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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. Super Size Me
    Sometimes exerts the gross-out fascination of reality TV's muckier specimens--its arc suggests a slow-motion "Fear Factor," or "Extreme Makeover" in reverse.
  2. The Powerpuff Girls
    The rapid-fire satirical sophistication (scatology notwithstanding) and lovingly rendered pulp surrealism of this sequence should delight adults, while kids will get a charge out of the heroines' grown-up-defying chutzpah.
  3. Almost Famous
    Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib.
  4. Control Room
    This absorbing, significant, and shamelessly entertaining movie not only goes through the looking glass but, no less significantly, turns the mirror back on us.
  5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger's dramatic line is so blurry that the central character is only a bystander to the climactic fight between forces of good and evil.
  6. Friday Night Lights
    Director Peter Berg, an actor himself, gets quietly excruciated performances from the team members.
  7. OT: Our Town
    Kennedy takes pains to illuminate aspects and insights that buck cliché.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    Appropriately, Riedelsheimer shoots Goldsworthy's mini-megaliths with a landscape painter's eye; set to Fred Firth's modernist score, some images verge on Kubrick territory.
  9. Sleepy Hollow
    There isn't a bankable Hollywood director with a flintier sense of aesthetic integrity.
  10. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Revived (with vastly improved subtitles) some 14 years after it first stunned Hong Kong critics, Days of Being Wild is a sort of meta-reverie populated by a cast of beautiful young pop icons.
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  11. The Blair Witch Project
    Paranoid, hysterical, and programmatically subjective, the movie is in every sense a psychological thriller. Although the payoff is ambiguous, the experience remains in the mind. It's an absolutely restrained and truly frightening movie.
  12. Space Cowboys
    An entertainingly raffish action-comedy.
  13. Blood Work
    A bracingly no-nonsense, highly professional policier—as proudly old-fashioned as its curmudgeon hero.
  14. Brother
    If nothing else, Brother confirms Kitano's stature as the most original purveyor of on-screen mayhem since Sam Peckinpah.
  15. The Price of Milk
    A shaggy, appealing parable involving two lovers, some gorgeous heifers, gentle Maori gangster-golfers, and a dilapidated suitcase packed with used baby shoes, The Price of Milk throws itself onto the magic-realist sword with aplomb.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Scandal
    E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic movement.
  17. Notre musique
    Too touchy-feely for some hardcore Godardians, Notre Musique is the most lucid of the master's recent films.
  18. This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    Both resonant and skillfully devious.
  19. Being John Malkovich
    The most offbeat studio comedy since "Rushmore."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Dodgeball is the most satisfying comedy of the past year--at least among the ones starring Stiller.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Finding Nemo
    Stuffed to the gills with surprises.
  22. 28 Days Later...
    On one hand a seat-o'-pants digital-video quickie designed for blunt trauma, and on the other a veritable index of classic genre-stuff, Boyle's film creates an acute sense of movie-viewing danger.
  23. Infernal Affairs
    Spins in place with aplomb, generating exponentially more vertiginous doublings with each sweaty-palmed set piece.
  24. Baadasssss!
    Accurate enough as history to provide a potent reminder that black independent cinema did not end with Oscar Micheaux or begin with Spike Lee.
  25. A Clockwork Orange
    The first punk tragicomedy, a chain-whipped cartoon meditation on Good, Evil, and Free Will that is as seductive as it is tasteless. That Kubrick misjudged the distance between comedy and cruelty seems to be unarguable.
  26. Maria Full of Grace
    It's a remarkably assured and humane feature debut.
  27. Osmosis Jones
    Resuscitates the filmgoing summer with a vital jolt of pure piss and vinegar.
  28. Praise
    Projects a confessional frankness about human relationships that has the messy feel of truth.
  29. School of Rock
    Jack Black is consistently hilarious--and not just in his dreams of moshpit glory.
  30. Son frère
    Chéreau's film is an unsentimental, almost uninflected, account of a preparation for death, told with a painful clarity that eventually bleeds into compassion.
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