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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. Alma
    Begins to seem not so much an examination but an exploitation.
  2. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Its subject matter is intrinsically upsetting.
  3. The Dream Catcher
    Sustains a mood of aimless adolescent angst, and its vision of the road is uncompromisingly bleak.
  4. Circus
    If an Olympic competition for overplotted movie is ever held, Circus seems a likely contender for the gold.
  5. Duets
    Every so often a movie comes along that's bad in such original and unexpected ways that it inspires an almost admiring fascination
  6. Urbania
    As technically innovative as it is emotionally unsettling.
  7. Human Resources
    The movie's dramatic climax is a father-son confrontation of stunning cruelty. Although the movie stops short of outright tragedy, it is suffused with a grief born of rifts that may never be mended.
  8. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Completed before the release of "American Beauty," this contrived, puffed up little picture nonetheless seems like a ripoff, perhaps because it mines the same tired assumptions and unexamined stereotypes about suburban family life.
  9. Goya in Bordeaux
    Visual knockout of a film.
  10. Bait
    Why Mr. Foxx, who was so impressive in "Any Given Sunday," chose to make a movie so boring and idiotic that it barely meets minimal standards of lowest- common-denominator entertainment.
  11. The Price of Air
    The picture is a smeary, dreary mess from start to finish.
  12. Paragraph 175
    At once admirable and deeply unsettling.
  13. Almost Famous
    What Mr. Crowe has done is nonetheless remarkable. He has made a movie about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that you would be happy to take your mother to see.
  14. Pola X
    Pola X has enough fireworks to keep you in your seat. When it's over, you'll know you've had an experience.
  15. The Watcher
    By the end of The Watcher you'll need your own prescription.
  16. Backstage
    Backstage isn't as good as the rap documentaries "Rhyme and Reason" and "The Show," but it still casts a keen, observant eye...on this world.
  17. Solas
    Galiana's quietly monumental performance is one for the ages.
  18. Nurse Betty
    It is easily the finest American comedy since David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," another road movie that never ran out of poignantly funny surprises.
  19. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Strikes a difficult and necessary moral balance, refusing to succumb to hopelessness but also refusing to rule it out.
  20. Anatomy
    The movie, which is crudely dubbed into English, lacks the raucous, anything-for-a-shock carnival humor of its American prototypes. After it's over, the only question worth asking is whether dear, cozy old Heidelberg can survive the slander.
  21. The Way of the Gun
    May feel redundant, but it is stylish and intelligent.
  22. The Bulls' Night Out
    The movie doesn't turn out to be as benignly right-wing as it initially suggests, though the plot turns can be spotted a mile away.
  23. Clouds
    Clouds is about the dumbest intelligent movie I've ever seen.
  24. Turn It Up
    Deteriorates into a gory shoot-'em-up gangster movie with a quick-fix ending that leaves many threads dangling. It could have been something more.
  25. Wildflowers
    A dreamy, impressionistic inquiry into the legacy of the 1960's, but it's less concerned with history than with mood.
  26. Madadayo
    It's not one of Kurosawa's great films.... But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect.
  27. Highlander: Endgame
    The action is the best thing in the picture.
  28. Whipped
    Bottom-feeding monstrosity of a comedy.
  29. Titanic Town
    In its harshly realistic scenes... it stirs your blood.
  30. Dark Days
    Dark Days illustrates even the worst nightmare can have descending levels of horror.
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