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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. Gypsy 83
    This is a tiny, vulnerable, rather treacly film at heart, one that would probably float away were it not for Ms. Rue's generous presence.
  2. Connie and Carla
    As a female vocal duo, their performances are passable, if a little dull and lacking in any sense of camp exaggeration.
  3. Young Adam
    The narrative scheme, the brooding period atmosphere, the understated score (by David Byrne) and the precision of the acting also make the story seem more interesting than it is.
  4. A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    A bleak, static mood piece about adolescent emptiness. There's little dialogue, and what there is offers the scantest information about Gerardo, who, as played by Mr. Ortuño, conveys an impenetrable blank-faced melancholy.
  5. The Middle of the World
    Wants to be both a realistic family drama and a mythical odyssey but lacks the substance to be much more than a vignette.
  6. Showboy
    The lesson of Showboy is how disturbingly easy it is for an audience to trust what it sees when confronted with a film posing as factual documentary.
  7. Twentynine Palms
    The sustained force of Mr. Dumont's vision of existence as a swirl of brute instincts may not be easy to absorb, but it marks him as a major filmmaker.
  8. The Girl Next Door
    Offers a view of pornography that is nonjudgmental, even celebratory, but at the same time its premise -- that Danielle must be rescued from the shame and degradation of her old job -- suggests a more traditional, disapproving point of view. Instead of addressing this contradiction, the movie is happy to wallow in it, which would be fine if it had any real pleasure to offer.
  9. The Whole Ten Yards
    At least it isn't a remake -- though given how slovenly and forced this movie is, maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad idea.
  10. I'm Not Scared
    Although the movie takes on many of the characteristics of a conventional thriller, it refuses to go for cheap, vicious shocks, and the adults are seen through the curtain of Michele's trust.
  11. The Alamo
    Thornton's performance is lost in a film that is more of a schematic success than a dramatic one.
  12. Ella Enchanted
    The messages blend seamlessly into the fantasy and comedy in what is surely one of the best films for older children in quite some time.
  13. Johnson Family Vacation
    Feels more like a grueling road trip in search of a family comedy.
  14. The Blonds
    It is not so much a documentary as a fictional film about the making of a documentary, or perhaps a documentary about the making of a fictional film about the making of a documentary. If this sounds a bit maddening, it is, though the confusion that The Blonds induces is clearly part of its intention.
  15. Okraina
    A strange, disturbing and yet occasionally quite funny cultural artifact from the new Russia.
  16. Walking Tall
    Walking Tall has no more fat on it than the Rock himself, a hulking yet curiously ingratiating presence who seems the most likely candidate to replace Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as America's favorite living comic book character.
  17. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    An exquisitely simple movie. Mr. Kim manages to isolate something essential about human nature and at the same time, even more astonishingly, to comprehend the scope of human experience.
  18. The Prince and Me
    A cream puff with a melted marshmallow inside it. As the temperature rises, the whole gooey thing starts to melt.
  19. Adored
    He's (Marco Filiberti) his own best audience, and Adored is best left to his own enjoyment.
  20. Hellboy
    Mr. del Toro lets loose with an all-American, vaudevillian rambunctiousness that makes the movie daffy, loose and lovable.
  21. Home on the Range
    The best cartoons are built on the contradictory pursuit of meticulously arranged anarchy. But they never seem needy, or desperate for laughs, as Home on the Range does. The film seems hungrier for a pat on the head than a chuckle.
  22. Son frère
    Stringent, clinical and almost unbearably moving.
  23. The United States of Leland
    The real question raised by The United States of Leland is not why, but how. How, that is, did so many talented actors find their way to this dreary and derivative study in suburban dysfunction?
  24. Marathon
    The beauty of Mr. Naderi's filmmaking lies in his combination of acute social observation (with the subway population providing its habitual cross section of New York classes and cultures) and pure, almost mathematical formalism.
  25. Two Men Went to War
    It mocks the absurdity of war, but between the chuckles, and especially near the end, it plucks the heartstrings.
  26. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    Keeps its claws carefully retracted. That's probably for the best, since the documentary still leaves a bitter aftertaste.
  27. Never Die Alone
    Primarily a riveting genre film that neatly exhibits the director's growing assurance -- Donald Goines would be proud.
  28. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    Looks like a Saturday morning cartoon (the characters all wear color-coded costumes) and unfortunately feels like one, too, with its thin characterizations, largely arbitrary action and feeble jokes.
  29. The Ladykillers
    Unquestionably minor, perhaps deliberately so, but it is nonetheless intermittently delightful.
  30. Jersey Girl
    Sadly, Mr. Smith has made a movie so false and blatantly icky that it's the film equivalent of making goo-goo noises and chucking a baby under the chin for 103 minutes. At the end, all you're left with is drool and a mountain of baby powder.
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