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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. Small Voices
    Features an excellent cast, in particular the child actors. These elements, as well as the director's light unsentimental touch, make the struggles and triumphs in Small Voices ring truthful.
  2. Mystic River
    The acting throughout is exceptional, rooted in observed realism, but suggestive of more mythical agents at work through the lives of human beings.
  3. Bus 174
    Riveting and courageous documentary.
  4. The Event
    It's a movie about a nice guy with a lot of friends who dies. It's not really about the wider tragedy the film aspires to represent.
  5. Out of Time
    Out of Time is severely out of whack, and the problem isn't hard to locate: It's all that flab in the thriller. It's a suspense flick so pillowy soft that the star gets bumped from the centre of the frame and the comic relief sneaks in to swipe the picture.
  6. School of Rock
    A picture with pop's delicious energy yet none of its attendant risk, a flick that no one will love but everyone will like.
  7. The Station Agent
    The movie's main attraction isn't hard to find. It's essentially a character study, but one where the nature of the study is as unique as the stature of the character.
  8. Wonderland
    The main interest here is the acting, which is, by turns, entertaining or just entertainingly bad, with lots of grungy seriousness and Method-trained twitching, but also some moments of real gusto.
  9. Bollywood/Hollywood
    Fabulous idea/faulty execution is the review.
  10. Duplex
    Not terribly funny. When it does strain for humour, it opts for Farrelly brothers-style gross-outs -- vomit and chewed food and blocked drains -- which makes the movie itself seem like some kind of undigested expulsion rather than a well thought-out idea.
  11. The Rundown
    An amiable action-comedy, amiable enough that the laughs come in a steady drizzle if not a torrent, and that the action is something blissfully less than the usual full-out assault on our battered senses.
  12. Under the Tuscan Sun
    While both the scenery and star Diane Lane are highly watchable, the movie is pure froth, a plate-sized helping of zabaglione.
  13. My Life Without Me
    There are a thousand ways you can imagine My Life Without Me going gruesomely wrong but, somehow, it doesn't.
  14. Anything Else
    Biggs, in particular, seems positively frozen by his imitative efforts -- less Woody than wooden. Ricci is a bit looser, and has the added advantage of hiding behind those saucer-eyes.
  15. Cold Creek Manor
    The most disturbing aspect of Cold Creek Manor -- a predictable, disjointed "Cape Fear" knockoff -- is that a script this disjointed and unoriginal could actually get the Hollywood green light.
  16. The Fighting Temptations
    Gospel music not only saves Darrin's plastic yuppie soul -- Praise the Lord -- it also gives an otherwise wasted hour and a half some warmth and buoyancy.
  17. Secondhand Lions
    One of those headed-for-cable oddities that must have sounded like a good idea at the time.
  18. Underworld
    All of this is accomplished with buckets of blood, but almost no sense of flesh: It's hard to recall a more sexless vampire flick.
  19. Casa de los babys
    John Sayles's heartrending new film is a many-splendoured thing.
  20. In This World
    Always well-meaning, not always well-executed, In This World ends by suffocating us in its good intentions.
  21. Mambo italiano
    Patterns itself after the Greek model -- that is, more ethnic humour with a contemporary twist.
  22. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    The exiled Tibetans who are interviewed display a lack of bitterness, a sympathy for their enemies and hope for the future that is inspiring.
  23. Cabin Fever
    So this is a first-level, unironic fright film, the sort whose tongue is removed from its cheek, coated in gore, and pointed right at the audience.
  24. Matchstick Men
    A movie about con artists that turns out to be a con job, and guess who's getting played for a sucker?
  25. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    A clear case of huevos con hubris.
  26. Dummy
    A contrived little comedy, Dummy definitely lives down to its name -- you can see the lips moving on this wooden thing.
  27. Lost in Translation
    Arguably, Lost in Translation is the American answer to Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece, "In the Mood for Love," though less about history, more about infatuation.
  28. Millennium Actress
    Millennium Actress is a quest for beauty and truth that is as wonderful to look at as it is gruelling to contemplate.
  29. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Isn't so much a movie as a 90-minute Trivial Pursuit contest to name bit players from TV's distant past.
  30. Party Monster
    Alig's superficiality seems to have been his only talent. His banality is a problem that the film can't overcome.
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