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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. Beijing Bicycle
    At once somber and mysterious, comical and sad. It shows just how lonely a crowded city can be.
  2. A Walk to Remember
    Proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie.
  3. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    To imagine the life of Harry Potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized Woody Allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.
  4. Beyond the Ocean
    Dour and bleak, yet this melodrama -- which doesn't amount to much of anything -- may stick with you.
  5. American Adobo
    As the film loses its grip on its multiple stories, the title begins to suggest an overheated stew bubbling out of its pot. By the end of the film, the intersecting dramas and histrionic performances have spilled all over the floor, so to speak.
  6. Ha-Hesder
    Leaves a movie that wants to be a searching moral examination of human motivation under stress frustratingly opaque at the center.
  7. Italian for Beginners
    Despite its hip, off-center style and pointed de-glamorization of its singles, the movie adds up to little more than feel-good fluff.
  8. State Property
    At the end the picture seems to acknowledge its own ludicrousness, but by then it, like Beans, is beyond rescue.
  9. Snow Dogs
    Snow Dogs is, even by the standards of a tradition that includes "Son of Flubber" and "The Shaggy D.A.," remarkably inept.
  10. Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe
    In short, here is a VH1 "Behind the Music" special that has something a little more special behind it: music that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation.
  11. Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
    Extremely well acted. But as frequently as The Farewell touches on politics, it is essentially an excoriating (and sometimes grimly amusing) domestic drama of a latter-day king and his concubines.
  12. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    The picture has a daring attention-span deficit and an epic silliness that can be awesomely entertaining.
  13. E-Dreams
    The movie is a little claustrophobic -- a marathon of conference calls, frenzied pointing and clicking, and office pep talks.
  14. Orange County
    The gags and subplots, rather than adding up to sustained hilarity, compete with each other.
  15. What Time Is It Over There?
    Tsai not only gives the audience a chance to breathe but also lets us luxuriate in the mood of deadpan melancholy his movie evokes so beautifully.
  16. Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
    The re- enactments, however fascinating they may be as history, are too crude to serve the work especially well.
  17. Impostor
    The ending is meant to be clouded with ambiguity, but really it is unequivocally happy because it means the movie is over.
  18. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.
  19. Charlotte Gray
    The movie works so diligently to convey a spirit of heroic uplift and fails so completely that it feels like a tragic misfire.
  20. I Am Sam
    Not a bad movie, and its intentions are unimpeachable. But its sentimentality is so relentless and its narrative so predictable that the life is very nearly squeezed out of it.
  21. Dark Blue World
    This could be called an art house version of "Pearl Harbor," except that sounds vaguely nutritious, like fat- free yogurt or a historical episode of A&E's "Biography." But Dark Blue World is all empty carbs, like malted milk balls.
  22. Black Hawk Down
    Sitting through the accomplished but meaningless Black Hawk Down is like being trapped in an action film version of "Groundhog Day," condemned to sit through the same carnage over and over.
  23. Gosford Park
    A virtuoso ensemble piece to rival the director's "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" in its masterly interweaving of multiple characters and subplots.
  24. Monster's Ball
    The raw intimacy of some of the scenes -- whether they take place at a diner, in the death house or in the bedroom -- is breathtaking.
  25. The Shipping News
    The final product is soft at the center, a rustic cinematic greeting card.
  26. Ali
    We see the movie levitate when Ali and Brown chant, "Float like a butterfly," the slogan that takes on a different meaning in each context, starting off as hopeful and spry, finally becoming rueful and pointed. When the film pulls off moments like these, it's breathtaking -- a near great movie.
  27. The Majestic
    The most indolent waste of screen time since Andy Warhol's marathon shot of the Empire State Building.
  28. Kate & Leopold
    Has only the most tangential relation to reality, and therein lies its slender charm.
  29. A Beautiful Mind
    The movie can -- indeed, should -- be intellectually rejected, but you can't quite banish it from your mind.
  30. A Song for Martin
    Watching it, I kept imagining the depth of feeling Ingmar Bergman and his troupe might have brought to the same material. As much as A Song for Martin hurts, it doesn't quite go the distance.
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