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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. Delta Farce
    Perhaps the people most insulted are white Southerners, who presumably are expected to embrace one whopping brain-dead metaphor.
  2. Georgia Rule
    It's an interesting, maddening mess -- not a terrible movie, and by no means a dull one.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Casting About
    A solid documentary about how art is made.
  4. The Hip Hop Project
    Giving "inspirational" a good name, Matt Ruskin's vibrant and soulful documentary The Hip Hop Project sets its universal message to an inner-city beat.
  5. The Salon
    A tiresome blend of overacting and underwriting, The Salon moves from one predictable conversation to another -- the lack of available black men, the wondrousness of Bill Clinton -- without originality or comic rhythm.
  6. Chalk
    This loose-jointed ensemble comedy is funny in a squirm-inducing way.
  7. The Ex
    The best jokes in this scattershot screwball satire of job insecurity, upward mobility, political correctness and yuppie marital tensions have claws that leave scratches.
  8. Provoked: A True Story
    Unfortunately, in keeping its inflammatory subject matter at arm’s length, Provoked does exactly the same to its audience.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    ShowBusiness is packed with telling details that the director, Dori Berinstein, was lucky to catch on camera.
  10. Duck
    The quirky characters they meet aren't quirky enough, and the political points Ms. Bettauer sprinkles into her script thud awkwardly.
  11. Allegro
    Its most intriguing moments evoke the way that memory plays tricks and our visions of the past are actually scrambled composites of impressions and feelings.
  12. Day Night Day Night
    Maddeningly, purposefully evasive.
  13. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
    Mr. Tsai's films are held together internally, and connected one to another, by an elusive, insistent logic that is easier to recognize than to describe. But once you do start to recognize it, each new movie offers passage to an exotic place that feels, uncannily, like home.
  14. Brand Upon the Brain!
    Delirious, ingenious, often very funny and strangely touching film.
  15. Away from Her
    I can't remember the last time the movies yielded up a love story so painful, so tender and so true.
  16. Spider-Man 3
    The bittersweet paradox of this franchise is that while the stories have grown progressively less interesting the special effects have improved tremendously, becoming at once more plausible -- when Spider-Man swings through the urban canyons he finally looks almost real -- and more spectacular.
  17. Lucky You
    Even though it is sometimes dull and generally thin, there is something winning about the movie's genial lack of ambition.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Civic Duty
    Initially promising, ultimately irritating psychological thriller.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    L'iceberg
    Its simultaneously silly and grave tone finds humor in the characters' delusions and obsessions while celebrating their uniqueness.
  20. Paris, je t'aime
    A cinematic tasting menu consisting entirely of amuse-bouches. After two hours of such tidbits the palate is sated. But if there is no need for a main course, you still leave feeling vaguely disappointed at not being served one.
  21. The Treatment
    A movie with its heart and head in the right place. Too bad its aesthetic sensibilities and technical coordinates are not as well situated.
  22. Waitress
    Part feminist fable, part romantic fairy tale, it is by turns tart and sweet, charming and tough, rather like its heroine and like Keri Russell, the plucky, pretty, nimble actress who plays her.
  23. Missing Victor Pellerin
    An enigmatic and utterly compelling story of incinerated art, unbridled egos and exotic plants.
  24. Jindabyne
    The real flaw is that the movie's best features -- the aching clarity of its central performances -- threaten to be lost in a wilderness of metaphor and mystification.
  25. The Condemned
    Tailor-made for those who like their violence multifaceted and their women monosyllabic.
  26. The Invisible
    This latest recycling of foreign-grown frights shows less interest in horror than in healing.
  27. Kickin It Old Skool
    A romantic subplot is formulaic, and, most disappointing, the break-dance sequences don't sizzle, though the film's director, Harvey Glazer, is known for his music videos. Keep an eye out, however, for some nutty cameos.
  28. Next
    In Next, a crummy action and speculative-fiction hybrid, Nicolas Cage plays a guy who can see into the future two minutes at a time. It's too bad that Mr. Cage couldn't tap into those same powers of divination to save himself from making yet another inexplicably bad choice in roles.
  29. Snow Cake
    Like "I Am Sam," it is a film that tests your cynicism.
  30. Election
    By the end, Mr. To has proven himself to be a genre hack of uncommon intelligence and soul: a first-rate entertainer who can thrill you into thinking.
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