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For 20,335 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: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    The title doesn't lie. These guys know how to tell a joke, often at the expense of their customs, religious holidays, families and themselves.
  2. Ballast
    Shot with a sure hand and a cast of unknowns, the film doesn't so much tell a story as develop a tone and root around a place that, despite the intimate camerawork, remains shrouded in ambiguity.
  3. The Lucky Ones
    Because the lead actors work so well together, adding depth and levels of vulnerability to fairly underwritten roles, the emotional consequences of the sense of displacement these "lucky" characters -- lucky to be alive, lucky to have met one another -- must deal with always ring true.
  4. Forever Strong
    A mawkish drama hobbled by a thoroughly unpleasant and uncharismatic lead performance.
  5. Miracle at St. Anna
    It is in the fragile bonds that form between the black soldiers and the Italian villagers that Miracle at St. Anna breaks free of its own grandiosity and tells a grounded, moving, human story. Not a miracle by any means, but an earthy inquiry into death, duty, friendship and honor. What we’ve always wanted from war movies.
  6. Choke
    It adds up to an entertaining collection of vignettes strung together by a sarcastic loudmouth whose heart is breaking under his sophomoric bravado.
  7. Nights in Rodanthe
    It's no wonder the faithful continue to forsake the movies, given junky embarrassments like Nights in Rodanthe.
  8. The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
    It's like being trapped in a roomful of teenage girls for 80 minutes.
  9. Humboldt County
    These characters are fully alive. But the movie attaches them to a conventional, not to say creaky, hip-meets-square drama.
  10. Obscene
    A warm, entertaining compendium of counterculture voices and literary landmarks.
  11. Shoot on Sight
    The movie's lack of subtlety is countered by an unswerving commitment to impartiality.
  12. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
    Generous in spirit and nimble in technique, this riveting documentary about the Republican operative (who died of a brain tumor in 1991) reveals a scrappy genius rife with contradictions.
  13. Elite Squad
    A relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil.
  14. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    A gentle, pleasantly unrushed piece of moviemaking. There’s a tonic simplicity to how it gets the job done, and if the film comes off as fairly conventional stuff, it nevertheless succeeds on its own modest, middlebrow terms.
  15. Appaloosa
    The movie's tolerant, good-humored view of its characters drains it of some dramatic intensity, but Mr. Harris seems more interested in piquant, offhand moments than in big, straining confrontations.
  16. Battle in Seattle
    A drama is only as convincing as its characters. The people awkwardly forced together in Battle in Seattle are rhetorical mouthpieces tied to the sketchy plotlines of a so-so Hollywood ensemble movie.
  17. The Duchess
    An overstuffed, intellectually underbaked portrait of a poor little rich girl.
  18. Hounddog
    Hounddog is never more than a sluggish dawdle from shack to swimmin' hole and back again.
  19. Lakeview Terrace
    A passable piece of hackwork, with some adequately suspenseful passages and a few mild shocks near the end. But the psychological dimensions of the story are so risible, and its supposed insights into race and class so wrongheaded and ugly, that irritation trumps enjoyment.
  20. Ghost Town
    A misanthropic dentist, a roguish ghost and a zany Egyptologist: as these unlikely companions scamper around Manhattan in the buoyant comedy Ghost Town, they resurrect the spirits of classic movie curmudgeons like W. C. Fields and such romantic comedians as Cary Grant and Carole Lombard in Woody Allen territory.
  21. Igor
    An animated twist on the Frankenstein story that never sparks to life.
  22. My Best Friend's Girl
    A date not entirely to be skipped. It's a movie tailor-made for those who think it's a turn-on to passionately kiss someone to whom they've just said, "I hate you."
  23. All of Us
    This powerful, conceptually sure film is relevant beyond the concerns of the moment as both a model of documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking.
  24. Fraulein
    An intimate, elusive drama about the boundaries of friendship and nationality, Fräulein presents immigrant lives with significantly more empathy than detail. For some, though, the movie’s narrative shorthand will be enough.
  25. Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
    Directed by Koji Masutani, this speculative, provocative, frustrating and finally unpersuasive historical gloss races quickly and all too lightly over the major political crises that John F. Kennedy faced during his aborted presidency.
  26. Burn After Reading
    The clubby, predictably self-amused comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, has a tricky plot, visual style, er, to burn, but so little heart as to warrant a Jarvik 8.
  27. Christmas on Mars
    Forget plot. It’s all about textures.
  28. Flow: For Love of Water
    Irena Salina's astonishingly wide-ranging film is less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests.
  29. Moving Midway
    May not advance any grand new thesis about the South and its history, but it turns an old house into a rich and strange repository of local knowledge.
  30. Towelhead
    A crude but scathing portrait of suburban life.
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