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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. Fidel
    Estela Bravo's film Fidel, The Untold Story has the kitsch appeal of a farm implement on a restaurant wall, or an Andy Warhol Mao poster: Interesting, but not for its original purpose.
  2. Brown Sugar
    Exist as extended videos for the accompanying soul and rap soundtrack.
  3. The Rules of Attraction
    Some movies just bring out your inner Matlock: a desire to grab young punks by the lapels, smack them against a wall, knock their cigarettes to the ground and wipe the sneers off their faces. Such is the case with the callow and cynical The Rules of Attraction.
  4. Knockaround Guys
    A layabout movie -- not risibly bad, just relentlessly sub-par.
  5. Bowling for Columbine
    Moore continues another one infinitely more valuable -- the proud line that extends right back to Mark Twain, embracing all those satirists so enamoured with America at its best that they won't stand silent for America at its worst.
  6. The Transporter
    This is a film where there isn't the slightest doubt about the dramatic outcome. But the marketing will be a cliffhanger.
  7. Comedian
    There's plenty of humour in Comedian but not a lot of happiness -- apparently, the sad clown is a cliché for good reason.
  8. Swept Away
    No less laughable is the ending, where Ritchie neatly reflects today's prevailing attitude -- that audiences can't be trusted to handle a hint of ambiguity, but can live happily with flat-out stupidity.
  9. Punch-Drunk Love
    No film this year has offered quite the cerebral tickle, weird invention and slaphappy gusto.
  10. Between Strangers
    Great cast, too bad about the movie.
  11. Welcome to Collinwood
    Filled with a sweet, loopy sensibility and some fresh comic turns, Welcome to Collinwood is a low-budget American film that falls into the good-but-slight category.
  12. Heaven
    The result is a beautifully designed, lyrical fable of a movie, full of God's-eye shots from on high, placing the characters against the Italian scenery and medieval architecture.
  13. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Spiritual V-8 juice.
  14. Bloody Sunday
    An impressive film accomplishment, a combination of technique and extremely specific detail that reminds viewers how potent a rhetorical force the medium can be.
  15. Red Dragon
    Our time is plagued with primitive directors toiling in the name of entertainment, and protected by an industry that rewards competence over excellence. They're the reason why this movie is simply average, and why all the Red Dragons look so uniformly beige.
  16. Just a Kiss
    The result is a small independent film suffering from a severe case of Hollywood-itis. A cautionary tale minus the caution, Just a Kiss is just a cop-out.
  17. The Tuxedo
    It's a comic-book idea that might have been fun. But it's beyond the reach of first-time feature director Kevin Donovan, who squanders his main asset, Jackie Chan, and fumbles the vital action sequences.
  18. Sweet Home Alabama
    Light to the point of disposability, Sweet Home Alabama is a small screwball comic idea that spins out far too long.
  19. Moonlight Mile
    Occasionally feels like a Neil Simon rewrite of "In the Bedroom," as it see-saws between hard truths and quirky humour.
  20. Trapped
    There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame. Watching Trapped simply makes us feel guilty.
  21. The Banger Sisters
    Could have taken a witty scalpel to baby-boomer posturings. But Dolman, whose instrument of choice is the rubber mallet of smarm, just isn't the man for the job -- he ends up enshrining the very hypocrisy that should be dissected.
  22. The Four Feathers
    What a featherweight epic this is, the kind of uniformed period piece where the watchword is pretty. Pretty costumes, pretty soldiers, pretty battles; pretty silly.
  23. Secretary
    The movie isn't painfully bad, something to be "fully experienced"; it's just tediously bad, something to be fully forgotten.
  24. Invincible
    Invincible lacks Herzog's usual visual and intellectual panache, and is afflicted by weak English-language acting, which makes it more of a career curio than a major work.
  25. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    About the only fun to be had in the movie is screenwriter Alan McElroy's cartoon spook-speak.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Spirited Away
    The most successful film ever released in Japan, and co-winner of the top prize at this year's Berlin film festival, Spirited Away is a complete reversal of the Hollywood way with animation.
  27. The Experiment
    This is a grimly thrilling movie that falls somewhere between clear-eyed realism and the improbabilities of an action flick.
  28. Igby Goes Down
    This film and Salinger's novel differ greatly in the details of narrative and character. Yet, there's no mistaking the similarity in tone and sensibility and, particularly, in the capacity to split an audience into warring camps fighting on shared ground.
  29. Barbershop
    Comes as a pleasure. It's a comic drama set in a Chicago hair salon where the characters are engaging and the story has a bustling richness.
  30. Quitting
    Quitting begins to seem intriguing in concept. Now comes the best news: It's just as compelling in execution.
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