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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. Sir! No Sir!
    Sir! No Sir! honors those who fought, then questioned the morality of that fight, then joined the national protest.
  2. 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.
  3. Basic Instinct 2
    Once the credits are done rolling it's a dour, enervated mystery, selling the old cat-and-mouse games.
  4. ATL
    If "Roll Bounce" and "Boyz n the Hood" fell in love and had a PG-13 baby, it would be ATL.
  5. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    This "Ice Age" is still a good movie (especially for kids) with top-of-the-tech CGI.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. Adam & Steve
    A mostly bland, sporadically crude, by-the-numbers romantic comedy about two gay men in love.
  10. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    With humor, honesty and awe, Feuerzeig's portrait may love Daniel Johnston, but it won't give his parents much hope.
  11. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    Too cute, too transparent, too precious and ultimately too much.
  12. Iowa
    A flashy-looking low-budget indie about drugs, love and crime in small-town Iowa. But, speaking as an ex-small-town Midwesterner, I found it hard to buy.
  13. Iron Island
    A powerful symbolic drama.
  14. Drawing Restraint 9
    As visually stunning as it is, "DR9" is also more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and no discernible plot.
  15. Inside Man
    The best scene in Inside Man is one of the simplest, a cat-and-mouser, wherein the hostage negotiator played by Washington pays a visit to Foster's wily manipulator. These two play it so cool, yet so clearly enjoy each other's onscreen company, it's a ticklish reminder of the simple pleasures of screen acting.
  16. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    Democracy might not really come from a bottle of shampoo, but "Beauty Academy" teaches us that, sometimes, mascara really matters.
  17. Lonesome Jim
    As a director, Buscemi is drier than he is as a performer: more quietly funny, less intense and sometimes weirdly compassionate.
  18. L'Enfant (The Child)
    Like all the Dardenne s' films, L'Enfant embraces a peculiarly ascetic brand of what, in other filmmakers' hands, might seem like cheap melodrama.
  19. The Godfather of Green Bay
    Though the movie is pretty stereotypical and sometimes crude, it also has a sweet laid-back temper. It has amusing moments.
  20. Stoned
    It's a depressing story made even more of a downer by the absence of any Stones-performed music from their prime '60s years.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    American Gun
    The structural sibling to Paul Haggis' race relations opus ("Crash"), but beyond the similarly interwoven vignettes, it's a different animal altogether: messier, more complicated and ultimately more interesting.
  22. Find Me Guilty
    Lumet has retained a lifetime of technique and sharp instincts regarding how to make a courtroom full of people worth watching.
  23. She's the Man
    It's a cute romantic comedy, just as Shakespeare intended.
  24. V for Vendetta
    Finally, a film to unite movie-mad members of Al Qaeda with your neighbor's kid, the one with the crush on Natalie Portman.
  25. Thank You for Smoking
    The first film in a long time with a true gift of gab. A lot of the time people actually talk fast in it. Its wisecracks actually crack wise.
  26. Take My Eyes
    An extraordinarily truthful and piercing drama.
  27. Don't Come Knocking
    There's something a little absurd about this story, but for me, it's endearingly goofy.
  28. Failure to Launch
    Cursed with an honest title, Failure to Launch waves a white flag in scene after scene, declaring surrender. We give up! We do not know how to make a decent mainstream romantic comedy!
  29. The Hills Have Eyes
    The ratings board gets all twisted up about sex and skin, yet it cannot give you or your kids enough ax blades to the cranium. This week's evidence: the remake of the old Wes Craven horror item, The Hills Have Eyes, which should not be rated R. It should be rated NC-17, or ITTS-OW, which stands for Is This Thing Sadistic, Or What?
  30. The Shaggy Dog
    In movies as in life, superior technology doesn't necessarily trump humor, magic or really shaggy dogs.
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