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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 3.2 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. Down to Earth
    What Rock fans will sorely miss in Down to Earth is the earthiness and outrageous hilarity of his stand-up act.
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  2. Company Man
    The scenario looms as a brain-dead invitation for the stars to embarrass themselves, and Company Man wastes little time in fulfilling that glum suspicion.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  3. Recess: School's Out
    Refreshingly subversive.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  4. Sweet November
    If Sweet November were a puppy, it would have rabies.
  5. The Taste of Others
    For everyone who has ever asked, "What on earth do they see in each other?"
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  6. Signs & Wonders
    Skarsgard's performance is bold and raw (and reminiscent of vintage Jack Lemmon in its earnestness).
  7. Saving Silverman
    Yes, it's stupid. But sometimes it's stupid with a capital S, and it's in those moments of transcendent idiocy that you can't help liking Saving Silverman. At least, a little bit.
  8. Hannibal
    Perhaps to compensate for the absence of compelling drama and tension (and a few continuity gaffes), Scott has retreated to his TV commercial roots and crammed Hannibal full of busy, art-directed visuals.
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  9. In the Mood for Love
    A feast for the eyes and succor for the soul.
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  10. The Invisible Circus
    It's a shameless don't-hate-me-because-I'm-beautiful-and-impulsive performance (Diaz), and it throws the entire movie out of balance.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  11. Nico and Dani
    Honest, sensitive and keenly observant.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  12. Left Behind
    Piously acted, stiffly directed, and infused with a view of world politics that might charitably be described as delusional.
  13. Head Over Heels
    A bubble-brained comedy with as much bearing on the real world as a Pokemon cartoon.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  14. Trolösa
    The movie may be the meditation of an old man, but rarely has a supreme artist's twilight been so richly illuminating. Faithless makes other films on the same subject seem clueless.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  15. The Wedding Planner
    At its best when it employs the conventions of romantic comedies to satirize them through the eyes of an anti-romantic wedding planner.
  16. The Pledge
    It is understatement to say that Nicholson does some of the finest work of his career here, easily equaling "The Shining" for gargoyle monstrousness and "As Good as It Gets" for tortured humanism.
  17. The Amati Girls
    Rather like listening to Vladimir Horowitz play "Chopsticks."
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  18. Snatch.
    Since the main reason I go to movies is to engage with characters, I prefer "The Pledge," the film opening today by Madonna's first husband, Sean Penn, rather than this stylish fluff by her second spouse.
  19. Panic
    A defiantly offbeat and accomplished piece with a dream ensemble acting out one man's nightmare, it deserves not to fall through the cracks.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  20. Double Take
    Snappily written and even more snappily directed.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  21. Save the Last Dance
    While it flirts with "After School Special"-ness, at least has the courage to address racial and cultural cliches with a degree of honesty.
  22. Antitrust
    An unintentional high-tech hoot.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. The Claim
    Winterbottom also has the insight to share the novelist's suggestion that landscape can reflect and, to a degree, even shape character.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  24. Chunhyangdyun
    Chunhyang is a movie — and a heroine — for all times.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  25. Shadow of the Vampire
    A bit of a one-joke wonder.
  26. Traffic
    A flat-out electrifying experience.
  27. Malèna
    Gives audiences something more than just a heart-stopping beauty to contemplate.
  28. Thirteen Days
    A deeply involving and disturbing movie.
  29. All the Pretty Horses
    Lacks an essential sense of purpose.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  30. Before Night Falls
    This is a sad, passionate, beautifully wrought story, and Bardem's portrait of Arenas is at once daring and deeply moving.
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