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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Valley of Tears
    Most of the best moments in Hart Perry's latest documentary can be found in its opening half-hour, a vivid record of a 1979 strike by Mexican American migrant farmworkers in the onion fields of Raymondville, Texas.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Timeline
    Crudely written, haphazardly acted, and improbably fun.
  3. The Cooler
    First-timer Wayne Kramer brings pathos to Bernie and Shelly's fraught relationship, but his film never amounts to more than a cute idea stretched to poker-chip thinness.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Haunted Mansion
    Lamer than Tiny Tim on a damp London day.
  5. The Triplets of Belleville
    The year's most ingenious and original animated feature.
  6. In America
    Like a kid playing make-believe, In America is blithely confident of its own contrivances; it only benefits from a certain unselfconscious naïveté. And as with a misjudged Christmas gift or a mawkish sympathy card from a kindly relative, one can hardly doubt its uplifting intentions.
  7. Bad Santa
    Bad Santa is a one-joke film; to his credit, Thornton embodies that joke with vicious, vaguely insane conviction.
  8. El bonaerense
    Still, the vapor traces of farce and policier that waft from this terribly earnest film never coalesce -- perhaps our own cultural remove allows what plays straight at home to be experienced as slightly daffy.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    El leyton
    Barely elevated telenovela.
  10. Blue Gate Crossing
    Set largely in empty public spaces late at night, Blue Gate Crossing supplements its slender narrative with disarming performances and plangent atmosphere.
  11. 21 Grams
    Watts, who has the most difficult scenes, is splendidly mercurial; what's surprising is that those professional storm clouds Penn and Del Toro are here as powerfully restrained as she is electrifying.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gothika
    Quickly abandoning the psychological for the supernatural, the movie collapses its premise into one painfully derivative pitch.
  13. The Barbarian Invasions
    Shear away the film's pretensions, and it's a soap opera of assholes.
  14. The Cat in the Hat
    Comes scarily close to being the most unendurable Hollywood creation of the last dozen years.
  15. Acts of Worship
    The opposition of Christian spirituality and the bad religion of drugs is enough to send you down to the feel-good bodega just on principle.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Mail Order Bride
    The hapless goodfella-in-training is as unsuccessful at fulfilling his uncle's wishes as the star and co-director, Robert Capelli Jr., is at delivering punchlines.
  17. The Missing
    However bogged down by predictable story rhythms, banally assembled shoot-outs, and climactic mano a mano, The Missing has an acidic period tone, a respect for the reality of violence, and a refreshing dearth of superhuman heroics and easy triumph. For that much, we should be grateful.
  18. Ticket to Jerusalem
    Largely sidesteps sentiment in favor of a tentative hopefulness.
  19. Tupac: Resurrection
    Though the edits can be too living-room smooth, the passion and pathology on display transcend the Tabitha Soren overload.
  20. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Dante's masterstroke is to make the movie as visually and narratively unhinged as its source material.
  21. I Vitelloni [re-release]
    Moving from cafés to poolrooms to movie theaters, it's the prototypical male ensemble film.
  22. Epidemic
    Basically an experimental psychodrama, Epidemic has a pleasingly slapdash, underground quality that recalls early Fassbinder and Wenders -- although, with its cynical premise and frequent infusions of Wagner, it exudes the prankster snarkiness characteristic of von Trier.
  23. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    This is an exercise in civility -- a tasteful "Boy's Life" adventure with plenty of boys aboard to express their appreciation.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Anything But Love
    If this is such a cheesy, derivative movie, why did I watch it twice with such delight? Possibly because at its center it's profoundly authentic, and because the star turn by Andrew McCarthy, a moody, mercurial characterization, saves it from fairy-tale bathos.
  25. Hukkle
    Deranging a venerable Hungarian tradition of "village sociology," Pálfi employs a bizarrely associative montage to fashion a portrait of a traditional peasant community -- just a midsummer Sunday on Mars.
  26. A House on a Hill
    Squint through the humbug, and there's some genuine life going on.
  27. Mango Yellow
    A shallow Brazilian trifle.
  28. My Architect
    An inspired homage to his father's work, and a bracing, bittersweet testament of filial love mixed with pain and compassion.
  29. Martin & Orloff
    Mostly, its unearned funnier-than-thou smugness plays like a DIY dorm-lounge homage.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Just an American Boy
    Looking puffier than he did in New York last month, Earle gets his band together, rewrites his play about executed Christian Karla Faye Tucker on the eve of opening night, defends his patriotism (and yours), and flogs the current LP. And then he rocks some more.
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