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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. Drawing Restraint 9
    The uninitiated viewer can admire it simply for the majesty of its visual poetry.
  2. Inside Man
    Filled with playful noise and nonsense, clever feints and digressions, Inside Man has a story to tell, but its most sustained pleasures come from its performances, especially the three leads.
  3. Stay Alive
    The star of Stay Alive is a cutting-edge video game, but the film still has hackneyed horror at its heart. And worse, it's not even the stylishly, wittily executed hackneyed horror of the "Scream" movies.
  4. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    Liz Mermin documents the hilarious, moving and sometimes fractious meeting of diametrically different cultures, one that has suffered unimaginable horrors and one that believes a good perm is the answer to everything.
  5. Lonesome Jim
    Mr. Buscemi wrote and starred in the small gem of a movie ("Trees Lounge"), which had more psychological nuance than this emotionally cauterized slice of minimalist malaise.
  6. Mardi Gras: Made in China
    With any luck, this film will manage to open a few closed eyes (or minds).
  7. L'Enfant (The Child)
    The Dardennes know how to build a scene for maximum tension: you yearn to find out who bought Jimmy, and whether his fate lies with a childless couple or an organ mill. But because they make moral thrillers, what matters isn't only actions and events but their emotional, spiritual and psychological costs.
  8. The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch
    Living proof that hard work and dedication can lead to professional and private gratification through the best and worst of times, Mr. Busch stands as solid source material for a film and for general inspiration.
  9. Stoned
    Stoned accomplishes the unlikely feat of making the golden years before medical science and the law caught up with rock culture look dull.
  10. Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    Unpleasant, uncouth and painfully unfunny..
  11. Puzzlehead
    Puzzlehead reveals the selfishness of creation with style, originality and the understanding that even a tin man can have a heart.
  12. Shadow: Dead Riot
    This berserk little B-movie is obviously the greatest zombie flick ever set in an experimental women's prison, easily the underground treat of the season, and totally off its rocker.
  13. American Gun
    If American Gun avoids the most obvious kinds of sensationalism, it has the flaw common to many editorial broadsides of overstuffing its episodes with melodrama and symbolism.
  14. V for Vendetta
    The more valid question is how anyone who isn't 14 or under could possibly mistake a corporate bread-and-circus entertainment like this for something subversive. You want radical? Wait for the next Claire Denis film.
  15. Find Me Guilty
    Find Me Guilty, Mr. Lumet's first feature film in seven years, catches him near the top of his game.
  16. She's the Man
    Everything projects as if for the benefit of a nearsighted and dimwitted ticket holder at the back of the room. To his credit, Mr. Fickman has mastered one device unique to the cinema, making repeated use of the corny training montage.
  17. Thank You for Smoking
    Glibly funny and eager to please.
  18. Take My Eyes
    The director, Iciar Bollain, who wrote the screenplay with Alicia Luna, invests Antonio with humanity, which would be more impressive if she had paid more attention to exploring the darker recesses of Pilar's inner life.
  19. Don't Tell
    Don't Tell, which was unaccountably nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, is no better than a second-tier candidate for the Lifetime Channel.
  20. Don't Come Knocking
    Filled with haunting visual panoramas. One of the most resonant is a nighttime shot of the Elko skyline dominated by a glittering casino. Evoking a once and future gold rush, it says more about the Old West and the New West than all of Mr. Shepard's elliptical, stagy dialogue can muster. Such powerful images make Don't Come Knocking well worth contemplating.
  21. The Devil's Miner
    A brave, sincere film that leaves you wishing that more light had been shed on the darkness.
  22. Iluzija
    Mr. Ristovski's story (written with Grace Lea Troje) feels a bit underdeveloped, partly because he uses too many lingering, silent shots of Marko and doesn't give the boy much of a voice.
  23. Don't Trip ... He Ain't Through with Me Yet
    The film's first half, at least, is full of good comedy, no matter what the crowd.
  24. The Big Question
    The overall effect, especially given the gorgeous setting and liquid-gold cinematography, is less a discussion of the divine than a commercial for it.
  25. Beyond Honor
    Amateur acting, a wobbly script and a hard-to-swallow finale round out the film, which will, sadly, invoke ridicule in place of shock and anguish.
  26. Hate Crime
    With a little more subtlety - and a lot less predictability - the movie might have played more like a thoughtful drama and less like an outrageous exercise in wish fulfillment.
  27. The Beautiful City
    Only inconsistent pacing and a few minor contrivances that develop late in the film dull its otherwise quietly effective dramatic impact.
  28. Failure to Launch
    The movie has only the most tenuous connection with reality. But the same could be said of classic 30's screwball comedies in which the treacherous feints and ploys of the mating game are transmuted into witty, romantically charged repartee.
  29. The Hills Have Eyes
    Snobs may balk, purists will be appalled, but this new and exceedingly nasty version of Wes Craven's 1977 cult shocker is awfully good at what it does. And mostly what it does is make you feel awful.
  30. The Shaggy Dog
    Ms. Curtin is one of several examples of quirky casting that make this Shaggy Dog much more fun than it might have been.
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