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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. The Gleaners & I
    Eccentric and thoroughly winning.
  2. Me You Them
    Me You Them can't find a rhythm or a consistent tone.
  3. Hit and Runway
    A show about nothing—its jokes based on stick-figure stereotypes, its lunges at humanism premised on imbecilic pity.
  4. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    Writers are only interesting for what they've written, and for that you'll have to go read.
  5. The Caveman's Valentine
    Valentine isn't exploitative or trendy in the manner of so many indie films. Rather, it seems like the kind of art film that might have been dreamed up by a feverish high schooler.
  6. The Mexican
    Intermittently appealing, fundamentally dysfunctional action-comedy.
  7. Series 7: The Contenders
    Series 7 could have turned out as ugly as the second season of "Survivor," were it not for the pleasure Minahan takes in melodrama.
  8. Monkeybone
    A self-adrenalizing, self-destructing pop-culture whirligig.
  9. Last Resort
    Pawlikowski, whose background is in documentary film, has an eye for the menacingly forlorn and elegantly bleak. Last Resort, which was shot without a script and developed largely in collaboration with the actors, is a kind of verité fantasy.
  10. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    Costner's not a mannered showboat, and what we get isn't a riff—it's a semi-oblivious glimpse of bitter outlaw banality.
  11. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    Far from terrible, Leconte's latest movie suggests the work of a slightly hip preacher.
  12. Southern Comfort
    Eads's wit, generosity, insight, and courage are irresistible.
  13. Company Man
    Bracingly unfunny.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Down to Earth
    There is a lot of electricity running in these cables, and directors Chris and Paul Weitz, responsible for "American Pie," know how to tap enough of it that almost every minute of Down to Earth is entertaining. But not quite surprising.
  15. Rhythm 'n' Bayous: A Road Map to Louisiana Music
    The performances are uneven, but the spirit never flags.
  16. Yom Yom
    A darkly comic tale of characters riven by divided loyalties and neurotic inhibitions.
  17. Sweet November
    If the movie works on its own insipid level, it's because of high-gear star power -- 50 times the captivator Dennis ever was, Theron is terrific at creating adorable intimacy with little help from the script or director and exudes more guileless élan than any of the film's many puppies.
  18. The Price of Milk
    A shaggy, appealing parable involving two lovers, some gorgeous heifers, gentle Maori gangster-golfers, and a dilapidated suitcase packed with used baby shoes, The Price of Milk throws itself onto the magic-realist sword with aplomb.
  19. Bad Company
    A considerably more unsettling tale of one-sided amour fou, reportedly inspired by an actual case of teenage prostitution, Jean-Pierre Améris's Bad Company puts the coy prurience of American high school films in brutal perspective.
  20. Love, Honor and Obey
    Superhumanly awful BBC bottom-feeder Love, Honour and Obey, which, paramount among its many faults, is not recognizably a film.
  21. Hannibal
    Less monster than monstrosity—albeit, as superfluous sequels go, not on par with the memorably idiotic "Godfather III."
  22. Journey to the Sun
    A remarkably vivid portrait of a teeming third-world metropolis
  23. Signs & Wonders
    Pretension looms, and for many the web of symbolism will be too thick. But Rampling, to her credit, helps hold the nuthouse together.
  24. Saving Silverman
    A sharp-dumb, jack- and goof-off affair.
  25. The Taste of Others
    A pleasant time-passer.
  26. The Invisible Circus
    A more intuitive writer-director could have extracted a credible study of time-warped bereavement from Jennifer Egan's extensively praised novel, but Adam Brooks's turgid adaptation merely emphasizes the book's stiff contrivances and wobbly characterizations.
  27. Fever
    You can see the strenuously grand conclusion of Alex Winter's clammy psychological thriller, Fever, coming a mile off, but the director's impeccably chic expressionism and Henry Thomas's persuasive, dread-soaked performance make the wait a painless one.
  28. The Million Dollar Hotel
    Wenders's The Million Dollar Hotel is something of a monstrosity -- liquored self-indulgence taken to its own astral plane.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Head Over Heels
    Head Over Heels is dopey but nontoxic. If you are 17, there are worse date movies.
  30. In the Mood for Love
    A wondrously perverse movie that not only evokes a lost moment in time but circles around an unrepresentable subject. Mood is the operative word. A love story far more cerebral than it is emotional.
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