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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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Side Effects
    There is a great, even revolutionary movie to be made about pharmaceutical companies in America. Side Effects is definitely not it.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stick It
    Stick It reels from its own frenetic pace. The music is loud, the camera cuts are incessant and everything seems geared toward distracting us from what's going on onscreen. Which is not much.
  3. United 93
    The superb United 93, from the British writer-director Paul Greengrass, does not waste time defining the undefinable. Nor does it strain for poetry when, with this story, prose is enough.
  4. Akeelah and the Bee
    Predictable, corny and formulaic...Yet this latest triumph of the spelling-bee spirit, like last year's earnest, flawed film version of "Bee Season," features a film-saving performance where it counts most: from the kid playing the kid with big brain and even bigger heart.
  5. RV
    Robin Williams is such a great comic virtuoso that it can almost hurt to see him straining to pump life into a conventional, uninspired, sometimes-goofy big-studio comedy such as RV.
  6. The Lost City
    Throbbing with music, seething with anger and romance, The Lost City is a film that breaks your heart, bewilders, alienates and ravishes you by turns.
  7. Water
    The writer-director doesn't raise her voice, even as she firmly condemns the injustice. Water seduces us with its beauty and sorrow.
  8. Lady Vengeance
    A comedy of evil and strange redemption, Lady Vengeance makes sure that we feel the pain, that we know what it's like to unreasonably suffer, because those are the rules of its mad, wounding, vengeful world.
  9. Army of Shadows
    A film masterpiece, restored more than three decades after its French release, "Army" remains a superb, coolly accurate portrait of a living hell recalled by two men who knew it well and record it truly, Melville and novelist Joseph Kessel.
  10. 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.
  11. 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."
  12. Three Times
    Three Times is great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Mongolian Ping Pong
    A tender, visually stunning comedy-drama.
  17. The Wild
    It has a good director, snazzy visuals and some really funny animals, and that's at least half the battle.
  18. 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.
  19. Hard Candy
    High-minded sleaze, the film deceives you with its first 10 minutes, which are interestingly creepy.
  20. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. The Sisters
    The Sisters isn't just bad Chekhov; it's bad Chekhov modernized and then plunked in front of a camera.
  26. Lucky Number Slevin
    The talk is witty, the twists are ingenious, the look and the mood are drop-dead.
  27. Take the Lead
    The latest ballroom dance-fever picture isn't very good, but some of the dancing is fun.
  28. 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.
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