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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The Corporation
    An informative, amusing and unnerving overview of the history and consequences of corporations.
  2. Union Square
    A moving film but not, to be frank, an entirely memorable one.
  3. The Day After Tomorrow
    Really bad movies can be fun, and the dialogue here often attains a level of joyful inanity.
  4. Soul Plane
    Gross, nearly unwatchable comedy.
  5. Baadasssss!
    Both public tribute and private therapy session, Baadasssss! should have been a self-conscious disaster. By confronting his past with wit and style, Van Peebles has instead created a meta-cool history lesson and homage.
  6. Bukowski: Born into This
    He's not someone you may wish you'd known, but he's a fascinating street character.
  7. The Mother
    Turns out to be a thoughtful, beautifully acted story about feeling alive before it's too late to feel anything.
  8. Saved!
    As an answer to the spreading cultural virus of evangelical conformity, Brian Dannelly's teen farce Saved! is about three teeth short of a full bite. But it leaves an indelible impression.
  9. Wake
    Given a plot and dialogue that ring entirely false, we're left with a bunch of unpleasant characters who do unpleasant things for no apparent reason. Enjoy.
  10. Raising Helen
    Watching Garry Marshall's Raising Helen is like eating a box of Forrest Gump's chocolates. You may not know exactly what you're going to get, but you can count on a high sugar content.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Five Obstructions
    A sensational oddity. It sheds light on the creative process, on filmmaking and on the durability of friendship and professional respect despite the odds.
  12. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    The result is a funny, tender, satisfying blend of fiction and cinema vérité.
  13. Love Me If You Dare
    A perversely dark romantic comedy shot and edited in the contemporary fairy-tale style of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amélie." But this one has a dagger for a heart.
  14. Control Room
    If her (Noujaim's) movie teaches us anything, it's that no reality remains unspun.
  15. My Mother Likes Women
    The Spanish writers-directors often overreach for humor, and really overreach for a happy ending. But there's a strong heart beating beneath the foolishness and one wonderful performance from Leonor Watling.
  16. Stateside
    The film's biggest problem is its psychologically false ending. Having created a complex relationship, Anselmo seems to throw up his hands at the end and admit he doesn't have a clue about how to resolve it.
  17. Twist
    Unfortunately, despite some strong performances, the movie never really makes a case for its own existence.
  18. Shrek 2
    Shrek 2 delivers more fun than there is slime in a green ogre's swamp. Much of that is thanks to Antonio ­Banderas, who runs away with Shrek 2 on little cat feet.
  19. Breakin' All the Rules
    Plays strictly to formula, the only real surprise is its apparently ironic title.
  20. Troy
    A "Ben-Hur"-size epic with beefcake, beauty, outsize heroes, flashy duels and epic battles. There are breathtaking vistas, taut political intrigues, dangerous romantic liaisons and one of the greatest wardrobes ever assembled for a costume drama.
  21. The 24th Day
    Despite strong performances, this drawn-out "Day" feels like a cross between the claustrophobic play it once was, and the R-rated "After-School Special" it wants to be.
  22. Carandiru
    Babenco does a better job with place than with people: His explosively overcrowded jail is a teeming tenement, which makes the inevitable climax feel, finally, like something real.
  23. Coffee and Cigarettes
    The lone gem of the anthology takes place in the loft of a trendy L.A. restaurant where a snooty Steve Coogan learns from starstruck Alfred Molina that the actors are cousins...This is the longest of the shorts, and has a payoff ending that nearly makes the whole thing worthwhile.
  24. A Slipping-Down Life
    I have not read the Anne Tyler novella from which the movie is adapted, but it is clear from the earliest scenes that Evie and Drumstrings are of a different generation from 37-year-old Taylor and 36-year-old Pearce.
  25. Strayed
    Beautifully shot, and graced with another winning performance from the lovely Beart, Strayed nevertheless fails because the relationship between Odile and Yvan never makes us feel the sexual passion it implies.
  26. With All Deliberate Speed
    Feeling very much like it is meant to educate students who don't understand the ruling's relevance, "Speed" doesn't boast much in the way of innovative storytelling. What it does offer is a story that still badly needs to be told.
  27. Valentin
    Noya is a natural actor, and there are genuinely sweet moments between him and the adults. So, why did Agresti feel the need to pour so much added sugar down our throats?
  28. New York Minute
    A bit of a slog for anyone not thoroughly Olsenized.
  29. Van Helsing
    Old monster movies were thrilling in a way that mingled terror, sexuality and a real preference for the monsters over their tormentors. Van Helsing is a kiddie adventure on an endless, meaningless loop.
  30. The Mudge Boy
    Deeply disturbing, but dramatically realized, and the movie marks Burke as a young talent to watch.
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