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For 3,960 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,219 out of 3960
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3960
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3960
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  1. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    When French New Wave directors like Truffaut and Godard paid tribute to Hollywood pulp, they poeticized it and gave it an infusion of feeling. Tarantino’s tributes are, for the most part, far less complicated: He’s a fan, and Kill Bill is his mash note.
  2. Mystic River
    Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work.
  3. Bus 174
    It all adds up to a searing portrait of social misery.
  4. Out of Time
    A crime thriller that is strong on sultry atmosphere--you practically break into a sweat watching it--but weak on believability.
  5. School of Rock
    Linklater, whose previous movies include "Slacker," "Before Sunrise," and "Waking Life," may be the most versatile director of his generation. School of Rock is his most unabashedly mainstream movie by far, and yet it’s commercial in the best way.
  6. Concert for George
    The jamboree is beautifully shot and directed, by Chris Menges and David Leland respectively, and there is a haunting touch: the presence of George’s son, Dhani, on guitar, looking near-identical to his dad in his twenties.
  7. The Station Agent
    A bit too satisfied with its own sweet sensitivities.
  8. My Life Without Me
    A weepie for audiences under the (mistaken) impression that independent movies are always more emotionally honest than Hollywood movies.
  9. Anything Else
    Being a cultural icon is a time-limited occupation; after a while, the culture moves on, and if you don't move with it, you end up with a movie like Anything Else.
  10. Secondhand Lions
    The only saving grace is that Caine and Duvall don’t overdo the southern-coot stuff.
  11. Casa de los babys
    The cast…is first-rate, but each is given a single note to play.
  12. In This World
    Excruciatingly vivid.
  13. To Be and to Have
    The emotional honesty of this movie rescues it from sentimentality. To Be and to Have is about more than a dedicated teacher and his pupils; it’s about how difficult and exhilarating it is to grow into an adult.
  14. Matchstick Men
    The movie is moderately enjoyable, but it also makes you feel conned: It offers up a disturbing protagonist and then substitutes cuteness for character.
  15. Lost in Translation
    Coppola both wrote and directed, and there’s a pleasing shapelessness to her scenes. She accomplishes the difficult feat of showing people being bored out of their skulls in such a way that we are never bored watching them.
  16. So Close
    Cory Yuen's So Close is a kind of Hong Kong martial-arts variation on the Charlie's Angels movies, only better.
  17. Taking Sides
    Taking Sides has a padded-out, stagebound quality that is anything but lyrical. And Szabó, a Hungarian best known for "Mephisto" and "Colonel Redl," is not at his best here.
  18. Thirteen
    Thirteen doesn't really offer much more insight into exasperated mother-daughter relationships or twisted teens than, say, "Freaky Friday," which I much prefer. At least that film was funny and didn't try to fob itself off as a bulletin from the front lines.
  19. American Splendor
    It would be a mistake to regard American Splendor as an anthem for the common man. It is the UNCOMMON that is being celebrated here.
  20. Open Range
    Costner is always at his best when he’s a little ornery, and Duvall is the same way. His grizzled performance is so thoroughly in character that he even chews as if it were 1882.
  21. Step Into Liquid
    Inspires the requisite shock and awe, but a little goes a long way. About the fifth time I saw someone slip-sliding away from a 60-foot wave, I longed to hear someone on the soundtrack say, “That guy is really nuts.”
  22. Le divorce
    It may be that Merchant Ivory need the armature of the past in order to create a sense of the present. Le Divorce is mustier than any of their movies set back in time.
  23. S.W.A.T.
    There is something sneakily gratifying about all this: Not since the days of "Earthquake" have Hollywood producers so indulged their fantasies of trashing the town.
  24. Freaky Friday
    Freaky Friday gives Curtis the chance to go all goofy and showcase her gift for splayed physical comedy.
  25. The Magdalene Sisters
    When it comes time for some of the girls to flee, the result is one of the most emotionally satisfying of all prison breaks.
  26. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Refreshingly uncategorizable: It’s somewhere between a marital-discord drama and a mystery thriller, but it also has its madcap moments.
  27. Buffalo Soldiers
    This is low-grade satire. The shocks to the system in Buffalo Soldiers are nothing more than cheap thrills.
  28. Seabiscuit
    Watching this movie, you get the feeling that the Depression existed so that Seabiscuit could be memorialized.
  29. Camp
    Art as a passport to healing may be what audiences are craving these days, but the poultice provided by this movie couldn't cover a paper cut.
  30. Masked and Anonymous
    Here’s a good rule of thumb: Any movie featuring a quote in its ad from the poet laureate of Great Britain—“Deeply engaging!” -- is in trouble.
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