseport
    Gene Hackman, bristling with wit and energy, is at his amusing best in the robust comedy.
  29. Crying Ladies
    High-spirited and good-natured, Crying Ladies never loses touch with reality.
  30. Lost Boys of Sudan
    Too short by half, Lost Boys of Sudan affords frustratingly little by way of real analysis and history. But it does introduce us to two extraordinary young men whose faith in this country is almost as unbearably sad as their stories.
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