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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. Djomeh
    An investigation, at once lucid and enigmatic, of exile, loneliness and the fragile possibility of friendship.
  2. O
    In trying to make "Othello" more lifelike and bring it down to a younger audience -- in effect, to make it more democratic -- the adaptation has rendered the material artless.
  3. Jeepers Creepers
    Works up a reasonably delicious tingle.
  4. Tortilla Soup
    As predictable as a fast-food restaurant. The actors' exuberance goes a long way, but not far enough.
  5. Maybe Baby
    A juggling act between high soap opera and low comedy, Maybe Baby manages to keep its pins in the air until very near the end.
  6. Summer Catch
    A mound of standard-issue parent-child conflicts and enough self-help cliches to drive Polonius to the aquavit barrel at Elsinore.
  7. Together
    One of the most pleasant foreign films of the year, a funny, graceful and immensely good-natured work.
  8. Ghosts of Mars
    Like a zombie picture directed by one of the undead.
  9. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    A loose- jointed, not especially memorable comic caper with some lovely moments of humorous invention, many patches of clumsy writing and a few game performances.
  10. Happy Accidents
    As impressive as it is in the abstract, all the detail ultimately drags the movie down and lengthens it unnecessarily.
  11. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    This may be the greatest picture ever made for 14-year-old boys. Mr. Smith may have hit his target, but he aimed very low.
  12. Bubble Boy
    When it clicks, the picture should shock you into laughter -- enough to make you wish it were better and applaud its efforts anyway.
  13. Cupid's Mistake
    At 70 minutes, Cupid's Mistake is short, but then, so is our time on this planet.
  14. Fighter
    In juxtaposing two extraordinary personal histories, it ponders in a refreshingly original way unanswerable questions about memory, imagination, history and that elusive thing we call truth.
  15. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    This hilarious fake documentary -- deserves a place beside the comedies of Christopher Guest in the hall of fame of semi-deadpan spoofs.
  16. Brooklyn Babylon
    The film dissolves into a series of diminishing anticlimaxes, ending on a note of portentous ambiguity. To the last, Mr. Levin maintains his uneasy balance of reportage and melodrama.
  17. Innocence
    Mostly mediocre melodrama, though the actors suffering over love's labors lost are quite fine.
  18. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Much more effective at evoking a paranoid mood than at telling a coherent story, and the jerky action sequences are among the film's weaker visual elements.
  19. American Outlaws
    May be simple, but it's also simple-minded; this is, after all, a movie determined to transform its Rebel soldier heroes into men of the people, making it as neglectful of politics as last summer's "Patriot," which evaded that nasty issue of slavery during the America Revolution.
  20. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    As the movie methodically plods forward on a screenplay (by Shawn Slovo) consisting entirely of clichés and watered-down exposition, it becomes sadly apparent that its only reliable asset is the gorgeous view.
  21. Rat Race
    It lumbers from one scene to the next with the stop-and-start mistiming generally seen in the outtakes shown at the end of the "Cannonball Run" movies, which this picture resembles in spirit.
  22. Aberdeen
    Skarsgard and Headey deliver perfectly meshed lead performances in a small, beautifully acted film that will make you squirm.
  23. Hamlet
    Mr. Scott's is something that must be seen. It is, in a word, compelling.
  24. An American Rhapsody
    Ms. Gardos is not a particularly flavorful filmmaker, but she is an honest one.
  25. The Turandot Project
    The sheer scale of the production, and the size of the venue, make the film interesting to watch.
  26. All Over the Guy
    Some kind of equality has been achieved when it is impossible to distinguish heterosexual clichés from homosexual ones.
  27. American Pie 2
    The "American Pie" movies succeed where many other comedies aimed at the youth market falter: they manage to be both lewd and sweet, exploiting the natural prurience of young people while implicitly comforting their raging anxieties.
  28. Session 9
    The film, too artfully conceived to deliver many overt shocks, often feels long and aimless.
  29. The Others
    The icy reserve that sometimes stands in the way of Kidman's expressive gifts here becomes the foundation of her most emotionally layered performance to date.
  30. Osmosis Jones
    Often very smart about being silly.
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