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On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
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  1. Amreeka
    One of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States.
  2. Paris
    There are enough intersecting characters from different classes and backgrounds in Paris to evoke the city as a complex, healthy organism, whose parts are all connected. If it is too lighthearted to show the actual political and economic machinery behind it, its celebration of how well that machinery works produces a pleasant afterglow.
  3. (Untitled)
    If “(Untitled)” shrewdly hedges its bets about the value of it all, it is ultimately on the side of experimental music and art and their champions, no matter how eccentric. For that alone this brave little movie deserves an audience.
  4. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Like most of his movies, Capitalism is a tragedy disguised as a comedy; it’s also an entertainment.
  5. The Horse Boy
    The film is not a primer on this heartbreaking condition. Instead it recounts a deeply personal, highly subjective and inarguably thought-provoking story of one family’s quest for a certain kind of peace.
  6. The Yes Men Fix the World
    If the Yes Men’s antics have a lot in common with the stunts of Sacha Baron Cohen and Michael Moore, they are executed more in the spirit of dry amusement than as showboating, gotcha moments.
  7. Visual Acoustics
    It’s about lovely photographs of graceful buildings and those who can afford the real estate. But it does pay proper respect to a deserving artist.
  8. Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
    Takes a pragmatic, health-based approach, buttressed by frightening statistics about cancer rates among children, that’s a refreshing change from the moral and high-cultural preening that sometimes enter this debate in America.
  9. The Wedding Song
    A seductively fluid and tactile drama from the writer and director Karin Albou, explores love and identity through the prism of the female body and the rights of its owner.
  10. A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol -- I mean the source material, without a corporate possessive attached to it -- remains among the most moving works of holiday literature, and Mr. Zemeckis has remained true to its finest sentiments. He is an innovator, but his traditionalism is what makes this movie work.
  11. Dare
    As it develops, Dare lays out some interesting psychological puzzles, though the filmmakers lack the technique to explore them as thoroughly as you might wish.
  12. Storm
    For a political thriller, Storm is remarkably restrained. There are no flashbacks to the wars in the Balkans or to the atrocities in the hotel.
  13. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    Rebecca Miller’s fourth film is a wry, acutely observant drama.
  14. Giant
    It is an appealing, gently comedic prologue to a love story.
  15. Frozen
    A minimalist setup delivers maximum fright in Frozen, a nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart.
  16. Easier with Practice
    A tale about appearances in which not everything is as it seems, Easier With Practice tries to use phone sex as a way to explore contemporary alienation.
  17. IMAX: Hubble 3D
    Dazzling to look at of course. But such ponderous, cliché-heavy narration.
  18. The Runaways
    The movie may be a little too tame in the end, but at its best it is just wild enough.
  19. Swimming
    Without exaggerating their lovability or condescending to their foolishness, Mr. Siegel makes vivid, likable people out of his three protagonists as they affect one another and are affected in turn.
  20. Bad Company
    Frank, sympathetic approach to the awkward age.
  21. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Much of All About Lily Chou-Chou is mesmerizing: some of its plaintiveness could make you weep. If only Mr. Iwai trusted the material enough.
  22. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    It's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that.
  23. The Dish
    Maintains a tone that remains as light and easygoing as the Australians living in the area.
  24. Die Another Day
    Perhaps the most satisfying Bond movie since "The Spy Who Loved Me."
  25. End of the Century
    As End of the Century reveals even more starkly than the recent Metallica documentary, "Some Kind of Monster," harmony among band members becomes harder to sustain as the years gather, youthful enthusiasm wanes, and personalities define themselves.
  26. Mule Skinner Blues
    It might be tempting to regard Mr. Andrew and his collaborators as oddballs, but Mr. Earnhart's quizzical, charming movie allows us to see them, finally, as artists.
  27. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Crammed with enough melodrama to fill several soap operas.
  28. Manito
    Though a dramatic (even melodramatic) narrative eventually takes shape, what you remember is the succession of moods and observations through which it emerges.
  29. Frequency
    What makes Frequency work despite is shamelessness is the surreal aura that imbues almost every scene with a sense of heightened feeling.
  30. The Same River Twice
    A piercingly poignant then-and-now portrait of five friends.
  31. Asphalt Zahov
    The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.
  32. All the Pretty Horses
    The movie, for all its prettiness, manages to be shallow and portentous at the same time.
  33. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Struggles under the burden of adapting such rarefied material.
