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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. The Tailor of Panama
    The first really good spy movie about the impossibility, under present historical circumstances, of making a really good spy movie.
  2. Someone Like You...
    Chandler's script has, by my count, exactly one sort-of-funny line and not a single scene whose comic possibilities are successfully exploited.
  3. Spy Kids
    An enjoyable and charming if overactive fantasy.
  4. Tomcats
    Desperately, depressingly in thrall to the Farrelly formula.
  5. Faat Kiné
    Sembène is a far more adroit and elegant storyteller than many may be accustomed to seeing.
  6. Butterfly
    While instructive on environmental concerns about the impact of logging, Butterfly does not reward those who seek dispassionate psychological insight into the zealous Ms. Hill.
  7. The Brothers
    Darts nervously between soap opera and sitcom, rarely blending them in a way that lets the two genres enhance each other.
  8. Heartbreakers
    Naughty is an outdated word in an era of proud nastiness, but Heartbreakers has a slinky, teasing quality that recalls the dressed-up comedies of the studio era.
  9. Say It Isn't So
    All you really need to know about Say It Isn't So,the latest flatulent noisemaker from the Farrelly Brothers' gross-out comedy factory, is that late in the movie, Chris Klein punches a cow from behind and finds his arm stuck inside.
  10. Too Much Sleep
    Maquiling creates an unusual and intriguing tone somewhere between sharp, deadpan comedy and a soft, dreamy surrealism.
  11. Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution
    An inspiring demonstration of that old saw about necessity being the mother of (in this case, artistic) invention.
  12. American Desi
    Most of it has to do with the ways younger Indian-Americans keep their culture alive in the United States and the ways they don't.
  13. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    An engaging and colorful but somewhat overbalanced documentary.
  14. Memento
    A brilliant feat of rug-pulling, sure to delight fans of movies like "The Usual Suspects" and "Pi."
  15. Enemy at the Gates
    Enemy at the Gates has its deficiencies, but the first-rate cast is not among them.
  16. The Dish
    Maintains a tone that remains as light and easygoing as the Australians living in the area.
  17. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Amusing but extremely derivative.
  18. Simon Magus
    May be reasonably diverting, but the story never matches the movie's fantastic visual imagination.
  19. Biandan, guniang
    Like Lou Ye's "Suzhou River," a Hitchcock homage similarly set in Shanghai's demimonde, So Close to Paradise offers an intriguing and sometimes self-canceling mixture of emotion and style.
  20. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Far from the first movie in which a fearless woman coaxes the inner tiger crouched inside a mild-mannered milquetoast to spring into action, but it is one of the most charming.
  21. 15 Minutes
    It's fleet- footed, merciless entertainment. But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff.
  22. Get Over It
    Mild, harmless and occasionally affecting, possessing the fizz of diet soda and the sweet snap of slightly stale bubble gum.
  23. Blow Dry
    Seems both overplotted and underimagined, though there is at least some creativity and a dose of realism, evident in the hairstyles themselves.
  24. The Gleaners & I
    She (Varda) plucks images and stories from the world around her, finding beauty and nourishment in lives and activities the world prefers to ignore.
  25. Me You Them
    An unexpected delight, a film that weds the humor and magic of a folk tale with a very modern feel for the psychological dynamics between men and women and for the subtle politics of male rivalry in a macho culture. It has been made and acted with intelligence and evident love, which deserves to be requited.
  26. Hit and Runway
    Hit and Runway is a case of the emperor's old clothes: drab, sentimental rags that desperately want to be something else.
  27. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    The documentary doesn't get near the prowess of its subject; it passes through your life like a minor daydream.
  28. The Caveman's Valentine
    Works as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in a number of ways. And the ending is as resolute as you might have hoped for. It lets Romulus and the movie retain their integrity.
  29. See Spot Run
    The movie equivalent of a box of Froot Loops followed by a half-gallon Pepsi chaser.
  30. The Mexican
    The movie's biggest strength is a story that refuses to quit and almost makes sense within its own screwball logic.
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