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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. Man of the Year
    Levinson has written and directed in many genres. But rarely has he made a film as indecisive and diffident as Man of the Year.
  2. Deliver Us from Evil
    Deliver Us From Evil has a few things wrong with it, including an egregious musical score, but without resorting to sucker punches, it takes your breath away while making your skin crawl.
  3. Infamous
    Though stylistically all over the place, it's not without interest.
  4. Tideland
    It's crazy, dangerous and sometimes gorgeous: a feast of nuttiness that takes you, for a while, over the edge.
  5. Zerophilia
    A half-silly, half-earnest indie with the soul of a John Hughes-era sex comedy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    It's better than some James Bond movies--no matter what your age.
  7. Little Children
    Unnervingly good, Little Children is one of the rare American films about adultery that feels right--dangerous, hushed, immediate.
  8. The Departed
    The Departed exists in a movie-place about as far from personal statements as a storied director can get. Maybe those days for Scorsese are long gone. But Scorsese's sense of craft remains sure.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Employee of the Month
    The only two onscreen items with any star quality belong to Simpson, and they're barely contained in shirts that seem to be holding on for dear life. Comedy fans, beware; breast fans, rejoice!
  10. 49 Up
    If you haven't gotten hooked already on Michael Apted's series--collectively, one of the great documentaries in the history of the cinema--you should prepare yourself for the latest installment, 49 Up.
  11. Black Gold
    Guaranteed to make you think twice about what you're paying for what you're drinking.
  12. Shortbus
    It's refreshing to see a non-mainstream movie that wears its heart and lust on its sleeve, and has anything but violence on its mind.
  13. ...So Goes the Nation
    The film's triple thesis is that elections are run badly, Democrats are often clueless and Republicans are clever. Maybe--but that still leaves too many unanswered questions.
  14. The Queen
    The film goes pretty easy on the royals in the end, and it's a flattering portrait of Blair. But it's not credulous. Frears may swim in the political mainstream with The Queen but he does so like a champion channel crosser.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Guardian
    Sometimes you want to buy an extra-large popcorn and settle in for a big budget Hollywood blockbuster replete with entertaining explosions, undemanding dialogue and completely unrealistic action sequences. If all that sounds like gloriously uncomplicated fun, The Guardian is your movie.
  16. Open Season
    Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher may seem like an odd-sounding comedy team, but in some weird way, they click as voice-actors and cartoon buddies in Open Season.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    School for Scoundrels
    This ultimately disappointing comedy starts reasonably strong, delivers a few good laughs, then rolls over and plays dead.
  18. Be with Me
    A delicately crafted, gently inflected, lovely little movie about the need for love, directed and co-written by Singapore's Eric Khoo ("Mee Pok Man").
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
    The movie is awash in great performances by actors known and otherwise.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
    As Nirvana's Kurt Cobain acknowledges in the opening quote, without the Pixies there would be no "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
  21. The Last King of Scotland
    The director is Kevin Macdonald, a documentary filmmaker making his fiction film feature debut. (He won an Oscar for his Munich Olympics hostage chronicle, "One Day in September.")
  22. All the King's Men
    Kathy Baker, as Burden's elegantly sodden mother, shows the only sign of interpretive life in this stiff-jointed enterprise. She has about five minutes on screen; she's lucky that way.
  23. Flyboys
    Just about everything in the video-gamey World War I picture Flyboys rings false, although the planes certainly are terrific.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Jackass Number Two
    There's no plot here; like the MTV show that spawned it, this movie is just a progression of increasingly disgusting and/or dangerous stunts.
  25. Fearless
    One of those corny, lusciously mounted, almost predictably thrill-packed action movies you can't help but like.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Feast
    Follows a common horror flick recipe (people under siege from hungry monsters--so much for Greenlight's search for originality), adding a dash of humor to keep things from becoming too much of a checklist.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jesus Camp
    What Ewing and Grady have accomplished here is remarkable--capturing the visceral humanity, desire and unflagging political will of a religious movement.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    American Hardcore
    Exhaustive and at turns exhausting.
  29. Zen Noir
    Rosenbush strives for a difficult blend of spoof and sincerity with Zen Noir. In the spirit of rebirth, let's assume that the next time he makes it, it'll turn out fine.
  30. The Science of Sleep
    It only works about half the time, but it's an interesting half.
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