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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. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    Disney's big-screen expansion of their hit TV show is nirvana for the pubescent crowd.
  2. New Suit
    Despite frequent cuts to mambos and cha-chas, this insulated tale of rich interns swindling rich studio bosses has no “Clueless”-style SoCal breeze (or righteous “Working Girl” gotcha).
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Spellbound
    In their randomness, the bee words take on an oracular quality--shades of kabbalistic gematria, or the "Sortes Vergilanae," the supernatural attributed to symbols on paper.
  4. Marooned in Iraq
    This lusty, heartfelt movie has a near Brueghelian visual energy and a humanist passion as contagious as its music.
  5. Returning Mickey Stern
    The notion of grievingly happening upon your dead beloved, young and lovely again, is simple and potent, but the film's airless amateurism, belabored ethnicism ("Oy gevalt!"), and trite dialogue kill it in the water.
  6. The Real Cancun
    There are worse crimes being perpetrated in Hollywood than The Real Cancún--an exploitation fantasy no more booby-besotted than a "Porky's" or "American Pie" installment, and certainly no more unreal.
  7. House of Fools
    For world-class lapses of judgment, Andrei Konchalovsky's House of Fools is a berserk overachiever.
  8. City of Ghosts
    Musters gobs of atmosphere and touristy menace without attending much to story or character.
  9. A Decade Under the Influence
    Does attest to the once-upon-a-time existence of a Hollywood counterculture, but it's so reverentially heavy-handed in evoking the era that it can't help playing like "Forrest Gump" without Tom Hanks.
  10. Manic
    Often the script (co-written by Michael Bacall, who plays sardonic bipolar rich kid Chad) rings clear with mouths-of-babes declamations that all pained kids spew before downing adulthood's suck-it-up Kool-Aid.
  11. Confidence
    Cynically accumulates plot twists while showing little regard for suspense or audience sophistication.
  12. Identity
    The ultimate cliché of plot-twist implausibility, the crucial revelation is so outlandishly fatuous it might have given Donald Kaufman pause.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    It Runs in the Family
    Family goes easy on the schmaltz, and the catastrophes have the puncturing feel of real life.
  14. People I Know
    Although a marked improvement over Algrant's nightmarishly whimsical debut, "Naked in New York," People I Know is perfumed less by the sweet smell of success than the musty aroma of the Miramax vault.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
    The actors appear game, yet director Aparna Sen, who conceived the film in the wake of September 11, resorts often to hokey pseudo-lyricism and prefers sound-bite ballyhoo to sociological depth.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Jersey Guy
    Like a spiral perm growing out, Jersey Guy droopily unravels as partial homage to the Balki Bartokamous school of bad acting before collapsing into a mess of fragmentary sermonizing on deceit, commitment, and the meaning of choice.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    Succeeds in visual splendor (it was shot on location in Kyoto) but falls flat on characterization.
  18. Medea
    Achieves an abrading, intimate, primal force his later films only hint at. It's difficult to imagine the Euripides original ever being more eloquently adapted.
  19. Winged Migration
    Jacques Perrin's Winged Migration is merely about birds, and though you learn less about the various species Perrin circled the globe to document than you might from an afternoon with Animal Planet, you become intensely chummy with the process and labor of flying.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Holes
    Brims with storytelling flourishes and gently deployed life lessons that even accompanying adults may dig
  21. Lilya 4-Ever
    Forget "Irreversible," this is the season's most piercingly feel-bad movie.
  22. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Most Wanted isn't aiming for social commentary, but it isn't too difficult to enjoy its good-natured humor.
  23. Venus and Mars
    Painfully contrived, Venus and Mars's dialogue tends toward banal (as opposed to quotably bad), and the rhythm at which lines are read is definitely alien.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Samehada otoko to momojiri onna
    Falls into the clotheshorse cliché: all dressed up and no place to go.
  25. Love and Diane
    From first shot to last, Dworkin's movie is a continuously absorbing, sometimes revelatory, frequently moving experience; as documentary filmmaking it's not only amazingly intimate but also characterized by an unexpected lyricism.
  26. A Mighty Wind
    Another unforetold career acme: Christopher Guest's seductive and brilliantly modulatory A Mighty Wind, which trains its laser-sight on the decaying legacy of Peter, Paul and Mary-style pop-folk.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bulletproof Monk
    Some reliably vertiginous fight sequences (rope bridge, rooftop signage) and modest flight experiments liven up the mix, but for all the leads' individual appeal, they seem to occupy slightly different films.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Chasing Papi
    Shamelessly purports to be "the first major studio comedy to reflect the Hispanic cultural experience in America," but the only place you're likely to find such shrill and whitewashed caricatures is in the elitist pages of ¡Hola!
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
    Fight footage is kept to a minimum; in this film, the boxer's best one-two's don't hit inside the ring. Clay's ingenious hype-baiting moxie drives the first half, cut to a nouvelle pop beat.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Young Unknowns
    Numbing but effective debut.
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