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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. Space Station 3D
    If nothing else, Space Station 3-D is a film that agoraphobics and claustrophobics can agree on. Members of both groups should stay home.
  2. Murder by Numbers
    The real surprise, given the secondhand material, is that not everything proceeds by rote in Murder by Numbers.
  3. 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.
  4. Enigma
    The mystery of Enigma is how a rich historical subject, combined with so much first-rate talent -- a highly capable (if not always exciting) director, a fine English cast, a script by Tom Stoppard -- could have yielded such a flat, plodding picture.
  5. The Scorpion King
    As this chaotic barrage of muscle flexing, swordplay, fireballs, crude digital effects and comic-book quips hurls itself off the screen, it's like having several garbage cans clogged with stale pizza, lukewarm cola, soggy French fries and greasy, ketchup-stained napkins emptied over your head.
  6. World Traveler
    Neither the screenplay nor the film's visual vocabulary begins to evoke a charged spiritual tension between the protagonist and the world.
  7. Nine Queens
    The kind of movie that seduces you into becoming putty in its manipulative card-sharking hands and making you enjoy being taken in by its shameless contrivance.
  8. Chelsea Walls
    Yet the movie sustains a mood. It passionately believes in itself and in the value of the messy artistic lives it glosses, and some of that belief rubs off on you.
  9. The Triumph of Love
    Triumph of Love, Marivaux's 270-year-old romantic comedy, is a beguiling trifle, a gauzy, teasing inquiry into the fungibility of emotions.
  10. Mule Skinner Blues
    It might be tempting to regard Mr. Andrew and his collaborators as oddballs, but Mr. Earnhart's quizzical, charming movie allows us to see them, finally, as artists.
  11. The Cat's Meow
    A modest, restrained picture, as small and satisfying as one of Woody Allen's better recent efforts.
  12. Human Nature
    Should have been more polished, and less tame.
  13. Frailty
    Paxton's Dad may be the most terrifying father to appear in a horror film since Jack Nicholson went crazily homicidal in "The Shining."
  14. The Other Side of Heaven
    What sets this syrupy swatch of kitsch apart from other films peddling a dogmatic religious agenda is the serious money that obviously went into it.
  15. Changing Lanes
    It is so dishonest that the title Changing Lanes can just as well refer to the cheaply contrived turns in the film.
  16. New Best Friend
    A preposterous, prurient whodunit.
  17. The Sweetest Thing
    After about 20 minutes of "Thing," a concussion begins to look enormously appealing.
  18. Echoes
    Has a strained, unconvincing screenplay whose failure to connect the dots of its story suggests that it might have been largely improvised.
  19. Karmen Gei
    Enormously likable, partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd.
  20. Lucky Break
    Mr. Cattaneo restricts himself to the smiling blandness that has become the stock in trade of British comedies made for export, turning in a film that is forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending.
  21. Les Destinées
    Like a good novel, Les Destinées is many things: a family chronicle, a series of psychological portraits, a sumptuous re-creation of the past. But the film is also a pointed tribute to the French tradition of quality and distinction, a tradition in which it clearly includes itself.
  22. High Crimes
    For his part. Mr. Freeman shows himself, once again, incapable of giving a bad performance.
  23. American Chai
    American Chai may not tell a new story, but in its understanding, often funny way, it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation.
  24. 30 Years to Life
    Though 30 Years to Life doesn't break any new ground, it's a light, engaging, well-carpentered film, with a quick wit and a sense of character just deep enough to lend some weight to the laugh lines.
  25. Big Trouble
    The cast manages to maintain its dignity while sweat and dirt go flying around.
  26. The Komediant
    As informative and packed with cultural lore as it is, The Komediant is dramatically diffuse.
  27. Van Wilder
    What's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.
  28. Astoria
    In retelling this timeworn story of conflict between young men in the New World and their stubborn Old World fathers, Mr. Efteriades may not have generated many sparks, but with his affection for Astoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow.
  29. Crush
    The sudden, radical change of tone is something far beyond Mr. McKay's nascent abilities as a filmmaker, and Crush never really rights itself.
  30. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Fitfully entertaining molehill of a movie.
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