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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 Weekend
    You have to admire the effort its attractive cast expends pumping life into stilted, flowery dialogue that confuses pretentious attitudinizing with profound insight.
  2. Me & Isaac Newton
    Despite its ultimate lack of intellectual substance, Me and Isaac Newton is still inspiring. All seven of its subjects are fascinating, and most are extremely likable. Mr. Apted has done them all a huge favor.
  3. Kippur
    Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.
  4. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Not only is it excruciatingly boring -- but its central premises are so banal and dubious as to border on offensiveness.
  5. Charlie's Angels
    It never pretends that it's anything more than trashy, cheesy fun. But even trash -- especially trash this expensive -- should at least be well made. Sure, it's easy on the eyes, but would a little brains be too much to ask?
  6. Once in the Life
    (Fishburne's) performance here, witty and profane, vulnerable and strutting, nearly holds the movie together.
  7. Loving Jezebel
    Mr. Bader was lucky to get a good cast.
  8. The Little Vampire
    Not often does a family film come along that is literate, clever, mischievous and just plain fun.
  9. A Room for Romeo Brass
    It is essentially a personal reminiscence of daily life that captures with an astonishing precision exactly what it felt to be a 12-year- old boy growing up in a particular time and place.
  10. A Time for Drunken Horses
    Because of its relentlessness, its crawling pace (the 77 minutes pass like 2 1/2 hours) and its sometimes confusing story, A Time for Drunken Horses may not be for every taste, but it's still an affecting, and in its way beautiful, movie.
  11. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Has occasional moments of heat, but not much warmth. And while it is pretty enough to look at, real beauty eludes it.
  12. Stardom
    Stardom makes its metaphor of 15 minutes seem like a lifetime.
  13. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A clever if muddled collection of riffs on the "Blair Witch" juggernaut, dressed up with intellectual pretensions by Joe Berlinger, who directed this film with a chortling zest.
  14. Lucky Numbers
    A weak-witted comedy.
  15. What's Cooking?
    It's a meal you may feel you've eaten before, but you nonetheless walk away stuffed and happy.
  16. The Sculptress
    So poorly written, badly acted and ineptly directed that it denies you even the modest pleasure of making fun of it.
  17. George Washington
    This dream of a movie is set in such a place; with its delicate shifts of tone, it could be a fairy tale by Faulkner
  18. Kirikou and the Sorceress
    It's more a piece to admire than to be involved by, yet it's easy to imagine children hypnotized by a hero tinier than they are when "Kirikou" is continually loaded into the VCR.
  19. Sound and Fury
    Powerful, insightful, important and emotionally wrenching.
  20. The Wolves of Kromer
    Silly, heavy-handed film.
  21. The Yards
    For all its incongruities, The Yards is a serious film that strives for a moral complexity and a textural density rarely found in contemporary dramas.
  22. Just One Time
    Works hard at being charming, but comedy is best when it looks effortless.
  23. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Has enough going on to make it a classic. You'll want to own it.
  24. Calle 54
    Even better on a second viewing because the film is such a pure expression of the director's love for the music, a love so infectious it should leave you elated.
  25. Pay It Forward
    It's so enamored of its own upbeat view of human nature that it expects you to overlook its stick-figure characters, its creaky plot machinery and its remorseless assault on your tear ducts.
  26. Bedazzled
    Outrageous fun.
  27. MVP: Most Valuable Primate
    For juvenile filmgoers and families in search of a more-than-twice-told tale with uplifting messages about the rewards of perseverance, the virtues of animals and acceptance of the handicapped, MVP will do.
  28. Just Looking
    A candy-colored, unabashedly sentimental movie.
  29. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    Well acted, but it doesn't enrich its metaphor beyond giving an old story a sour contemporary resonance.
  30. Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
    Brilliant film of nature has been warped into something jarringly unnatural.
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