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For 20,324 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: 9,408 out of 20324
  2. Mixed: 8,449 out of 20324
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20324
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  1. Bolivia
    This film, Mr. Caetano's feature-length directorial debut, has an emotional integrity that's concise and direct.
  2. 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.
  3. Tales of Erotica
    The results, to judge from the examples here, have been stuffy and disappointing, an unholy alliance between Playboy Channel prurience and PBS cultural alibis.
  4. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    So busy building its symbolic frame that it forgets to develop its characters, or even to make them likable.
  5. Dark Blue
    Unfortunately, the rest of the movie does not live up to Mr. Russell's performance.
  6. Lawless Heart
    By allowing the stories to play off one another and allowing layers of meaning to accumulate before we even notice them, the filmmakers capture some of the essential strangeness of life -- the way our relations are governed by laws that remain invisible to us until art reveals their workings.
  7. Gods and Generals
    A lumpy three-and-a-half-hour glob of Civil War history.
  8. Old School
    Like a half-empty glass of Coke that's been sitting out for a couple of days; sure, it looks like cola, but one sip tells you exactly what's missing.
  9. The Life of David Gale
    Tries to show it has its heart in the right place, but it's such a crude undertaking that it doesn't actually seem to have a heart at all.
  10. From the Other Side
    A spare, painterly and scrupulously unsentimental look at the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants massed at the United States border.
  11. 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.
  12. The Ballad of Bering Strait
    This competently made picture seems a rehash, and not a terribly interesting one. What's remarkable about it is how unremarkable it is.
  13. Ordinary Sinner
    Mr. Davis has a lot of ideas, but when it comes to dramatizing them, he is unable to give them an engaging form.
  14. 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.
  15. Love at Times Square
    For those looking for a vacation from the irony and the cruelty that have invaded so much of American popular culture, this scruffy little Indian film is a delightful getaway.
  16. The Jungle Book 2
    Drab and unenticing.
  17. Gerry
    With all its quirks, Gerry seeps into your pores like the wind-whipped sand that stings the faces of these disoriented hikers.
  18. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Like "The Sixth Sense," He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not reaches for a crowning final twist, but in this case it falls flat.
  19. All the Real Girls
    Remarkable for its genuine, unpretentious lyricism.
  20. Daredevil
    Tacky and disposable.
  21. Stone Reader
    Enchanting and diverting documentary.
  22. Zus & zo
    To attempt a culinary metaphor, Ms. van der Oest manages a yolky, runny sitcom omelet rather than the airy soufflé of farce.
  23. Deliver Us from Eva
    If Deliver Us From Eva is amusing, it is not uproarious.
  24. Kedma
    But for all its provocation, Kedma is an often dull, incoherent film, and its characters remain frustratingly sketchy
  25. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    It does have its tart, fizzy moments.
  26. Shanghai Knights
    With Shanghai Knights, he (Chan) has come through with one of his best. This time, it's personable.
  27. May
    Led by Ms. Bettis's discreetly campy May, the performances are a cut or two above what you would find in the average slasher film. But in the end that's all it is.
  28. Biker Boyz
    The movie is so sloppily written and directed that its bits of bluster never cohere.
  29. Lost in La Mancha
    After watching the fascinating and compelling new documentary Lost in La Mancha, you may forever wonder how it is that movies are made at all.
  30. The Guru
    A grindingly conventional comedy that insists on tying up its subplots in pretty ribbons and bows.
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