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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. Our Brand Is Crisis
    Proves, unhappily enough, how U.S.-style media politics is spreading around the world.
  2. Sorry, Haters
    A preposterous screwball psychological drama.
  3. Tsotsi
    It's compelling material, even if you don't completely buy Tsotsi's transition.
  4. Doogal
    The polite word for all this is "repurposing," a euphemism for "hauling someone else's garbage."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Madea's Family Reunion
    Gussied up for the big time, Perry now is aiming himself squarely at a mainstream, middle-class female audience -- with some sops for their dates.
  6. Running Scared
    I have a sneaking suspicion that Running Scared could become a cult classic.
  7. Unknown White Male
    Equally fascinating and frustrating.
  8. Workingman's Death
    It's not exactly a good time at the movies, and even as pure education, it's a rather dull film with very little dialogue, but Glawogger does succeed in capturing the images, sounds and even imagined scents (oh, those burning goats) of contemporary hard labor, work that has become nearly invisible to us cubicle jockeys.
  9. Black Orpheus
    A film that art-house audiences in 1959 loved madly. And who can blame them? A buoyant, searingly colorful retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in Rio de Janiero, writer-director's Marcel Camus' movie is a romance heightened by its backdrop.
  10. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    In many respects, Forgiving Dr. Mengele is an ordinary documentary, stylistically and technically unexceptional. But its subject enobles the work. So does Kor : determined, indomitable, and by the end of the movie, a symbol herself of both survival and mercy.
  11. Kirikou and the Wild Beasts
    Quite similar to the first film, but this is one time when a reprise is welcome. Ages 7-11, but actually, it's for everyone. [27 Oct 2006, p.C5]
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  12. Eight Below
    It's formulaic and frequently over the top, 30 minutes too long and altogether too slow, but oh when those gorgeous, graceful pups tilt their heads just so … love.
  13. Freedomland
    First-rate actors bail out second-rate directors all the time, and Freedomland serves as the latest example.
  14. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    A contemporary Russian movie that you could honestly call revolutionary, more for its style than its politics.
  15. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Everything about Sophie Scholl screams "martyr" and "saint." Jentsch will have none of it. Hers is a performance of supreme emotional control, yet clear emotional fire. The actress makes the icon human.
  16. Winter Passing
    It's just OK. Not great. Not awful. Not particularly memorable. Not entirely forgettable. Just OK.
  17. Curious George
    A mild off-season cinematic bid for the young and the restless.
  18. Final Destination 3
    Final Destination 3 is a gorefest that should either slake your worst appetites or drive you to the exits.
  19. Firewall
    This movie, an efficient time-passer at least until the plot starts obsessing over the fate of the family dog, is more into gadgets than people.
  20. The Pink Panther
    This Pink Panther really doesn't have to achieve the heights of the original; it just has to be funny on its own terms. But it pales there too. Kline, a master of comic hypocrisy, deserves more screen time, Emily Mortimer is wasted as Clouseau's adoring assistant Nicole and Knowles is over indulged as Xania.
  21. London
    Newbie director Richards shoots all the women like slabs of meat, and his self-seriousness throughout London--some of it tries to be funny, a lot of it is funny by accident--borders on the delusional.
  22. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Pretty-near pure gold.
  23. The Fallen Idol (re-release)
    Of all the movies that try to take us into the mind and viewpoint of a child, Carol Reed's 1948 The Fallen Idol, adapted by Graham Greene from his short story, is one of the most ingenious.
  24. A Good Woman
    A tedious picture, redeemed in part by Tom Wilkinson's performance as Tuppy--he's the sole cast member who doesn't give birth to every epigram--and by the hats.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Something New
    Thanks to Hamri's light touch and the considerable chemistry between Lathan and Baker, it's easy to forgive these missteps--leaving the film plenty of goodwill to spare.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Tamara
    There are few words to describe the awfulness of this movie, but let's give it the old college try: dismal, depressing, embarrassing and utterly lacking in any artistic or social worth.
  27. Who Gets to Call It Art?
    Shot with a Peter Greenaway-like austere impudence and edited brilliantly (by Jed Parker), this is an entertaining movie, and a moving one--even if, like me, you're not especially fond of these paintings or that scene.
  28. Bubble
    An odd little movie and a good one, worthy for what it is and potentially groundbreaking for how it's being made available.
  29. Annapolis
    The Navy will no doubt like what it sees, yet a project such as this should impart some sense of the times we live in.
  30. Nanny McPhee
    Nanny McPhee maintains a satisfying, all-ages balance between broad comedy and human warmth.
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