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For 16,523 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 16523
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16523
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16523
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  1. Ultimate X: The Movie
    The film's strengths may actually work against it with younger fans who might be disappointed by the few stomach-churning, white-knuckler moments.
  2. Blackwoods
    Always a welcome presence in any film, Howard, as a simple-minded hick, gives Blackwoods whatever humor and life it has.
  3. The Lady and the Duke
    Just as interesting, if not more so, is how Rohmer integrates his very contemporary concerns into a period drama, how he creates characters who manage to be true to our times as well as their own.
  4. Unfaithful
    Though it is difficult to take Unfaithful as seriously as it takes itself, on its own terms it's quite well done.
  5. The New Guy
    An unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years. Which can be the only rational explanation for making such a mess all over the screen.
  6. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    Raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme, and a sophisticated style and point of view.
  7. Home Movie
    There is something reassuring in seeing free-thinking individuals express their personalities so emphatically yet invitingly in the places they live.
  8. The Mystic Masseur
    The result is an eccentric, amusing fable that moves at an unhurried island pace, a picturesque tale that Merchant seems to have invested with an almost personal sense of spirit.
  9. A Shot at Glory
    Not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out, but it has clearly been made with affection and care.
  10. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    May well be Imamura's funniest film; it is also one of his most accomplished. It is the work of a mature artist who has kept his adventurous spirit alive, which he has expressed in a complex and risky work carried off with an effortlessness that comes only from wisdom and experience.
  11. Hollywood Ending
    It's as sad and painful to report as it is to experience, but Hollywood Ending makes the conclusion inescapable: Woody Allen has become his own worst enemy.
  12. Fleeing by Night
    An exquisite love story directed with admirable subtlety and sensitivity.
  13. Spider-Man
    Spider-Man may look like an action comic come to life, but its best feature is its romance comic heart. It's that rare cartoon movie in which the villain is less involving than the love story.
  14. The Other Brother
    Perfectly pleasant if slightly pokey comedy.
  15. Circuit
    At once a sexy soap opera, at times lurid and bathetic, and also a gritty cautionary tale made by a filmmaker honest enough to have it both ways.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Vulgar
    Johnson does seem to have some psycho-sexual ax to grind amid all this visual and sexual crudity. For instance, women barely figure in the action, with Will taking on various stereotypical feminine attributes. But good luck finding meaning in all this mess.
  17. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    A more impartial filmmaker might have understood the need for other voices to balance against all that attitude, might have understood how hungry the film makes us for even a single non-adulatory moment.
  18. Life or Something Like It
    Amiably glossy if naggingly old-fashioned.
  19. Jason X
    Like a dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming.
  20. Night at the Golden Eagle
    A modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence.
  21. Rain
    Moves way past the predictable into the shocking. Indeed, the film is so expertly structured and paced that its denouement knocks you off your feet.
  22. The Salton Sea
    Taking issue with efforts like The Salton Sea, cold and unemotional films that couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to enthusiastically drag audiences through unhappy material, is as futile as getting mad at the wind.
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  23. Some Body
    SomeBody reclaims well-trodden territory with an innovative hand that feels fresh as tomorrow.
  24. Freshmen
    Far removed from the usual college movies, as amusing as they can sometimes be, and so authentic it's like eavesdropping on life.
  25. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    All told, this is going to make passable television. Eventually.
  26. Murderous Maids
    Denis and Testud, in a wondrous collaboration of a gifted director and equally gifted actress, succeed in making Christine a tragic figure.
  27. Mutant Aliens
    Zany, exuberantly irreverent animated space adventure.
  28. Murder by Numbers
    Though Schroeder makes you squirm more than you want to at the inevitable scenes of the trussed-up female murder victim, he also has the proclivity and the skill to make at least the B-picture half of Murder by Numbers of more than passing interest.
  29. Girls Can't Swim
    Birot is an engaging storyteller who can inspire luminous, spontaneous portrayals, but her ending is so drastic that it feels unearned, a note of bleakness struck merely for its own sake.
  30. Enigma
    It is such a grand, romantic entertainment that it sweeps the viewer along in its swiftly escalating suspense.
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