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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. Down with Love
    Doesn't so much crackle as pop. It has enough double entendres to fill a D-cup, but it has a premise that would have burned a hole in the screen in 1962, when its story is set.
  2. Rize
    Exhilarating.
  3. Clean
    When these two powerhouse performers come together, a rather predictable tale ignites with surprising force.
  4. Himalaya
    The plot is woven from minutely observed details that beautifully evoke a rarely seen world.
  5. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    The segments are introduced with little clichés or homilies, like "Ignorance Is Bliss," but the fierce intelligence of the script reminds us that sometimes a cliché is the only way to express the ineffable.
    • New York Daily News
  6. Pootie Tang
    Pretty thin feature-film subject. But the silliness is so contagious that it doesn't matter.
  7. Get Bruce
    Offering often-hysterical testimony to Vilanch's talent.
  8. The Others
    The suspense is as tingly as jalapenos on the tongue.
  9. Heights
    Heights is stage-bound throughout, and the secrets it would like to keep are very predictable. But its heart is in the right place, and the performances are first-rate.
  10. I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
    A fascinating capsule of an era long past.
  11. 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
  12. Tsotsi
    Tense, fiercely optimistic movie.
  13. 13 Tzameti
    The resulting jolts add up to one unforgettably surreal nightmare. Just be sure your heart can handle any surprises headed your way.
  14. Seraphim Falls
    This is an entertaining Western with some earnest ideas about forgiveness, redemption and the loss of innocents.
  15. Intolerable Cruelty
    If Intolerable Cruelty isn't a convincing love story, it's a hugely entertaining one, with comic relief -- in the form of Cedric the Entertainer as a voyeuristic private eye and Tom Aldredge as a decaying law-firm boss issuing directives while hooked up to life-support -- piled on top of the comedy.
  16. Zheng hun qi shi
    Although rife with comic possibilities, The Personals develops into a somber tale of personal identity.
  17. Diggers
    What separates Diggers from its kin - notably the Ed Burns movies - is the testosterone balance of its masculine script and Dieckmann's sensitive direction. Maybe we need more buddy movies by women.
  18. Nanking
    It is the devastating testimony from survivors themselves that leaves the most indelible impression.
  19. Tokyo Godfathers
    Though he's working with an unavoidably sentimental story, Kon embraces the dark underside of his characters' lives, giving this animated film a satisfyingly three-dimensional feel.
  20. 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.
  21. Girls Can't Swim
    Sensitive and thoughtful coming-of-age story.
    • New York Daily News
  22. Romántico
    It will be a long time before you forget the deep pain etched into the weary face of Carmelo Muñiz, the mariachi singer at the center of Mark Becker's immensely moving documentary.
  23. Monster
    Any which way you describe this uncompromising movie, it will never sound palatable. Still, it features one of the most spectacular physical transformations by an actress hungry for a meaty role. I haven't used the term "tour de force" in all of 2003, but now it is time.
  24. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    There are some clunky, juvenile jokes and an excess of shots to that special place on men that make us double over and weep. But there are some very funny, very hip jokes as well.
  25. Slither
    Slither is neither repetitive nor reverent. It is a dark and hilarious spoof of those movies, one in which both the characters and the audience seem to be in on the jokes.
  26. Come Early Morning
    Both Adams and Judd have been let down by Hollywood. Here they have the freedom to express their uniquely Southern takes on music, faith, family and femininity. This intensely personal film may not bring either of them widespread acclaim, but it's a small triumph nonetheless.
  27. Hostel: Part II
    While the sequel isn't as unrelentingly gory as the original, there are still rivers of blood.
  28. Two Brothers
    Annaud is a filmmaker who often works with a bare minimum of dialogue. Yet his storytelling is so strong and emotional that words are barely necessary.
  29. Agnes Browne
    A standout feature of the movie is its representation of female friendship.
  30. Bad Santa
    "Ghost World" director Terry Zwigoff, working with a depraved script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, has fashioned the sickest -- and funniest -- black comedy in years.
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