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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. Brothers of the Head
    Facetious form dictates hollow content in Brothers of the Head.
  2. 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.
  4. 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").
  5. 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.
  7. Clerks II
    More sentimental and ruder than its predecessor, though its brand of raunch tends to curdle halfway out of the characters' mouths.
  8. Lady in the Water
    The film is a rogue hunk of hooey.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Azumi
    A movie of such cheerful craziness and nonstop ferocity that you can't take it seriously for a second.
  12. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Time to Leave
    Time to Leave may not have made me cry, but it's affecting nonetheless.
  17. 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.
  18. 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").
  19. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    Two of the big action set-pieces easily outdo anything from the previous edition.
  20. A Scanner Darkly
    It's one of the most faithful movie adaptations of any Dick story to date, and it comes from the scariest of all his books, as well as the truest.
  21. Beowulf & Grendel
    While cinema may be a visual medium foremost it's also an aural one, and the cacaphony of dialects sounds not so much "universal" or interestingly multicultural as simply all over the map.
  22. Heading South
    The racial and sexual politics of Heading South may trouble some audiences; Cantet is definitely not a moralist in the usual sense.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
    You don't need to be a soccer fan to, like Cosmos fans, fall for this captivating tale, told in "Rashomon"-like style.
  24. Islam: What the West Needs to Know
    Has one point to make: Islam is a bad, baaaaaaaaad religion, and it's a miracle you're even alive and reading this, so intent most Muslims are on your destruction.
  25. The Devil Wears Prada
    It's an occasion for Streep to play against a stereotype, and win. It's a rout, in fact.
  26. Superman Returns
    Superman Returns has everything going for it except surprise.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Room
    Williams does a fine job with her role. I was pulling for her throughout her dreary journey. It's too bad it didn't get anywhere.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Strangers with Candy
    Easily the wittiest, most ridiculous and best-written comedy of the year.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wassup Rockers
    Very different than "Kids." Where the earlier film was exhausting in its nihilism, the latest retains a good-natured charm.
  30. Click
    Aside from influences such as "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life," Click is so much like the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty"--Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe worked on both--the writers could sue themselves for plagiarism and then write a screenplay about it.
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