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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Cat Returns (2002)
    Director Morita does an exemplary job of bringing a Japanese graphic novel to the screen.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Crimson Tide
    Directed by Hollywood's slickest hack, Tony Scott ("Top Gun"), with a script doctored by Quentin Tarantino--you won't need sonar to spot his contributions.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Grace Lee Project
    Through what sounds like a project of unpromisingly limited scope, Lee manages to touch on a surprisingly wide range of subjects, from cultural identity, familial expectations, community responsibility and, above all, self-definition.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Rocket Science
    Teenage angst and adolescent agony are the stuff of sharp, observant comedy this quirky, wonderfully dry first fiction feature from documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound).
  5. The Queen
    Mirren, who's played her share of queens in the past, is hypnotic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Caramel
    A brisk dramatic comedy that combines melodrama, humor and social critique in equal measure.
  7. In Her Shoes
    It's wonderfully satisfying: Collette, MacLaine and Diaz are exceptional, and the mix of humor and heartbreak is perfectly calibrated.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Time
    An uncanny and thoroughly creepy nip-yuck nightmare about plastic surgery and identity.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    In the Name of the Father
    Though the facts have been manipulated in the interests of drama--Gerry and Giuseppe were never imprisoned together, etc.--this has been done in a brave and responsible way, shedding light on an important episode in recent history.
  10. The Descent
    Though the film's downbeat ending was softened for U.S. release, it's still a long way from happy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The 11th Hour
    The one film to see on this most crucial subject.
  12. Donnie Darko
    David Lynch lite.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    SherryBaby
    Maggie Gyllenhaal cements her reputation as a gifted, if somewhat aloof, actress in Laurie Collyer's sad character piece.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Flanders
    With very little dialogue and lingering shots of the landscape -- always a very important visual trope in Dumont's deep-psyche explorations -- the film is nevertheless tighter and, clocking in at under 90 minutes, relatively brief.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Videodrome
    A fascinating rumination on humanity, technology, entertainment, sex, and politics that is virtually incomprehensible on first viewing and needs to be seen several times before one can even begin to unlock its mysteries. (Review of Original Release)
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Wordplay
    It's also very cleverly edited - one scene will often branching off from another in much the same way a crossword puzzle works - and features a bang-up ending that will actually leave you cheering over a word game.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    This Boy's Life
    In capturing the compelling battle between a boy and his abusive stepfather, director Michael Caton-Jones cannily avoids obvious sentimentality, opting to let a rather brutal story tell itself.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Love Songs
    The result is a bittersweet trifle one can conceivably fall in love with, and Honore's best film so far.
  19. Apocalypto
    Barbarously beautiful and gut-wrenchingly (literally) violent, it's a mesmerizing vision of the past refracted through the dark obsessions of the present.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    3:10 to Yuma
    The nerve-racking wait at the Contention hotel is no longer the film's centerpiece, but the deeper characterization gives Bale an opportunity to once again sink his teeth into a complex role, and offers a reminder as to why the notoriously difficult Crowe is sometimes worth the trouble.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Swenkas
    A beautifully shot, wonderfully moving film.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Drawing Restraint 9
    A gorgeous feature that's both passing strange and undeniably beautiful.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    Director Alan Rudolph and producer Robert Altman combine forces to create a quiet, intelligent film about Dorothy Parker.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    What fills the screen is not heightened melodrama, but a series of stark, sometimes painfully poignant vignettes that reflect the oppressive stasis of their lives.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Darfur Now
    More than any previous film on the subject, Braun's documentary offers an answer to a common question, perfectly phrased and answered by Cheadle himself: "What can I do? More than nothing. A lot more than nothing."
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Last Mistress
    Under the beautifully appointed costumes and to-die-for interiors is Breillat's preoccupation with female sexuality and desire, all centered on a blistering performance from a perfectly cast Asia Argento.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Deep Sea
    Forget haunted houses and the mountains of the moon: There's no better environment to show off the wonder of the immersive IMAX 3-D experience than the deep blue sea.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Superman II
    Poking fun at its American mythos, but never descending into camp comedy, this sequel makes for a wonderful time.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    No End in Sight
    The anger that fuels Ferguson's film is felt in nearly every frame.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Big
    Big is a winning, charming film, primarily because Hanks makes it work. He is extraordinarily convincing as an adolescent who suddenly finds himself dealing with a new, adult body, responsibilities, and a romantic relationship, while simultaneously trying to survive vicious corporate infighting.
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