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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. Fast Food Nation
    Dispiriting, unsubtle and unpleasant.
  2. District 13: Ultimatum
    There's little difference between the first and second movies -- both written by Besson -- so the perfunctory story line will feel familiar to fans. But the action, and the head-spinning stunts of those agile lead actors, will never get old.
  3. Film Socialisme
    Designed as their own entity, the brief subtitles convey so little that to get the full experience you won't only need to understand Godard's language. You'll also have to speak French.
  4. Tokyo!
    Anyone looking for something original or unexpected should check out the trio of short films that comprise this entertaining ode to the titular city.
  5. Dancer in the Dark
    What is meant to be an innovative, cutting-edge musical melodrama is so jumbled, irrational and amateurish that it makes dinner theater look like the Old Vic.
  6. 16 Blocks
    The action sequences that follow are routine to the point of monotony, involving chases through crowded streets and store fronts, a commandeered bus, a woman in peril, and so on. But Donner wisely devotes long spells in between to the evolving relationship between Jack and Eddie.
  7. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    A fascinating story.
    • New York Daily News
  8. Songcatcher
    For a film expressly about an underappreciated culture, there are some boulder-size cliches rolling down these hills.
  9. Unfaithful
    The movie doesn't stoop to cheap psychoanalysis and must be commended for a bravely ambiguous ending. But most of the credit goes to Lane, who is simply extraordinary as a woman whose body is at war with her conscience.
    • New York Daily News
  10. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    So unfocused we never get to know the man behind the gowns.
  11. One True Thing
    A beautifully rich performance by Meryl Streep, [18 September 1998, p. 57]
    • New York Daily News
  12. Sex Is Comedy
    A strange creature, a narcissistic mock documentary.
  13. Good Kill
    Because it's so rooted in real life, the drama Good Kill is even more terrifying than “The Purge,” Ethan Hawke’s horror film from two years ago.
  14. Babies
    So after about an hour of watching four children eat, bathe and crawl, you might start to wonder why you've paid to see somebody else's home movies.
  15. Return
    Johnson's feel for the rhythms of reconnection are steady, and she and her fine actors make Return one of only a handful of films to honestly address what to many is heartbreaking reality.
  16. Lbs.
    That truthfulness, along with the movie's emotional honesty and narrative polish, help tag this NY-grown indie as one to seek out.
  17. Splinters
    A cool documentary that pivots adroitly between viewpoints and ambitions.
  18. Waydowntown
    Maybe you have to have experienced one of these anti-weather urban cocoons to appreciate the concept of the film, and the prickly people who populate it.
  19. Secretary
    The daring, funny and quirkily erotic Secretary examines power exchanges between consenting adults in a way that other movies have not managed without turning off swaths of the squeamish.
  20. Chaos
    It's not giving too much away to note that we've seen a lot of this before, in classic noir and postnoir films, though to name those films would spoil things.
  21. Drumline
    Bogged down by a lazy script and underwhelming performances. Fortunately, there's no hiding his jubilant passion for ritual and symmetry, which makes each perfectly choreographed band scene a genuine thrill to watch.
  22. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Perhaps not since Truffaut's "The Story of Adele H" has thwarted love been rendered so compassionately on the screen, its psychology laid bare.
  23. Wendigo
    The intriguing elements never quite coalesce into a consequential whole; we leave this yuppie nightmare feeling both unsettled and unsatisfied.
    • New York Daily News
  24. Out of Time
    The tension of Matt having to work alongside his wife without being able to trust her provides the movie's real electricity, sexual and otherwise.
  25. Children of Love
    A powerful drama that turns a common event -- the rending of a family -- into an intimate, personal affair.
  26. The Patriot
    Far from the smart historical epic some might have expected, is just another feisty summer shoot-'em-up.
  27. A Perfect Getaway
    The result isn't deadly dull, but it does turn what should have been a most dangerous game into a basic scenery-chewing contest.
  28. Love Crime
    More cold fish than cold-blooded, director Alain Correau keeps his movie buttoned up and predictable.
  29. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    This kind of parody is hard to sustain for an hour and a half, and "Walk Hard" does gets wearying at times. But the humor is so outrageous, the original music so much fun and Reilly so good - both while hamming it up in the role and in singing the songs - that it's irresistible.
  30. Planet B-Boy
    Though he doesn't break any new documentary ground, Lee knows how to shoot his subjects. Their stories are moving, and their moves are thrilling.
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