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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. Police Beat
    An offbeat, poetic piece that eschews the terse, hard-boiled style of the standard cop movie or TV show for something softer-centered and more nakedly emotional.
  2. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    It is a black comedy, among the blackest. It is also more grueling in some stretches than anything in "United 93."
  3. Three Times
    Three Times is great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge.
  4. American Dreamz
    Grant, playing a variation on Simon Cowell, resident meanie on "American Idol" and its inspiration, Britain's "Pop Idol," does what's required with seedy panache. Yet the characterization, both as written and acted, lacks a spark.
  5. The Sentinel
    Amid the nervousness Douglas and Sutherland do what they can to enliven their warring stereotypes. And now and then, blessedly, The Sentinel nudges toward camp.
  6. Somersault
    Erotic, poetic and light on its feet. It's a portrayal of a runaway teenager's sexual initiation, and though it comes close to being exploitive, it keeps dancing away.
  7. Mongolian Ping Pong
    A tender, visually stunning comedy-drama.
  8. The Wild
    It has a good director, snazzy visuals and some really funny animals, and that's at least half the battle.
  9. Kinky Boots
    Directed by Julian Jarrold and co-written by Tim Firth ("Calendar Girls"), the movie is quite enjoyable, effortlessly well-done on every level, even moving at times, but relatively light weight.
  10. Hard Candy
    High-minded sleaze, the film deceives you with its first 10 minutes, which are interestingly creepy.
  11. The Notorious Bettie Page
    It's a joy to see so many cheerful and contented characters on screen, especially on a screen that looks this good.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Look Both Ways
    Watt's direction is stylish, and her choices feel sure-handed.
  13. Mountain Patrol
    This largely non-verbal picture uses only as many words (spoken in Mandarin and Tibetan, with English subtitles) as necessary, and draws you in as surely as one of his characters, in an amazing sequence, is drawn into.
  14. La Mujer de Mi Hermano
    Some movies sell and you don't know why. With La Mujer de mi Hermano, a big-screen romantic drama with the aura of a nicely steamed telenovela, you know why: because the three stars look good in plush white bathrobes, that's why.
  15. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    Sam Dunn's unabashed wet kiss to his favorite genre of music, heavy metal, a.k.a. devil's music.
  16. The Sisters
    The Sisters isn't just bad Chekhov; it's bad Chekhov modernized and then plunked in front of a camera.
  17. Lucky Number Slevin
    The talk is witty, the twists are ingenious, the look and the mood are drop-dead.
  18. Take the Lead
    The latest ballroom dance-fever picture isn't very good, but some of the dancing is fun.
  19. Friends with Money
    Acutely perceptive and slyly quick-witted.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    On a Clear Day
    While On a Clear Day can claim both a surplus of heart and adequate brains, it comes up lacking in the courage department.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    When Do We Eat?
    By the time the ending rolls around, as we watch the slow unclamping of jaws from jugulars, we feel exhausted. Imagine how the actors must have felt.
  22. Sir! No Sir!
    Sir! No Sir! honors those who fought, then questioned the morality of that fight, then joined the national protest.
  23. I Am a Sex Addict
    A confessional film that's almost too confessional--is like getting buttonholed by a casual acquaintance at a party and then subjected to a flood of highly intimate revelations that just don't stop.
  24. Basic Instinct 2
    Once the credits are done rolling it's a dour, enervated mystery, selling the old cat-and-mouse games.
  25. ATL
    If "Roll Bounce" and "Boyz n the Hood" fell in love and had a PG-13 baby, it would be ATL.
  26. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    This "Ice Age" is still a good movie (especially for kids) with top-of-the-tech CGI.
  27. Slither
    Aside from Henry, Gunn's cast is on a collective wavelength. Banks, whose perkiness carries a slightly demented edge, matches up well with Nathan Fillion, who plays the lovelorn police chief.
  28. Brick
    Challenging to follow, at best.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    The result: a swirling, kaleidoscopic take on a familiar concept, and a raucous, you-are-there atmosphere.
  30. Adam & Steve
    A mostly bland, sporadically crude, by-the-numbers romantic comedy about two gay men in love.
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