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For 7,599 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 1.5 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. A Mighty Heart
    A worthy film on a great, tragic subject.
  2. Black Sheep
    I did like seeing the (fakey-looking) sheep take flying neck-high leaps at various human throats, in scenes recalling the killer rabbit in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." And I enjoyed the Kiwi dialects. And I suspect King's next film will be better.
  3. Broken English
    Cassavetes, who wrote the script, proves her skill with actors in this woozy push-and-pull of slurred compliments and shaky hopes for whatever lies beyond the next day.
  4. Lady Chatterley
    The result is not a movie of peekaboo titillation, but a studied, original portrait of sexuality and its role in human relationships.
  5. You Kill Me
    Leoni is one of the truly distinctive comic actresses we have in the movies today, a tough broad with murderously effective timing and phrasing.
  6. Manufactured Landscapes
    Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing.
  7. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    It is passable comic book stuff, dumb and loud. Loud. LOUD.
  8. Nancy Drew
    Nice. The film itself is more nice than good, but nice isn't the worst trait.
  9. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    As is, it's worth seeing, but you may get frustrated at the way Dellal raises provocative questions about ancestry and prejudice, only to lose them in the shuffle of so many mini-portraits of musicians, getting to know each other and each other's foreign yet familiar musical language, on a long 16-city tour.
  10. Czech Dream
    A small but droll big-box comedy.
  11. Macbeth
    It's all very "Scarface"--the De Palma remake of "Scarface," not the Hawks original. In other words, it doesn't feel modern at all. It feels about a generation late and 400 years short.
  12. Ocean's Thirteen
    The line between cool and cold is a thin one, however. Cool isn't the word for "Thirteen"; it's just smug.
  13. Hostel: Part II
    You live in a free country, you put up with crud like Hostel Part II. It truly is crud, though.
  14. Surf's Up
    Where Surf's Up falls down is in its central relationships. (A few more jokes wouldn't have hurt either).
  15. La Vie en Rose
    Wildly uneven.
  16. 12:08 East of Bucharest
    Porumboiu's picture, small and pungent, lacks the resonance of "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," Cristi Puiu's masterpiece of contemporary Romanian malaise released in the U.S. last year. But this one's less forbidding, and it has a satisfying shape and fullness.
  17. Gracie
    Dermot Mulroney takes the largest male role, that of the driven ex-soccer star and patriarch of the onscreen family. From certain angles he looks like a Shue too.
  18. Knocked Up
    Knocked Up is more verbally adroit than it is visually. But Apatow's awfully sharp as a chronicler of contemporary romantic anxieties.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    cleverly conceived and professionally executed and to hell with that. It's a serial killer movie in the dime-a-dozen era of serial killer movies, with the selling point being that the murderer is played by a movie star. This way you'll like the guy.
  20. Crazy Love
    Pugach's selfishness, his inability to detach love from gratification, is the key to this crazy story.
  21. Day Watch
    Though Day Watch seems less shocking and overwhelmingly strange than "Night Watch," it's another rocking mix of gritty thriller and glitzy sci-fi, once again in the vein of the director Bekmambetov's idols Quentin Tarantino and the Wachowski brothers.
  22. Bug
    Ashley Judd as Agnes White, and a relative newcomer, the remarkable Michael Shannon, as Peter Evans. They're both spellbinding.
  23. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    The most visually spectacular, action-packed and surreal of the adventures of Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).
  24. Angel-A
    So stunningly shot and visualized--and scored so hauntingly well by Anja Garbarek, the daughter of saxophonist/composer Jan Garbarek--that it works even if you don't pay attention to the story. Maybe it works better that way.
  25. Golden Door
    Called "Nuovomondo" in its native Italy, it's bittersweet, neither as comic and sentimental as Charlie Chaplin's 1917 great silent comedy "The Immigrant," nor as cynical and epic as Elia Kazan's 1963 "America, America," but close to both.
  26. Paprika
    We've gotten perhaps too used to the computerized wizardry of our own cartoon features; Kon, like Miyazaki shows us some older ways that can still transfix us.
  27. Steel City
    One of the most hopeful movies I've seen recently--not just for its humane, realistic story line, but in its very being.
  28. The Boss of It All
    Bone-dry but completely assured, both in its visual strategy and its wry deconstruction of the workplace comedy genre.
  29. Severance
    I prefer my horror with a chaser of wit, and Severance, a modest but very lively British import, serves it up in harsh but high style.
  30. Shrek the Third
    I doubt even rabid fans of the first two will consider Shrek the Third a worthy addition to the franchise.
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