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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. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed. That's right (and my inner 11-year-old shudders as I type this): it's better than "Star Wars."
  2. Mojados: Through the Night
    Manages to capture firsthand the danger, fatigue and sheer tedium of an arduous illegal border crossing from Mexico without ever becoming tedious itself.
  3. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    A respectful portrait of General Dallaire, now retired, who comes across as a thoughtful, resolute but profoundly shaken man, more philosopher than warrior.
  4. Mindhunters
    A quintessential Renny Harlin film: a big, dumb, loud action movie.
  5. Kicking & Screaming
    At best, this film is half-inflated.
  6. Monster-in-Law
    A shrunken, cowardly movie in deep denial of its true nature, which is far uglier than it is ever willing to admit.
  7. Unleashed
    The infinitely silly, unconscionably entertaining action film Unleashed earns most of its juice from the martial-arts star Jet Li.
  8. Mad Hot Ballroom
    Ms. Agrelo and Ms. Sewell deserve praise for discovering and illuminating this delightful corner of an educational system that is often portrayed in the grimmest terms, but their execution falls a bit short.
  9. My Mother
    Ma Mère may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration.
  10. Layer Cake
    The newest in British gangland entertainment and the tastiest in years.
  11. Kings & Queen
    Late in his new film Kings and Queen, the wildly gifted French director Arnaud Desplechin yanks the rug from under his characters and sends both them and us reeling.
  12. Modigliani
    The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist.
  13. Tell Them Who You Are
    Near the beginning of the movie, the younger Wexler admits that the film is his attempt to get closer to his father. This sense of personal mission helps make Tell Them Who You Are the richest documentary of its kind since Terry Zwigoff's "Crumb."
  14. Crash
    So what kind of a movie is Crash? A frustrating movie: full of heart and devoid of life; crudely manipulative when it tries hardest to be subtle; and profoundly complacent in spite of its intention to unsettle and disturb.
  15. House of Wax
    The set design is fairly elaborate by the standards of the genre, and the victims don't die in precisely the order you might expect, but everything else goes pretty much according to formula, including a last-minute plot twist that opens the creaky door to a sequel.
  16. Kingdom of Heaven
    Scott's ravishing visual style, characterized by a fetishistic attention to surface detail and unrelenting beauty, can work wonders with big subjects, but this is also a director who needs actors powerful enough to shoulder narrative and emotional extremes.
  17. Fighting Tommy Riley
    Despite its flaws, the film gets across some genuine melancholy, played up by a sobbing Irish fiddle.
  18. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    An intermittently funny free-for-all that tries desperately to flesh out a television sketch into a feature-length movie.
  19. Mysterious Skin
    A gorgeous, heartbreaking and utterly convincing work of art.
  20. The Great Role
    Mr. Coyote, who appears to be playing Steven Spielberg and steals every scene he is in.
  21. Brothers
    Filmed in the unadorned Dogme style and acted with a ferocious intensity.
  22. A Hole in One
    With its heavy symbolism and awkward, lurching pace, A Hole in One leaves viewers with little more than the vague conviction - which I think I already had going in - that falling in love is better than an ice pick to the brain.
  23. Up for Grabs
    Mr. Wranovics sometimes goes too far in setting up cute situations for filming witnesses' comments.
  24. Writer of O
    A most unfortunate film that combines standard documentary techniques, including talking-head interviews, with some maladroit dramatizations from Aury's life and her novel.
  25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Mr. Jennings and Mr. Goldsmith have held onto a genuine sense of childlike wonder, which works as a nice corrective to what might otherwise come across as an overabundance of hip.
  26. xXx: State of the Union
    The makers of State of the Union subscribe to the Jerry Bruckheimer big-bang theory of action (big, bigger, biggest), but they don't share that maestro's attention to detail, or apparently his deep pockets. The state of this cinematic union is shabby indeed.
  27. 3-Iron
    A teasing, self-conscious and curiously heartfelt demonstration of his (Mr. Kim) mischievous formal ingenuity.
  28. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    The downbeat story unfolds in quick, incisive slashes in which the combination of minimal dialogue and gorgeous black-and-white photography lends the movie a chilly documentary realism.
  29. Death of a Dynasty
    Watching the rest of Damon Dash's playful movie is like entering a room where a large, too noisy party is going on and never fully adjusting to the dark or the din.
  30. Funny Ha Ha
    It is a small, plain movie, shot in 16 millimeter in dull locations around Boston; but also, like its passive, quizzical heroine, it is unexpectedly seductive, and even, in its own stubborn, hesitant way, beautiful.
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