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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
    It's sick. It's stupid. But it also is undeniably adept at skewering social hypocrisy, lancing the boils of political self-righteousness, and poking fun where others fear to tread.
  2. Tape
    A super-taut and superbly acted three-character piece.
  3. Domestic Disturbance
    Travolta, a bit portly (or is it starboardly?), phones in his performance from his place in Maine; Vaughn is ice-cool but not especially convincing; the kid is OK, and Polo is a blank.
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  4. The Man Who Wasn't There
    To be sure, there are goofy flourishes here, the in-jokey, left-field rummies that are the Brothers Coen's stock-in-trade. But this is altogether a quieter, more philosophical sort of endeavor.
  5. K-PAX
    Both consoling and confounding.
  6. On the Line
    Peppy, painless and -- happily -- not altogether brainless.
  7. Life as a House
    Elevated beyond its cutesy contrivances and mawkishness by some extraordinarily good performances.
  8. Better Than Sex
    Unpretentious fun.
  9. Thirteen Ghosts
    13 Ghosts is the type of project that all parties concerned will have to live down for the rest of their lives.
  10. Trembling Before G-d
    An unexpectedly moving family portrait of cousins we didn't know we had.
  11. Cool and Crazy
    Ranging in age from 30 to 96, the Berlevag men clearly enjoy being on camera and are unusually candid about their various pasts as Casanovas and hashish addicts.
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  12. Intimacy
    A disconcerting experience.
  13. Focus
    Feels somehow incomplete. It may be that its visual metaphor is more effective in literature than in film.
  14. From Hell
    Feels stagy, stiff and entirely unnecessary.
  15. The Last Castle
    If this melodrama has that haven't-we-met-before look, it's because it combines elements of "The Caine Mutiny" (Gandolfini's Winter is Queeg-like) with those of "Stalag 17."
  16. Riding in Cars with Boys
    It's the kind of film -- like Diane Keaton's "Hanging Up" -- that even as it dissolves narratively, still makes you dissolve emotionally.
  17. Waking Life
    A smart, sensuous and sensory mind trip that caroms around a universe of thought.
  18. Bandits
    Billy Bob Thornton, wearing a succession of toupees, wigs, fake facial hair, and funny hats, and twitching more than a horse's behind, is the best reason to see Bandits.
  19. Iron Monkey
    It's indescribable fun.
  20. Mulholland Dr.
    It's a lush, lovely dreamscape of a movie, steeped in familiar vernacular (film noir), yet capable of shooting off in totally unfamiliar, surreal directions.
  21. My First Mister
    A human-scale comedy that reaches across generations to tickle, connect and embrace.
  22. Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures
    A spare document featuring one talking head. But what a talking head and what a story!
  23. Grateful Dawg
    The movie has a musical rather than a cinematic shape, defined by songs played in their entirety.
  24. Joy Ride
    A really satisfying suspenser, but also really, really fun.
  25. Training Day
    Training Day has the best performances and worst third act of any movie you're likely to see this year.
  26. Serendipity
    Contrived and schematic, Peter Chelsom's film is a mechanical bird that never takes wing.
  27. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    On a Paris rooftop about an hour into this 2-hour film, the tone shifts and the atmosphere lightens into giddy farce.
  28. Diamond Men
    A witty, winning inversion of the famous Arthur Miller play.
  29. Don't Say a Word
    I left the film wondering where at the Bellevue-like psychiatric facility that schizophrenic teenager obtained such a becoming brick-red lipstick.
  30. Zoolander
    What Zoolander does have, and this was enough for me, is a sublime comic performance by Owen Wilson, as the supermodel Hansel, positively radiant in its dimness.
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