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For 16,522 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: 8,697 out of 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. The Yards
    So strong and secure in its remorseless movement that you buy into what's happening, its people so firmly gripped in the vise of fate and their own character flaws.
  2. Just One Time
    In Just One Time, sexual fantasy gives way to a consideration of values without being heavy-handed. Janger draws winning performances from everyone.
  3. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Has a great deal of the unapologetically broad and silly comedy.
  4. Calle 54
    Visually as pleasing as it sounds.
  5. Pay It Forward
    The combination of restrained writing and direction and top-of-the-line acting is enough to make even confirmed agnostics want to believe in this unashamed fairy tale.
  6. Bedazzled
    Though amusing from moment to moment, is erratic, unfocused and uncertain where it's going.
  7. Just Looking
    There are enough grace notes and gentle surprises strewn along this well-trod path to make Just Looking just good enough to justify Alexander's career move.
  8. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    A diabolically clever psychological suspense movie.
  9. Lost Souls
    A dreary tale of supernatural horror.
  10. Dr T and the Women
    Rapp is clearly in sync with Altman's peerless sense of rhythm and knows how to write incisively and economically for Altman's cherished large ensemble casts.
  11. The Contender
    It does move right along and it's enlivened by stronger, more enjoyable acting than this kind of picture usually provides.
  12. Billy Elliot
    In its determination to overdo sure-fire material, Billy Elliot becomes as impossible to wholeheartedly embrace as it is to completely reject.
  13. The Ladies Man
    Manages to sustain a sweet, funny groove for, say, 65 of its 85 minutes.
  14. Animal Factory
    One of the least sensationalistic--and therefore, more unsettlingly plausible--visions of prison life ever transfigured into big-screen drama.
  15. Ratcatcher
    Bleak childhoods make for the best cinema, and Ratcatcher stands at the head of the class.
  16. One
    If you care about the best kind of independent filmmaking, if you want the option of experiencing artistic films when you go to the movies, missing out on One is not an option. When a film like this appears, attention should be paid.
  17. Taboo
    It takes a director with exceptional talent, skill and experience to explore ambiguity in all aspects of human nature and behavior, and Oshima has created a film of resilient, downright tensile strength that ends on a satisfyingly ironic note.
  18. CyberWorld
    Will delight video game fans in search of over-scaled eye candy.
  19. Mercy Streets
    The filmmakers cannot sustain enough momentum to keep their film from seeming contrived and preachy.
  20. Two Family House
    A film of rare, delicate sensibility.
  21. Bamboozled
    It's the angriest film an unfailingly angry filmmaker has yet made, skewering almost everyone in it, both black and white.
  22. Get Carter
    It is not a terrible movie, and Stallone has appeared in far worse. It's just that, although diverting, it's too routine for its own good.
  23. Bootmen
    Bootmen, which proves to be a real heart-tugger, is in fact accomplished in all its aspects.
  24. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    It's an awfully confusing journey, unless you're of pro-Digi-ous intelligence. Or a digimaniac. Or just 6.
  25. Yi Yi
    Wonderfully humanistic film. Yi Yi investigates the entire melody of life.
  26. Meet the Parents
    This buoyant, giddy comedy of catastrophe is the funniest film of the year so far, possibly the most amusing mainstream live-action comedy since "There's Something About Mary."
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  27. Requiem for a Dream
    A work of art whose beauty has the eternal power of redemption.
  28. Beautiful
    This film's wise and compassionate view is that, for many young women of limited opportunities, winning a beauty contest represents their best hope.
  29. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    Berlanti brings a smart, witty, mainstream style to his well-crafted picture, which surely enhances its crossover appeal.
  30. Girlfight
    A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings.
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