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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. Under Suspicion
    Offers the pleasures of a chamber drama's bravura performances from a pair of supremely accomplished pros.
  2. Woman on Top
    If Penélope Cruz were any less attractive, maybe someone would have noticed how dull this mild, would-be romantic fairy tale has turned out.
  3. Left Luggage
    Becomes disarmingly warm and even a little folksy at times, but Edwin de Vries' script proves devastatingly deceptive.
  4. Tigerland
    Consistently fresh, engrossing and unpredictable.
  5. Dancer in the Dark
    So exasperating in its contradictions, so frustrating in its fakery, so deeply irritating in its pretensions, it's frankly hard to know where to begin to dissect it.
  6. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Because Into the Arms of Strangers is as much a story about childhood as it is about the Holocaust, it's an especially moving and effective piece of work.
  7. Duets
    By the time Duets faces the music, hardly anyone is going to care.
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  8. Urbania
    Such a powerful experience that it is equally effective whether you have figured out from the start where it is headed or whether its denouement comes as a complete surprise.
    • Los Angeles Times
  9. Human Resources
    Concerned with fathers and sons, expectations and dreams, ideals and reality, this completely engrossing film gets more involving as it goes on.
    • Los Angeles Times
  10. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    The "crime" was that it was made in the first place and the "punishment" is having to watch it.
    • Los Angeles Times
  11. Goya in Bordeaux
    Superb, contemplative.
    • Los Angeles Times
  12. Bait
    But what little humor there is in the movie becomes subservient to the grisly violence, gratuitous cruelty and ugly car chases.
    • Los Angeles Times
  13. The Price of Air
    Smartly shot in digital and transferred to 35 mm, suggests that Evans needs more seasoning to make genre conventions and characters work for him rather than against him.
  14. Paragraph 175
    Illuminating, poignant and heartening.
  15. Almost Famous
    See it and it'll stay with you as your own memories do: funny, poignant, bittersweet and irreplaceable.
  16. Pola X
    Plays out the notion of the forces of light being inexorably drawn to those of darkness, of the older generation betraying the younger and maybe even an indictment of European indifference to the Balkans' agony.
  17. The Watcher
    Neither acutely suspenseful nor particularly thrilling but instead mainly numbing.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Backstage
    It delivers the stars in unguarded moments that should give fans--if not everyone--some kicks.
  19. Solas
    Alternately heart-wrenching, dismaying, raw and even funny, Solas is ultimately a wonderfully warm and embracing experience.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    My 5 Wives
    It's hard to tell if My 5 Wives is so completely dumb that it's impossible to be offended by it, or so completely offensive that it's just dumb.
  21. Nurse Betty
    Its warped, disconnected sensibility makes for an oddly distant piece of work.
    • Los Angeles Times
  22. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Although there is real pain and suffering in It All Starts Today, it is too impassioned, too brisk and too embracing of life and human foibles to be depressing.
  23. The Way of the Gun
    An implement of destruction loaded with more borrowed film riffs than could be compiled by 47 clones of Robert Rodriguez..
  24. Turn It Up
    Hits hard and pulls no punches in telling its brutal story.
  25. Highlander: Endgame
    Looks sensational, moves like lightning. But its script (by Joel Soisson) makes no pretense about being logical or even comprehensible.
  26. Whipped
    Way too bleak to be funny, even as a contemporary satire of the battle of the sexes.
  27. Titanic Town
    An admirable, thoughtful venture, but it may leave you with the feeling that you've seen it all before.
    • Los Angeles Times
  28. Dark Days
    It's remarkable for where it takes us, how it takes us there.
  29. The Art of War
    This is a film that almost is not there.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    God's Army
    A sensitive and thoughtful probe into questions of faith and the difficulties faced by those who are called to teach others.
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