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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. Firehouse Dog
    A surprisingly heartfelt father/son relationship, handled with restraint by director Todd Holland.
  2. Black Book
    The movie scrambles our responses and covers so much ground, with such zest, that its two and a half hours race past like a firestorm.
  3. Blades of Glory
    Fundamentally Blades of Glory works; it's full of laughs both subtle and ridiculous.
  4. The Lookout
    Frank's dialogue owes a little something to Elmore Leonard, but it's less comic and heavily brocaded.
  5. Meet the Robinsons
    When it enters the future, it's a new-fangled, old-fashioned jim-dandy of a show.
  6. After the Wedding
    After the Wedding defies the odds: For once, the bigger the emotion, the truer the moviegoing experience.
  7. Killer of Sheep
    Of all the memorable feature film debuts, Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” may be the freest from contrivance, disinterested to a lovely degree in conventional story machinery or in anything more than moments in time and the daily lives of people Burnett knew in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.
  8. Sacco and Vanzetti
    One of the movie's most moving elements is the duo's famous prison correspondence, as eloquently read by Tony Shalhoub as Sacco and John Turturro as Vanzetti. But Miller's obvious passion and dedication shine throughout.
  9. Shooter
    A screwy assassination thriller for these murky times, it takes half its pages from Soldier of Fortune and the other half from links provided by conspiracytheories-zapoppin.org.
  10. The Last Mimzy
    The sense of the unknown that "Padgett" created are largely absent. And the movie fails to supply us with an antagonist to work up some dramatic conflict. Nor are the toys themselves very interesting and Mimzy is a toy bunny of no distinction.
  11. Pride
    Howard, playing an inspirational and resourceful man up against long odds, really is an inspiration.
  12. Reign Over Me
    Reign works better much better than "Upside" because of the cast and because Sandler and Cheadle together keep it lighter. It's an easy film to watch, but less easy to be moved by.
  13. TMNT
    Without the brute vigilante junk, this 82-minute picture would be approximately 2 minutes long.
  14. Boy Culture
    It's a better-than-average gay relationship film, largely because neither plot mechanics nor the same old camp intrude much.
  15. Color Me Kubrick
    In Color Me Kubrick, John Malkovich has one of the roles of his life, and he acts it up like a haughty gourmet who's just picked up a succulent treat.
  16. First Snow
    Movies like First Snow rise or fall on characters and atmosphere, and Fergus gets them both. But though the story's resolution does have irony and even a certain power, it lacks the charge, the Serlingesque "gotcha," that it needs.
  17. Offside
    Jafar Panahi of Iran is one of his country's great filmmakers, and Offside is his best movie to date.
  18. The Page Turner
    Dercourt, a very fine filmmaker, is a musician himself, a music teacher and one-time solo viola player with the French Symphony Orchestra. And he directs, with a musician's precision and an insider's sly wit, the world of classical music performance.
  19. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    The style is brash, and it works. Tucker and Epperlein illustrate Yunis' account of his eight-month imprisonment, much of that time spent at the notorious Abu Ghraib compound, with literal illustrations--pages seemingly torn out of a Frank Miller graphic novel.
  20. I Think I Love My Wife
    The results fall short of the grown-up comedy about seven-year itches it could've been, asking the Hamlet-like question: to scratch or not to scratch?
  21. Premonition
    As Premonition zigzags toward its solution it loses its head completely, packing a risible final reel with left-field religious disquisitions and heartfelt warnings against infidelity.
  22. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    A beautiful film, harrowing, tough and rife with grief.
  23. 300
    This is a mixed blessing. For a story replete with open-air combat 300 is strangely claustrophobic. And for a film with lotsa flesh and even more blood, it's light on flesh-and-blood characters.
  24. Beyond the Gates
    If Beyond the Gates were merely a well-intentioned bore, the reality might seem jarring. As is, the coda fits and feels like the only possible ending--proof that surviving to help tell the story of a genocidal nightmare is the best revenge.
  25. The Host
    The tone of The Host is slippery in the best way; you're never sure if you're in for a joke or a shock, yet nothing feels random.
  26. The Namesake
    Brims with intelligence, compassion and sensuous delight in the textures, sights and sounds of life--all the way from the Taj Mahal to Pearl Jam.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ultimate Gift
    The plot, though of the made-for-TV ilk, makes for good discussion fodder if you're trying to impress life's lessons on children or others you love. That said, be prepared to be hit over the head by the message, edifying as it is.
  28. The Exterminating Angels
    The content may be dubious, but the execution is hypnotic.
  29. Wild Hogs
    Macy's character finds romance with the Madrid, N. M., diner owner played by Marisa Tomei. They're the only two people on screen who relate in any way. But there's no movie here. There is only a tired "City Slickers"-inspired idea for a movie.
  30. Zodiac
    It's fascinating and unexpected both in its simple, looming images and its storytelling priorities, which may not intersect with the priorities of audiences who couldn't get enough of "Se7en."
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