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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. What's Cooking?
    Trades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle.
  2. The Sculptress
    Wright's "British" accent elicits the only shudders.
  3. George Washington
    It's at once brilliant and inept.
  4. Sound and Fury
    Josh Aronson's thoroughly engrossing documentary Sound and Fury is as much about children's rights as it is about the impact of cochlear-implant technology on a family in which deafness runs through three generations.
  5. The Wolves of Kromer
    Largely inept and weirdly endearing.
  6. The Yards
    Gray's brand of film-buffery manifests itself, simply and irresistibly, as ardent, uncynical movie love.
  7. Just One Time
    An arthritic exercise in self-pleasurement.
  8. The Legend of Drunken Master
    The uncertain plot somehow concerns ginseng and stolen objets d'art; the main thrust is acrobatic slapstick with a decided antipatriarchal twist.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Calle 54
    A dazzling, long-overdue tribute to the true stars of Latin music.
  10. Pay It Forward
    An overflowing septic tank of chicken-soupy sanctimony that proceeds from casually offensive hypocrisy to wretchedly inapt religiosity.
  11. Bedazzled
    It might be worth enduring the Limburger to see Fraser morph from freckled-faced Rod McKuen dweeb to seven-foot albino ball star and never miss a beat.
  12. Just Looking
    Marshall Karp's script is clever and funny, though studded with anachronisms.
  13. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    An engagingly grim psychological thriller.
  14. Lost Souls
    Can be blamed foremost on its fire-and-brimstone screenwriter, Pierce Gardner.
  15. The Red Stuff
    Evocative but ahistorical.
  16. Dr T and the Women
    A flabby farce in which everyone seems to be making it up as they go along.
  17. The Contender
    Graceless writing and shameless plot contrivance.
  18. Billy Elliot
    By setting this intimate conflict against a wider social drama, Daldry makes his portrait of a dancer all the more compelling.
  19. Animal Factory
    Tender, poignant, and homoerotically charged, this complicated father-son relationship is brought to life by two brilliant actors and a director who's canny enough to give them all the room they need.
  20. Ratcatcher
    The most audacious debut feature of the year.
  21. Followers
    So seamlessly and comprehensively dreadful that its very existence (let alone its appearance in theaters) beggars belief.
  22. One
    Even more than the subtlety of the writing and acting, it's this sophisticated and emotionally potent visual strategy that suggests Barbieri's promise as a filmmaker and lifts One above the low-budget indie heap.
  23. Taboo
    An action film at once baroque and austere, hypnotic and opaque.
  24. CyberWorld
    A techno-happy bumrush screaming the joy of never thinking twice about repeating things ad nauseam, and as loud as possible.
  25. Two Family House
    A fairy tale that presents love as a case of mutual enchantment, Two Family House is not only uniformly well acted, superbly designed, lovingly lit, and sensitively scored, it's as romantic as it is funny.
  26. Bamboozled
    Primary story line is clumsy and badly acted. But he (Lee) reminds you that movies have power, that they matter, and for a few brilliant moments, Bamboozled matters more than any other American movie this year.
  27. Bootmen
    The best sequences -- auditions in a strip bar and a public bathroom -- still can't compete with that industrial musical called "Pola X."
  28. Yi Yi
    Although dense with incident and motif, the movie has an effortless flow.
  29. Meet the Parents
    Watching Ben get the girl or be seriously injured trying always has its dry, keening pleasures.
  30. Requiem for a Dream
    May be an elaborate stunt, a bungee jump, but even so, it's forceful enough to leave a rare palpitating residue.
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