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For 8,795 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,788 out of 8795
  2. Mixed: 2,560 out of 8795
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8795
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  1. Dog Days
    The film is funnier than it has every right to be, given the boilerplate premise of dogs bringing people together, but Marino and co. go for the brass ring.
  2. Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
    Take this one for what it is, an entertaining Disney comedy of really large proportions, and you'll have a ball.
  3. Nocturnal Animals
    It’s a narratively audacious, ultra-stylish, and at times queasily violent film that’s likely to polarize audiences even as they find themselves unable to tear their eyes from the screen.
  4. Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge
    When it comes to the segments, Scare Package II is much more successful than the first film in striking a unified tone – maybe less outrageously funny, maybe a little drier, but still entertaining.
  5. Roman de gare
    It's contemporary French cinema without a dollop of Besson and Jeunet's beloved CGI theatrics, and all the better for it.
  6. Juice
    Dickerson's story of street kids at risk breaks no new ground. It is better than most, but not by much. Sure looks good, though.
  7. Nowhere Boy
    Nowhere Boy reveals the magnitude of the good women behind the grand icon.
  8. Giant Little Ones
    Bisexual coming out stories are basically nonexistent in cinema, and that would be enough to set Giant Little Ones apart from the pack. But that's just one element of a wider story, told with a charming earnestness, about sexuality as a spectrum.
  9. See How They Run
    If you're not au fait with the scandalous yet prim world of the 1950s West End, See How They Run is still a silly if slight affair, playful without ever being weighty, and mostly given a sense of giddiness by Rockwell's gruff detective and Ronan as his determined if doubting assistant.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Hunting of the President
    The film doesn't have the book's detail or range, and by turns it's portentous with trumped-up melodrama or overreaches for lame comedy.
  11. Arrebato (1979)
    Even if it beat Videodrome to the screen by two years, it's not quite the same level of must-see programming. It's fascinating, but less coherent, less scathing, and far more meandering.
  12. Sunshine Superman
    Sunshine Superman is at times a bit too reverent with the material, and there are distracting reenactments (à la The Jinx and Man on Wire), some of which seem extraneous, but overall, the film is a sun-kissed tribute to a singular individual.
  13. Lucie Aubrac
    It's a love story, though, and all the more poignant for being one that actually survived under such tempestuous circumstances.
  14. The Dead
    The film provides a whole new way of looking at the same old dead things. Eat up.
  15. RED
    There's no denying the kick you get from seeing Borgnine (forever lovelorn Marty to me, when he's not tooling around my head as Cabbie, from John Carpenter's Escape From New York) and company kick ass, take names, and go batshit crazy one last time.
  16. Gloria Bell
    Gloria Bell is its own thing. Lelio inflects the film with a believably Californian vibe, all washed-out easiness, and the faint feeling that so much easiness must take an awful lot of work. And Moore can so exquisitely convey two emotions at once, the actorly equivalent of patting a head and rubbing a stomach at the same time.
  17. South of Heaven
    So often, romance subplots in Texas noir feel like afterthoughts, there to increase a little bit of tension. But South of Heaven’s most meaningful moments are in the interplay between Lilly and Sudeikis as the star-crossed lovers with time most definitely not on their side.
  18. Lies
    It's a film so filled with sex and violence that many critics have derided it as nothing short of hardcore porn.
  19. The 11th Hour
    While it's a well-constructed doc, full of relevant information and geared toward those people who still might be fence-sitters on the subject, there's something missing from The 11th Hour's lengthy procession of talking heads: a sense of maddened outrage.
  20. Waiting for 'Superman'
    Ultimately, it may be the case that Guggenheim is a better instigator than filmmaker, as the debate about our educational system appears to be on the upswing at present. For this, rather than all the specifics of its argument and what it leaves out, Waiting for 'Superman' is essential viewing.
  21. North Face
    North Face is a gripping, at times downright epic, account of men vs. mountain vs. other men (and, what the hell, one woman).
  22. Corsage
    Corsage has many things going for it, most of them being the virtuoso performance from Vicky Krieps. She imbues Elisabeth with a restlessness that comes off her in waves, and as her fury percolates, so too does her shrewdness. And so would the dramatic tension, but Kreutzer wields metaphors so bluntly that any emotional poignancy quickly evaporates.
  23. First Position
    It's a wealth of material at odds with a scant running time and shallow focus.
  24. Wayne's World 2
    Surjik's skewed Canadian vision keeps WW2 from descending to the level of Thanksgiving leftovers, with frequent touches of out-and-out weirdness and the sure-footed knowledge that this is a comedy, period. It doesn't have to try to be anything more, and that, I think, is why it works so very well.
  25. A Street Cat Named Bob
    If you’ve ever felt the same about a Felis catus, you’ll cut A Street Cat Named Bob some slack for the same reason I did. You won’t be able to help yourself. And stock up on some Kleenex beforehand. You’re gonna need them.
  26. All My Friends Hate Me
    Social anxiety abounds in velvet-black British college reunion comedy All My Friends Hate Me, a seething sneer of a satire that swirls around angst-plagued Pete (Stourton), the milquetoast member of a group of friends who come together to celebrate his birthday.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Reservation Road
    Connelly, in particular, soars as the nail-biting mother trying desperately to put on a brave face and keep her family together, while Ruffalo and Phoenix, two of Hollywood’s best brooders, are excellent as wounded young fathers.
  28. Planet B-Boy
    It turns out globalization has its good points after all, and they're sporting Chucks, Kangols, and post-Gomi DIY gear. Spin again.
  29. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    Adamson's pulled a more morally nuanced rabbit (or badger, actually) out of his directorial hat this time out, and the result is a far more engrossing film than its predecessor.
  30. Stars at Noon
    The rainswept city streets overflowing with graffiti and half-torn leaflets are poignant tableaux of melancholy, the jazz-infused soundtrack by Denis’ house band, Tindersticks, unifying each moment. But as evocative and intoxicating as these elements are, they never quite fit into a cohesive whole, as Trish and Daniel tryst their way to the Costa Rican border.
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