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For 9,316 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,171 out of 9316
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9316
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9316
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  1. Napoleon Dynamite
    Has to be enjoyed in spurts. There's no cohesive story, just a series of opportunities for the title character (Jon Heder) to strut his gawky stuff.
  2. Imelda
    Fascinating and impressively balanced documentary.
  3. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    Weeping Camel essentially lets native people tell their own unforgettable story.
  4. Deadline
    There is no rage here or Michael Moore-like bluster. Instead, Deadline is a straightforward, compassionate look at a volatile subject.
  5. The Corporation
    It’s coolheaded and incisive, a thorough and informative study of corporations, their origins and their place in the modern world.
  6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    A different kind of Harry Potter movie, a better kind... It's where this fantasy series has wanted to go all along.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
    Amounts to an infomercial posing as an expose.
  8. Bukowski: Born into This
    It's the portrait of an artist who had neither time nor respect for literary niceties -- he was, in the words of publisher John Martin, a "man of the street writing for the man of the street."
  9. Soul Plane
    A better- than-average comedy that is raunchy and tasteless but ultimately funny from beginning to end.
  10. Saved!
    The achievement of Saved!, a very funny teen comedy set in a Christian high school, lies in its careful avoidance of obvious traps.
  11. The Mother
    Daring in its affirmation that a dowdy woman in her late 60s still can let go of her inhibitions and exhibit a lascivious side.
  12. Baadasssss!
    Baadasssss! is the portrait of a visionary with a blind spot, a man starved for kindness who can no longer recognize the responsibility to be kind, even to his kids. But it's a portrait of a visionary nonetheless.
  13. The Day After Tomorrow
    The spectacle, which is colossal and at times staggering to behold, begins within two minutes of the fade-in and keeps coming until the finish. I thought I'd seen it all. I hadn't.
  14. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    Self-indulgent and admirable.
  15. The Five Obstructions
    In The Five Obstructions, we meet the Danish filmmaker for an extended period, and he's exactly what a fan might hope and expect him to be like: impish, insightful, unpredictable, mildly sadistic and rigorously honest.
  16. Raising Helen
    Far from the worst cookie-cutter film to come off the Hollywood assembly line, merely the latest.
  17. My Mother Likes Women
    Cloying mix of screwball comedy and drama.
  18. Love Me If You Dare
    Has to be one of the least charming French romances to find American distribution in recent years.
  19. Fanny and Alexander (re-release)
    A masterpiece.
  20. Control Room
    One of the year’s most significant films.
  21. Twist
    Although the acting is uneven and the movie's dead spots make it feel far longer than its running time, the twist in Twist' is certainly clever.
  22. Shrek 2
    A sequel was called for, and so a sequel has arrived -- but it's a slightly zombie-like version, with the size, look and shape of the original movie, but without its lightness or spirit, its soul.
  23. Carandiru
    Harrowing but compassionate.
  24. Breakin' All the Rules
    The freshest thing about Breakin' All the Rules is its dropped "g.''
  25. A Slipping-Down Life
    Has an oddness and whimsicality about it that can, at first, be confused for authenticity.
  26. Strayed
    A disturbing drama about the dehumanizing and humiliating effects of war.
  27. Springtime in a Small Town
    Only a director who truly knows repression could have made a movie so subtle and so understanding.
  28. A Day Without a Mexican
    Doesn't know what it wants to be: either a goofball satire or a heavy-handed social-message movie.
  29. Coffee and Cigarettes
    Flat and uninspired.
  30. Troy
    All Hollywood and no Homer, but within its limits, it's a vigorous, entertaining movie.
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