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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. The Bridesmaid
    A classic of realistic terror, in which passion and murder can't lie buried.
  2. My Country, My Country
    The subject of Iraq haunts and divides us so much these days that a film like Laura Poitras' documentary My Country My Country is valuable, no matter its level of achievement.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Quinceañera
    Quinceanera took both the dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it's easy to see why.
  4. Boynton Beach Club
    Here Seidelman's more interested in warm and fuzzy than in carbonation. That's fine, as far as this modest picture goes. But the actors deserve more, and better.
  5. Miami Vice
    It's refreshing to hear some old-fashioned percussive tension in service of a director who knows what he's doing. Even when the screenwriter is losing his way.
  6. Scoop
    Scoop isn't going for complexity. It's a trifle.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    John Tucker Must Die
    Reasonably entertaining.
  8. The Ant Bully
    It lacks a sharp look and satisfyingly fleshed-out story and compensates with one numbing round of insect- or human-based peril after another.
  9. 13 Tzameti
    Creating a mood that suggests an unholy mix of Czech novelist Franz Kafka, American pulp fictionist Jim Thompson and French heist moviemaker Jean-Pierre Melville, Babluani's story is about the perils of get-rich-quick schemes.
  10. America: Freedom to Fascism
    Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism can't even think straight, it's so mad.
  11. Another Gay Movie
    Combine the uninhibited raunchiness of John Waters with the gross-out zeal of the Farrelly brothers and you get Another Gay Movie, a parody and comedy more numbingly disgusting than funny.
  12. Brothers of the Head
    Facetious form dictates hollow content in Brothers of the Head.
  13. I Like Killing Flies
    The self-taught man behind the griddle, his wife, Eve, and their five seen-it-all kids emerge as the ensemble of the year.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Little Miss Sunshine
    Funny, and thoughtful, and deeply, viscerally satisfying.
  15. Darshan: The Embrace
    Jan Kounen, the maker of Darshan, is a French director with flashy credentials, including music videos, commercials, horror shorts, violent gangster movies ("Dobermann") and offbeat westerns ("Blueberry").
  16. Been Rich All My Life
    It's a modest but highly enjoyable tribute.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Shadowboxer
    Gruesome and supremely disjointed foray into the world of hired assassins.
  18. Clerks II
    More sentimental and ruder than its predecessor, though its brand of raunch tends to curdle halfway out of the characters' mouths.
  19. Lady in the Water
    The film is a rogue hunk of hooey.
  20. Monster House
    Set around Halloween, Monster House manages to cull bits and pieces from Hammer, Hitchcock and the old-dark-house genre of 19th Century literature and early 20th Century stage and film.
  21. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    You'd have to go back to "My Stepmother Is an Alien" to find a male fantasy/nightmare this off-putting.
  22. Azumi
    A movie of such cheerful craziness and nonstop ferocity that you can't take it seriously for a second.
  23. Little Man
    I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh at some of this--though it's not as funny as Laurel and Hardy as toddlers in "Brats." But I wanted to slap myself whenever I did.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    You, Me and Dupree
    The end product feels less funny than formulaic.
  25. Changing Times
    This magnificent pair are the heart of Techine's film, and the sense of frayed, aging beauty and handsomeness they now carry helps project the picture's main theme: the imperishability of true love.
  26. The Oh in Ohio
    One of those movies that promises much but doesn't deliver. Despite a lot of misplaced talent, this movie is as silly and forced as its title.
  27. Time to Leave
    Time to Leave may not have made me cry, but it's affecting nonetheless.
  28. Edmond
    Mamet is a writer who turns off some audiences, and almost everything that might bother them is in Edmond: foul language, raging machismo, violence and seemingly bigoted tirades. But almost everything audiences like about him is there too: candor, suspense, ideas, crackling slang, vivid characters.
  29. Gabrielle
    If all this potent drama recalls Bergman, the beautifully articulated staging and setting suggest that master of operatic social-sexual drama, Luchino Visconti ("The Leopard").
  30. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    Two of the big action set-pieces easily outdo anything from the previous edition.
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