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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 7.7 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. Just Visiting
    Not only microwaves what is already four-day-old fish in Paris, but lets the original director, screenwriters, and stars do the reheating.
  2. Beautiful Creatures
    Dorothy and Petula leave a bloodier trail than Thelma and Louise did.
  3. The Day I Became a Woman
    Opens cute and poignant, turns wildly visceral, and ends in a burst of magical realism.
  4. Along Came a Spider
    A disingenuous and colossally daft whiplash twist (presumably Patterson's) that only further perforates an already ragged plot.
  5. Shadow Magic
    Properly picturesque but lacks subtlety and substance in blending Chinese and Western history, ideas, and cinematic conventions.
  6. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    A humorously death-haunted psychodrama.
  7. Blow
    Hopefully ambitious yet hopelessly lightweight.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    It all seems an advertisement -- ostensibly for a retrograde vision of the R.O.C.K.
  9. Amores Perros
    Undeniably high-powered. At 153 minutes, it's also punishingly overlong.
  10. The Tailor of Panama
    A cut above last season's best studio offerings. The performances are well turned out. The morality is stylishly gray. The attitude is almost fashionable.
  11. Someone Like You...
    The movie is trite like the ocean is big.
  12. Spy Kids
    Has an intemperate vitality that's hard to resist.
  13. Faat Kiné
    In every way a sunny film. Supremely affirmative, it ends with the funniest, sexiest close-up of the year.
  14. Butterfly
    He (Wolens) captures Crayola-vivid images of both the unspoiled forest canopy and denuded expanses of slash-and-burned landscape -- a bleak summation, perhaps, of the area's past and future.
  15. The Brothers
    An epidemic of solipsism breaks out among four lifelong African American friends when one of them announces his impending nuptials. Cringe-inducing slapstick jockeys for screen time with undermotivated high-volume confrontation.
  16. Heartbreakers
    Heartbreakers gives redemption a bad name, but gives conniving misanthropy a worse one.
  17. Say It Isn't So
    Elicits not the voluptuous discomfort stirred by the boys' (Peter and Bobby Farrelly) best corporeal shenanigans but creeping embarrassment for everyone on screen.
  18. Too Much Sleep
    An understated gem.
  19. Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution
    The doc is also fat with film clips from before and after the 1979 revolution, but innocent of sensationalism as they are, Iranian films aren't terribly quotable—except when used to illustrate how filmmakers must choreograph their action so that men and women never touch on-screen.
  20. No Sex Last Night
    Compelling viewing, even if there's nothing pretty (pictorially or emotionally) about it.
  21. American Desi
    Clubfooted but earnest, Pandya's movie never forgets about its second-gen issues, but never quite plumbs them, either.
  22. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Schneebaum is a great subject; the film doesn't quite make the most of him.
  23. Memento
    The video stores are filled with examples of retro-noir and neo-noir, but Christopher Nolan's audacious timebender is something else. Call it meta-noir.
  24. Enemy at the Gates
    It does offer Annaud the opportunity to show his directorial muscle in elaborate battle scenes, where many bodies are torn apart and blood flows freely.
  25. The Dish
    Harmless and affectionate, The Dish gives its clichés breathing room, and so a few are pleasantly surprising.
  26. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Pays off in laugh-out-loud lines, adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances, and sparkling, bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma.
  27. Simon Magus
    Though Hopkins lovingly re-creates the surfaces of shtetl life, its deep spirituality seems to elude him.
  28. Biandan, guniang
    The elliptical, even fragmented editing style clashes with the reiterative voice-over, which could indicate a stylistic choice or cutting under duress.
  29. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Doyle loves bad jokes and his story has no rhyme or reason, dissolving in its last third into a bungled heist and jailhouse face-off.
  30. 15 Minutes
    15 Minutes settles into Richard Donner-style goulash.
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