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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The Devil Wears Prada
    It's an occasion for Streep to play against a stereotype, and win. It's a rout, in fact.
  7. 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.
  11. 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.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Waist Deep
    The performances are pretty good--with the exception of the nauseatingly sweet H. Hunter Hall (the son of the director) as Junior and a one-note scowl from rapper The Game, who plays Meat--and the screenplay, by Hall and Darin Scott, has some genuinely funny moments.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Two Drifters
    With a weak script, utterly unsympathetic characters and a nonsensical plot, it can barely keep plodding along.
  14. The Road to Guantanamo
    It's a fervent, topical political drama of extraordinary impact and ferocity.
  15. The Great New Wonderful
    The story lines don't intersect in that schematic, "Crash"-y way, which is refreshing. Less refreshing is the neat-and-tidiness of the individual exchanges in Sam Catlin's script.
  16. The Forsaken Land
    A stark, lyrical and affecting portrait of war's aftermath.
  17. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    I'm Your Man has at its spiritual center a troubadour with a distinctive, cagey mellowness about him.
  18. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    For all its crashes and flash, this is a movie that drifts away as we watch it. Muscle cars and all, it's often a waste of gas.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    When the humans have the sense to keep quiet, and the animals are doing their shtick, there's great fun to be had.
  20. The Lake House
    This is a project whose elements, from concept to script to casting, refuse to follow the usual formulas, which is good, yet they never quite cohere.
  21. Nacho Libre
    The film is easy to take and easy to forget, even with Black running around Oaxaca in turquoise wrestling tights.
  22. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
    The film's tone veers from misjudged sincerity to shrill sketch comedy of the broadest stripe.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Only Human
    The film's snappy action and frank sexuality are reminiscent of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," while the mordant humor and conflicting identities are vintage Allen.
  24. Wordplay
    There's genuine suspense and a lot of humor.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Cars
    Whatever you do, don't leave before watching the snippets that run during the closing credits--the self-referential, tongue in cheek "outtakes" are quite possibly the funniest part of this movie--a visual stunner that seems to have misplaced its heart.
  26. A Prairie Home Companion
    Like his recent, elegant dance film "The Company," A Prairie Home Companion will appeal especially to those who are not story-dependent. Altman's sidewinding tribute to a surprisingly hardy 32-year-old public radio phenomenon is like a 105-minute putter in the garden, with a few songs and some jokes.
  27. Agnes and His Brothers
    It's a slick, ambitious movie that doesn't always nail all the many moods and themes it's after.
  28. Autumn
    With its quick fades and creamy lighting, Autumn is all about looking good. McGee may well have strong films in him, but this one feels pretentious and gassy.
  29. The Heart of the Game
    If you or any kid over the age of 10 has even a half-interest in the definition of the word "teamwork," as well as the words "real-life suspense," this is the movie.
  30. Psychopathia Sexualis
    An independent American art film that seems to be masquerading as Victorian-era pornography--and it's not quite as interesting or provocative as that description might make it sound.
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