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For 20,280 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
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:
  1. Positive: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Cookie's Fortune
    Captivating.
  2. Revolution #9
    An unadorned, unsparing chronicle of a young man's descent into a nightmare of delusion, paranoia and self-destructive behavior.
  3. The Princess and the Warrior
    Deeply whimsical beneath its poker face, The Princess and the Warrior has the structure of an elaborate mind-teasing puzzle.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Monterey Pop
    It is possible that the way to a new kind of musical—using some of the talent and energy of what is still the most lively contemporary medium—may begin with just this kind of musical performance documentary.
  5. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    A monumental treat as well as a crafty assemblage of mythologies.
  6. Billy Elliot
    Anchors its melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism.
  7. Wendigo
    For those in search of something different, Wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale.
  8. Millennium Actress
    To watch Millennium Actress is to witness one cinematic medium celebrating another, an expression of movie love that is wonderfully eccentric and deeply affecting.
  9. The Endurance
    The tale, in any case, is so gripping, so full of improbable turns and agonizing reversals that it bears repeating, and Mr. Butler and Ms. Alexander tell it straightforwardly and well.
  10. The Pledge
    Not a pleasant film, but it is deeply, scarily rewarding.
  11. Felicia's Journey
    Visually, and in its soundtrack of overlapping voices, the film sustains a mood of heightened consciousness.
  12. Tape
    In portraying this threesome, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman give the most psychologically acute performances of their film careers.
  13. The Tailor of Panama
    The first really good spy movie about the impossibility, under present historical circumstances, of making a really good spy movie.
  14. Thomas in Love
    The film is full of ingenious details and effective character sketches (Thomas has a mother who would give Woody Allen the willies) that go a long way toward covering up its conventionalities.
  15. Tosca
    For the most part, it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera.
  16. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Although the movie, adapted from a book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, pushes emotional buttons and simplifies its true story to give it the clean narrative sweep of an extended folk ballad, it never goes dramatically overboard.
  17. Derrida
    The adoring and adorable documentary on the philosopher Jacques Derrida.
  18. Shine
    Fortunately, Hicks's direction has an elegance and dignity that rescue Shine from the exploitative and give the film an acute, genuinely sensitive style.
  19. Baby Boy
    Jody's story is told with so much heart -- and his character is acted with such a winning combination of playfulness, vulnerability and sexual dynamism by Mr. Gibson -- that you can forgive the occasionally incoherent storytelling, the overwrought moments and the haphazard, unconvincing excursions into dream and fantasy.
  20. Hoosiers
    This film's very lack of surprise and sophistication accounts for a lot of its considerable charm.
  21. Dead Again
    A big, convoluted, entertainingly dizzy romantic mystery melodrama.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (re-release)
    Throughout, there's a skillful balance between the vulnerability of New Yorkers and the drastic, provocative sense of comedy that thrives all over our sidewalks.
  23. Tumbleweeds
    There are many moments when what is on the screen stops looking like acting and becomes life itself, and you're watching real people change and grow before your eyes.
  24. Blackboards
    An indelible and ultimately moving vision of humanity buffeted by the elements and by international political tides.
  25. Sylvia
    Christine Jeffs's film is an emotionally rich biography of the poet Sylvia Plath, who is played with radiant conviction by Gwyneth Paltrow.
  26. Carnage
    Ms. Gleize, through a series of oblique, half-comic scenes and meticulous, rhyming visual compositions, offers up an elegant, discursive essay on carnality and carnivorousness -- on sex, death, meat and the ravening hunger for companionship.
  27. The Opposite of Sex
    What redeems the film's surface bitterness are sharp observations, laceratingly funny dialogue and something Dedee claims to find especially loathsome: a secret heart of gold.
  28. Clay Pigeons
    A film that delights by confounding expectations.
  29. Rounders
    Mischievously entertaining...Dahl's film has character in oversupply even if its actual characters are sometimes thin. Poker fever makes up for whatever the story lacks in everyday emotions.
  30. Analyze This
    As he demonstrated in "Groundhog Day," Ramis knows how to handle a high-concept story with unusual cleverness, and he does it again here. It helps to no end that De Niro and Crystal, despite their obvious differences, are perfectly in tune.
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