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For 20,323 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 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. I Remember Me
    An intrepid sleuth, Ms. Snyder seems to have left no stone unturned in her search for answers.
  2. Maze
    This mishmash of emotional tones can't be redeemed by the performers' considerable investment in their work.
  3. King of the Jungle
    Mr. Rosenfeld is a writer whose talent shines through in the way he harvests minute pearls.
  4. Heist
    Heist is a pleasure to watch, and the greatest pleasure is to watch Mr. Lindo and Mr. Hackman steal it.
  5. Shallow Hal
    The most shocking thing about it may be its unabashed sincerity.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Otomo
    A bleak and powerful work, one we probably need more than ever these days.
  7. Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
    The movie's relentless comic excess is ultimately a little exhausting. But the longer the series endures, the more likely it is to achieve classic cult status.
  8. Happenstance
    Perhaps it's all a bit too much, and perhaps it doesn't add up, but the loose ends give the picture a jaunty, improvised feeling that, while it leads to some confusion, is ultimately part of its whimsical charm.
  9. Tape
    In portraying this threesome, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman give the most psychologically acute performances of their film careers.
  10. Domestic Disturbance
    Jettisoning any ambition toward thrillerhood, Domestic Disturbance becomes a plodding, obvious angry-dad melodrama, ambling toward the final, fatal showdown between parent and usurper.
  11. Everything Put Together
    A finely acted expressionistic critique of the suburban baby culture and its joys, fears and fetishes.
  12. Monsters, Inc.
    There hasn't been a film in years to use creative energy as efficiently as Monsters, Inc.
  13. Amélie
    There is no denying that Amélie is, to paraphrase its title, fabulous.
  14. The One
    So narratively garbled and its screenplay so underwritten that you have to strain to piece together the story.
  15. Punks
    The movie's warmth, and Mr. Gilliam's sober, likable performance sustain it through its ragged stretches and amateurish lapses.
  16. Mysterious Object at Noon
    Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.
  17. The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Coens have used the noir idiom to fashion a haunting, beautifully made movie that refers to nothing outside itself and that disperses like a vapor as soon as it's over.
  18. The Town Is Quiet
    You are left with an overall impression of a movie so full of life that it is almost bursting at the seams.
  19. History Lessons
    Unfortunately the clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.
  20. Mysteries of Egypt
    Young viewers seduced by the trashy flash of "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" will be able to glimpse a vanished reality richer, stranger and bigger than all of the special effects in Hollywood.
  21. Kill by Inches
    Should soon join Mr. Greenaway's last few efforts in obscurity.
  22. On the Line
    Once you've accepted the notion that On the Line gives product placement in movies a blatant new prominence, the film turns out to be a soothing cinematic snack of milk and cookies.
  23. K-PAX
    It's hard to watch these two actors plow through the nonsense of K- Pax without feeling that a terrific opportunity has been squandered.
  24. Life as a House
    Doesn't trust the audience enough to keep from laying on the schmaltz.
  25. Better Than Sex
    Imagine "Last Tango in Paris" remade as a wan, low-budget romantic comedy.
  26. Thirteen Ghosts
    All it has in common with the original is a few dumb fun scares. In the new version, what we're left with after the scares is just plain dumb.
  27. Ginger Snaps
    Because the characters are so well established -- Ms. Perkins is particularly good as the shy, resentful Brigitte -- the film can have fun with its own premises without turning into an empty camp exercise.
  28. Ouch
    "Ouch!" is also what you might exclaim as you pinch yourself to stay awake through the film's slow, labored contrivances.
  29. Donnie Darko
    It's this compulsion to solder melancholy to weightlessness that constantly trips up the movie; Mr. Kelly doesn't have the assurance to pull off such a difficult feat.
  30. Bones
    In exalting the very worst of humanity, Bones displays a special glee and an unusual density of scary imagery.
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