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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. Maelstrom
    The film's overriding messages are of personal responsibility and redemption. If that is Villeneuve's objective, it's done as an insidious polemic. If not, it's guilty of an even greater sin: It's boring.
  2. The Son's Room
    A stately and deeply affecting look at the human condition, told in something like a series of snapshots.
    • New York Daily News
  3. Waydowntown
    Maybe you have to have experienced one of these anti-weather urban cocoons to appreciate the concept of the film, and the prickly people who populate it.
  4. The Count of Monte Cristo
    With more buckling than swash, The Count of Monte Cristo is a good-looking, poorly acted washout.
    • New York Daily News
  5. Beijing Bicycle
    The movie is filled with sweetly funny moments, but its exposure of class, income and cultural differences makes it an uneasy charmer right up to its violent denouement.
  6. The Mothman Prophecies
    Gere, who's credited with keeping the project alive for years, has never thrown himself quite so fully into a role, and Pellington tells the story without a hint of skepticism. I suppose he had no choice. If you're going to treat poppycock as history, you had better believe it.
  7. Metropolis
    The story is compelling, but Metropolis is such a visual masterpiece, it's easy to get lost within its seemingly endless layers of graphic complexity.
  8. Wannabes
    A warmed-over ripoff, rather than the gritty urban drama it so desperately wants to be.
    • New York Daily News
  9. A Walk to Remember
    The audience for this chaste teen romance won't be film lovers, as the movie is sappy and listlessly paced. But it's just the ticket for people who want their movies sanitized.
  10. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    Silly, perfect fun.
  11. American Adobo
    Offers traditional cinematic gab about marital status, sexual orientation, nationality and degree of fulfillment.
  12. Snow Dogs
    Lame children's entertainment.
  13. Ha-Hesder
    Despite its rare look at the tensions between religious and secular soldiers in a settlement on the occupied West Bank, it's a pretty static, by-the-book drama that would be insufferable without the sullen heat of Tinkerbell and Avni.
    • New York Daily News
  14. Italian for Beginners
    It's the rare film, Dogma or otherwise, that keeps you smiling long after the lights come up.
    • New York Daily News
  15. State Property
    The cinematic equivalent of a gangsta rap song, State Property is little more than a marketing tool for Roc-A-Fella Records.
  16. Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe
    For the most part, the Plastics' music -- is not extraordinary. But as it's told here, their story is.
  17. Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
    A sad, almost morbid -- and cinematically inert -- eulogy to a complex man whose own genius was dampened by arrogance and politics.
  18. Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
    Looks great but tells us little about the subjects.
  19. E-Dreams
    There were a lot of people who came to regret investing their time and money in Park's brash dream. You won't be one of them.
  20. Orange County
    Under different direction, Orange County might have drawn a savvy cult audience that would appreciate the black-comedy possibilities of Shaun's idolatry of a certain writing professor (Kline), the homoerotic overtones inherent in best-buddydom and pyromania as a sexual turn-on.
  21. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    An eye-pleasing French action-slasher film that is cheerfully unencumbered by the usual conventions of stuffy costume drama.
    • New York Daily News
  22. What Time Is It Over There?
    This movie is not of a style that will speak to general audiences. It is nearly wordless, spare to a fare-thee-well.
    • New York Daily News
  23. Impostor
    It's a pleasure to watch a thinking-man's actor like Sinise adapt so easily to this challenge; he even keeps his dignity when forced to participate in the inevitable martial arts-inflected showdown.
  24. Black Hawk Down
    What we need to remember, what Black Hawk Down reminds us, is that there are no safe missions when you're chasing bad guys. Especially when you have to chase them down a hole.
  25. Charlotte Gray
    The setting and circumstances of the war overwhelm the personal story and diminish the dilemma of the title character's love life.
  26. I Am Sam
    It's a difficult issue, one that is not well served by a hollow confection like I Am Sam.
  27. Dark Blue World
    It's the banal romantic triangle that inspired Sverak ("Kolya"), who obviously didn't see "Pearl Harbor" in time to stop himself.
  28. Monster's Ball
    This movie hyperventilates with pessimism to the point of perversity.
  29. Gosford Park
    No matter which floor you're on, the huge cast is extraordinary, and Altman gives the actors free rein to bring their characters to life despite such close quarters.
  30. Ali
    It was against all odds that Michael Mann ("The Insider") would make a boring movie focusing on the most eventful decade in the life of the most dynamic athlete in history. But that's what he has achieved with Ali.
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