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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. Trembling Before G-d
    Director Sandi Simcha DuBowski latches on to a provocative subject and invests it with a compelling tenderness.
  2. A Chronicle of Corpses
    Mr. McElhinney has created a movie that is not without the flaws endemic in low-budget productions but still projects an amazing degree of stylistic assurance and originality.
  3. Cool and Crazy
    Consistently offbeat and entertaining; at such moments, it is also quite moving.
  4. Dog Run
    Too fuzzy-headed to rise above the pack.
  5. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    An ensemble piece developed from an improvisational workshop, the movie exudes a haunted melancholy that recalls such early Alan Rudolph films as "Choose Me" and "Welcome to L.A," and it includes several flashy performances.
  6. One Week
    Holds together in spite of its flaws.
  7. Focus
    The movie's surreal style, with its film-noir camerawork and ominous lighting, turns the story into a fable about fear and nonconformism, and Mr. Macy's and Ms. Dern's carefully shaded caricatures match the mood.
  8. Riding in Cars with Boys
    As the movie jumps back and forth in time, it displays an impressive cut-and-paste agility, skillfully interweaving humor and drama without tipping over into farce or soap opera.
  9. Intimacy
    If Intimacy does anything well, it portrays desperation, in many different forms.
  10. The Last Castle
    The movie is exuberant, strapping and obvious -- a problem drama suffering from a steroid overdose.
  11. From Hell
    So beautifully realized as a mood piece that it takes a while for a slight disappointment to register.
  12. Burnt Money
    The passions of "Plata Quemada" are as bold as the images.
  13. Waking Life
    So verbally dexterous and visually innovative that you can't absorb it unless you have all your wits about you. And even then, you may want to see it again to enjoy its subtle humor and warm humanity.
  14. My Voyage to Italy
    Extraordinary labor of love.
  15. White Hotel
    Could serve as a textbook example of what to avoid in nonfiction filmmaking.
  16. Berlin Babylon
    Babylon is about architecture as a balm, and this is a particularly good time for such a film.
  17. The Operator
    If The Operator, which is Mr. Dichter's directorial debut, has a clever concept, it clasps it much too fiercely to its chest.
  18. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    No more than a sentimental little comedy.
  19. My First Mister
    Leelee Sobieski and Albert Brooks, especially Mr. Brooks, deliver outstanding performances in the first feature film to be directed by Ms. Lahti.
  20. Iron Monkey
    Saving the big number for the climax, like any good musical director, Mr. Yuen finishes up with a spectacular variation on the traditional kung fu pole fight.
  21. Corky Romano
    As Corky, Mr. Kattan never finds an appealing perspective on his character. Sweetness is not this gifted comedian's strong suit, and in its place Mr. Kattan offers a desperate eagerness to please, a far less charming quality.
  22. Bandits
    Guilty of behaving like a petty thievery corporation; it steals from so many other sources that we're forced to realize that it has little of its own to offer. As such, it can't help but fail to meet expectations, given the talents involved.
  23. Mulholland Dr.
    By surrendering any semblance of rationality to create a post-Freudian, pulp-fiction fever dream of a movie, Mr. Lynch ends up shooting the moon with Mulholland Drive.
  24. Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop
    By and large Mr. Hoch's portrayals are as harsh and authentic as a police photograph, but an occasional touch of sentimentality creeps in.
  25. Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures
    The feelings that this simple, deeply intelligent movie produces -- of horror, admiration, hope and grief -- are as hard to name as they are to dispel.
  26. Werckmeister Harmonies
    Mysterious, poetic and allusive, The Werckmeister Harmonies beckons filmgoers who complain of the vapidity of Hollywood movie making and yearn for a film to ponder and debate.
  27. Fat Girl
    Much more than a perfectly realized vignette about seduction. It is the latest and most powerful dispatch yet from Ms. Breillat, France's most impassioned correspondent covering the war between the sexes.
  28. Grateful Dawg
    Quite simply a treat for the ear.
  29. The Strange Case of Señor Computer
    Mr. Sawyer eventually overreaches, striving for tragedy with a grim, cautionary ending that seems meant to evoke "Frankenstein." But the film's offhand, homemade quality sustains a quirky appeal.
  30. Joy Ride
    Much more effectively terrifying than the usual overplotted, underwritten Hollywood thriller.
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