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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. Funny Ha Ha
    Andrew Bujalski's refreshingly modest look at life in the directionless netherworld between college and career is the rare film that finds its story in the minor contradictions and simple conflicts of ordinary people doing, well, not exactly nothing, but nothing important.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Holy Girl
    The film's wealth in themes provokes unsettling thought, even as it feels meager in thesis.
  3. Ladies in Lavender.
    This is the most impressive directing debut by a "name" British actor in a long, long time.
  4. The Tunnel
    Well-cast and sporadically gripping.
  5. The Interpreter
    Very much a '70s-style paranoid thriller, with a mood, tone and cascade of plot twists that are highly reminiscent of his 1975 classic, "Three Days of the Condor."
  6. A Lot Like Love
    It is charming and at times disarmingly surprising.
  7. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Based on a best-selling book by Fortune magazine writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, the film approaches Enron through the Horatio Alger saga of its founder, Kenneth Lay, the son of a dirt-poor Missouri Baptist minister.
  8. Madison
    While Madison is earnest and inoffensive, it offers no surprises, few fascinating characters and a hackneyed script.
  9. Save the Green Planet!
    All the furiousness doesn't really add up to anything, but there is grungy fun to be had in gizmo-laden art direction and the increasingly bizarre battle of wits of the weirdly warped South Korean sci-fi black comedy.
  10. The Amityville Horror
    As far as these things go, the film's violence is not outrageously excessive.
  11. House of D
    As a director, Duchovny is in big trouble every frame of the way. His characters ring false, his scenes seem improperly motivated in a glaring way, and his distasteful obsession with imagery of unflushed cigarette butts bobbing in a toilet is beyond inexplicable.
  12. Torremolinos 73
    Deepened by the socioeconomic undercurrent that suggests the lengths to which workers are forced to prostitute themselves to survive corporate downsizing.
  13. The Year of the Yao
    Even if you know or care little about the sport, it's a fascinating saga.
  14. The Girl from Monday
    Hartley's soft spot for offbeat romances is trumped by irony and sloganeering dialogue.
  15. Palindromes
    Aviva emerges undamaged for all of her trauma. That may be the most compassionate, human act Solondz has offered in his career up to now.
  16. Sahara
    The casting is so strong and the overall filmmaking flair of the movie is so captivating that it basically works.
  17. Fever Pitch
    Passably entertaining.
  18. Kung Fu Hustle
    In a farce like this, where the story is merely a string of martial-arts movie cliches lined up to be parodied, that has its own rewards.
  19. Eating Out
    Plays like a feature-length sitcom with gay double entendres.
  20. Eros
    It's so affected and arch it flops into self parody.
  21. Winter Solstice
    It's not sleepy, it's comatose, and writer/director Josh Sternfeld never wakes it up with anything as crass as a plot.
  22. Voices in Wartime
    Eloquent and informative.
  23. Major Dundee (re-release)
    Sadly, it's still a plodding affair that's low on plausible character motivation and compelling action scenes, and it's still not much of a showcase for its star, Charlton Heston.
  24. Sin City
    The attainment it achieves is in the depths of pointless, mean-spirited exploitation.
  25. Dust to Glory
    Despite the scenic appeal of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, the film may prove too nerve-racking for casual viewers. It is a racing movie for the inside track.
  26. Look at Me
    While Look at Me at times falls into familiar plotting, it never offers false hope or false characters.
  27. Beauty Shop
    The script is full of brassy lines.
  28. Guess Who
    Surprise! After a clumsy opening, Guess Who goes down very smoothly. Its cast is appealing, its script is often clever and imaginative.
  29. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    A difficult movie. Its obvious, heavy symbolism, glaring soundtrack and top-heavy themes threaten to make it implode, but it's saved by its performances.
  30. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    The film dwells more on the sensationalistic aspects than the sport itself but it's impossible to deny the tawdry entertainment value in this compelling film tabloid.
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