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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. Heaven
    An art film without the NYFF imprimatur, Heaven is a peculiar amalgam -- a Miramax package (without the hype), directed by German hotshot Tom Tykwer under the eye of Anthony Minghella, from a script with which the late Krzysztof Kieslowski had planned to inaugurate a new trilogy named for the Divine Comedy.
  2. Cet amour-là
    May worship heedlessly at Duras's memory, but it's a testament to Moreau alone.
  3. Les amants criminels
    May be as gimmicky as Ozon's other features, but it's also more resonant and even haunting.
  4. Rhythm 'n' Bayous: A Road Map to Louisiana Music
    The performances are uneven, but the spirit never flags.
  5. Last Resort
    Pawlikowski, whose background is in documentary film, has an eye for the menacingly forlorn and elegantly bleak. Last Resort, which was shot without a script and developed largely in collaboration with the actors, is a kind of verité fantasy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    L'ennui
    The plump, Rubenesque Guillemin steals the show. Her understated simplicity is her strength -- this is one of the major movie debuts of recent years.
  7. The Low Down
    Captures the latent anxieties of a hazy, ambling existence with pinpoint accuracy.
  8. The Yards
    Gray's brand of film-buffery manifests itself, simply and irresistibly, as ardent, uncynical movie love.
  9. Everybody's Famous!
    Too brisk and plucky to dislike.
  10. Adanggaman
    Ostensibly factual, helplessly self-conscious -- Adanggaman is being touted as the continent's first film about slavery as it was experienced on African soil—where the victims and enslavers were both native peoples.
  11. The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Psychologically resonant despite the intermittently clunky performances...one of the only Amerindies in recent years to match intellectual with formal ambitions.
  12. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Thanks to some brilliant casting, Venus Beauty Institute provokes ideas about women, movies, sexuality, and age that extend beyond its frothy fiction.
  13. Much Ado About Something
    It's a pleasingly Hollywood notion that plays well with Rubbo's interpolated quotes from "Shakespeare in Love."
  14. Girls Can't Swim
    Falters when it takes a final, violent turn into melodrama.
  15. Place Vendôme
    Inept as a thriller, Place Vendôme nevertheless intrigues.
  16. Secret Ballot
    Methodical, measured, and gently tedious in its comedy, Secret Ballot is a purposefully reductive movie—which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain.
  17. An Affair of Love
    This sweet, pensive gabfest is neither conventionally romantic nor pornographic.
  18. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Tonally, however, Earnest boasts perfect pitch, thanks mainly to the blithe, nimble actors.
  19. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    That unexpected rage is the movie's most powerful emotional truth.
  20. Rosetta
    Pummeling, jagged, and extremely well-edited film.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Josie and the Pussycats
    The excellently irrelevant music is played by excellently irrelevant real-life rockers.
  22. Chunhyangdyun
    Im's movie approaches a seething, primitivist beauty that evokes Makhmalbaf and parallels the contrapuntal textual investigations of Resnais.
  23. Washington Heights
    One-upping Latino immigrant movies like "Luminarias" and "Tortilla Soup," Washington Heights zeroes in on go-getters (mostly of Dominican lineage) whose ambitions are transformed by familial demands.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    John and John, it cannot be denied, are charming, witty, adorable, and quite capable of rocking.
  25. War Photographer
    The photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable, but it can make him a problematic documentary subject. War Photographer infers the psychological and physical toll of his peripatetic existence, but provides scant insight into his technique.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Simply Irresistible
    Scores points for oddball charm.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Stuart Little 2
    The summer's most romantic interspecies love story.
  28. The Nazi Officer's Wife
    A powerful account of living in isolation and constant terror.
  29. Holy Smoke
    Filled with flashy sight gags, overwrought performances, and madly overlapping dialogue.
  30. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Carrera's filmmaking is more workmanlike than stylish, but Padre Amaro is richly character driven and, for all its insolent, grotesque humor, straightforwardly humanist in its psychology.
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