  34. The Night of the Hunter
    There is a strong trace of Freudian aberration, fanaticism and iniquity. Credit Mr. Laughton with a clever and exceptionally effective job of catching the ugliness and terror of certain ignorant, small-town types.
  35. Painted Fire
    Mr. Im's own aesthetic command is evident in the movie's wealth of beautiful, perfectly framed images of nature -- shots so full of passion and perception that they could almost be paintings themselves.
  36. The School of Flesh
    Watching this handsomely filmed, deftly edited but rather dry movie, you keep imagining the juice that a director like Pedro Almodovar could have squeezed out of the same story.
  37. Open Hearts
    Until the end, when it begins to go soft, the movie takes two strands of soap opera convention -- a life-changing accident and an adulterous affair -- and spins their suds into gold.
  38. Mickey Blue Eyes
    A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.
  39. Liam
    Walks the delicate boundary between politically inflected realism and costumed sentimentality.
  40. Gaza Strip
    Mr. Longley makes powerful use of the techniques of cinéma vérité. The absence of voice-over narration and talking-head interviews gives his portrait of daily life under duress a riveting immediacy.
  41. The Cat's Meow
    A modest, restrained picture, as small and satisfying as one of Woody Allen's better recent efforts.
  42. DysFunktional Family
    There is a blueprint here for what should be the next wave of comedy-concert movies, but the filmmaking team has only used part of it.
  43. Where the Money Is
    Coasts to a smooth, frictionless stop, but its star doesn't; he works as if his career depended on this movie.
  44. Taxman
    An offbeat little charmer of a mystery.
  45. Les convoyeurs attendent
    A sharp critique of empty values and pointless striving.
  46. The Girl Next Door
    Melancholy.
  47. Love, etc.
    Artfully treading a fine line between operatic tragedy and romantic comedy.
  48. Moon Shadow
    A modest and thoughtful movie, and if it doesn't quite break new ground in addressing its difficult subject, it at least does not cheapen it.
  49. Portraits chinois
    The characters...are well cast, well directed and skillfully acted, if not a particularly admirable lot.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Restaurant
    It takes very good actors to convey this kind of nuance, and the cast of Restaurant does consistently splendid work.
  51. A Love Divided
    Although the film is well acted from top to bottom, its dramatic spark plug is Mr. Doyle's terrifying portrayal of Father Stafford.
  52. The Best Man
    Another demonstration that current movies about upscale black characters have much more traditional values than ones about catty white teen-agers.
  53. Better Living Through Circuitry
    The movie is essentially pro-Ecstasy. No matter how much the D.J.'s may claim that their electronic sounds produce the euphoria of a good rave, the movie clearly implies that Ecstasy is the key that unlocks it all.
  54. In July
    Mr. Akin pursues his happy, silly love story without embarrassment, and In July is ultimately more endearing than irritating.
  55. Princesa
    It could easily have become either prurient or moralistic, but Mr. Goldman's stance is that of a sympathetic observer, and his style combines ground-level realism with a touch of Almodóvarian extravagance.
  56. Scratch
    Dense, exhilarating.
  57. Shadow Boxers
    Upbeat.
  58. Lovely & Amazing
    Holofcener's smart, acidic comedy Lovely and Amazing zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy.
  59. Shanghai Ghetto
    The film uses standard techniques to tell its tale -- videotaped interviews with survivors interspersed with newsreel images from the period -- but does so with integrity and attention to detail.
  60. Le bossu
    Mr. de Broca's film is full of durable cinematic pleasures: a little sex, a lot of sword fighting and a plot that combines heady passion with complicated political intrigue.
  61. Shuang long hui
    High-spirited entertainment .
  62. Whiteboyz
    Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent.
  63. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Far from the first movie in which a fearless woman coaxes the inner tiger crouched inside a mild-mannered milquetoast to spring into action, but it is one of the most charming.
  64. Brigham City
    Brigham City, like "God's Army," may proselytize for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but Brigham City is also an example of concise, skillful filmmaking.
  65. A Room for Romeo Brass
    It is essentially a personal reminiscence of daily life that captures with an astonishing precision exactly what it felt to be a 12-year- old boy growing up in a particular time and place.
  66. Two Women
    Impressive, unsettling, deeply felt film.
  67. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Fascinating but somewhat repellent.
