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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. Sweet Sixteen
    Compston, with Loach's uncanny guidance, gives a performance of such natural power you'd think you were watching a drama-class prodigy like James Dean rather than a moonlighting high-schooler.
  2. Cinemania
    Both compelling and disturbing, this tragicomic documentary follows five dreamers as they pursue romance.
  3. Pokémon Heroes
    Clearly, interest has waned - both because children grow up and because they move on. It might be time for the folks behind this particular fad to do the same.
  4. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    Sometimes painful, often joyous, and altogether illuminating.
  5. L'Auberge Espagnole
    Beware of movies whose creators boast of the little effort involved. Little reward is what you're likely to get.
  6. The Matrix Reloaded
    The philosophy is even less plausible. But the action -- oh, the action! There's nothing else out there like it.
  7. Daddy Day Care
    Though topnotch actors often can elevate mediocre material, they need a topnotch director to help them do it. Steve Carr ("Dr. Dolittle 2") is not that director.
  8. The Shape of Things
    Besides repeating his premise that only fools fall in love and deserve whatever circle of hell they enter for it, he seems to really believe that morality has no place in art. Certainly, he's keeping it out of his.
  9. Down with Love
    Doesn't so much crackle as pop. It has enough double entendres to fill a D-cup, but it has a premise that would have burned a hole in the screen in 1962, when its story is set.
  10. Man on the Train
    One of the small pleasures of the movie is likely to escape American audiences. The bank robber is played by Johnny Hallyday, a pop icon of great magnitude in France, and the old man is played by Jean Rochefort, an acting staple of that country's cinema. The mere juxtaposition of these two personalities forms a comic set of expectations.
  11. The Dancer Upstairs
    Has many of the qualities that made the actor such a great target for self-parody in Spike Jonze's "Being John Malkovich" - it's sober, deliberate, self-consciously mysterious and no fun at all.
  12. Reno: Rebel Without a Pause
    Anyone familiar with Reno's politically minded monologues won't be surprised by her fury, which has sometimes been fueled by a self-righteousness that's undermined her valid observations.
  13. Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman is a fine actor in a rut, working on a string of socially alienated characters who are variations on the same theme. That's too bad, because the story being told around his static presence is amazing.
  14. New Suit
    Satire works when it's sharp and funny. When it's not, you get New Suit, an unremarkable sour-grapes comedy about the obsequious players and inconsequential products of Hollywood.
  15. X2: X-Men United
    A substantial improvement over "X-Men," in many ways, especially in visual and specialeffects departments.
  16. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    Not a single moment of creativity or intrigue is to be found in the big-screen debut of the Disney Channel's most popular sitcom character.
  17. Blue Car
    Even without nudity, the sex scene between Meg and Auster is one of the most uncomfortable on film. Not just because of the actors' age difference (Strathairn is 54, Bruckner 17), but because of Meg's inexperience and misplaced trust.
  18. Spellbound
    This could be a documentary about reading the body language of childhood.
  19. Identity
    A fascinating movie that, if you are able to make the leap it asks of you at about the three-quarter mark, will give you something to think and talk about for days. One thing is certain: It isn't predictable.
  20. Confidence
    As pulp entertainment, Confidence is great fun and Foley's first good movie since the very different "Glengarry Glen Ross."
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    It Runs in the Family
    The family's all here and surely, with all their accumulated years of wisdom, they should have been able to distinguish a cloying script when one fell into their hands.
  22. Jersey Guy
    This badly written, badly directed and badly acted little movie about an ordinary guy from Jersey who discovers passion with a fashion plate in Manhattan looks great.
  23. Returning Mickey Stern
    As earnest as it is awkward, the film has so much spirit, it's hard to dismiss entirely, even at its considerable worst.
  24. People I Know
    It was filmed in and around the World Trade Center, and the subsequent cuts, reshoots and sleights of hand designed to obscure that fact prove devastating.
  25. Manic
    Searching for a documentary feel, the camera here is so shaky that you cling to the arms of your chair lest you pitch into the next row.
  26. City of Ghosts
    The hand-held camera is much too insinuating for what is essentially a story we have seen many times before. And the cuts and transitions are dizzyingly abrupt.
  27. House of Fools
    Something less than a gem. It has a brilliant lead performance from Yuliya Vysotskaya as Janna.
  28. Marooned in Iraq
    It's part grim Beckett-like drama, part joyous picaresque, and all quite mesmerizing.
  29. 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.
  30. The Real Cancun
    An uncensored, often hilarious vision of spring break madness that is so perfectly positioned on the big screen, the only question you can ask its creators is, "What took you so long?"
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