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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. Into the Wild
    Penn is projecting heroic qualities onto a young guy who simply got in over his head.
  2. The Same River Twice
    The old footage is definitely compelling, but once Moss trains his focus on the quotidian present, the movie takes on too much water to stay afloat.
  3. Morlang
    The movie ever so slowly builds to a startling finale, one that puts new meaning into passive-aggressive relationships.
  4. Dolls
    Rife with beautiful imagery and loads of symbolism, though none of the stories is particularly compelling on its own.
  5. Where the Money Is
    The film makers are so anxious to please their audience that they turn the last act into a preposterous cat-and-mouse game that nullifies the integrity of the story.
  6. The Children of the Century
    Inexplicable human bondage is a literary staple of film as well as literature, but Kurys ("Entre Nous"), usually so sure-handed with her actors, has trouble making this bond compelling.
  7. Goya's Ghosts
    Although the period feeling is convincing, Forman doesn't seem to know exactly what he wants to say about this intensely complex era - and that leaves his cast floundering.
  8. Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
    This is an important New York story, and Spaisman makes an inspiring subject.
  9. Stalin's Wife
    There's plenty of passion beneath this movie's unadorned surface.
  10. Series 7: The Contenders
    There's no avoiding the fact that it's a one-joke movie, 86 minutes in the telling, and without any serious social underpinnings, it grows old pretty fast.
  11. What Planet Are You From?
    The film's asset, in a walk, is Bening, whose comic timing puts Shandling to shame.
  12. Cet amour-là
    Dayan's weakly structured biopic Cet Amour-là is, to be kind, less than inspired. But as a showcase for legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau, it's a tour de force.
  13. Reykjavík
    Much of this is pretty funny, in its perverse, disorienting style, and there's an irrepressible sunniness to the relationship between Lola and Hlynur's mother.
    • New York Daily News
  14. Swimming
    Its leisurely pace and reliance on Ambrose's pale-lashed gaze make it more of an interior monologue. That may not please viewers who crave action, but those with patience will be rewarded.
  15. Trixie
    Trixie has "cult favorite" written all over it. That is to say, the general public is likely to say ixnay.
  16. The Believer
    Gosling's performance is a stunner, although the story-telling is otherwise pedestrian. It is the movie's blessing and curse that it does not shy away from Danny's murderous, inexplicable contradictions — or explain them.
  17. Two Men Went to War
    The veteran Cranham and young Bill play their incompatible characters with dead-pan aplomb, and Derek Jacobi adds heft as Churchill's chief intelligence officer.
  18. Going Shopping
    Though intermittently shrill, Shopping does have enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping.
  19. Twelve and Holding
    A movie with better parts than a whole. But where it's right, it's really right.
  20. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    It's beautiful to look at, and marvelously edited, but it's hard to know exactly what he's getting at. [28 May 1999]
    • New York Daily News
  21. Maryam
    Though it's ultimately rather heavy-handed, this drama about an Iranian-American family is heartfelt and topical.
  22. Gypsy 83
    Only slightly less awkward than its young protagonists, Todd Stephens' earnest coming-of-age drama is able to coast a long way on two engaging performances and some endearing moments.
  23. Down to the Bone
    Farmiga is excellent as a woman who is like the mouse she feeds to her son's pet snake - trapped and about to be eaten alive by ordinary circumstance.
  24. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Will Rugrats fans love it -- Wee, we -- er, oui, oui.
  25. Grand Theft Parsons
    Gram Parsons' last rites were among the most extra­ordinary in rock history. Too bad this retelling of the singer's final adventure is so tame.
  26. Unveiled
    The parts are more valuable than the whole in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled.
  27. Goal! The Dream Begins
    A sports movie for people who may not care about sports but can't resist a heart-tugging underdog story.
  28. Nearing Grace
    The performances by Smith, Brewster and veteran David Morse, as a morbidly depressed widower, elevate Nearing Grace to something near grace.
  29. Waitress
    While Shelly's stylized vision and sentimental intentions don't always gel, they do result in a warm, often charming fantasy.
  30. Hannibal
    It's certainly not scary; it's not even suspenseful. The tension in Hannibal is purely sexual.
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