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For 9,303 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 2.1 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: 5,160 out of 9303
  2. Mixed: 2,657 out of 9303
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9303
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  1. Undercover Brother
    The picture is crammed with shameless satire, engaging moments of pure silliness and jokes that border on the outrageous. It combines relentless energy with an aura of good nature for a formula that works.
  2. Elling
    A charming 2001 Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film.
  3. The Sleepy Time Gal
    A smooth, elegiac mood piece.
  4. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
    Fans of Nijinsky will savor every minute of Cox's work. Those unfamiliar with Nijinsky but who are curious enough to see this film may find themselves frustrated by its nontraditional documentary style.
  5. Bartleby
    This is a shrewd and effective film from a director who understands how to create and sustain a mood.
  6. CQ
    The film deserves some kind of honor for its campy originality, smart and funny dialogue, and provocative yet sensitive look at the making of a film circa 1969.
  7. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    What's exciting is that the Sprechers have delved into territory that is normally the domain of literature and have emerged with a film that's neither overly literary nor simplistic.
  8. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    The result is a mishmash that is sometimes moving, sometimes absurd and most of the time just oddly off balance.
  9. Enough
    It's the most tension-producing movie out there right now -- in the best way, it's almost unbearable.
  10. Insomnia
    Haunting psychological drama.
  11. The Importance of Being Earnest
    The result is a frustrating, boring mess.
  12. Late Marriage
    A stunning directing debut -- is anything but sentimental about old- country customs.
  13. The Believer
    The movie's shift into an implausible thriller magnifies its lack of character development. But Gosling gives an impassioned performance throughout.
  14. About a Boy
    In addition to being a smart comedy and an excellent showcase for Grant, it's an honest movie about childhood that avoids sappiness and sentiment and goes in unexpected directions.
  15. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    Lucas knows his fans are un-boreable, un-annoyable and inexhaustible. For an artist, that's more a curse than a blessing.
  16. Ultimate X: The Movie
    Instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the X Games, we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized.
  17. The Lady and the Duke
    It's a fascinating concept, gorgeously rendered. Seeing the paint actually dry, however, would probably be more fun than most of this overly expository film.
  18. Unfaithful
    It's that rare kind of movie that comes along only a handful of times each year -- gut-level entertainment that's oddly profound.
  19. The New Guy
    Lame, haphazard teen comedy.
  20. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    Rippingly good, old-fashioned movie epic.
  21. Home Movie
    There's a lot of bad hair and incoherent, drug-addled remarks, but inside a minute we get the joke, and it isn't much.
  22. The Mystic Masseur
    The pace is slow and the story neither takes off nor arrives anywhere.
  23. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    One never knows where "Warm Water" is going and even though the film's objective feels a little fuzzy even at the end a parable on female sexuality? an ode to liberty? there's such a joy in the telling that it doesn't matter terribly.
  24. Hollywood Ending
    This is an excellent comedy, and the fact that it's made by a filmmaker with even better movies on his resume is nothing to hold against it.
  25. Spider-Man
    The superhero part of the movie will leave audiences with a flat feeling, thanks to computery-looking special effects and a sagging story line.
  26. Grin Without a Cat
    Features some disturbing clips.
  27. Circuit
    If anyone wants to watch naked men in the shower, naked men doing erotic dancing, naked men in bed and almost-naked men pumping iron, this is the film to see.
  28. Sade
    Embellished but triumphant.
  29. Sex with Strangers
    More depressing than liberating, but it's never boring.
  30. Vulgar
    It's impossible to imagine why Lions Gate, the indie distributor that released "Monster's Ball," would bother with this garbage.
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