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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jesus' Son
    One of the pleasures of Jesus' Son is watching a filmmaker take risks and discover new resources of style.
  2. Buffalo '66
    Cool, stark compositions and the occasional audacious visual trick give Buffalo '66 a memorable look even when its narrative enters the occasional uneventful stretch.
  3. Quills
    Occasionally becomes pretentious and shrill -- sometimes Mr. Wright isn't aware that his material is so good that he doesn't need to comment on his characters.
  4. The Magdalene Sisters
    The Magdalene Sisters would be too painful to watch if it didn't have a silver lining. Suffice it to say that it is possible to fly over this religious cuckoo's nest and remain free. All it takes is courage and the timely kindness of strangers.
  5. Go
    He (Liman) creates a film that lives up to the momentum of its title and doesn't really need much more.
  6. Bon voyage
    Blurs the line between comedy and epic drama so adroitly that the two styles fuse into something quite original: a lyrical farce that pays homage to its period in any number of ways.
  7. It Runs in the Family
    Jesse Wigutow's screenplay is one of those marvels of economy, idiomatic facility and well-chosen detail that knows exactly when to cut away from a scene without grinding it into your face.
  8. Journey to the Sun
    An incisive drama about a waking nightmare.
  9. Carandiru
    Exudes a throbbing flesh-and-blood intensity so compelling that it's impossible to avert your eyes.
  10. What Alice Found
    A small, finely wrought drama.
  11. The Sweet Hereafter
    The filmmaker creates schematic, intuitive images that hauntingly crystallize the characters' situations.
  12. American Splendor
    There's as much at stake in the hilarious, moody and cantankerous film adaptation of "Splendor" as there was in this summer's other movies of comic-book antiheroes like "The Hulk" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."
  13. Guinevere
    Affectionately told ...beguiling.
  14. The Winslow Boy
    Mamet's handsome, stately adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy does not embellish upon its source material. Instead it skillfully pares the play down to its essentials, arriving at a faithful but tighter version of this drama.
  15. Blue Car
    Mr. Strathairn's complex, exquisitely nuanced portrayal of a man who goes over the line allows his character to be both hero and villain, sometimes at once.
  16. The Good Thief
    The ultimate caper, a work of brazen ebullience.
  17. The Mask of Zorro
    This is hot-weather escapism so earnestly retrograde that it seems new.
  18. Twin Falls Idaho
    An eerily effective film...Twin Falls Idaho has style, gravity and originality to spare.
  19. Run Lola Run
    Tykwer deliberately blows away all traces of the mundane and the familiar, so that not even the closing credit crawl moves in the expected way.
  20. He liu
    Whether or not The River is, as some critics have claimed, Mr. Tsai's masterpiece, it is an excellent introduction to his oblique narrative style, his favored themes and his careful, lyrical visual sensibility.
  21. Zelary
    It has a familiar, lived-in feel, and if its observations of rural life at a time of political turmoil don't feel terribly original, they are nonetheless absorbing and sometimes powerful.
  22. Morvern Callar
    This minimalist film is slightly hobbled by its minimal plot; it's the crucial difference between a movie with moments of greatness and a great movie.
  23. La grande strada azzurra
    A political movie that, partly through the powerful lead performance of its star, the relatively young Yves Montand, transcends its own politics.
  24. Central Station
    There's plenty of room for sentimentality here, but the wonder of Salles' film is all in the telling.
  25. Pecker
    Finding hilarity in John Waters's latest movie title is the basic pre requisite for enjoying the goofy ingenuity of his new film.
  26. Lilo & Stitch
    Hardly a work of state-of-the-art virtuosity, but rather an example of quiet, confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet, charming tale of intergalactic friendship.
  27. The Five Obstructions
    Watching The Five Obstructions is at once like witnessing two chess masters playing dominoes and like spying on a series of therapy sessions. Mr. von Trier clearly sees himself as a maniacal psychoanalyst.
  28. Aberdeen
    Skarsgard and Headey deliver perfectly meshed lead performances in a small, beautifully acted film that will make you squirm.
  29. The Devil's Backbone
    Mr. del Toro provokes your screams and shudders, but he also earns your tears.
  30. Tuck Everlasting
    An effective, well-made film that will certainly please its target audience of preteen girls.
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