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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. IMAX: Hubble 3D
    Dazzling to look at of course. But such ponderous, cliché-heavy narration.
  2. The Runaways
    The movie may be a little too tame in the end, but at its best it is just wild enough.
  3. 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.
  4. Bad Company
    Frank, sympathetic approach to the awkward age.
  5. 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.
  6. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    It's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that.
  7. The Dish
    Maintains a tone that remains as light and easygoing as the Australians living in the area.
  8. Die Another Day
    Perhaps the most satisfying Bond movie since "The Spy Who Loved Me."
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Crammed with enough melodrama to fill several soap operas.
  12. Manito
    Though a dramatic (even melodramatic) narrative eventually takes shape, what you remember is the succession of moods and observations through which it emerges.
  13. Frequency
    What makes Frequency work despite is shamelessness is the surreal aura that imbues almost every scene with a sense of heightened feeling.
  14. The Same River Twice
    A piercingly poignant then-and-now portrait of five friends.
  15. 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.
  16. All the Pretty Horses
    The movie, for all its prettiness, manages to be shallow and portentous at the same time.
  17. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Struggles under the burden of adapting such rarefied material.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Mickey Blue Eyes
    A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.
  23. Liam
    Walks the delicate boundary between politically inflected realism and costumed sentimentality.
  24. 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.
  25. The Cat's Meow
    A modest, restrained picture, as small and satisfying as one of Woody Allen's better recent efforts.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Taxman
    An offbeat little charmer of a mystery.
  29. Les convoyeurs attendent
    A sharp critique of empty values and pointless striving.
  30. The Girl Next Door
    Melancholy.
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