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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. Late August, Early September
    The film, written and directed with an intimate, hand-held camera by Assayas, is notable for the details how love that is ended sometimes flares up in little brush fires, only to be banked down again; how lovers awkwardly balance the push and pull of new relationships; how things neither start nor end with any punctuality or precision. [07 Jul 1999, p.38]
    • New York Daily News
  2. Carrie
    Were there Richter scales for measuring the degree of terror induced by movies of this kind, De Palma's "Carrie" would register only 2.2 in terms of actual shock value, but it would score well on the laugh meter. This satiric examination of the American high schooler turns out to be scathingly funny.
  3. Tony Takitani
    The result is a quietly simple fable that hits you hardest after it's over.
  4. Thumbsucker
    It's Pucci - who's already won a couple of acting prizes on the festival circuit, including Sundance - who steals the film with a wonderful performance blending the awkward innocence, vulnerability and pain of being a teen.
  5. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Sophie Scholl is the subject of a feature film that has earned an Oscar nomination for a Germany she would have loved to live in.
  6. The Proposition
    Despite all the violence that ensues, The Proposition is a psychological Western more in the mold of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" than the John Ford films its stark cinematography resembles. It's about a good man, Stanley, who does bad things, and a bad man, Charlie, fighting his conscience.
  7. The Transporter
    Kinetic, meaningless and fun.
  8. Blades of Glory
    The casting of Ferrell and Heder turns out to be inspired. The direction, by a pair of NYU grads who've only made TV commercials and two short films, is pitch-perfect. And - miraculously - the skating sequences are passably realistic.
  9. Jindabyne
    Dublin-born Byrne and native New Yorker Linney...are both exceptional at depicting characters about to burst from inner turmoil, and Linney, in particular, is heartbreaking.
  10. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    It won't cure the ills of the world, but it doesn't need to. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is adorable in its own spongy way.
  11. Me & Isaac Newton
    Hey, kids! Skip the job fairs and go directly to a screening of Me & Isaac Newton.
  12. A Matter of Taste
    A neat little almost-thriller, this witty French diversion manages to mess with your head with little apparent effort.
    • New York Daily News
  13. Iraq in Fragments
    Visually arresting and deeply disheartening, James Longley's impressionistic documentary explores the pain of a shattered country by homing in on a few tiny shards.
  14. The Life of Reilly
    If you think of Reilly as little more than a camp icon, you've got a lot to learn.
  15. Bandits
    For sheer escapist fun, the proudly ridiculous Bandits fills the bill.
  16. The Savages
    The Savages is a TV movie made for the big screen - and it needs the larger venue to accommodate the huge performances of its stars, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney.
  17. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    Allen and Short seem to be having so much fun that their enthusiasm is entirely contagious. Let the season begin.
  18. Delirious
    In the end, I don't know that Delirious has all that much to say about the fame game, but you'll laugh nonetheless.
  19. Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub
    With its carefully-chosen soundtrack, funky animation, and enthusiastic interviews, Dean Budnick's affectionate documentary pays apt tribute to Wetlands, a local landmark that closed in 2001.
  20. The Santa Clause 2
    Won't replace anyone's annual viewing of "It's a Wonderful Life." But your family could find a worse way to take a holiday break.
  21. We Were Soldiers
    We Were Soldiers works. The action is well-staged and realistic. And Gibson is a commanding presence in a role that has more shadings and stature than his usual action heroes.
    • New York Daily News
  22. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    It's too long, unnecessarily complicated and often silly, but Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still the purest popcorn entertainment of the summer.
  23. Turtles Can Fly
    There's no refuge in this uncomfortably realistic movie, and that is its strength.
  24. Grizzly Man
    Though some see Treadwell as an idealistic martyr who made the ultimate sacrifice for his passion, others vilify him as an arrogant fool who courted his own end.
  25. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    It's clear that Kor's goal is to keep people talking, and thinking, about impossibly difficult subjects. And there's no debating her success in that regard.
  26. Beyond the Gates
    Hurt and Dancy are terrific in these roles, but the power of the movie is in the tension created by Caton-Jones on the same sites where this historical event unfolded.
  27. Tying the Knot
    Besides the personal stories, de Sève deftly puts the issue in historical and political perspective through an overview of the evolution of marriage, plus a slew of talking heads representing both sides of the battle.
  28. The Hidden Blade
    Both epic and intimate, this impassioned samurai drama is for anyone who's ever watched a movie and muttered, "They just don't make 'em like they used to."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Them!
    The threatened catastrophe, as destructive as any H-bomb, is handled with enough realism and tension to be plenty scary. [04 Jul 1954, p.20]
    • New York Daily News
  30. Snakes on a Plane
    Hilariously funny, full of fang-popping scares, and guaranteed to increase travel by train.
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