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For 20,278 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: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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  1. Grateful Dawg
    Quite simply a treat for the ear.
  2. Baran
    The lovely clarity of this story, which seems to have been drawn from the literature of an earlier age, is well served by the artful subtlety of the telling. Mr. Majidi prefers imagery to exposition, and his shots are as dense with meaning, and as readily accessible, as Dutch paintings.
  3. Notorious C.H.O.
    Brilliant, over-the-edge concert film Notorious C.H.O. carries candid sexual humor into previously uncharted territory.
  4. Beautiful People
    Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.
  5. Solas
    Galiana's quietly monumental performance is one for the ages.
  6. Little Otik
    A handmade dream, cobbled together from dirt, wood and more imagination than most of us can muster in our most fevered states. Because this Czech master refuses to work in the scrubbed, antiseptic manner of most animators, this fable comes to life as hilarious and creepy.
  7. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    So good because it is one of those rare documentaries that combine information with smashing entertainment.
  8. Heaven
    Here the clinical, stopwatch precision of Mr. Tykwer's explorations of synchronicity and Kieslowski's warmer, metaphysically dreamy speculations about the role of chance and coincidence in human affairs synchronize into a film whose formal elegance is matched by its depth of feeling.
  9. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    The cumulative effect is that of watching misspent lives disintegrate before your eyes. Ms. Miller's canny accomplishment is a triumph, giving the material weight and heart. This is one of the finest pictures of the year.
  10. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    A brilliant satire of emotional politics.
  11. The Day I Became a Woman
    What appears on the screen has a starkness that is almost indelible.
  12. Dream of Light
    The purity and breadth of this meticulous study are all the more gratifying in view of its unprepossessing style.
  13. Dinner Rush
    Serves up its scattershot plots as if they were lined up on a menu, moving from appetizer to entree: there are more intrigues here than in the court of the Medicis.
  14. Girls Can't Swim
    Ultimately lacks the epic dimension of "Y Tu Mamá También," but its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition.
  15. Grin Without a Cat
    A Grin Without a Cat is a work of extraordinary journalism, but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry, visual (in the rhyming of gestures and shapes across images and sequences) as much as verbal.
  16. Gun Shy
    One of the most subtle and inspired comedies you'll see this year.
  17. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    The film they have put together is dense with sound and information, but it moves with a swift, lilting rhythm that is of a piece with the musical heritage it explores.
  18. Billy Liar (re-release)
    One of the great movies of the 1960's, but it has been, in this country at least, maddeningly elusive. In spite of its bitter edge, Billy Liar is pure Ambrosia.
  19. Madadayo
    It's not one of Kurosawa's great films.... But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect.
  20. Metropolis (re-release)
    Metropolis retains its power to overwhelm, trouble and move because it is connected to the deep anxieties of modern life as if by a high-voltage cable.
  21. The Lady and the Duke
    The director manages to evade both the stuffy antiquarianism and the pandering anachronism that subvert so many cinematic attempts at historical inquiry.
  22. War Photographer
    Documenting war is a small, partial but indispensable step toward its eventual eradication. Mr. Frei's quiet, engrossing film is a sad and stirring testimony to this vision and to the quiet, self-effacing heroism with which Mr. Nachtwey has pursued it.
  23. Late Marriage
    Powerful and very bitter comedy.
  24. The Nazi Officer's Wife
    Packed with revelations and withheld information that comes to life; it is like an old movie castle full of false fireplaces and trap doors.
  25. The Gleaners & I
    She (Varda) plucks images and stories from the world around her, finding beauty and nourishment in lives and activities the world prefers to ignore.
  26. Outside Providence
    Eminently likable...a splendid performance from Alec Baldwin in a far cry from his usual roles.
  27. Lumumba
    Mr. Peck's gambit works, and the result is a great film and a great performance.
  28. Waking Ned Devine
    Kirk Jones, who wrote and directed this blithe comedy, has been a prize-winning director of television commercials. And he has the knack of finding rubbery, expressive faces and letting each villager's quirks emerge on cue.
  29. The Circle
    The political implications of the film are manifest, as is the quiet courage of making it.
  30. Ulee's Gold
    Beautiful and heartfelt, an oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole.
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