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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. 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.
  2. Iron Island
    A powerful symbolic drama.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Lonesome Jim
    As a director, Buscemi is drier than he is as a performer: more quietly funny, less intense and sometimes weirdly compassionate.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. Find Me Guilty
    Lumet has retained a lifetime of technique and sharp instincts regarding how to make a courtroom full of people worth watching.
  12. She's the Man
    It's a cute romantic comedy, just as Shakespeare intended.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Take My Eyes
    An extraordinarily truthful and piercing drama.
  16. Don't Come Knocking
    There's something a little absurd about this story, but for me, it's endearingly goofy.
  17. 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!
  18. 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?
  19. The Shaggy Dog
    In movies as in life, superior technology doesn't necessarily trump humor, magic or really shaggy dogs.
  20. Ask the Dust
    Eccentric, miscast (though stimulatingly so), not for all tastes but far from flavorless.
  21. Duck Season
    A highly satisfying miniature. Its subject may be adolescence, and some of its pot-smoking, kick-back humor is adolescent too--in a good way. But the film's calm and witty visual rhythm offers a rueful awareness of time passing and of time wasted, in ways that people tend not to appreciate fully until long after they've wasted it.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    There is some directorial skill here--Argento should be congratulated for a few interesting storytelling choices--but the end result feels grimy and strangely pathetic.
  23. Evil
    Bullying is not easy to watch on screen, even--or perhaps especially--if the viewer had the fortune to avoid either side of the bully/bullied equation.
  24. Shakespeare Behind Bars
    The power of art to redeem the pain and cruelty of life is demonstrated to enormous effect inShakespeare Behind Bars.
  25. The Fallen
    It's an ensemble piece with a dark, salty mood that reminded me of Robert Altman and Robert Aldrich, with a touch of Francis Ford Coppola. It's notably non-"gung ho."
  26. 16 Blocks
    Willis never develops a rapport with Def, and in the end it's not the predictable action but this lack of chemistry and camaraderie that sinks 16 Blocks.
  27. Aquamarine
    Like its title heroine, it's sparkly, pretty and flirty--but often all wet.
  28. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    An uplifting, funny and engaging star-studded affair.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deep Sea
    It's all about the pictures. Those images create a vision of nature that even a strip miner would want to conserve.
  30. Merry Christmas
    Though it's not the great film "Grand Illusion" is, and though it may strike some as a little schmaltzy, it still has some of that earlier film's deep feeling and empathy for soldiers trapped in the jaws of war and for the joys of Christmas--for believers and non-believers alike.
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