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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. The Return
    At once highly naturalistic and dreamily abstract, playing out its mythic themes through vibrantly detailed characterizations (and remarkable performances by the entire cast). The Return announces the arrival of a major new talent.
  2. The Dreamers
    The Dreamers, which is disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting, fuses sexual discovery with political tumult by means of a heady, heedless romanticism that nearly obscures the film's patient, skeptical intelligence.
  3. Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust
    Offers no answers and is all the more moving for it. An honest befuddlement may be the most apt and true response to the world as it is.
  4. Blind Shaft
    Deftly swings to a spartan, engrossing climax, and the final twists spell out what the murderers are made of and the setting responsible for creating them. It is a true piece of film magic.
  5. On the Run
    There are some scenes that display impressive technical cunning, and others that show an astute regard for the emotional capacities of his able cast, but On the Run amounts to a sullen display of skill in a dubious cause.
  6. The Perfect Score
    A thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy with a chewy nugget of social criticism buried inside it.
  7. Latter Days
    Works in the end because of its commitment to its characters and a handful of fine performances.
  8. The Big Bounce
    The usual double-crosses and convolutions ensue, but the narrative is so haphazard that the whole thing -- both the caper and the movie that contains it -- seems to have been hastily improvised.
  9. You Got Served
    Will probably keep its core audience of suburban teenagers mildly entertained for the course of its 93 minutes. Urban grumps, however, may be distracted by Mr. Stokes's annoyingly overedited execution of the dance sequences.
  10. Eat This New York
    The directors Andrew Rossi and Kate Novack may not be great filmmakers -- it's hard to tell, based on this bare-bones picture -- but they know a great story, and more important, how to tell it.
  11. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    A 1950's movie magazine fantasy dressed up just enough to pass for contemporary.
  12. Touching the Void
    This is compelling stuff, but there is something deeply distracting in the use of recreated material.
  13. The Butterfly Effect
    Inhabited by a genuine spirit of cruelty, both toward its characters and its audience.
  14. Made-Up
    Its warm, occasionally off-putting individuality is more like what you look for in a friend than in a movie, and like a friend it invites you to see the unique beauty that lies under its superficial flaws.
  15. Empathy
    The director's seriousness and intelligence are evident, but so is her satisfaction in displaying them, and the movie has a self-indulgent, undisciplined tone that nearly obscures its provocative ideas.
  16. Teacher's Pet
    Marvelously quick-witted and gloriously goofy hand-drawn feature shows there's still more than 21 grams of life left in the form.
  17. Torque
    By Monday, Torque will look like a period piece with its expiration date, January 2004, prominently displayed. The inevitable movie-inspired video game will appear more realistic.
  18. Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
    The man who emerges is a likable, unpretentious musical enthusiast and roll-up-your-sleeves problem-solver who apparently led a charmed life.
  19. The Tracker
    These stylized images by the Australian artist Peter Coad create an aesthetic distance from the cruelty, lending the atrocities the stature of events in a historical mural that freezes the past into an eternal present.
  20. Along Came Polly
    The spectacle of two mature stars forced to grovel in the bathroom for cheap laughs is pathetic.
  21. Tokyo Godfathers
    For all its echoes of Frank Capra and Charlie Chaplin (as well as Ford), the movie is also a love letter to modern Tokyo, whose alleyways and skyscrapers are drafted with flawless precision and tinted with tenderness and warmth.
  22. Cuba: Island of Music
    The material isn't organized in any formal way but works as a mosaic that has the feel of a jam session.
  23. My Baby's Daddy
    Having established its premise and set in motion an overloaded plot, the picture lurches this way and that, evoking more restlessness than laughter and more boredom than pathos.
  24. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Presents itself as an anguished brief against capital punishment, especially the execution of people who are legally insane...But the timing of its release smacks of the very exploitation that Mr. Bloomfield condemns.
  25. Chasing Liberty
    The lack of narrative sophistication allows an Ecstasy-like disposition to set in; "Liberty" becomes goo-goo eyed over itself. It lacks the discipline to define Anna sufficiently; rather, it portrays her as either a lovable naïf or a spoiled narcissist in desperate need of a lesson.
  26. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    Except for the access the director, David Teboul, had to Mr. Saint Laurent's inner circle, "Times" wouldn't be out of place on A&E.
  27. Secret Things
    There is no denying the force of Mr. Brisseau's bizarre imagination and the personal conviction he brings to it.
  28. Millennium Mambo
    Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium.
  29. Japanese Story
    Ultimately too thin for its length and too dependent on easy assumptions about its characters. But it does demonstrate that Ms. Collette is more than able to carry a movie, and it leaves you hoping she will soon have another chance to do it.
  30. The Company
    Enjoyably lithe and droll yet somehow almost water-soluble; it seems to dissolve onscreen.
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