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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. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    That unexpected rage is the movie's most powerful emotional truth.
  2. Amen.
    Costa-Gavras provides a post-war postscript to make clear that honesty is punished; cynicism survives.
  3. In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Annotating excerpts from the movies with oral history, Kudlacek's film is a well-wrought introduction not just to Deren but an under-leveraged chunk of the art world.
  4. En kærlighedshistorie
    Another in a line of Dogme half-wits whose madness is posited as a state of tortured grace, the young wife in Kira's Reason is a woman well past the verge.
  5. Divine Intervention
    A movie of long, expressive silences, Divine Intervention articulates things that have never been articulated, at least on the screen.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!
    Intermittently engaging and moving, P.S. has gathered a bit of dust over the years. Still, it's nicely acted by the small cast.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Guy Thing
    In her role as Becky the half-assed tiki girl, Stiles's left-footedness can finally be named, only one of the many pleasures tugging this girl-snatches-guy-from-altar comedy a notch above standard.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    National Security
    As the two cop manqués overcome their dearth of common sense to save the day, the film achieves a comic playfulness.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Kangaroo Jack
    Virtually every shot of the kangaroo was digitally created, and perhaps that was an insurance policy masterstroke. Forcing a real live one to act opposite these co-stars could have easily constituted animal cruelty.
  10. City of God
    Nothing if not confrontational.
  11. Crimson Gold
    Iranian director Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold is an anti-blockbuster--a deceptively modest undertaking that brilliantly combines unpretentious humanism and impeccable formal values.
  12. Close, Closed, Closure
    Loevy, who made this documentary with an Israeli and Palestinian crew, supplies a self-conscious voice-over.
  13. WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
    A competent if overlong blend of policier, sci-fi conspiracy thriller, daikaiju eiga (giant monster) stompfest, and tragic romance. It's also anime (short for "cheaper than live-action").
  14. The Son
    For all its quasi-documentary materialism, The Son is ultimately a Christian allegory of one man's inchoate desire to return good for evil. The movie requires a measure of faith, and like a job well done, it repays that trust.
  15. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    A work of leisurely development and tragic inevitability.
  16. Just Married
    Unlike Reese Wither-your-spoon, stagy Murphy actually does deserve her own "Philadelphia Story," or "Singin' in the Rain." She's obviously a camp genius (see "Clueless," not "8 Mile"), but this dopey script, topped with too-pretty Kutcher's rote 70's Show blowups, ain't it.
  17. The Slaughter Rule
    The lead performances could hardly be better: Gosling, having stolen and propped up entire movies last year ("Murder by Numbers" and "The Believer"), crackles with the economical intensity of a young Tim Roth. Morse, who has racked up decades worth of idiosyncratic character parts, is monumental in this career-peak turn.
  18. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Confessions keeps its cards close, and Kaufman is perfectly capable of starving his screenplay to save it, and perfectly happy with being misunderstood.
  19. Love Liza
    What should have been an idiosyncratic 20-minute short is distended by repetition and loads of standard indie-film time-killers.
  20. Sonny
    Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism.
  21. Nicholas Nickleby
    The entire unwieldy contraption rests on the shoulders of erstwhile "Queer as Folk" jailbait Hunnam: Bleached and bland, earnest and wooden, he's exactly what the film asks him to be.
  22. Max
    For all its flaws, Max does propose a credible young Hitler, played by Noah Taylor as an unpleasantly opinionated, arrogantly ascetic, defensively vain autodidact with a diffident sneer and a bottomless well of grievance to draw upon.
  23. The Hours
    It's an astonishing Kidman who contributes the film's -- and maybe the year's -- most inspired turn.
  24. The Pianist
    Suffers from over-explanation. The movie maintains tremendous momentum through the Szpilman family's deportation. The second half is another story.
  25. Chicago
    It's hard not to wish that Chicago had taken place inside a more imaginative head.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq
    An interesting cross between a Frontline exposé and "World's Scariest Weapons Inspections Videos."
    • 11 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pinocchio
    This faithful, humorless, altogether insufferable (and, by all accounts, hastily dubbed) version of Carlo Collodi's 1883 fairytale about the trouble-causing puppet who longs to be human is the director's lifelong dream.
  28. Catch Me If You Can
    DiCaprio is far more successfully cast here than in Gangs of New York: His performance is all about acting; it's a mild kick to see how he'll manage to talk his way out of nearly every scrape.
  29. The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    There's no denying bespectacled, brace-ridden, homely wild child Eliza (Lacey Chabert), who can speak to animals and emerges as one of the most stirring heroines in contemporary media.
  30. Smokers Only
    Detached performances and a murky sound mix further the sense of suspended animation.
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