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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. Love, etc.
    Artfully treading a fine line between operatic tragedy and romantic comedy.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The Best Man
    Another demonstration that current movies about upscale black characters have much more traditional values than ones about catty white teen-agers.
  7. 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.
  8. In July
    Mr. Akin pursues his happy, silly love story without embarrassment, and In July is ultimately more endearing than irritating.
  9. 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.
  10. Scratch
    Dense, exhilarating.
  11. Shadow Boxers
    Upbeat.
  12. Lovely & Amazing
    Holofcener's smart, acidic comedy Lovely and Amazing zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Shuang long hui
    High-spirited entertainment .
  16. Whiteboyz
    Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Two Women
    Impressive, unsettling, deeply felt film.
  21. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Fascinating but somewhat repellent.
  22. 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.
  23. Won't Anybody Listen
    Mr. Kelemer captures the sad textures of the Rogala brothers' lives with an appropriate balance of sympathy and detachment.
  24. 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.
  25. Waydowntown
    A smart, sardonic satire.
  26. The Bank
    The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying.
  27. 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.
  28. Reykjavík
    Feels as though it is not about much, but it is so well acted that the lassitude becomes a part of the atmosphere.
  29. The Dream Catcher
    Sustains a mood of aimless adolescent angst, and its vision of the road is uncompromisingly bleak.
  30. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    A muckraking effort that will probably play best to the converted.
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