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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. Happenstance
    Being French, the film at least has indelible details -- something a Hollywood remake would fix but good.
  2. Tape
    The movie takes shape as an entertaining psychological armwrestle between rank belligerence and blustery condescension.
  3. Domestic Disturbance
    As the basest form of genre hootenanny, it wimps out: There's no twist, no showboat acting, not even an outrageous crisis of paternal violence.
  4. Everything Put Together
    Seeks to portray loss as a literal, convulsive nightmare, and it's not above resorting to horror-movie tropes and Grand Guignol trickery.
  5. Monsters, Inc.
    But Monsters, Inc. -- directed by Pixar soldier Pete Docter, not by master digital comic John Lasseter -- turns out to be stingy on context, commentary, and the prism-ing view of pop culture that made the earlier films mint.
  6. Amélie
    The screen is saturated with Gallic whimsy and the romance of Montmartre in the person of Amélie.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The One
    In The One the maze of death leads only to exhaustion -- a solipsistic extension of Bruce Lee pacing the room of mirrors at the end of "Enter the Dragon."
  8. Punks
    Thanks to an uninhibited screenplay and the easy, unforced chemistry of its ensemble cast, Punks is mostly good, snappy fun.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mysterious Object at Noon
    Far from an empty vessel, the film encourages an ever increasing proliferation of odd topics and perspectives.
  10. The Man Who Wasn't There
    This fastidiously hyperreal neo-noir suggests a sadder but wiser remake of the Coens' rambunctious debut, "Blood Simple."
  11. The Town Is Quiet
    The last-minute combination of Greek tragedy and Janis Joplin is so genuinely startling that, had the movie been shorted by a third, it might have turned everything around.
  12. History Lessons
    Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles.
  13. Kill by Inches
    A ponderous, almost wordless sliver of grotesquerie.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    On the Line
    Less a romance than a feature-length plug for 'N Sync and its personalities -- and so, like all ads, not meant for "conscious consumption." Which opens the blissful avenue of sleep.
  15. K-PAX
    K-PAX undertakes a garbled but comprehensive survey of Hollywood therapeutic clichés: The rain man has an awakening from his cocoon, pays it forward, turns into the fisher king.
  16. Life as a House
    So feel-sniffly-good it could make you revisit lunch.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Better Than Sex
    Despite the wall-to-wall shagging in Cin's loft, -- this Three Days of the Condom is less Last Tango in Sydney than "When Harry Met Sally."
  18. Ginger Snaps
    This Canadian cheapie plays like an above-average "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode, filtered through the sensibility of early David Cronenberg.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Ouch
    If nothing else, Sophie Fillières's Ouch! is a secret pop culture index.
  20. Donnie Darko
    Has plenty of problems. But most stem from a young filmmaker overswinging on his first time up to the plate and hitting a deep fly out rather than a home run.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bones
    Bones splits the difference between horror and social commentary, with pallid returns.
  22. Trembling Before G-d
    Though angry and sorrowful, Trembling Before G-d, beginning with the title, is above all a work of reverence.
  23. A Chronicle of Corpses
    McElhinney may have made the ultimate anti-calling card, a movie bold and deranged enough to tip its hat to Edgar Ulmer and Barry Lyndon.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Cool and Crazy
    If music be the food of love, Cool & Crazy could stand a few more hits from the spice rack.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Dog Run
    Dog Run mistakes milieu for meaning; its succinct title's at least a word too long.
  26. One Week
    By turns whimsical and painful.
  27. Focus
    Dern and Macy give doughty performances in schematic roles, but glasses or no, these have to be two of the least Semitic-looking actors in American movies.
  28. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Mistakes self-pitying embitterment for carry-on endurance, and manages to have its causality both ways.
  29. Intimacy
    Authentically British or not, Intimacy is squarely in the indigenous kitchen-sink style -- a far cry from the absurdly chic, sentimental pseudo-worldliness of something like "An Affair of Love."
  30. The Last Castle
    Bizarre, confused, sanctimonious manure that makes Lurie's own "The Contender" look responsible by comparison.
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