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For 1,652 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Frost/Nixon
Lowest review score: 0 Waist Deep
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,085 out of 1652
  2. Mixed: 279 out of 1652
  3. Negative: 288 out of 1652
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  1. Roger Dodger
    Starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill. I'm glad to have seen it, for I appreciated Campbell Scott's dominant performance and Jesse Eisenberg's breakthrough. But I hope writer-director Dylan Kidd mixes less acid into the next drink he pours.
  2. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    Evans makes a terrific raconteur, imitating voices and putting us behind the scenes.
  3. Beauty in Trouble
    What director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský are talking about is the Czech Republic, ravaged for decades by communism and then left to fend for itself in a world to which it can scarcely adjust.
  4. Catch Me If You Can
    Slight, enjoyable comedy.
  5. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Once every couple of years, a movie comes along to remind us how satisfyingly complex the genre can be. Christopher Nolan’s reimagining of the “Batman” saga did that masterfully. On a slightly less ambitious scale, so does X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  6. A Prairie Home Companion
    It's a pleasant but insubstantial excuse for a film.
  7. Baadasssss!
    The technical side of Baadasssss! far surpasses that of "Sweetback," and re-created scenes from the 1971 film look much better in the son's hands than they did in the father's.
  8. About a Boy
    If the brothers Weitzes) don't yet have a defined style, they do seem at ease with this more sophisticated material.
  9. The Believer
    Ryan Gosling's riveting as a neo-Nazi who was raised in Jewish faith
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
    Even Wilder's most ardent admirers split on 1970's little-seen, much-edited adventure-comedy "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", but all agree it is one of his most personally felt movies. [18 Jul 2003, p.11E]
    • Charlotte Observer
  11. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    [I] enjoyed McQuarrie’s ingenuity in construction, smiled occasionally at the jokes and admired Ferguson’s performance as the most interesting femme fatale in the series.
  12. Frozen
    This may be yet another variation on the usual coming-of-age/sisterhood themes so familiar in Disney movies, but who does those better?
  13. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    The film remains sadly profound and profoundly sad, yet it holds just enough humor to lighten a weighty subject without trivializing it.
  14. Sicko
    The film contains the usual Moore plusses and minuses, now familiar to anyone who's watched even one of his films.
  15. Monster
    Writer-director Patty Jenkins makes an impressive debut, showing savvy that often eludes old pros.
  16. Frankenweenie
    Nothing in the longer Frankenweenie is new.
  17. The Others
    The most sophisticated and satisfying ghost story on film since "The Sixth Sense."
  18. Inception
    Nolan’s tale is not only a trip through mental labyrinths but a reminder that memories may cripple us, unless we learn to let them go.
  19. Serenity
    Whedon wants to make a Serenity trilogy, and I suspect the actors will grow on me if he does. In this case, familiarity would breed not contempt but comfort.
  20. The Last King of Scotland
    Besides its title, the movie has retained the book's outline...But the film throws away the point of the book completely.
  21. Cast Away
    The middle 90 minutes, which put Hanks alone on an island without voice-over narration or even a musical background, is as risky as anything Hollywood did this year.
  22. Farewell
    This is a game of numbers, not personalities, and a shrewd man wants the bigger numbers on his side when historians pick up their pens.
  23. The Orphanage
    By the end, you'll be chilled and disturbed by what you've seen -- and, rare as this is in a horror movie, touched to the heart.
  24. Ocean's Eleven
    Soderbergh and writer Ted Griffin added plot twists that will catch you off-guard, dumped the clever ending and worked in a love story that's as superfluous as elevator shoes on Shaquille O'Neal.
  25. Wonder Boys
    Except for moments of labored symbolism and a too cozy ending, the movie stays sharply focused on its well-chosen targets.
  26. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    Proves eye-opening in two ways: Sweeping, bloody battles will make your orbs pop, and you'll re-evaluate this supposedly “uncivilized” man who unified quarrelsome Central Asian tribes to create one of the largest empires in history.
  27. Munich
    Would you feel anxiety or remorse if you pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden, however satisfying or even necessary it might be? Munich argues that finding him in our rifle sights would leave any of us a different person.
  28. Millions
    Starts as sweetly impossible and ends as impossibly sweet.
  29. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Goes down easily enough.
  30. East Is East
    Examines Muslim family's religious warfare.
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