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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. Josie and the Pussycats
    Light and frothy though all this is, there is an off-putting element to "Josie," and it's what must be the film's world record number of product placements.
  2. Kingdom Come
    This joyous film, which confronts pain, loss and transgression with love, wisdom and forgiveness amid inspired humor, has it all.
  3. Chopper
    A most ambitious first film. Dominik pulls it off impressively, assisted by a selfless cast, a driving score by Mick Harvey, and gifted cameramen Kevin Hayward and Geoffrey Hall.
  4. Joe Dirt
    If you are in touch with your inner 14-year-old child, you could do worse.
  5. The Girl
    In her feature debut, Zeig, -- displays confidence and style aplenty.
  6. Just Visiting
    Drains the original story of its satire and juices up its shtick, schmaltz and special effects.
  7. Beautiful Creatures
    Tedious and unfunny.
  8. The Day I Became a Woman
    Breathtaking reverie worthy of Fellini.
  9. Along Came a Spider
    A reasonably diverting albeit frequently improbable thriller.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Two Tylenol and a pair of earplugs might be enough to get you through Pokemon 3The Movie.
  11. Shadow Magic
    Evokes the dawn of cinema in China with much charm, humor and subtlety.
  12. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    As somber as much of this deceptively simple yet consistently acute, subtle and observant film is, an effect heightened by a carefully controlled use of color, it is not without hope.
  13. Blow
    This single cautionary tale of how drug innocence gives way to woeful, hung-over experience proves to be way too predictable to effectively caution or even involve anyone.
  14. Amores Perros
    It's a film of high energy, punctuated by rock music and a dark wit, yet it is capable of profound reflection and tragic irony.
  15. The Tailor of Panama
    Benefits from delicious acting from co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan, a mordant script co-written by le Carre (along with Boorman and Andrew Davies), and the distinctive touch of its director.
  16. Someone Like You...
    Smart, amiable and well-paced, and director Tony Goldwyn brings to it an all-too-rare buoyancy and breeziness.
  17. Spy Kids
    Lively, imaginative, with a playful sense of humor.
  18. Tomcats
    Raucously energetic and replete with a barrage of graphic sexual humor.
  19. The Brothers
    While all of the actors are excellent, we sat up whenever Gabrielle Union walked on screen. As the ever-sensible woman who disrupts Jackson's bachelorhood, she projects the pluck, gravitas and beauty of a younger Alfre Woodard.
  20. Heartbreakers
    As Hollywood diversions go, this gleaming MGM release still leaves you wishing the filmmakers took as many risks as their grifters do.
  21. Say It Isn't So
    Ultimately a sweet movie, but one made by people who can't stoop to conquer without an almost audible strain on their own intelligence.
  22. Too Much Sleep
    Unfolds as a shaggy-dog story, full of hilarious and outrageous twists that suggest that weirdness lies just below the surface of daily life seemingly at its most ordinary.
  23. Exit Wounds
    It's a pastiche of pulpy elements culled from all the "Dirty Harry" movies you can think of.
  24. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Meanders, dawdles, doubles back on itself but finally gets us somewhere fascinating and worthwhile.
  25. Memento
    A provocatively structured and thrillingly executed film noir, an intricate, inventive use of cinema's possibilities that pushes what can be done on screen in an unusual direction.
  26. Enemy at the Gates
    Has little to occupy us once its battle scenes recede. One of those goofy movies where devil-may-care Russian soldiers unwind by playing the balalaika far into the night, it takes itself far more seriously than anyone else will be able to manage.
  27. The Dish
    It unfolds in a hearty, good-natured Australian comedy that affectionately depicts how the citizens of a small town become connected to the Apollo moon flight.
  28. Kissing Jessica Stein
    For an American film it is a groundbreaker in exploring the realm of sexual fluidity, and it does so with wit, wisdom and in a completely entertaining fashion.
  29. Simon Magus
    Poetic and ambiguous, it manages to be magical in both the beautiful and terrifying senses of the word.
  30. Biandan, guniang
    The result is a film that is wise, fatalistic and romantic in just the right proportions--in the best noir tradition.
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