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For 7,603 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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  1. Rental Family
    As an actor, Fraser’s second act has been a sight to behold, and he is the emotional anchor of this wonderfully life-affirming and quietly resonant film about the importance of being together that announces Hikari as a major talent to watch.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Clockwatchers
    By the time this film hits the 45-minute mark, temps aren't the only ones watching the clock. [22 May 1998, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    The film is more than a lesson about overcoming bigotry and ignorance. It's also just a beautifully animated romp through the world of Pooh as created by A.A. Milne.
  4. The Innkeepers
    Will The Innkeepers be enough for the young folk? These days there's little middle ground between the determined lack of gore in the "Paranormal Activity" franchise and the determined overabundance offered by so much else. West works in that No Man's Land, intelligently.
  5. One Hour Photo
    One Hour Photo is a piece of often masterly image-making, a half-brilliant film with a revelatory lead performance by Williams. But it's also a thriller that gets trapped in surfaces: shiny, exciting, full of dread but often only tricks of the camera.
  6. Northfork
    It's a film that is mystifying and haunting -- a cool, brotherly vision of the last day and the coming flood, of American dreams and the vanishing frontier.
  7. Confess, Fletch
    Fletch tends to think he’s the smartest guy in the room. So how is that supposed to work when the performance itself is so adrift and unappealing?
  8. Quartet
    The material settles for amiably familiar observations about the difficulties of growing old and the glories of being surrounded by beautiful music.
  9. Prometheus
    The best of Prometheus is nonverbal and purely atmospheric: Fassbender's "Lawrence of Arabia"-loving character bouncing a basketball as he patrols the spaceship while his human cohorts finish up their two-year nap.
  10. Paper Clips
    There's something both moving and crass in how directors Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab film these tiny paper fasteners.
  11. Fast Color
    Hart and Horowitz's script connects the dots on the meaning and messages of the film, which is thrilling in its radicalism. But the execution is heavy-handed, sapping the joy of discovery from the film packed with so much originality, brilliance and beauty to be discovered.
  12. Always Be My Maybe
    In every good way, thanks primarily to Wong and Park and their chemistry, Always Be My Maybe is pure commercial product, yet it feels authentically alive where it counts.
  13. The Patience Stone
    It is a tour de force for the actress, needless to say. Iranian Golshifteh Farahani is wonderful in the role.
  14. Grateful Dawg
    A multilayered documentary that explores music and friendship, and in its own quiet way, the battle with fame.
  15. The Red Tent
    A classic adventure movie. [07 Mar 2008, p.C8]
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  16. The Pursuit of Happyness
    While the film is roughly half grit and half sugar, it works because Smith sticks to a tougher, more rewarding recipe of 99.9 percent grit and only .1 percent sugar.
  17. In Praise of Love
    Like most Godard, it can be watched repeatedly, always yielding new secrets and beauties. Most profound of all, perhaps, are those incredible black-and-white images of Paris.
  18. Eight Below
    It's formulaic and frequently over the top, 30 minutes too long and altogether too slow, but oh when those gorgeous, graceful pups tilt their heads just so … love.
  19. Bombshell
    However freely fictionalized, I like my docudramas with as much moral complication and human shading as filmmakers can provide. Years from now, it’d be wonderful to look back at something more than good actors, with or without wizardly prosthetics, taking our mind off what’s not quite right with the stories at hand.
  20. Avenue Montaigne
    Originally titled "Orchestra Seats," Montaigne takes a page from the "Amelie" playbook, without the fancy visuals or magical realism.
  21. 1408
    Swift, sharp adaptation of Stephen King's short story (from the "Everything's Eventual" collection).
  22. Enigma
    The film manages to crack all its codes, and even when it sags a bit, it's never lacking grace and some wit. Not enigmatically at all, it pleases and teases us -- in high style.
  23. The Low Down
    Lightweight but likable and blessedly free of the posing and pretensions that mark the Hollywood crop of twentysomething coming-of-age films.
  24. Mondays in the Sun
    The tired and washed-out Spanish town is a fitting backdrop for these men - a place where life moves on around them at an uninspiring pace.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Sixth Sense
    Perhaps the most startling part is the realization that, in the turn-off-your-brain season of summer, you've just experienced an uncommonly serious-minded movie that's brave enough to engage our deepest emotions on issues of death, madness, illusion and forgiveness. That's the biggest thrill of them all.
  26. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    This stoner buddy movie is filled with raunchy, gross-out humor. It's immature, clunky and probably the best bit of groundbreaking social commentary we've seen in years.
  27. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    Separate interviews with Flansburgh and Linnell inject the most life and gentle conflict into the film, peeling back their unique musical marriage and friendship.
  28. Fright Night
    Plenty gory, but graced by a jovial sense of humor and an enjoyably guts-centric use of 3-D.
  29. XX
    The results offer a collective shiver (not a lot of shrieks here) for those in the mood for sprightly, short-form misfortune.
  30. Ready or Not
    Its pace is oddly arrhythmic and the tone is every which way but assured.
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