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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. The Day I Became a Woman
    What appears on the screen has a starkness that is almost indelible.
  2. Along Came a Spider
    Overplotted, hollow thriller.
  3. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    All about bright colors and constant movement.
  4. Shadow Magic
    Gentle and easy to take.
  5. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Perhaps it's the difference in culture, but the thoughtfulness in Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine shows that its creator isn't letting himself or his audience off the hook.
  6. Blow
    Depp's witty, spare performance gives the picture a poignancy -- a depth of feeling, if you'll allow the pun -- that Mr. Demme's hectic direction and the hurried script by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes don't quite earn.
  7. Mau Mau Sex Sex
    The fun is contagious.
  8. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    So good it leaves you starved for more.
  9. Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
    Amateurish and incoherent.
  10. Amores Perros
    A film in which nothing is what it seems, this is the kind of genre touch that Mr. González Iñárritu expands into something far more haunting.
  11. The Tailor of Panama
    The first really good spy movie about the impossibility, under present historical circumstances, of making a really good spy movie.
  12. Someone Like You...
    Chandler's script has, by my count, exactly one sort-of-funny line and not a single scene whose comic possibilities are successfully exploited.
  13. Spy Kids
    An enjoyable and charming if overactive fantasy.
  14. Tomcats
    Desperately, depressingly in thrall to the Farrelly formula.
  15. Faat Kiné
    Sembène is a far more adroit and elegant storyteller than many may be accustomed to seeing.
  16. Butterfly
    While instructive on environmental concerns about the impact of logging, Butterfly does not reward those who seek dispassionate psychological insight into the zealous Ms. Hill.
  17. The Brothers
    Darts nervously between soap opera and sitcom, rarely blending them in a way that lets the two genres enhance each other.
  18. Heartbreakers
    Naughty is an outdated word in an era of proud nastiness, but Heartbreakers has a slinky, teasing quality that recalls the dressed-up comedies of the studio era.
  19. Say It Isn't So
    All you really need to know about Say It Isn't So,the latest flatulent noisemaker from the Farrelly Brothers' gross-out comedy factory, is that late in the movie, Chris Klein punches a cow from behind and finds his arm stuck inside.
  20. Too Much Sleep
    Maquiling creates an unusual and intriguing tone somewhere between sharp, deadpan comedy and a soft, dreamy surrealism.
  21. Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution
    An inspiring demonstration of that old saw about necessity being the mother of (in this case, artistic) invention.
  22. American Desi
    Most of it has to do with the ways younger Indian-Americans keep their culture alive in the United States and the ways they don't.
  23. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    An engaging and colorful but somewhat overbalanced documentary.
  24. Memento
    A brilliant feat of rug-pulling, sure to delight fans of movies like "The Usual Suspects" and "Pi."
  25. Enemy at the Gates
    Enemy at the Gates has its deficiencies, but the first-rate cast is not among them.
  26. The Dish
    Maintains a tone that remains as light and easygoing as the Australians living in the area.
  27. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Amusing but extremely derivative.
  28. Simon Magus
    May be reasonably diverting, but the story never matches the movie's fantastic visual imagination.
  29. Biandan, guniang
    Like Lou Ye's "Suzhou River," a Hitchcock homage similarly set in Shanghai's demimonde, So Close to Paradise offers an intriguing and sometimes self-canceling mixture of emotion and style.
  30. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Far from the first movie in which a fearless woman coaxes the inner tiger crouched inside a mild-mannered milquetoast to spring into action, but it is one of the most charming.
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