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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 Virgin Suicides
    Successfully venturesome, but you need to know that it's also a real downer.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love & Basketball
    In her first feature, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood tells a familiar tale with first-rate acting and an underlying sense of authenticity.
    • Los Angeles Times
  3. Where the Money Is
    The only way the film could have had a prayer of working--and thereby tapping its stars' considerable strengths--is by taking a much harder edge and going for dark, even bleak humor.
  4. The Girl Next Door
    Insightful and thoughtful.
    • Los Angeles Times
  5. Keeping the Faith
    All the more rewarding because of the challenge the material presented.
  6. East Is East
    Above all a man's confrontation with self in middle-age and his need to accept the fact that his children, beyond their mixed ancestry, are after all native-born English citizens.
  7. Third World Cop
    Main lure is what feels like a very authentic visual sense of the nontourist side of Kingston, where the ambience of zinc-walled shacks wallpapered with old newspapers is captured by cinematographer Richard Lannaman.
  8. American Psycho
    Stillborn, pointless piece of work.
  9. 28 Days
    Too glib too often to make much of an impression any way you look at it.
  10. Return to Me
    Duchovny and Driver have distinctive good looks and they both combine attractiveness with talent and intelligence. Best of all, they possess that essential quality all screen lovers must have: terrific chemistry.
  11. Southpaw
    Warm and appealing, but there clearly was a far more informative and comprehensive film to be made of the life and world of Francis Barrett.
  12. Me Myself I
    Griffiths' Pam holds your attention without any gratuitous mannerisms or broad asides. It's a sleek, rangy performance that all but redeems the hackneyed familiarity of the premise.
  13. Rules of Engagement
    Passable, moderately diverting dramatic entertainment.
  14. Est - Ouest
    Takes the most somber of predicaments, and makes it involving, romantic and ultimately intensely suspenseful.
  15. The Filth and the Fury
    A film as arresting and at times as frustrating as the Pistols themselves.
  16. Joe Gould's Secret
    A series of subtly interlocking character studies.
  17. Ready to Rumble
    A movie made for wrestling fans that makes fun of wrestling fans? That cuts a little too close to the vicarious masochism at the heart of pro wrestling's core constituency. Also, it's not funny.
  18. Black and White
    The voyeuristic indulgences of a middle-aged filmmaker playing out his most deep-seated and unresolved sexual fantasies and anxieties.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Price of Glory
    The specificity of Glory's setting and the ethnicity of its characters enrich the story without moving it one iota away from a mainstream frame of reference.
  20. The Road to El Dorado
    Reasonably diverting, but don't count on it lingering in your memory.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Skulls
    It contains, perhaps, one pinkie-toe bone of surprise in its skeleton of cliche.
  22. High Fidelity
    A sharp and satisfying romantic comedy.
  23. Beau Travail
    A ruggedly beautiful landscape of desert and sea provides a dramatic setting for a psychological drama told with the utmost rigor--and unabashed eroticism.
  24. The Color of Paradise
    As worthy and moving as The Color of Paradise is, it is not entirely free of the manipulative, the arbitrary and the downright punitive.
  25. Here on Earth
    Just the ticket for girls in their early teens.
  26. Buddy Boy
    Production notes for Mark Hanlon's Buddy Boy describe it as "a dark and twisted exploration of faith, alienation and madness"--and is it ever!
  27. Whatever It Takes
    It's guys like Floyd who make a movie like Whatever It Takes feel like high school. And the rest of the losers make it feel like a movie.
  28. Such a Long Journey
    A thoughtful but uneven film.
  29. Waking the Dead
    It is a film of uncommon intelligence and rigor that illuminates a complex era, and the romance at its center is also one of exceptional passion and honesty.
  30. Winter Sleepers
    Offers a riveting depiction of the classic collision of fate and character, with geography in this instance playing a crucial role.
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