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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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    • 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."
  2. 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.")
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. The Science of Sleep
    It only works about half the time, but it's an interesting half.
  12. Old Joy
    The movie has a large theme, even if it's unspoken. Old Joy is about a particular friendship, but it's also about how American society changed in the '90s and the new century.
  13. The Black Dahlia
    Doesn't provoke bittersweet inquiries regarding one poor actress' grisly fate. Nor does it stir up much provocation on the matter of why, as a popular audience, we're still taken with this lurid symbol of sex and dread and desire. Rather, the movie raises a much simpler question: Huh?
  14. Everyone's Hero
    Probably the last movie to carry a credit for the late Christopher Reeve--as well as the last credit for Reeve's late wife, Dana.
  15. Gridiron Gang
    As sports movies go, Gridiron Gang isn't bad, just not top-line material.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Last Kiss
    A smart, witty, sexy take on the perils of becoming an adult.
  17. Confetti
    Outlandish weddings aren't much of a satiric target, but Confetti isn't really going for satire; mild-mannered japes are more its style.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Ground Truth
    Compelling and intensely provocative.
  19. Haven
    The film is a fancy-pants muddle in terms of technique. And if Bloom doesn't do something about his smirky tendency to troll for audience approval, his career may be severely limited.
  20. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    People who love Lennon will almost certainly like the film; his detractors will almost certainly howl "bias!" Even so, it's a movie that, at its best, makes you ache with the memory of an anguished era and its fallen pop culture hero.
  21. Keeping Mum
    Only the architecturally refined bone structure of Kristin Scott Thomas' face rescues Keeping Mum from full-on tedium.
  22. Al Franken: God Spoke
    Most of this doc is content to wander through Franken's recent show-biz resume, to no particular end.
  23. Hollywoodland
    With an uncredited assist from playwright/screenwriter Howard Korder, Hollywoodland features some tart, lively banter and welcome comedic touches.
  24. SherryBaby
    Danny Trejo plays Sherry's sometime lover and friend, and he's a big asset to a small, sharp film that won't be for everyone. That's a compliment.
  25. Le petit lieutenant
    A fine, taut, tough example of the realistic police drama.
  26. Man Push Cart
    A realistic drama about life's uncertainties.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rolling Family
    The wedding site at the end of the road offers beautiful vistas overlooking Brazil, but it's hardly worth the trip.
  28. Vajra Sky Over Tibet
    Too often the film itself simply shuffles the postcards of Tibetan scenery, Buddhist rituals and the Tibetan people (many amazing faces on view, to be sure).
  29. Broken Bridges
    Keith -- a consistent hit-maker who wrote the controversial 9/11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" -- has a future in movies if he wants it. Hopefully, they'll be better ones than this.
  30. The Protector
    Anytime Jaa isn't on screen, The Protector sputters.
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