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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 Invisible Circus
    Unfortunately, The Invisible Circus, which follows Phoebe as she retraces her dead sibling's steps from Paris to Berlin to the coast of Portugal, doesn't so much illuminate Phoebe's confusion as share it.
  2. Fever
    Every shot seems measured for maximum effect, and when the pace suddenly quickens in a late action sequence on a deserted subway train, it results in a moment of pure Hitchcockian panic that reverberates like thunder in the fretful, melancholy air.
  3. The Million Dollar Hotel
    A mellow dream of a movie that's an acquired taste. It's attractive because of the oblique way that Mr. Wenders ambles through a murder mystery that's stronger on characterization than on plot.
  4. Valentine
    It feels like both a joke and a turkey.
  5. Head Over Heels
    Exists in a realm beyond sense, and induces in the viewer a trancelike state, leaving the mind free to ponder the mysteries of the universe.
  6. Left Behind
    For all its intimations of fire and brimstone, the film isn't remotely frightening, and the high-school-level acting doesn't help.
  7. In the Mood for Love
    Probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.
  8. Nico and Dani
    Amazingly, Cesc Gay's delicate but unblinking film Nico and Dani succeeds in capturing and sustaining the fragile emotional climate of curiosity, fear, innocence and prurience that surrounds adolescent sexual experimentation.
  9. Fallen Angels Paradise
    Exudes a randy, robust charm as it unapologetically thumbs its nose at respectability and everything the word implies.
  10. Trolösa
    This attenuated two-and-a-half-hour reflection on marriage, adultery, parenthood and the casualties of sexual warfare unfolds like a brooding autobiographical epilogue to Mr. Bergman's much stormier 1973 masterpiece, "Scenes From a Marriage."
  11. Voyages
    This movie operates in the limbo between memory and oblivion that we recognize as daily life. It bears courageous and stringent witness to the impossibility of bearing witness.
  12. Two Ninas
    In this elongated, formula-ridden sitcom posing as a movie, the date-weary Manhattan singles exchanging acerbic banter suggest the tougher, far less intellectual offspring of Woody Allen characters drenched in a whiny Seinfeldian dyspepsia.
  13. Sugar & Spice
    The movie is full of scattershot gags and indifferent acting, but you get the feeling that it's bad on purpose, which makes it, given the number of teenage movies that are terrible by accident, not bad at all.
  14. The Wedding Planner
    It's like watching two superbly conditioned rowers try to race a boat made of folded newspaper. Hard as they work, they just can't make it go any faster.
  15. Amy
    Warm of heart, modest in polish, Amy provides satisfactions that must be balanced against its flaws.
  16. R2PC: Road to Park City
    The intentionally self-conscious style of R2PC is a little hard to take sometimes because the movie is trying too hard to be funny.
  17. Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
    The filmmakers know how potent the material is, and they don't hammer away at the obvious.
  18. The Amati Girls
    Although the concept seems promising enough, it is undone by disastrous casting decisions and an utter lack of ensemble unity.
  19. The Pledge
    Not a pleasant film, but it is deeply, scarily rewarding.
  20. Snatch.
    Mr. Ritchie seems to be stepping backward when he should be moving ahead.
  21. Zheng hun qi shi
    It's an anti- romantic comedy that resolves on a minor chord of grief.
  22. Panic
    A sneaky and smart film noir.
  23. Antitrust
    The plot of Antitrust is intricate and uneven, overloaded with twists and not very jolting surprises.
  24. Double Take
    A shell game passing as entertainment.
  25. Save the Last Dance
    Bland but poised.
  26. Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
    A fairly tough-minded film until the end, when several commentators who have been critical suddenly turn misty-eyed and suggest that underneath it all, Holmes was really a sweetie.
  27. Chunhyangdyun
    The extravagance of the sets and costumes increases the theatricality; Chunhyang is an almost childlike delight for the eyes.
  28. The Claim
    A languorously muted, occasionally magnificent film.
  29. Shadow of the Vampire
    At once wildly metaphorical and distressingly literal-minded, Shadow of the Vampire tries, with mixed success, to be scary, funny and profound all at once.
  30. Traffic
    May be the first Hollywood movie since Robert Altman's "Nashville" to infuse epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid- washed palette.
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