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For 7,613 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Paris, je t'aime
    The masterpiece of the bunch is the last, wonderful piece by Alexander Payne ("14eme Arrondissement").
  2. 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.
  3. Jindabyne
    While not everything in Jindabyne works, especially in its final, redemptive third, the film and its faces stay with you.
  4. The Condemned
    A real stinker. It doesn't have the courage of its own bad taste, or that of its villain.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Something to Cheer About
    Routine cinema but rich history.
  8. 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."
  9. 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.
  10. Hot Fuzz
    The best of it is a riot--a "Bad Boys II" fireball hurled with exquisite accuracy at a quaint English town peopled by Agatha Christie archetypes.
  11. Vacancy
    It's a sordid but expert shocker.
  12. Fracture
    Effective dialogue doesn't necessarily mean witty dialogue, but wit certainly helps, and you tend not to get much of it in a low-key legal thriller. Fracture is an exception.
  13. In the Land of Women
    Kasdan has inherited much of his father's surface skills; he knows how to round out a scene and keep things on story point. But In the Land of Women doesn't for a moment feel messy and chaotic where it counts.
  14. The Valet
    Veber's early stage training serves him well both as an adapter (he wrote the "La Cage aux Folles" screenplay) and as a maker of originals though, truth be told, The Valet isn't especially original.
  15. Stephanie Daley
    A stark, painful drama about pregnancy--a subject rarely treated this fully, candidly or tragically.
  16. Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
    The late U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono and his widow and successor Mary Bono have spent a good deal of time trying to save it. It's a hard task, but the film does suggest there's more to the sea than meets the eye.
  17. Red Road
    Arnold reminds us that the best thrillers don't settle for taking the audience away from their everyday experience; rather, they burrow inward and, by sheer power of cinematic observation, make it hard for us to look away lest we miss something--on a screen or off.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    The TV episodes invariably embed a character or a bit of dialogue in your brain that you continuously describe or repeat to your friends. No such find in the movie, though the offbeat soundtrack is very gettable.
  19. Pathfinder
    A bizarre, bloody adventure movie.
  20. Perfect Stranger
    It lacks the rutting nuttiness of "Basic Instinct," even as it recycles much of that film's kiss-or-kill premise.
  21. Everything's Gone Green
    A romantic comedy/social satire that, on a modest budget, manages to be hip, charming, funny and dressed to kill.
  22. Private Fears in Public Places
    The cast is tremendous; these actors work with Resnais like a well-oiled stock company that knows every trick and can communicate almost telepathically.
  23. Year of the Dog
    In Year of the Dog, there are dark moments that are both strangely poignant and bizarrely hilarious. The ending took me by surprise. In a way it's a cheat, a redemption that arrives out of nowhere. But it's also a cosmic joke, a perfectly funny, sincere salute to dog and pet-lovers everywhere.
  24. Disturbia
    For all its glitz and gadgets, is markedly inferior in everything but teen appeal.
  25. Grindhouse
    Gives dumpster-divers a chance to slum in the antiseptic safety of a multiplex. (Planet Terror ** (out of four) / Death Proof ***1/2 (out of four).
  26. The Hoax
    Isn't all it could have been. But the filmmakers catch the right glittery look and paranoid intensity, and they make gutsy speculations about the story beneath the story.
  27. Ping Pong
    There's nothing particularly original or striking about Ping Pong except its style. It's a breezy, likable story, and the director here, Fumihiko Sori, obviously enjoys his work.
  28. The TV Set
    For all its bright writing, TV Set is contrived and predictable, another morality lesson from a poisoned pen telling us what we've heard before.
  29. The Reaping
    Ludicrous and overstuffed, it plows through the Big 10 of Biblical plagues.
  30. Are We Done Yet?
    Calling a sequel Are We Done Yet? is like calling it "Enough Already."
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