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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. Voyages
    This movie operates in the limbo between memory and oblivion that we recognize as daily life. It bears courageous and stringent witness to the impossibility of bearing witness.
  2. Two Ninas
    In this elongated, formula-ridden sitcom posing as a movie, the date-weary Manhattan singles exchanging acerbic banter suggest the tougher, far less intellectual offspring of Woody Allen characters drenched in a whiny Seinfeldian dyspepsia.
  3. Sugar & Spice
    The movie is full of scattershot gags and indifferent acting, but you get the feeling that it's bad on purpose, which makes it, given the number of teenage movies that are terrible by accident, not bad at all.
  4. The Wedding Planner
    It's like watching two superbly conditioned rowers try to race a boat made of folded newspaper. Hard as they work, they just can't make it go any faster.
  5. Amy
    Warm of heart, modest in polish, Amy provides satisfactions that must be balanced against its flaws.
  6. R2PC: Road to Park City
    The intentionally self-conscious style of R2PC is a little hard to take sometimes because the movie is trying too hard to be funny.
  7. Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
    The filmmakers know how potent the material is, and they don't hammer away at the obvious.
  8. The Amati Girls
    Although the concept seems promising enough, it is undone by disastrous casting decisions and an utter lack of ensemble unity.
  9. The Pledge
    Not a pleasant film, but it is deeply, scarily rewarding.
  10. Snatch.
    Mr. Ritchie seems to be stepping backward when he should be moving ahead.
  11. Zheng hun qi shi
    It's an anti- romantic comedy that resolves on a minor chord of grief.
  12. Panic
    A sneaky and smart film noir.
  13. Antitrust
    The plot of Antitrust is intricate and uneven, overloaded with twists and not very jolting surprises.
  14. Double Take
    A shell game passing as entertainment.
  15. Save the Last Dance
    Bland but poised.
  16. Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
    A fairly tough-minded film until the end, when several commentators who have been critical suddenly turn misty-eyed and suggest that underneath it all, Holmes was really a sweetie.
  17. Chunhyangdyun
    The extravagance of the sets and costumes increases the theatricality; Chunhyang is an almost childlike delight for the eyes.
  18. The Claim
    A languorously muted, occasionally magnificent film.
  19. Shadow of the Vampire
    At once wildly metaphorical and distressingly literal-minded, Shadow of the Vampire tries, with mixed success, to be scary, funny and profound all at once.
  20. Traffic
    May be the first Hollywood movie since Robert Altman's "Nashville" to infuse epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid- washed palette.
  21. All the Pretty Horses
    The movie, for all its prettiness, manages to be shallow and portentous at the same time.
  22. Vatel
    The movie wants desperately to function as a romantic tragedy, with passions glancing off the thoughtless pursuit of satisfaction. But Vatel can't really define the differences between the two; it settles into a period funk, as shallow as the court popinjays it seeks to expose.
  23. Thirteen Days
    Kevin Costner is suitably flinty in 13 Days, a competent, by-the-numbers recreation of the events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
  24. An Everlasting Piece
    The director serves up a nice helping of blarney, but he seems to have left his schmaltz in Baltimore.
  25. Malèna
    What begins as a blushing, priapic opera buffa about coming of age turns into a verismo shocker, before softening into something mellower.
  26. Before Night Falls
    Like a deathbed dream it leapfrogs through Arenas's life, reconstructing crucial moments as a succession of bright, feverish illuminations.
  27. Exhuming Mr. Rice
    Someone deserves the grand prize for persuading David Bowie to participate in this minor drama .The movie is bland and ordinary.
  28. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
  29. The House of Mirth
    Almost in spite of itself, The House of Mirth is powerful, at times even moving.
  30. Dracula 2000
    It's a little sad to see actors of the quality of Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller struggling straight- faced to dignify this sewage.
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