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For 9,315 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: 5,170 out of 9315
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9315
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9315
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  1. The Same River Twice
    Intimate, quietly illuminating documentary.
  2. Grisbi (re-release)
    The magic here is all in the telling: in the graceful, laconic direction of Jacques Becker.
  3. Carnage
    A wonderful French offering whose jumping-off point is a bullfight.
  4. Party Monster
    Most moviegoers will have trouble looking past Culkin the actor, who does a decent job of sending up youthful fame in a movie that's barely worth the effort.
  5. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    The rare David Spade movie that won't make you hate yourself in the morning.
  6. Taking Sides
    The movie's promise -- to provide a balanced argument -- goes unrealized, and all we're left with is the spectacle of an idiot bullying a genius.
  7. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    Charming family story.
  8. The Other Side of the Bed
    Emilio Martinez-Lazaro fails to provide a consistent tone for his movie, which totters between earnest realism and camp.
  9. Jeepers Creepers II
    Would be a completely routine horror movie, except that it has a superior director. Watch this film for five minutes, and it's clear that Victor Salva knows how to make movies.
  10. Suddenly
    It's the work of a very young filmmaker (Lerman is in his late 20s), promising if finally unsatisfying.
  11. My Boss's Daughter
    Tries screwball and gross-out comedy and fails on both counts.
  12. The Medallion
    The best of Jackie Chan's American movies, a pleasant little action comedy that makes one wonder how other filmmakers could ever get it wrong.
  13. Babí léto
    Gains depth from subtle dark humor and a few genuinely emotional moments
  14. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Even at 82 minutes, Stoked gets repetitious, with too much time spent on the rise and not enough on the fall.
  15. Rana's Wedding
    A bittersweet film that tells the story of Palestinian life as eloquently as anything ever done.
  16. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    Dispiriting mess. The movie is bad in a boring way: tepidly paced, disjointed and lacking any emotional hook.
  17. Marci X
    It's a dishonest satire that manages to be (disingenuously) contemptuous of white people and (unintentionally) condescending toward black people, without ever being funny.
  18. Dog Days
    His (Seidl) camera is shocking in its intimacy, his film surprisingly casual in its depiction of extreme behavior and the randomness of violence.
  19. Thirteen
    Wood is superb at delineating Tracy's slide into desperate incoherence, but equally impressive is Reed, who has to conceal her writer's intelligence in playing a character who's entirely instinctive and unreflective.
  20. Uptown Girls
    It would help if the plot were more than just an outline with a few convenient turns.
  21. Passionada
    A romantic drama, a rare kind of film these days, even though romantic dramas were once a dominant genre in America.
  22. Freddy vs. Jason
    Considering what the filmmakers had to work with, and the fact that it has all been done before, Freddy Vs. Jason isn't bad. And sometimes not bad is almost good.
  23. American Splendor
    It's a humane and witty treatment of an average life that, incidentally, speaks to the worth and inherent drama of average lives.
  24. Shaolin Soccer
    Delightful blend of comedy, kung fu, soccer and special effects.
  25. Open Range
    Open Range veers wildly. It's a movie of beauty and sensitivity, and tedium and absurdity.
  26. Grind
    The most humorous actor in the film, Joey Kern as Sweet Lou the cradle-robbing ladies' man, gets laughs only because he's performing a note-for-note rip-off of the Matthew McConaughey character in "Dazed and Confused."
  27. Le divorce
    Captures the effervescence and playfulness of Johnson's novel, even as it attempts to shoehorn a tangle of characters and situations.
  28. Step Into Liquid
    Will have even the most landlocked goofy-footers wondering why they never learned to surf.
  29. S.W.A.T.
    SWAT is better than "Gigli," but so is most outpatient surgery.
  30. Freaky Friday
    This is Curtis' film. Looking a little like a combination of Carol Burnett and Annie Lennox, Curtis has this character down.
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