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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Stage Beauty
    At best, the film makes a more convincing case for the adventure of artificiality: Take Billy Crudup, add a little rouge to his cheeks and suddenly: Voilà, the guy can act.
  2. Silent Water
    The fact that these atrocities are not well known in the West is a good reason for this film to exist.
  3. Taxi
    Very little of it works.
  4. Tarnation
    An astonishing multimedia diary.
  5. Ladder 49
    I like firemen just as much as the next red-blooded gal (they're big, strong, real-life heroes, what's not to like?) but something about Ladder 49, for all its slow-motion shots of burly guys in T-shirts sliding down poles and running into burning buildings with gushing hoses, made me seriously want to gag.
  6. Shark Tale
    Though Shark Tale will make waves at the multiplexes and move a lot of plastic toys at Burger King, the movie lacks real heart. It feels like a cold-blooded, always moving, profit-making machine.
  7. I Heart Huckabees
    So I didn't Huckabees, nor did I entirely not it. Rather, when the end draws nigh and judgment beckons, I'm doomed again to dither in the tepid netherworld, that vast limbo where movies are only half-decent and movie-going is merely half-ed.
  8. Dig!
    Timoner offers a resonant, often painfully funny, drama about two good friends who become enemies against the backdrop of the pop-music business.
  9. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    The older John Kerry, today's candidate, is conspicuous both by his absence (he's not interviewed here) and by the contrast between then and now, between the hero he was and the politician he's become. That contrast gives the film a nostalgic yet palpable sadness.
  10. Infernal Affairs
    Here is a psychological twister with an implausible and hard-to-follow plot. All of this is more than compensated for by terrific performances, a seductive colour palette that is greenish and glassy, and a minimalist style reminiscent of Michael Mann.
  11. Shaun of the Dead
    Plays perfectly on two levels — it's a clever comedy, but disguised as a fun, dumb horror flick. A movie made to delight, and even accidentally enlighten, both the living and the dead.
  12. First Daughter
    A dull, formulaic romance comedy with an ulterior motive and a sly message. Remarkably, the message is this: "Please Re-elect George Bush."
  13. The Forgotten
    There is nothing worse than a thriller that doesn't play fair... The Forgotten is just a big, fat, obvious cheater.
  14. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Captures some of the spirit of the real Che.
  15. Anatomy of Hell
    A crashing bore.
  16. A Dirty Shame
    Waters's rude, lewd and occasionally nude extended skit takes a simple idea and beats it limp.
  17. The Yes Men
    Packs a wickedly satiric punch.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Blissfully Yours
    A rare example of a truly independent film, Thai or otherwise, the fascinatingly aesthetic Blissfully Yours.... has a simple narrative and an adoration of nature that lists the film toward the experimental. [10 Sept 2002, p.R4]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  19. The Take
    As a first-time director, Lewis shows a impressive visual sense -- abandoned factories take on an eerie gorgeousness through his lens.
  20. Mr 3000
    Predictable but highly entertaining.
  21. Wimbledon
    While Bettany and Dunst are both appealing, their chemistry lacks much fizz. As it is, the pair seem less like lovers than bouncy transatlantic cousins.
  22. Zelary
    A trite but sturdy offering, a showcase for popular young Czech actress Anna Geislerova, as well as the beautiful Moravian countryside, shot in glowing earthy tones.
  23. Silver City
    Long, windy, diffuse in its message and blunt in its satire.
  24. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The effect of so much pretension and so many lovely images eventually becomes soporific.
  25. Incident at Loch Ness
    A successful hoax is annoying for everyone except the hoaxster. No one enjoys being the credulous, unsuspecting dupe of a wise---joke -- personally I loathe it.
  26. Cellular
    Using a kidnapping plot to call up some old-fashioned suspense, it doesn't even get a dial tone.
  27. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    A superior entertainment to both "RE 1" and "Alien vs. Predator."
  28. Criminal
    Jacobs is a competent director but he doesn't bring anything extra to this shell game of a narrative.
  29. Paparazzi
    There is no energy here. No sense of movie invention or fun.
  30. Wicker Park
    If plot were oats, Wicker Park would choke a horse.
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