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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Valentin
    While there's little to be gained from over-critiquing a child's performance, it must be said that director Alejandro Agresti badly miscalculates the appeal of his young star; the fact he not only dominates each scene but provides the film's narration means there's not getting away from young Noya.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    New York Minute
    Director Dennie Gordon keeps the pace brisk, and between makeovers and pratfalls, the girls deliver an easy-to-swallow dose of girl power.
  3. Van Helsing
    A hokey monster mish-mash that plunders the richly textured histories of Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster.
  4. Oasis
    The combination of Lee's discomforting subject matter and distancing style -- calculating artlessness punctuated by occasional flights of lyrical fantasy -- makes this slow-moving drama a challenge that doesn't seem entirely worth the effort.
  5. Off the Lip
    This amateurish picture was built around surfing footage that Mikelson shot for a Compaq computer ad and developed with an eye for accommodating a series of lush tropical locations: It's no wonder the plot and characters feel like afterthoughts.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Seeing Other People
    It's not only sexy, clever and well-acted by a fine cast of mostly TV actors, but it's also a grown-up comedyabout honest-to-God grown ups.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake
    It's a lovely tribute to an extraordinary talent whose music might have been forgotten, and you really couldn't ask for a more beautiful soundtrack.
  8. Super Size Me
    Slickly entertaining documentary.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Superstar in a Housedress
    Narrated by Lily Tomlin and featuring a bevy of in-the-know interviews, this exceptionally entertaining documentary from filmmaker Craig Highberger shines the footlights on Jackie Curtis, an Andy Warhol superstar who transcended the Factory scene and proved to be rather exceptional himself.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Envy
    Levinson, who has directed enough films to know better, should recognize a stinker of a script when he smells one: Instead clever laughs he serves up sloppy schtick, dead spots filled with lame ad-libbing and Walken crooning "The Happy Wanderer."
  11. Godsend
    Despite its provocative premise, this throwback to deliberately paced, low-tech chillers of the pre-CGI era is a dreary slog through haunted-child movie cliches -- portentous dreams, glassy-eyed stares, cryptic pronouncements.
  12. Laws of Attraction
    Objection! Actors of Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan's caliber should not be subjected to playing bland and distasteful characters in mediocre romantic comedies.
  13. Mean Girls
    Strikes a carefully calibrated balance between the film's darkly malicious sense of humor and its pastel sets and costumes.
  14. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    Ultimately, the more intensely you buy into the notion that golf is a complex metaphor for the human condition, the more susceptible you'll be to the film's insipid blandishments.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Since Otar Left
    Bertuccelli's heartfelt film affords a unique peek into the hearts and minds of a generation who, after having been awakened from the lie they'd been living all their lives, must now face the aftermath of an entire nation's failure.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Bulgarian Lovers
    De la Iglesia's years of filmmaking experience are obvious in the film's formal touches -- his transitions between scenes and time frames are smooth and very stylish.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Clay Bird
    The film draws careful parallels between orthodoxies and in his own quiet way, Masud, a devout Muslim, level his critique at repressive political regimes and religious doctrines, and those who dangerously confuse one with the other.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    People Say I'm Crazy
    Rarely has mental illness been depicted so subjectively and seemed so immediate: John's daily struggle to determine what's real and what isn't becomes as palpable as it is poignant. It's also a touching testament to the love and dedication of John's family.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Saddest Music in the World
    You won't see anything quite like it from any other filmmaker working today.
  20. Justice
    Writer-director Erik Palladino's admirably subtle bit of chronological trickery allows his small-scale drama, set in 9/11 New York, to deliver a sucker-punch of an ending.
  21. 13 Going on 30
    Director Gary Winick serves up enough giddy fun that it's easy to turn a blind eye to the film's skewed sense of time and minor anachronisms.
  22. Man on Fire
    Scott swaddles this fundamentally straightforward revenge story in a jumble of bleary freeze frames, random changes of color saturation and film stock, jump cuts and stuttering montages, splashing text from some menacing word soup onto the resulting collage of chicly disturbing images.
  23. Close Your Eyes
    Before it goes down in a soggy mess of scary movie cliches and insultingly stupid plot contrivances, director and co-writer Nick Willing's adaptation of Madison Smartt Bell's novel Dr. Sleep gets in some good, seriously creepy licks.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    MC5*: A True Testimonial
    The music continues to speak for itself. Play loud.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
    This entertaining and erotic picture, while perhaps not the most challenging film to come out of Brazil in the 1970s, is nevertheless enjoyable. (Review of original release)
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Rhinoceros Eyes
    The surprise is how utterly original his (Woodley's) gorgeously mounted curiosity seems.
  27. The Twilight Samurai
    Though it includes a couple of sword fights, Yamada's epic domestic drama could easily be called an anti-samurai film. But its aim is less to subvert the genre's conventions than to deepen them, extending its parameters to include the minutia and rhythms of everyday life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Agronomist
    Jonathan Demme gets personal with this affectionate tribute to courageously outspoken radio broadcaster Jean Dominique, the pro-democracy advocate whose unflagging support for president Jean-Bertrand Aristide eventually cost him his life.
  29. Sacred Planet
    Swaddled in terms so trite and cliched that they're almost guaranteed to bring out the closet cynic in even the most sympathetic viewers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    It offers a rare opportunity to watch a world-class playwright bringing one of his own works to life; rarer still, Almereyda puts his notoriously reticent subjects so sufficiently at ease that they actually sit down and discuss their craft.
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