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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. Valentin
    The film feels authentic only during the scenes between Valentín and his selfish, angry father.
  2. Oasis
    The remarkable if overlong Korean film Oasis strips away much of the sentimentality and goody-two-shoes attitudes that the movies traditionally display toward disabled people.
  3. Super Size Me
    Goes down easy and takes a while to digest, but its message is certainly worth the loss of your appetite.
  4. Van Helsing
    Despite the rococo obsessiveness of its special effects and its voracious sampling of past horror movies, Van Helsing is mostly content to offer warmed-over allusions and secondhand thrills.
  5. Seeing Other People
    There is enough discomfort on display to reinforce the cynical adage that sex is God's joke.
  6. New York Minute
    Polished and bouncy without being overly mawkish or unduly obnoxious. Above all, it is short.
  7. A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake
    A cinematic tone poem as much as a biography.
  8. Superstar in a Housedress
    This bright, entertaining movie focuses on Curtis, but it is also a portrait of a scene, whose survivors look back with a mixture of pride and a screwball sense of mischief.
  9. The Clay Bird
    Easily one of the finest pictures of 2003 or any other year.
  10. Bulgarian Lovers
    Superbly acted, without a trace of coyness and with considerable heat.
  11. Laws of Attraction
    Laws of Attraction, like the somewhat better "Intolerable Cruelty," seems desperately unsure of itself at crucial moments.
  12. Since Otar Left
    Sustains a perfect balance of pathos, humor and a clear-headed realism. One tiny misstep, and it could have tumbled into an abyss of tears.
  13. Godsend
    The picture, which fails to achieve its ambitions or to fulfill our expectations, is ultimately worse than a violent piece of hack work, in which the director isn't interested in displaying his integrity -- or taste. You'd be better off downloading the trailer: a much more convincing piece of storytelling.
  14. Envy
    Squandered in foolish horseplay and on a story that zigzags so far out of control that it feels as if the screenwriter, Steve Adams, pasted together a bunch of zany notions in a frantic search for confusion.
  15. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    A high-minded, lethally dull biography of the legendary golfer Bobby Jones.
  16. The Saddest Music in the World
    Like most great musicals, though, this one slides, with breathtaking ease, from silliness to pathos and freely mixes exquisiteness and absurdity.
  17. Mean Girls
    The director, Mark Waters, working with a smart casting team, has assembled a superb group of players. Scene by scene you can't help being impressed by Mean Girls; it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others.
  18. People Say I'm Crazy
    Very well edited by Laura C. Murray and set to an effective score by the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, People Say I'm Crazy is a small film but an extremely affecting one.
  19. Justice
    Generally low-key and likable, thanks mainly to a talented cast.
  20. The Agronomist
    It seems almost unthinkable that such a charismatic, generous and lively man could be gone. It also makes you understand what it means for a country like Haiti to lose a citizen like Jean Dominique.
  21. MC5*: A True Testimonial
    The proto-punk warriors known as the MC5 left a dent that outlasts their mostly negligible record sales, and the director's curiosity is piqued by the group's sociological impact.
  22. Close Your Eyes
    With such plodding dialogue, there's little the actors can do to surmount the falsity, although Ms. Shaw, in her brief appearances, almost succeeds.
  23. Man on Fire
    This is a time-tested movie con, but rarely has it been deployed so contemptibly.
  24. The Twilight Samurai
    Mr. Yamada is confident that by taking his time and relishing the leathery arrogance that is the perquisite of a director in his 70's, his audience will follow his whims.
  25. 13 Going on 30
    The performances give the movie more flavor and life than the situation does; it often feels like prechewed Bubble Yum.
  26. Rhinoceros Eyes
    For all its visual zaniness and its aura of psychic imbalance, the movie, which won the Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, stays on the surface and never locates its own heart of darkness.
  27. Sacred Planet
    What the movie lacks is contrast. The sped-up ribbons of traffic in a city look as pretty as the interior of a redwood grove. As for the perils of logging, one brief shot of a clear-cut forest flashes by so quickly it is almost subliminal.
  28. This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    Fascinating. Anyone interested in the challenges and techniques of acting -- which is really to say, anyone interested in human behavior -- should turn off E! and head down to Mr. Almereyda's film.
  29. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    The most voluptuous comic-book movie ever made.
  30. The Punisher
    Its lack of subtlety is clearly a point of pride, and Mr. Hensleigh's flat-footed, hard-punching style has a blunt ferocity that makes "Kill Bill" look like "In the Bedroom."
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