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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. Sisters in Law
    Because the film focuses entirely on the women's work, we learn too little about their personal histories. How did they even rise to such prominence in what appears to be an extremely patriarchal society?
  2. Wonderland
    That (cinéma-vérité) feel is absolutely convincing, as are the performances.
  3. All the Real Girls
    The central relationship here is curious but not engaging, except for the pleasure of watching Deschanel, making All the Real Girls just a filmmaker's exercise in impressionistic style and mood.
  4. Spy Kids
    An adorable family movie.
  5. Tadpole
    Armed with a witty script, Winick and the actors so confidently ply the Oedipal waters that the comedy seems sweetly chaste.
  6. Time of the Wolf
    Time of the Wolf is grounded so deeply in the reality of society gone awry that the anxiety faced by Isabelle Huppert's character as she struggles to keep her family together transfers onto the audience and never leaves.
  7. The Raid 2
    For better or worse, the blood and bone-crunching remains most prominent.
  8. Lenny Cooke
    This melancholy documentary shows how championship dreams can turn into a nightmare.
  9. La Moustache
    Have Marc's friends tricked him with a conspiracy of silence, or was that mustache a growth only in his mind? The filmmaker has said there is no intended meaning to any of this, so search for it for your own amusement.
  10. Holes
    A great family movie, with a terrifically empathetic young hero, strong messages about the powers of familial love and friendship, buried treasure and enough action to keep the little ones from getting bored.
  11. The Big Lebowski
    It's a tired idea, and it produces an episodic, unstrung film. [6 March 1998, p.49]
    • New York Daily News
  12. King Leopold's Ghost
    This brilliant documentary, which shows not only how Belgian King Leopold II made the huge and resource-rich central African Congo his own private reserve, but how his legacy of exploiting the land and brutalizing its people continues in modern times.
  13. Thank You for Smoking
    It's more fun than a turkey shoot. It's also one of the most entertaining riffs on American culture in years.
  14. Pete's Dragon
    What Pete's Dragon lacks in original plot, it makes up for in heart
  15. Trashed
    Crucial viewing for realists and alarmists both.
  16. The Good Girl
    In Aniston's previous film roles, the "Friends" star has made little impression, but under the direction of the gifted young Arteta, she's certainly grown to fill the big screen here, and looks ready to leap from TV to film.
  17. 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.
  18. Intimate Strangers
    This has all the ingredients for a top-notch thriller except one - a thrill.
  19. Factotum
    Bukowski fans - and they are legion - may fill in the blanks from their own knowledge of the writer and find Factotum a more complete character study than it really is. For the rest of us, there are a few laughs - and a corking hangover.
    • New York Daily News
  20. Tropic Thunder
    Although this ­satire of Hollywood inanity isn't the comic ­classic it could have been, Downey's gonzo performance is a must-see.
  21. The Tracker
    An underwritten drama.
  22. Disgrace
    The film, unfortunately, hasn't the depth Malkovich brings to his performance.
  23. Koch
    The politician who almost pathologically asked the question "How'm I doin'?" clearly never needed a view outside his own. Which is as New York as it gets.
  24. Good Will Hunting
    You'd never guess this just-off-center movie was directed by indie hero Gus Van Sant. Maybe, like Will, he's casual about his gifts and feels no need to trot them out.
  25. This Is Martin Bonner
    This contemplative drama draws strength from day-to-day ordinariness and a terrific lead performance from Paul Eenhoorn, yet sadly falls short.
  26. Battle for Brooklyn
    A gripping documentary about how unnecesary real estate development can change the soul of New York, brings us inside the lives it touches.
  27. Mozart's Sister
    Marie Féret struggles to hold the film's center throughout, but there's more than enough to distract us, from transcendent music to sumptuous costumes and sets.
  28. Red Eye
    The movie is fun, fun, fun.
  29. Trumbo
    Donald Sutherland's passionate rendition of a speech from Trumbo's 1971 film "Johnny Got His Gun" (based on his novel) is worth the price of admission.
  30. Travelers and Magicians
    Shangri-La is in your own backyard.
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