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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Devils on the Doorstep
    In its dry and forceful way, it delivers the same message as Jiri Menzel's "Closely Watched Trains" and Danis Tanovic's "No Man's Land." While acknowledging that war is hell, it goes further to suggest it is ludicrous.
  2. Bugs!
    Vivid and visually stunning.
  3. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    The movie is a gaudy, noisy thrill ride -- hyperactive, slightly out of control and full of kinetic, mischievous charm.
  4. Sound and Fury
    Powerful, insightful, important and emotionally wrenching.
  5. Piglet's Big Movie
    In the knockabout world of animated movies, Piglet's Big Movie is an oasis of gentleness and wit.
  6. The Cherry Orchard
    What makes this Cherry Orchard different from almost every other interpretation (and makes it essential viewing for lovers of Chekhov) is Ms. Rampling's extraordinarily rich portrait of Ranevskaya.
  7. Comedian
    Instead of prying into his soul, the filmmakers investigate his working conditions and offer a sort of backstage ethnographic study of the professional stand-up culture.
  8. The Little Vampire
    Not often does a family film come along that is literate, clever, mischievous and just plain fun.
  9. Red Satin
    The movie rides on Ms. Abbass's serenely confident performance. As Lilia metamorphoses from a shy housebound widow into a woman calmly rejoicing in her body and her sexuality, Ms. Abbass marks her character's every blush and hesitation in the process of letting go with a winning delicacy and sweetness.
  10. The Cockettes
    Revisits the San Francisco of the late 1960's and early 70's, a time and place so encrusted with legend and cliché that you might wonder if there is anything left to say. It turns out there is quite a lot -- which the filmmakers have brought triumphantly to life.
  11. Dark Days
    Dark Days illustrates even the worst nightmare can have descending levels of horror.
  12. Santitos
    Disarmingly endearing.
  13. Earth
    A powerful and disturbing reminder of how a civilization can suddenly crack under certain pressures.
  14. La Nouvelle Ève
    But most of the movie's notes are appallingly right.
  15. The Opportunists
    This is one of the best-photographed pictures of the year, but not ostentatiously so; the look is organic to the less-than-glamorous badlands of Sunnyside, Queens.
  16. Sugar Town
    Warmly funny ...wise little comedy.
  17. Lakeboat
    Mr. Mantegna, who as an actor is one of the leading interpreters of Mr. Mamet's work, gives generous room to the movie's first-rate ensemble.
  18. The Well
    With a neck-snapping jolt, turns into the scariest exercise in cinematic sleight of hand since "The Blair Witch Project."
  19. A Matter of Taste
    This deliciously nasty French deconstruction of male pecking orders, directed by Bernard Rapp, should send a pleasant shiver down the spine of anyone who has ever obsessed about wanting to please a devious and manipulative boss.
  20. My Wife Is an Actress
    A terrifically deft picture about the thick line that separates movie glamour from the real world, and the thin line between common sense and paranoia.
  21. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    A photographer for magazines like Vanity Fair and GQ, as well as a veteran director of commercials, Mr. Jones brings a trained eye to this, his first documentary. The low gray skies of Chicago prove once again to be a boon to photography, and the city has seldom looked better than it does here, in its chilly, minimalist beauty.
  22. Autumn Tale
    As sublimely warming an experience as the autumn sun that shines benevolently on the vineyard owned by the film's central character.
  23. Mansfield Park
    Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama.
  24. Benjamin Smoke
    The film has a richer, more various visual texture than most documentaries, combining still photographs, black-and-white video and Super-8 film, sometimes with wild sound or none at all.
  25. Quitting
    With Quitting, he (Zhang) has removed sentimentality from the theme and presented it with unflinching honesty, a quality he shares with his fearless cast.
  26. Tattoo
    A grim, disquieting mood piece.
  27. La Commune (Paris, 1871)
    In these risk-averse times, it is a pleasure to see a film that fails by attempting too much. Frustrating and demanding as it may be, La Commune (Paris, 1871) is essential viewing for anyone interested in taking an exploratory step outside the Hollywood norms.
  28. The Muse
    A delectable comic performance by Sharon Stone.
  29. Rhythm 'n' Bayous: A Road Map to Louisiana Music
    Documents of a flourishing below-the-radar culture, often involving older musicians who won't be around much longer, they are archival records as well as entertainments.
  30. The Low Down
    What distinguishes The Low Down from movies like "The Brothers McMullen" and "My Life's in Turnaround" is its ragged edge of authenticity, its refusal to plot its characters' lives on the graph of romantic comedy convention.
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