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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Has occasional moments of heat, but not much warmth. And while it is pretty enough to look at, real beauty eludes it.
  2. Stardom
    Stardom makes its metaphor of 15 minutes seem like a lifetime.
  3. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A clever if muddled collection of riffs on the "Blair Witch" juggernaut, dressed up with intellectual pretensions by Joe Berlinger, who directed this film with a chortling zest.
  4. Lucky Numbers
    A weak-witted comedy.
  5. What's Cooking?
    It's a meal you may feel you've eaten before, but you nonetheless walk away stuffed and happy.
  6. The Sculptress
    So poorly written, badly acted and ineptly directed that it denies you even the modest pleasure of making fun of it.
  7. George Washington
    This dream of a movie is set in such a place; with its delicate shifts of tone, it could be a fairy tale by Faulkner
  8. Kirikou and the Sorceress
    It's more a piece to admire than to be involved by, yet it's easy to imagine children hypnotized by a hero tinier than they are when "Kirikou" is continually loaded into the VCR.
  9. Sound and Fury
    Powerful, insightful, important and emotionally wrenching.
  10. The Wolves of Kromer
    Silly, heavy-handed film.
  11. The Yards
    For all its incongruities, The Yards is a serious film that strives for a moral complexity and a textural density rarely found in contemporary dramas.
  12. Just One Time
    Works hard at being charming, but comedy is best when it looks effortless.
  13. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Has enough going on to make it a classic. You'll want to own it.
  14. Calle 54
    Even better on a second viewing because the film is such a pure expression of the director's love for the music, a love so infectious it should leave you elated.
  15. Pay It Forward
    It's so enamored of its own upbeat view of human nature that it expects you to overlook its stick-figure characters, its creaky plot machinery and its remorseless assault on your tear ducts.
  16. Bedazzled
    Outrageous fun.
  17. MVP: Most Valuable Primate
    For juvenile filmgoers and families in search of a more-than-twice-told tale with uplifting messages about the rewards of perseverance, the virtues of animals and acceptance of the handicapped, MVP will do.
  18. Just Looking
    A candy-colored, unabashedly sentimental movie.
  19. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    Well acted, but it doesn't enrich its metaphor beyond giving an old story a sour contemporary resonance.
  20. Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
    Brilliant film of nature has been warped into something jarringly unnatural.
  21. Lost Souls
    It's the central story that's lacking.
  22. The Red Stuff
    Sublime in its involvement with the yearning of mankind to explore the heavens.
  23. Dr T and the Women
    The movie's sexual politics are as contrived as its plot, which veers off into one of the surprise endings of which Mr. Altman is so fond.
  24. The Contender
    A cast that chews the scenery with such obvious enjoyment that you're happy to put up with its tin-eared oratory and preposterous plot turns for the sake of a good ride.
  25. Billy Elliot
    Anchors its melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism.
  26. The Ladies Man
    Has some funny, dirty-minded jokes, a few amusing cameos (including Julianne Moore in clown makeup) and a soundtrack loaded with juicy cuts of mid-70's vintage soul and funk.
  27. Animal Factory
    Willem Dafoe steals the picture with his comic timing.
  28. Ratcatcher
    The power of Ratcatcher comes from its hushed lyricism and Ms. Ramsay's talent for conveying emotional complexity.
  29. Followers
    Suffers from clumsy exposition and uneven acting, except in the case of Eddie T. Robinson.
  30. One
    The film's spareness and lack of words seem affected and ultimately unrealistic. At such moments, its refusal to put things into words and its crushing sense of gloom turn self-defeating.
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