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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Leela
    Veers between the light naturalism of American television and the pulsing melodrama of Bollywood entertainment.
  2. Femme Fatale
    The story, to the extent that it is comprehensible, is pretentious and banal, closer to "Vanilla Sky" than "Notorious." But Mr. De Palma proves that, in the absence of insight or ideas, some amazing things are possible. It is possible, for instance, to be entranced by a movie without believing it for a second.
  3. Diario di una siciliana ribelle
    Loaded down with rhetorical devices -- writer and director, Marco Amenta, drowns it in a flood of sentimental effusions.
  4. Strange Fruit
    Polished, well-structured film.
  5. Justifiable Homicide
    The filmmakers build an argument that is both intellectual and emotional, concentrating as much on the forensic evidence as on Ms. Rosario's passionate commitment to finding justice for her son.
  6. Treasure Planet
    The delicate magic of, for instance, Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away," which Disney released earlier this fall, is absent from this brainless, mechanical picture.
  7. The Weight of Water
    There is so much to admire in The Weight of Water, Kathryn Bigelow's churning screen adaptation of a novel by Anita Shreve, that when the movie finally collapses on itself late in the game, it leaves you in the frustrating position of having to pick up its scattered pieces and assemble them as best you can.
  8. Tully
    The movie's unhurried rhythm eventually works a quiet spell, and after a while you find yourself settling back, adjusting to the film's bucolic metabolism and appreciating its eye and ear for detail.
  9. Love in the Time of Money
    A listless and desultory affair.
  10. Daughter from Danang
    May not be a great piece of filmmaking, but its power comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice, at least as represented by this case.
  11. The Santa Clause 2
    Captures the true spirit of the holiday. It's mildly sentimental, unabashedly consumerist (with anything-but-subliminal advertisements for McDonald's hamburgers and Nestlé candy tucked inside), studiously inoffensive and completely disposable.
  12. I Spy
    Even the handful of moments that are amusing feel recycled from old sketches of Mr. Murphy's.
  13. Besotted
    Like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long: it's too much syrup and not enough fizz.
  14. Santa vs. the Snowman
    It is best appreciated as an immersion in a three-dimensional toyland outfitted with enough whimsical gadgetry to fill a thousand playrooms.
  15. Food of Love
    Tossed by successive waves of floridity and biliousness, Food of Love finally washes up on the shores of camp.
  16. The Bank
    The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying.
  17. All the Queen's Men
    Rarely has a movie worked so hard to be so inconsequential.
  18. Frida
    At its best when it forsakes earnest psychological exposition for magic realism, when, instead of trying to explain Kahlo's life, it conjures the moods and sensations that fed her art.
  19. By Hook or by Crook
    The essential humanity of the characters shines through, giving face and form to a subculture the movies have largely neglected.
  20. The Truth About Charlie
    You may be taken by the director's enormous enthusiasm, but the picture doesn't quite work.
  21. Paid in Full
    An unpretentious, sociologically pointed slice of life.
  22. All or Nothing
    All the drinking, arguing and brooding, which in lesser hands might have produced oppressive and unvarying dreariness, somehow adds up to a tableau of extraordinary vividness and variety.
  23. Roger Dodger
    One of the juiciest male characters to pop up in an independent film this year.
  24. Ghost Ship
    So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story.
  25. Jackass: The Movie
    Like a documentary version of "Fight Club," shorn of social insight, intellectual pretension and cinematic interest. It also offers a supremely literal-minded version of slapstick.
  26. Derrida
    The adoring and adorable documentary on the philosopher Jacques Derrida.
  27. Fidel
    This is bad cinema and bad history. Ms. Bravo is unstinting in her praise for the omelet and her admiration of the chef, but she refuses to admit that she's walking on eggshells.
  28. Le bossu
    Mr. de Broca's film is full of durable cinematic pleasures: a little sex, a lot of sword fighting and a plot that combines heady passion with complicated political intrigue.
  29. The Business of Fancydancing
    Although the film is initially clumsy and a little hard to follow, Mr. Alexie takes his time in setting his characters in play, and the visual clunkiness becomes secondary to the eloquent emotional desolation.
  30. Naqoyqatsi
    By far the grimmest of these nonnarrative, nonverbal cinematic tone poems with epic ambitions. Although none of the three could be described as cheery, Naqoyqatsi, whose title is the Hopi Indian term for war as a way of life, reeks of doomsday.
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