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For 3,956 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: 2,217 out of 3956
  2. Mixed: 1,376 out of 3956
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3956
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  1. Winged Migration
    Parts of this film are as blandly lulling as a mood tape, but at best it’s a literally soaring experience.
  2. Love and Diane
    Harrowingly straightforward.
  3. A Mighty Wind
    Achingly funny movie...Guest has cultivated a stock company of players whose work together is so intuitively sharp that it seems to redefine the boundaries of acting.
  4. Anger Management
    Disposable, sporadically amusing.
  5. The Good Thief
    Bob is a marvelous creation--a faker who is also the genuine article. He’s the perfect hero for a movie about the world as one big scam.
  6. Cet amour-là
    The real passion here is the almost erotic thrill that acting still holds for Moreau.
  7. Raising Victor Vargas
    A comedy in the best sense--it draws its life from the pitch-perfect authenticity of its characters.
  8. Dreamcatcher
    It would take a filmmaker of truly astonishing versatility to harmonize all these disparate tones...But there are moments in Dreamcatcher when Kasdan gives you the giggles and the creeps at the same time, and that’s not easy to do.
  9. Japan
    Reygadas is both a sophisticate and a primitive: He sets up his film as a religious allegory, with the nameless painter as a kind of suffering Christ and the old woman--whose name is Ascen, as in Ascension--as his redeemer.
  10. Spun
    As the cowboy-hatted wild man who cooks up speed in his motel-room lab, Rourke, who looks at home in his tattoos, is mesmerizingly grungy. He strikes a rare note of authenticity in this otherwise phony fandango.
  11. Bend It Like Beckham
    Every generation has to discover the same clichés that were drummed into previous generations, and kids could do worse than to learn them from this film.
  12. Tears of the Sun
    In a movie with so much graphic suffering by innocent Africans, it’s a bit disconcerting that so much loving attention is paid to Bruce Willis’s anguished mug. There’s an uncomfortable Great White Father (and Mother) aspect to this movie.
  13. Laurel Canyon
    Frances McDormand deserves much better than Lisa Cholodenko’s flat-footed Laurel Canyon...McDormand alone makes the picture worth seeing: Her character is a rash combo of steel and dissolution and regret.
  14. Bringing Down the House
    Although that pairing (Martin/Latifah) alone may be enough to make this movie a hit, the material is thin and pandering and almost criminally negligent in bypassing opportunities for humor.
  15. Irreversible
    Noé shoots his sequences in long, unbroken takes, and the unblinking horror that results is, I think, the opposite of exploitation. There has been so much lurid bloodletting in the movies that you might think nothing could faze us anymore. Think again.
  16. Dark Blue
    Powerful, uneven police drama.
  17. The Life of David Gale
    The Grisham-esque murder-mystery plot got so scrambled that, finally, it’s anybody’s guess what the filmmakers intended.
  18. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    Scattershot but rousing documentary.
  19. All the Real Girls
    There’s a ravishing aliveness to the spacious imagery; at least the clichés have room to roam free.
  20. Gerry
    A wee Boy Scout would have done far better in the wilds. It’s tough to think "Waiting for Godot" when what you’re watching is closer to "Dumb & Dumber."
  21. Painted Fire
    The mystery of the artistic process is left mysterious -- as it should be.
  22. Stone Reader
    A marvelous literary thriller that gets at the way books can stay with people forever.
  23. Lost in La Mancha
    A mesmerizing documentary.
  24. The Recruit
    For most of this movie, things are exactly what they seem--mediocre.
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  25. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    Although Junge had consulted with a few historians and moviemakers over the years, she had never really unburdened herself, and this 90-minute documentary is a devastating act of personal confession.
  26. City of God
    Undeniably powerful, but also rather numbing.
  27. Crimson Gold
    Watching it is like getting a peek behind the curtain. But it's frustrating, too, because the casting of Emadeddin as a murderer-in-the-making precludes any psychological depth. And as an indictment of social inequality, which is the film's calling card, Panahi inadvertantly makes a far better case for the haves than for the have-nots.
  28. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    At its best, the film compares favorably to its obvious antecedents, "Rififi" (which Melville once hoped to direct) and "The Asphalt Jungle."
  29. The Son
    A prime piece of whirlybird filmmaking, and the technique saps what might have been a powerful experience.
  30. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Sam Rockwell plays Barris with a hipster’s shimmy that’s creepily effective -- The problem with making a movie about a hollow man is that, when things start to get heavy, you’re stuck with nothingness at the core.
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