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For 16,550 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Super Troopers
    There's nothing super about Super Troopers except for those deep into the low end of the frat-house mentality that equates smart-alecky with hilarity.
  2. John Q
    An all-stops-out rabble-rouser that hurls a broadside at America's medical insurance crisis.
  3. Scotland, Pa.
    It's easy to accuse Morrissette of condescending to a bunch of yokels, but hardly anybody would hold that against him if the result had been hilarious instead of deadly dull.
  4. Rollerball
    It's too bad this Rollerball veered off-track so swiftly, derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking.
  5. Big Fat Liar
    Screenwriter Dan Schneider and director Shawn Levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite. Granted, it's a kids' flick, but kids today have enough savvy about the movie industry to report for Variety.
  6. Collateral Damage
    The film's political philosophy, as much as it has one, is of the "a plague on both your houses" variety, painting the rebels and the CIA as equally fixated on killing innocent civilians for their own nefarious ideological ends. We've seen it all before, and we'll likely see it all again.
  7. Swiri
    In recent years, South Korean cinema has fully flowered, producing both uncompromising highly personal films and crisp, intelligent genre movies, with Shiri the most spectacular example of the latter to date.
  8. Birthday Girl
    Butterworth guides us through the world of chaos and romantic confusion he's created as if it's the most natural place in the world. After a while, we actually believe it is.
  9. A Rumor of Angels
    The emotional aspects of the story are treated with such a heavy hand, the supernatural aspects are so vague and uninvolving, and the group dynamic is so unconvincing that one can't quite imagine why anybody bothered.
  10. Slackers
    A standard issue undergrad gross-out comedy notable only for the showy role it provides Jason Schwartzman, well-remembered as "Rushmore's" geeky high school student Max Fischer.
  11. In This Tricky Life
    The movie is, above all, a splendid showcase for stunning Santangelo, who gives a powerhouse portrayal of a vivid, sexy woman more hotheaded than truly stupid.
  12. Maelstrom
    A splendid instance of a surrealist vision that serves to heighten the impact of genuine emotions experienced by believably real people.
  13. The Son's Room
    A measured, decorous, at times pat film that manages to be quietly moving because it touches on something real.
  14. The Mothman Prophecies
    There is very little about the hoary conventions of The Mothman Prophecies that couldn't be improved by a little levity, a little more sunlight and some judicious cutting.
  15. Storytelling
    None of this intellectualizing is necessary to the simple enjoyment of Storytelling -- provided the viewer has a taste for the pitch-black humor that emerges when Solondz's camera becomes a veritable blowtorch aimed at humanity's myriad failings.
  16. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Revenge may be sweet, but this is one "Monte Cristo" that leaves a sour taste.
  17. Beijing Bicycle
    With this masterful, flawless film, Xiaoshuai emerges in the front ranks of China's now numerous, world-renowned filmmakers.
  18. A Walk to Remember
    A sensitively told story of first love that could have been more affecting with a little more grit and without so mawkish a score.
  19. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    The result is hopelessly inane, humorless and under-inspired.
  20. American Adobo
    An intimate, good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected.
  21. Ha-Hesder
    One of the most successful, provocative and intensely contemporary of Israeli films, so much so that to watch it is to feel the country having a passionate argument with itself.
  22. Italian for Beginners
    A delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them.
  23. Snow Dogs
    Every generation is entitled to its dopey, sticky junk and, deep into the winter blahs, they don't get stickier or dopier than Snow Dogs.
  24. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    One of the five most popular films of the year in France, "Wolf" is a cross-cultural hoot that no one should take too seriously.
  25. Orange County
    Starts out deliriously funny but allows sentimentality to squeeze it to a pulp by the time it's over.
  26. Impostor
    Likely to be best appreciated by dedicated sci-fi fans, admirers of Dick in particular. It hasn't the stupendous razzle-dazzle of a mega-budget picture like "A.I. Artificial Intelligence."
  27. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    Intoxicating and meditative by turns, helped by Fred Frith's minimalist score, this film opens a portal into a singular creative mind.
  28. Charlotte Gray
    Charlotte Gray, for all Blanchett's radiance and intelligence in the title role, is a bore.
  29. I Am Sam
    A warm, hard-to-resist story.
  30. Dark Blue World
    As it stands, Dark Blue World -- for all the considerable skills of the Sveraks and their colleagues on both sides of the camera -- occupies that treacherous territory between art film and popular epic.
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