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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. Human Nature
    Should have been more polished, and less tame.
  2. Frailty
    Paxton's Dad may be the most terrifying father to appear in a horror film since Jack Nicholson went crazily homicidal in "The Shining."
  3. The Other Side of Heaven
    What sets this syrupy swatch of kitsch apart from other films peddling a dogmatic religious agenda is the serious money that obviously went into it.
  4. Changing Lanes
    It is so dishonest that the title Changing Lanes can just as well refer to the cheaply contrived turns in the film.
  5. New Best Friend
    A preposterous, prurient whodunit.
  6. The Sweetest Thing
    After about 20 minutes of "Thing," a concussion begins to look enormously appealing.
  7. Echoes
    Has a strained, unconvincing screenplay whose failure to connect the dots of its story suggests that it might have been largely improvised.
  8. Karmen Gei
    Enormously likable, partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd.
  9. Lucky Break
    Mr. Cattaneo restricts himself to the smiling blandness that has become the stock in trade of British comedies made for export, turning in a film that is forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending.
  10. Les Destinées
    Like a good novel, Les Destinées is many things: a family chronicle, a series of psychological portraits, a sumptuous re-creation of the past. But the film is also a pointed tribute to the French tradition of quality and distinction, a tradition in which it clearly includes itself.
  11. High Crimes
    For his part. Mr. Freeman shows himself, once again, incapable of giving a bad performance.
  12. American Chai
    American Chai may not tell a new story, but in its understanding, often funny way, it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation.
  13. 30 Years to Life
    Though 30 Years to Life doesn't break any new ground, it's a light, engaging, well-carpentered film, with a quick wit and a sense of character just deep enough to lend some weight to the laugh lines.
  14. Big Trouble
    The cast manages to maintain its dignity while sweat and dirt go flying around.
  15. The Komediant
    As informative and packed with cultural lore as it is, The Komediant is dramatically diffuse.
  16. Van Wilder
    What's lacking is the sense of structure that might have made Van Wilder more than a meandering succession of random gags.
  17. Astoria
    In retelling this timeworn story of conflict between young men in the New World and their stubborn Old World fathers, Mr. Efteriades may not have generated many sparks, but with his affection for Astoria and its people he has given his tale a warm glow.
  18. Crush
    The sudden, radical change of tone is something far beyond Mr. McKay's nascent abilities as a filmmaker, and Crush never really rights itself.
  19. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Fitfully entertaining molehill of a movie.
  20. The Rookie
    Scene by scene, The Rookie does a better job of capturing the rhythms and rituals of the playing field and the electricity that flows between a team and its fans than well-regarded baseball films like "Field of Dreams" and "The Natural."
  21. The Piano Teacher
    Has the feel of a clinical case study elevated into a subject of aesthetic and philosophical discourse.
  22. Time Out
    Recoing's performance is a sensitive portrayal of a man in the throes of an excruciating spiritual crisis.
  23. Death to Smoochy
    There are a few laughs, but I'm not sure that a comedy is supposed to make you recoil, which is what "Smoochy" does.
  24. Panic Room
    An above-average thriller.
  25. No Such Thing
    More abrasively quirky than a lesser Bjork B-side, though the hideous monster who co-stars hails from Iceland, too.
  26. Clockstoppers
    A competent, unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country.
  27. Shot in the Heart
    The director, Agnieszka Holland, and the screenwriter, Frank Pugliese, have created a scenario that unflinchingly captures the feverish and desperate intensity of Mikal's quest.
  28. Margarita Happy Hour
    Ms. Chaiken isn't much interested in melodramatic plot developments. Her talent lies in an evocative, accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively, convincing dialogue she creates for her characters.
  29. Sorority Boys
    A film that even a rabid lowbrow like Homer Simpson (or, when the mood strikes, this critic) would find beneath his dignity.
  30. Very Annie Mary
    As it lurches between mush and farce, Very Annie Mary churns up a few genuinely funny bits.
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