  68. Made
    Though Mr. Favreau probably had to co-star in Made to make his exposé of the loser's mushy pink underbelly of "Swingers" register, he might have come up with a better picture if he had stayed behind the camera. But he's willing to take chances, and he'll learn from this movie.
  69. Won't Anybody Listen
    Mr. Kelemer captures the sad textures of the Rogala brothers' lives with an appropriate balance of sympathy and detachment.
  70. Mysteries of Egypt
    Young viewers seduced by the trashy flash of "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" will be able to glimpse a vanished reality richer, stranger and bigger than all of the special effects in Hollywood.
  71. Waydowntown
    A smart, sardonic satire.
  72. The Bank
    The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying.
  73. Maybe Baby
    A juggling act between high soap opera and low comedy, Maybe Baby manages to keep its pins in the air until very near the end.
  74. Reykjavík
    Feels as though it is not about much, but it is so well acted that the lassitude becomes a part of the atmosphere.
  75. The Dream Catcher
    Sustains a mood of aimless adolescent angst, and its vision of the road is uncompromisingly bleak.
  76. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    A muckraking effort that will probably play best to the converted.
  77. Zhantai
    An intellectually engaging movie. But Mr. Jia's careful objectivity and regard for material detail are not matched by narrative rigor.
  78. Zheng hun qi shi
    It's an anti- romantic comedy that resolves on a minor chord of grief.
  79. The Red Stuff
    Sublime in its involvement with the yearning of mankind to explore the heavens.
  80. Monkeybone
    The movie is booby-trapped with so many loud gags that some of its sneakier humor is nearly lost in the din.
  81. Last Resort
    Though Last Resort dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates a grim corner of contemporary reality, it is far from depressing.
  82. La Ciudad (The City)
    Indelible, deeply disquieting film.
  83. Non-Stop
    A breathless dash to nowhere in particular, doesn't feel bad.
  84. The Yards
    For all its incongruities, The Yards is a serious film that strives for a moral complexity and a textural density rarely found in contemporary dramas.
  85. Our Song
    So unlike most Hollywood coming-of-age stories as to seem downright revolutionary.
  86. Fastpitch
    Intelligent, insightful, touching.
  87. Tokyo Eyes
    The portrayals by the fetching Ms. Yoshikawa and Mr. Takeda are consistently absorbing, and Mr. Limosin's plotting, though essentially gimmicky and manipulative, packs mystery and tension.
  88. A Time for Drunken Horses
    Because of its relentlessness, its crawling pace (the 77 minutes pass like 2 1/2 hours) and its sometimes confusing story, A Time for Drunken Horses may not be for every taste, but it's still an affecting, and in its way beautiful, movie.
  89. The Visit
    Shows so much intelligence and compassion that its tendency sometimes to overreach or underdramatize can surely be forgiven.
  90. Coming Soon
    Its frank good humor stands in sharp contrast with the strange combination of timidity and exploitiveness of more widely distributed recent teenage comedies.
  91. Mystery, Alaska
    An upbeat meat-and-potatoes movie.
  92. Much Ado About Something
    An inviting piece of film. Mr. Rubbo's cast of characters have the charisma of true devotees and stoked egos that match their intentions.
  93. Bounce
    Bounce may be far from a great film, but its pleasures are consistent enough to remind you of how few movies nowadays come anywhere close to matching it in intelligence and emotional balance.
  94. The Color of Paradise
    Leans a bit too much toward the lachrymose and has a wrong-note final image.
  95. The Back of the World
    Each of these stories is terribly sad and terribly moving in its own right. Yet the film that Mr. Corcuera has spun around them only increases the viewer's sense of helplessness and passivity. No solutions are suggested, no actions are proposed, no reflection is invited. The misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle, to be consumed and forgotten.
  96. The Next Big Thing
    This well-cast film does with a lighter hand for art what "The Producers" does for show business.
  97. Ivansxtc
    Contrived as this may sound, Mr. Rose's updating works surprisingly well. -- the story's sympathetic, tragic sense of the fragility of individual dignity is, if anything, made even more haunting in this version.
  98. Place Vendôme
    In spite of its many flaws, the film never loses its focus on its fascinating central figure.
  99. The Tao of Steve
    Can't redeem the moves toward its predictable happy ending. But the movie has a protagonist who has a great time getting there.
  100. The Tavern
    Astringent and unsentimental, it is a case study of losing, its clear eye focused unwaveringly on the realities of commerce and kinship.
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