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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    In Search of Mozart
    What emerges is a far more accurate, complete and endearingly human portrait of Mozart than any documentary has ever painted.
  2. Fay Grim
    Strikes me as something of an elaborate mistake, a wasted opportunity and a script Hartley should have discarded. But I liked it anyway.
  3. Flanders
    Except for the tractors, and the tanks in the later desert battle sequences, Flanders could be taking place centuries ago. Or centuries from now.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Private Property
    Lafosse's frustrating, yet beautifully elegiac coda emphasizes the point that his production and storytelling style have been making throughout: Private Property is about processes, not conclusions.
  5. Hollywood Dreams
    Frederick is the key to the movie and she's definitely an impressive new talent, someone who can really hold the screen and who delivers something striking or memorable in every scene.
  6. Memories of Tomorrow
    By the time Watanabe encounters a holy senile fool in the forest, the film has foregone contemporary urban “King Lear” territory for something a lot closer to the Lifetime Channel.
  7. Once
    It's a very small piece, working in a deceptively casual storytelling style. But it's my favorite music film since "Stop Making Sense," and it's more emotionally satisfying than any of the Broadway-to-Hollywood adaptations made in the last 20 years.
  8. The Ex
    If you want a relationship comedy that feels like last year's stuff, doesn't go far enough in any direction and is made watchable only by an overqualified ensemble, there's The Ex.
  9. 28 Weeks Later
    Swift, vicious and grimly imaginative, the zombie film 28 Weeks Later exceeds its predecessor, "28 Days Later," in every way.
  10. Georgia Rule
    Maybe Georgia Rule should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer. But not for us.
  11. The Hip Hop Project
    The film works best when it pays specific attention to how hard it is to write a rhyme worth hearing.
  12. Provoked: A True Story
    Most of the ingredients for a strong, tough film are there, and they have been sadly botched by a few key collaborators.
  13. The Salon
    The main problem with the movie is the by now shopworn nature of its setting. Been there, snipped it. Though dating from venerable material, The Salon turns out to be one haircut too many.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    Much of this strikingly human, rapidly paced and laudably well-rounded film is fascinating.
  15. Chalk
    The problem with the movie is that all this improvisational verisimilitude never finds its way into fully developed stories.
  16. Brand Upon the Brain!
    The film is a singular achievement.
  17. Lucky You
    A relaxed-looking expert piece that immerses us in another world. At the end, Hanson has a bonus. He and his producers hired Bob Dylan for the Oscar-winning "Things Have Changed" in "Wonder Boys," and Hanson brings Dylan back here, for a folky, bluesy number called "Huck's Tune."
  18. Away from Her
    One of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us.
  19. Spider-Man 3
    You want big wows with this sort of entertainment, and the wows here are medium.
  20. Civic Duty
    A clammy little number that might've been funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
  21. The Treatment
    Janssen is an intense screen presence. Too often she's stuck playing humorless towering antagonists. Here, happily, she's allowed to be a real person.
  22. Paris, je t'aime
    The masterpiece of the bunch is the last, wonderful piece by Alexander Payne ("14eme Arrondissement").
  23. Waitress
    The ending of Waitress is so beguiling and whimsical that it makes you, like its diner's patrons, hungry for more--and it makes you miss that red-headed movie auteur/pastry chef/heart stealer Shelly even more.
  24. Jindabyne
    While not everything in Jindabyne works, especially in its final, redemptive third, the film and its faces stay with you.
  25. The Condemned
    A real stinker. It doesn't have the courage of its own bad taste, or that of its villain.
  26. Diggers
    The best thing in Diggers, besides the close-up of the back end of the Vista Cruiser, is the interplay between Rudd and Tierney. They really do seem like brother and sister, adults yet not entirely grown up.
  27. Les amitiés maléfiques
    It's intellectual without being dry, dramatic without bombast, smart without posturing. Its characters and milieu are very well drawn, and Andre is one of the more intriguing and convincing fictional creations in recent film.
  28. Something to Cheer About
    Routine cinema but rich history.
  29. Disappearances
    The movie looks like far more than a million dollars and it offers the kind of smart, picaresque good time you get from books like "The Reivers" and "Huckleberry Finn" and movies like "Bronco Billy" and "Bonnie and Clyde."
  30. Zoo
    To what degree does Zoo test our limits of tolerance? In the end, not much, which is why Devor's strange, carefully composed objet d'art is a limited achievement.
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