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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. Real Women Have Curves
    Effervescent and satisfying, a crowd pleaser that does not condescend.
  2. Abandon
    A thriller wrapped in heavy-duty gauze to muffle the chills.
  3. The Grey Zone
    Certainly an honorable film. But honorable is not always watchable.
  4. Take Care of My Cat
    As it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends, it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them.
  5. Auto Focus
    Gets to you like a low-grade fever, a malaise with no known antidote. When it was over, I wasn't sure if I needed a drink, a shower or a lifelong vow of chastity.
  6. The Ring
    While impressively made, this impassive and cold feature fails, in a spectacular fashion, to deliver the thrills.
  7. Formula 51
    A witless, gruesome barrage of jokey violence and lame trans-Atlantic humor, kept moving by the pointless, derivative kineticism of Mr. Yu's hyperactive cuts and splices.
  8. Blink of an Eye
    Requires a bit more energy and originality to set it apart from the run of the indie pack.
  9. Stealing the Fire
    The material is disparate and wide ranging, and it is often difficult to follow Mr. Friedman and Mr. Nadler down all the side streets and back alleys of their investigation.
  10. Comedian
    Instead of prying into his soul, the filmmakers investigate his working conditions and offer a sort of backstage ethnographic study of the professional stand-up culture.
  11. Brown Sugar
    Sustains the charm of an early 60's New York romance.
  12. Family Fundamentals
    An earnest study in despair.
  13. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    When it comes to entertainment, children deserve better than Pokémon 4Ever.
  14. Knockaround Guys
    When it comes to father, sons and mob life, stick to "The Godfather."
  15. Below
    Has the bad luck to come on the heels of Kathryn Bigelow's beautifully made and politically impassioned "K-19," making this submarine picture -- a relatively modest, low-budget affair -- seem skimpy by comparison.
  16. The Rules of Attraction
    The harder the movie tries to shock, the shriller it rings.
  17. The Transporter
    American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.
  18. Ash Wednesday
    This time Mr. Burns is trying something in the Martin Scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again.
  19. Punch-Drunk Love
    Poetry is perhaps the best way to think about Mr. Anderson's suave, exuberant balance of free-form inspiration and formal control.
  20. Safe Conduct
    The movie is full of juices that give it a healthy, pungent flow.
  21. Tuck Everlasting
    An effective, well-made film that will certainly please its target audience of preteen girls.
  22. White Oleander
    The accumulation of sharp candid flashes adds up to a disturbing vision of Los Angeles as a teeming jungle of dysfunction.
  23. Bowling for Columbine
    Disturbing, infuriating and often very funny film.
  24. Swept Away
    There is no credible feeling here, no comedy, no eroticism.
  25. How to Draw a Bunny
    An intriguing and entertaining introduction to Johnson through his varied art; the mystery surrounding his death, which may have been his final performance piece, and the reminiscences of contemporaries.
  26. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    The animation is competent, and some of the gags are quite funny, but Jonah never shakes the oppressive, morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment.
  27. Heaven
    Here the clinical, stopwatch precision of Mr. Tykwer's explorations of synchronicity and Kieslowski's warmer, metaphysically dreamy speculations about the role of chance and coincidence in human affairs synchronize into a film whose formal elegance is matched by its depth of feeling.
  28. Pipe Dream
    It's clear that this is a farce about ambition that is not ambitious enough, right down to its cutesy, punning title.
  29. Welcome to Collinwood
    What the movie lacks in polish, though, it makes up for in pluck, enthusiasm and slapstick shamelessness.
  30. Bloody Sunday
    The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming.
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