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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. Monsters, Inc.
    There hasn't been a film in years to use creative energy as efficiently as Monsters, Inc.
  2. Amélie
    There is no denying that Amélie is, to paraphrase its title, fabulous.
  3. The One
    So narratively garbled and its screenplay so underwritten that you have to strain to piece together the story.
  4. Punks
    The movie's warmth, and Mr. Gilliam's sober, likable performance sustain it through its ragged stretches and amateurish lapses.
  5. Mysterious Object at Noon
    Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.
  6. The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Coens have used the noir idiom to fashion a haunting, beautifully made movie that refers to nothing outside itself and that disperses like a vapor as soon as it's over.
  7. The Town Is Quiet
    You are left with an overall impression of a movie so full of life that it is almost bursting at the seams.
  8. History Lessons
    Unfortunately the clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.
  9. Mysteries of Egypt
    Young viewers seduced by the trashy flash of "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" will be able to glimpse a vanished reality richer, stranger and bigger than all of the special effects in Hollywood.
  10. Kill by Inches
    Should soon join Mr. Greenaway's last few efforts in obscurity.
  11. On the Line
    Once you've accepted the notion that On the Line gives product placement in movies a blatant new prominence, the film turns out to be a soothing cinematic snack of milk and cookies.
  12. K-PAX
    It's hard to watch these two actors plow through the nonsense of K- Pax without feeling that a terrific opportunity has been squandered.
  13. Life as a House
    Doesn't trust the audience enough to keep from laying on the schmaltz.
  14. Better Than Sex
    Imagine "Last Tango in Paris" remade as a wan, low-budget romantic comedy.
  15. Thirteen Ghosts
    All it has in common with the original is a few dumb fun scares. In the new version, what we're left with after the scares is just plain dumb.
  16. Ginger Snaps
    Because the characters are so well established -- Ms. Perkins is particularly good as the shy, resentful Brigitte -- the film can have fun with its own premises without turning into an empty camp exercise.
  17. Ouch
    "Ouch!" is also what you might exclaim as you pinch yourself to stay awake through the film's slow, labored contrivances.
  18. Donnie Darko
    It's this compulsion to solder melancholy to weightlessness that constantly trips up the movie; Mr. Kelly doesn't have the assurance to pull off such a difficult feat.
  19. Bones
    In exalting the very worst of humanity, Bones displays a special glee and an unusual density of scary imagery.
  20. Trembling Before G-d
    Director Sandi Simcha DuBowski latches on to a provocative subject and invests it with a compelling tenderness.
  21. A Chronicle of Corpses
    Mr. McElhinney has created a movie that is not without the flaws endemic in low-budget productions but still projects an amazing degree of stylistic assurance and originality.
  22. Cool and Crazy
    Consistently offbeat and entertaining; at such moments, it is also quite moving.
  23. Dog Run
    Too fuzzy-headed to rise above the pack.
  24. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    An ensemble piece developed from an improvisational workshop, the movie exudes a haunted melancholy that recalls such early Alan Rudolph films as "Choose Me" and "Welcome to L.A," and it includes several flashy performances.
  25. One Week
    Holds together in spite of its flaws.
  26. Focus
    The movie's surreal style, with its film-noir camerawork and ominous lighting, turns the story into a fable about fear and nonconformism, and Mr. Macy's and Ms. Dern's carefully shaded caricatures match the mood.
  27. Riding in Cars with Boys
    As the movie jumps back and forth in time, it displays an impressive cut-and-paste agility, skillfully interweaving humor and drama without tipping over into farce or soap opera.
  28. Intimacy
    If Intimacy does anything well, it portrays desperation, in many different forms.
  29. The Last Castle
    The movie is exuberant, strapping and obvious -- a problem drama suffering from a steroid overdose.
  30. From Hell
    So beautifully realized as a mood piece that it takes a while for a slight disappointment to register.
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