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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. American Pimp
    Genuinely entertaining and, thanks to a well of self-deluded quotes from the men, shockingly funny.
  2. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    It's a wonderfully silly family movie that holds its audience in high regard.
  3. Felicia's Journey
    Seems like a genteel "Psycho."
  4. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Gentle, funny and full of the lessons one expects from the scions of the late Jim Henson.
  5. The Situation
    Shot in Morocco with hand-held cameras, the movie has the urgency of a heart attack. Clearly tilted against the war, and heavy on explanatory dialogue, it paints a bleak picture of a desperate country that is being exploited by extremists at the expense of the despairing citizens. The situation is dire.
  6. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    Sometimes painful, often joyous, and altogether illuminating.
  7. The Intruder
    The title might as well refer to the viewer who tags along on Louis' often-silent journey from solitude to some tentative form of family. Some will consider the experience insurmountably frustrating; others will find it exhilarating.
  8. Something New
    A satisfying chick flick that follows all the usual rules of the modern romantic comedy except one - it's not stupid.
  9. About a Boy
    A comedy hit, but its secret is that it delves deeper than the usual summer fare.
    • New York Daily News
  10. A State of Mind
    Despite the obvious cultural differences, what we come away with is a surprising sense of familiarity. Not even the widest political chasms, Gordon finds, can eradicate the universal pleasure of a young girl's giggle.
  11. Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
    A relatively straightforward portrait of Holmes, using interviews with family members, friends, wives, X-film producers and his former co-stars.
  12. Road to Perdition
    Mendes -- wants to have it both ways, to get close to mob life, but be no part of it. And he keeps us at a dime-novel distance, too. He has made a dreamy, poetic impression of a world that exists only on film and in comic strips, and that has no resonance for most of us.
    • New York Daily News
  13. A Self-Made Hero
    Jacques Audiard's amusingly stinging A Self-Made Hero toys with the subjectivity of historical truth by presenting one Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz), loser, cipher, liar. But a brilliant liar. [12 Sept 1997, p.44]
    • New York Daily News
  14. Wedding Crashers
    Good, indecent fun starring two of the most amiable comedy actors around.
  15. Twilight: Los Angeles
    Forces the audience to rethink the riots in new and difficult ways, to find empathy and revulsion where it might not have known they existed.
  16. In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Kudlácek's primary focus, however, is on Deren's work, which means we don't learn enough about her complex, fascinating personality. On the other hand, she's offering a too-rare opportunity to see substantial portions of Deren's seminal films.
  17. Training Day
    The movie raises questions that are on plenty of minds right now, including whether and how much the rules should be bent to wage a war (in this case, on drugs) that cannot be won conventionally.
  18. Control
    Morton's as good an actress as any working today and in Control, she overcomes an age gap to give one of the year's most heartbreaking and honest performances.
  19. Cinemania
    Both compelling and disturbing, this tragicomic documentary follows five dreamers as they pursue romance.
  20. Adored
    A vanity project so preposterous it deserves to become an instant camp hit.
  21. Welcome to Sarajevo
    Winterbottom uses effective imagery to establish the horror and absurdity of war. [26Nov1997 Pg.39]
    • New York Daily News
  22. Over the Hedge
    The computer-animation is terrific, most of the slapstick gags are fun, and Wanda Sykes' voice performance as feisty Stella the Skunk is one that will be remembered - and not because it stinks.
  23. London to Brighton
    Very good but very grim, Paul Andrew Williams' punishing debut doesn't pull many punches - although the characters certainly field their share of body blows.
  24. George Washington
    None of the children are professionals, and their uncontrived performances lend a painfully real quality to what becomes a rather lyrical story.
  25. Down from the Mountain
    Good music stands alone, and the documentary is jaunty fun.
  26. Biker Boyz
    If you want old-school cool, you go to Laurence Fishburne.
  27. Office Space
    Work was never funnier.
    • New York Daily News
  28. White Oleander
    What the movie cannot take from the book is its dreamily descriptive prose and interior monologue. Perhaps because of that, the movie changes the focus from Ingrid, the more fascinating creature, to Astrid, whose clay is more malleable for the big screen.
  29. Atonement
    It is an amazing story, filled with quiet moments of profundity and more surprises than you could imagine.
  30. Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
    This is not a film for the impatient. But director Aparna Sen finds the poetry in romantic restraint, which is a mighty rare resource these days.
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