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For 17,760 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,121 out of 17760
  2. Mixed: 7,003 out of 17760
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17760
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  1. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Voice work is weirdly awful and funny at the same time.
  2. Meet the Parents
    A flat-out hilarious mainstream comedy.
  3. Requiem for a Dream
    It’s technically striking filmmaking, to be sure, but what it’s presenting is nothing that many people will want to look at.
  4. Beautiful
    There's no particular reason to see this disappointingly trivial picture on the bigscreen.
  5. Girlfight
    Blends in a most satisfying manner the conventions of several genres, resulting in a coherent picture that is at once a poignant inner-city drama, a rousing sports movie, an emotional family yarn and, above all, a sweet romance.
  6. Remember the Titans
    Earnest and well-intentioned.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Barenaked in America
    An only occasionally interesting look at a rather ordinary bunch of musicians.
  8. Best in Show
    A barkingly funny new "mockumentary" that does for those canine pageants what the helmer's 1996 "Waiting for Guffman" did for smalltown theatrics.
  9. The Specials
    A vulgar, Z-grade variant on last year's "Mystery Men" for those who didn't get their fill the first time around.
  10. The Fantasticks
    The resulting film is one of too much reverence and not enough satire.
  11. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose.
  12. Woman on Top
    A fantastical romp with a buoyant pace, exotic locations, a finger-popping score, appealing leads and spicy cooking demonstrations.
  13. Double Parked
    The picture is stronger the closer it sticks to the streets and raw emotions and the more it avoids routine dramatic crutches and forced comedy.
  14. Left Luggage
    A well intentioned but uneven and overly sentimental film.
  15. Tigerland
    A tautly focused, well-executed drama. Demonstrates that it's still possible to make small, intimate and personal movies within the Hollywood studio system.
  16. Dancer in the Dark
    A 2½-hour demo of auteurist self-importance that's artistically bankrupt on almost every level.
  17. Twilight: Los Angeles
    The camera's closer scrutiny doesn't flatter this unique theatrical reportage.
  18. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Heartbreaking yet truly inspirational.
  19. A Piece of Eden
    A collection of sentimental and emotional moments in search of a movie.
  20. Duets
    Lack of much substance or dramatic payoff makes the whole significantly less than sum of its parts.
  21. Urbania
    A darkly intriguing drama that probes the very nature of love and the lasting effects of loss.
  22. Human Resources
    A cogent human drama.
  23. Goya in Bordeaux
    Feverish, elegant movie.
  24. Bait
    A B movie in A-grade clothing.
  25. The Price of Air
    Wallows in the deviant proclivities of the rich, wearing its rancor like a merit badge.
  26. Paragraph 175
    The definitive screen chronicle to date of homosexual persecution under the Third Reich.
  27. Almost Famous
    More gentle and modestly insightful than it is exhilarating or revelatory.
  28. Pola X
    An often intriguing, sometimes hypnotic work, but one that quickly starts to unravel in the final hour as it becomes clear there’s not much beneath the emperor’s clothes.
  29. The Watcher
    Emerges as a formulaic thriller that plays more like direct-to-video fare than a megaplex-worthy feature.
  30. Backstage
    Lacks sufficient appeal beyond niche aficionados of its featured performers.
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