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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 Tavern
    Astringent and unsentimental, it is a case study of losing, its clear eye focused unwaveringly on the realities of commerce and kinship.
  2. The Fantasticks
    The movie version overflows with affection and good intention, but unwittingly turns a bauble of cheerful fakery into something that mostly feels phony.
  3. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion, nor the sense of humor necessary to turn the deliberate clichés into effective satire.
  4. Under Suspicion
    Appears to be a somewhat sinister episode of "Nightline."
  5. Woman on Top
    This would-be spicy film has been made blandly palatable.
  6. Double Parked
    A modest but engaging mixture of comedy and drama that derives most of its energy from the performance of Callie Thorne.
  7. Left Luggage
    So intent on pushing its virtuous agenda that its characters often sound like mouthpieces parroting predigested attitudes.
  8. Tigerland
    Beneath the rough vérité exterior beats the same slick, corny heart.
  9. Dancer in the Dark
    Both stupefyingly bad and utterly overpowering; it can elicit, sometimes within a single scene, a gasp of rapture and a spasm of revulsion.
  10. Twilight: Los Angeles
    The resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture.
  11. Alma
    Begins to seem not so much an examination but an exploitation.
  12. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Its subject matter is intrinsically upsetting.
  13. The Dream Catcher
    Sustains a mood of aimless adolescent angst, and its vision of the road is uncompromisingly bleak.
  14. Circus
    If an Olympic competition for overplotted movie is ever held, Circus seems a likely contender for the gold.
  15. Duets
    Every so often a movie comes along that's bad in such original and unexpected ways that it inspires an almost admiring fascination
  16. Urbania
    As technically innovative as it is emotionally unsettling.
  17. Human Resources
    The movie's dramatic climax is a father-son confrontation of stunning cruelty. Although the movie stops short of outright tragedy, it is suffused with a grief born of rifts that may never be mended.
  18. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Completed before the release of "American Beauty," this contrived, puffed up little picture nonetheless seems like a ripoff, perhaps because it mines the same tired assumptions and unexamined stereotypes about suburban family life.
  19. Goya in Bordeaux
    Visual knockout of a film.
  20. Bait
    Why Mr. Foxx, who was so impressive in "Any Given Sunday," chose to make a movie so boring and idiotic that it barely meets minimal standards of lowest- common-denominator entertainment.
  21. The Price of Air
    The picture is a smeary, dreary mess from start to finish.
  22. Paragraph 175
    At once admirable and deeply unsettling.
  23. Almost Famous
    What Mr. Crowe has done is nonetheless remarkable. He has made a movie about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that you would be happy to take your mother to see.
  24. Pola X
    Pola X has enough fireworks to keep you in your seat. When it's over, you'll know you've had an experience.
  25. The Watcher
    By the end of The Watcher you'll need your own prescription.
  26. Backstage
    Backstage isn't as good as the rap documentaries "Rhyme and Reason" and "The Show," but it still casts a keen, observant eye...on this world.
  27. Solas
    Galiana's quietly monumental performance is one for the ages.
  28. Nurse Betty
    It is easily the finest American comedy since David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," another road movie that never ran out of poignantly funny surprises.
  29. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Strikes a difficult and necessary moral balance, refusing to succumb to hopelessness but also refusing to rule it out.
  30. Anatomy
    The movie, which is crudely dubbed into English, lacks the raucous, anything-for-a-shock carnival humor of its American prototypes. After it's over, the only question worth asking is whether dear, cozy old Heidelberg can survive the slander.
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