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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. Robot Stories
    The stories are sharply written and well composed. Some are high tech on a low-tech budget, but where they find their strength -- in the emotions of their characters -- money is no object.
  2. Batman Begins
    What you get out of Batman Begins depends on what you bring to it. It is the most faithful to the origins of the comic strip and it sets up a series very different from the four made by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher between 1989 and 1997.
  3. Two Family House
    A gentle, soulful comedy about everyday dreams and what it takes to make them come true.
  4. Sketches of Frank Gehry
    Providing a tart balance to such enthusiastic admiration, Gehry's own blunt musings on his motivations, revelations and desires prove especially interesting.
  5. You Kill Me
    Dahl found the right actors for every part - Bill Pullman as the cynical Realtor hired to look after Frank, Luke Wilson as the gay AA member assigned as Frank's sponsor, and the always amusing Dennis Farina as Irish mobster Edward O'Leary.
  6. X-Men
    A solid action story with inventive battles (one on the Statue of Liberty) and satisfyingly gooey special effects.
  7. Lights in the Dusk
    Kaurismaki's characteristically minimalist humor and wry empathy make brief appearances, but be warned: His Helsinki is a cold, dark place unfit for all but the hardiest visitors.
  8. The Woodsman
    Kassell has serious talent. The movie is beautifully shot, and the performances are all spot-on. But like many young screenwriters today, she has overwritten her script to the point where everything is simply too tidy for the messy psychological material.
  9. Fifty-Fifty
    With a cast of mostly non-actors, the film seems rough-hewn, like something you'd find rusted along a road. But it's actually a sophisticated blend of crime thriller, coming-of-age story and social realism.
  10. The Century of the Self
    It will make you laugh, and feel like crying.
  11. Shadow Boxers
    Savvy, unflinching, often bloody documentary.
  12. Divorce Iranian Style
    The tone is attentive and responsible.
  13. Ella Enchanted
    As an alternative to the slick, instantly forgettable fare usually made for kids and preteens, Ella Enchanted brings a little bit of magic to the multiplex.
  14. Up for Grabs
    Michael Wranovics' documentary replays this sorry chapter in all-American greed in glorious detail.
  15. Kings & Queen
    Arnaud Desplechin's sprawling drama exudes a go-for-broke determination that is frustrating and exhilarating.
  16. Rock School
    Rock School celebrates music, family, hard work and, yes, Paul Green. Best of all, it shows the flexibility of children to learn and adapt -- even when their teacher is nuts.
  17. Seabiscuit
    This rousing story of the comeback colt comes close to a modern-day Frank Capra film without the pandering or mawkishness. Yes, it's a bit hokey, but if you fight the movie's gait you'll miss the excitement of the race.
  18. Our Father
    Haroun is deft at handling the joys and pain of childhood. He neither condescends nor ­­over-sentimentalizes. It is a story of separation anxiety (for Amine) and coming of age (for Tahir) and it's universal.
  19. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    A story about people learning to know themselves through relationships to others -- delivered with gentle, offbeat humor.
  20. Danny Deckchair
    Danny Deckchair may be a trifle, but it offers a breezy lift for the dog days of summer.
  21. After the Wedding
    The characters may suffer once the bride walks down the aisle, but Bier, Jensen and their first-rate cast work together like a match made in heaven.
  22. Catch Me If You Can
    A pleasant romp through the land of Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction.
  23. Afterglow
    At his best, as he is here, Rudolph is always able to locate the emotional reality inside the dream. [26Dec1997 Pg53]
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  24. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Has all the tense crackle of film noir and the molasses drip of irony that is the trademark of movie-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
  25. Spider
    A cat's cradle of creepy childhood memory oozing unreliably from the mind of an aging, desiccated, paranoid schizophrenic, played quite amazingly by a mumbling, stooped, shifty-eyed Ralph Fiennes.
  26. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    It's the first mainstream gay movie that feels totally comfortable in its shoes.
  27. X-Men: The Last Stand
    Ratner is unable to maintain the emotional intensity that has made this series so deeply epic. But he sure knows how to put on a show.
  28. The Namesake
    The Namesake is suffused with radiant grace, and manages to be old-fashioned yet immediate, epic and intimate.
  29. The Bourne Identity
    Thrillers have become so gnawingly generic that The Bourne Identity wakes the senses without leaning on cliché and soundtrack.
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  30. Out of the Blue
    As sensitive to its subject as it is stark in its rendering.
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