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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. Better Luck Tomorrow
    Like his characters, Lin may be an overachiever and the strain of trying to do too much shows. He merges genres the way Ben juggles extracurricular activities.
  2. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Not just a 3-D novelty to amuse school groups, but also a memorial.
  3. House of 1000 Corpses
    Gosh, what to say about House of 1000 Corpses? That it's about 999 too many, for starters. Then again, in a picture where the body count is the whole point and the only purpose, carping about the math rather misses the mark.
  4. Levity
    A redemption allegory so poker-faced you might forget that redemption is supposed to be a good thing.
  5. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    With all due respect to Japanese animation fans and pop-culture enthusiasts, life may be just too short to plunge into the busy world of Cowboy Bebop.
  6. The Man Without a Past
    Kaurismaki is a master at infusing his movies with apparently contradictory qualities. The best of them -- and The Man Without a Past is surely that -- are hard to describe precisely because they seem to exist, to balance precariously, in the tension between opposites.
  7. Phone Booth
    Can't spoil the ending, except to say that it spoils itself.
  8. A Man Apart
    A paint-by-numbers vigilante movie with the usual rogue cop, murdered wife and trail of vengeance.
  9. The Good Thief
    It's a nifty caper flick that also ponders the aesthetic nature of deception -- in other words, a solid work of craft that doubles as a little meditation on art.
  10. The Core
    The only pressing burden in this deep interior world is the question: What in or on Earth is a cast this good doing in a movie this ridiculous?
  11. Raising Victor Vargas
    A grownup departure from the teen-romance norm -- it speaks nothing about passion and volumes about trust.
  12. Stevie
    A painful documentary film, partly because of its subject, partly because of the troubling questions raised by the filmmaker's approach.
  13. Assassination Tango
    Assassination Tango is about one commanding performance, fascinating to watch but not strong enough to redeem the muddled story line on which it hangs.
  14. Basic
    Confused, and confusing.
  15. Head of State
    You can see Rock hedging his bets right from the opening frames.
  16. View from the Top
    View from the Top never gets off the bottom -- comedies don't come much flatter.
  17. Dreamcatcher
    Like nightmares, horror movies pull us down with them. And so the film keeps us in thrall for every one of its 134 minutes.
  18. Boat Trip
    If this rings distant Laurel-and-Hardy, or even Crosby-and-Hope bells, it's on purpose. Gooding's and Sanz's performances are almost a tribute to vaudeville-influenced two-guy comedy.
  19. Piglet's Big Movie
    So it's a pretty faded experience. I suggest you get out the books, which for once can truly be said to be more spectacular than the movie.
  20. Willard
    Perhaps too much energy was spent on being stylish rather than simply low-rent horrifying. The upshot is not very stylish and not very scary.
  21. Spun
    Spun is so hip it hurts.
  22. The Hunted
    Friedkin has huffed and puffed and blown up a single chase sequence into the whole damn movie. You got your hunted, you got your hunter, and away they go. And go and go.
  23. Agent Cody Banks
    Of course, none of the film's geopolitical subterfuge will matter a whit to Agent Cody Banks's audience: adolescent boys in need of a surrogate hero. They will respond enthusiastically to this boisterous, well-carpentered kiddy-flick.
  24. Bend It Like Beckham
    Energetic, eager-to-please culture-clash comedy.
  25. The Safety of Objects
    It's a movie located in an interesting place, but without quite enough self-confidence really to inhabit it.
  26. Tears of the Sun
    The fiction that follows can be safely regarded as much more than a war movie -- hell, this is a pro-war movie. Were it a politician, it would be Donald Rumsfeld.
  27. Nowhere in Africa
    Isn't really a dull film so much as an oddly quaint one that seems to find a comfortable perspective about drastic circumstances.
  28. Laurel Canyon
    Inasmuch as Cholodenko has an agenda in her two movies so far -- what appears to be a lesbian-positive theme of openness to experimentation and its accompanying emotional costs -- she's found a model in McDormand's portrayal of Jane.
  29. Bringing Down the House
    Irresistibly funny in its brightest moments. At other times, this comedy about a black-white culture clash sags until it scrapes bottom.
  30. Irreversible
    An integrated work whose form clearly mirrors its content. Often, looking into that mirror is dreadful; but, often enough, it's also dreadfully revealing.
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