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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 4.9 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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  1. The Gospel
    Though unpolished and formulaic, this tribute to the power of faith and music benefits from the contributions of musicians Tamyra Gray, a first-generation American Idol contestant who plays D.T.'s wholesome love interest; Grammy winner Kirk Franklin, who contributed six songs — three original — to the rousing soundtrack; and faith-based singers Yolanda Adams, Martha Munizzi, Fred Hammond (who also executive produced) and Delores Winans.
  2. In Her Shoes
    It's wonderfully satisfying: Collette, MacLaine and Diaz are exceptional, and the mix of humor and heartbreak is perfectly calibrated.
  3. Two for the Money
    Pacino is a one-man three-ring circus, blustering, capering, cursing, raging and weaseling his way through this predictable morality play like a trickster Satan on speed.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Waiting...
    You'll laugh and hate yourself for it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Aggressives
    Peddle captures a vital and increasingly visible community that's easily misunderstood, and his film will undoubtedly help novices further understand the complex differences separating gays, transsexuals and the transgendered.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Before the Fall
    All the paraphernalia so important to the image of the Reich, particularly the uniforms, are painstakingly rendered, bringing a heightened sense of realism to what might otherwise have been a romantic coming-of-age tale.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Dandelion
    First-time director Mark Milgard displays enormous promise and a surprisingly sensitive touch with this beautifully rendered tragedy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A Tale of Two Pizzas
    Sassone's hit-and-miss ethnic comedy is actually a retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, with the Italian neighborhood of South Yonkers, N.Y., standing in for Verona.
  9. The Squid and the Whale
    The title refers to a diorama at New York City's American Museum of Natural History that depicts a whale and a giant squid locked in mortal combat.
  10. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Eminently worth seeing, even if it leaves you wishing it were as consistently inventive as Aardman's first feature, "Chicken Run" (2000).
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Greatest Game Ever Played
    To help break the monotony, Frost relies on relentless digital effects; there are so many shots of giant golf balls whizzing toward the screen it looks like the film was meant to be projected in 3-D.
  12. Into the Blue
    The cast is little more than the sum total of golden skin, firm flesh and blindingly white teeth, but in a film that demands them to be half-naked and soaking wet most of the time, looks trump technical acting skill every time.
  13. Serenity
    It features truly monstrous bogeymen in the Reavers, cannibalistic renegades who, legend has it, went to the edge of the universe and were driven mad by the abyss.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Capote
    Actor-turned-writer Dan Futterman's smart, subtle screenplay, which explores both Capote's determination to turn murder into literature and the deeply troubling questions he raised in the process.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Going Shopping
    More cheerful misogyny from writer-director Henry Jaglom.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Little Manhattan
    Sweetly sentimental story of young love.
  17. MirrorMask
    Though the story meanders, the film's look is nothing short of breathtaking.
  18. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    Moore and Harrelson are very well cast.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The War Within
    Of all the feature films and documentaries to emerge since 9/11, few have been as bold, perceptive or as downright chilling as this thriller.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Once Upon a Time in the West (re-release)
    Sergio Leone's masterpiece. In Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone pulls together all the themes, characterizations, visuals, humor, and musical experiments of the three "Dollars" films and comes up with a true epic western. It is a stunning, operatic film of breadth, detail, and stature that deserves to be considered among the greatest westerns ever made. (Review of Original Release)
  21. An Adolescent
    Suicide, child molestation, corruption, insanity and the faintest implication of incest are wound around the film's suggestion that the cure for modern-day alienation and anomie lies in embracing traditional Japanese culture, like ritual tattooing.
  22. My Big Fat Independent Movie
    The juvenile gags seem aimed at moviegoers who hate the whole idea of independent/art/foreign-language films and the stuck-up eggheads who like them -- so what's the point?
  23. Flightplan
    Jodie Foster's fiercely intelligent performance drives this disappointing thriller, whose taut, carefully constructed first half is sadly negated by its implausible and -- worst of all -- unengaging conclusion.
  24. Roll Bounce
    Frothy, sentimental and thoroughly good-natured, Malcolm D. Lee's tale of coming-of-age at the roller disco doesn't have an original bone in its body, but it's as energetic, eager to please and endearing as a sloppy, wriggling puppy.
  25. Daltry Calhoun
    The soundtrack, which ranges from Johnny Cash to Serge Gainsbourg to the Wu-Tang Clan, is admirably eclectic but can't be said to pull things together.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Dear Wendy
    Lars Von Trier's silly script about a group of pistol packing misfits gets better treatment than it deserves, thanks to a fine young cast and the game direction of Thomas Vinterberg.
  27. Dirty Love
    The lighting and makeup are exceptionally harsh; all the women look shockingly rough beneath their garish makeup.
  28. A History of Violence
    For all the bloodshed, it's fundamentally a cold, cold fable, the icy whisper that turns every happy thing to ash.
  29. Into the Fire
    The result is 93 very long minutes' worth of admirably committed actors putting themselves through the emotional wringer to very little end.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Oliver Twist
    Dark, dank and violent, filled with terrifying scenes in which exploited children are beaten, shot or starving to death. In other words, it's just as Dickens wrote.
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