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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. Ushpizin
    The new Israeli movie Ushpizin, a film about man's clumsiness and God's grace, is a touching and amusing tale that expands our horizon and also should open our hearts.
  2. Domino
    It's not so important to follow plot twists--I couldn't--but the emotional thrust Kelly and Scott want to drive home is plain: Once Domino is asked to use guns and knives and nunchucks for a purpose outside the law, she's alarmed, appalled, aghast.
  3. Elizabethtown
    So many romantic comedies come and go without making the slightest impression. Elizabethtown is not one of them; I found it galling.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Where the Truth Lies
    Entertaining and even affecting, Where the Truth Lies is a failure primarily because it doesn't do justice to its originator, Rupert Holmes' dishy 2003 novel, which shared both of the aforementioned characteristics but also was extremely funny. The film, directed by Atom Egoyan, is not.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    North Country
    A potentially great movie--with talent and plot points to spare--that settles for being just okay.
  6. Innocent Voices
    Quite affecting, even if it doesn't rank with classics like "Open City" or "Forbidden Games."
  7. Loggerheads
    In the third story, set in Asheville, N.C., that excellent actress Hunt guides us steadily through what could be a minefield of sentimentality.
  8. Nine Lives
    A disturbingly frank look at people and relationships in contemporary Los Angeles and a thrilling dramatic showcase for a brilliant cast.
  9. Summer Storm
    A contemporary teen summer romance with a modern sexual twist--though in many ways, it's just the same old malarkey.
  10. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    The result, then, is good, not great. But it is hard to come by good films about media and politics, and why the intersection thereof matters so much in a democracy.
  11. The Gospel
    Is this the modern version of "Going My Way," with those squabbling, heart-warming Irish Catholic priests mixing up pop songs and hymns? Well, in a way it almost is, though its mood is far different and it's set in a far different world that moves to a different tempo and has graver and more troubling social crises.
  12. In Her Shoes
    A great big wad of chick-lit gum, In Her Shoes gets by on the skill of its players.
  13. Waiting...
    Could have been a funny movie. There are a few truths about food-service that McKittrick gets right but doesn't fully exploit.
  14. Before the Fall
    The film is a competent but callow work dealing with a monstrous subject that automatically rejects callowness.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Never Been Thawed
    It has moments of Guest-like faux earnestness that instantly mark it as one of the smartest and most insightful comedies of the year. But imitation only takes you so far, and by the film's sagging final 30 minutes, it's evident "NBT" isn't quite up to the master's standards.
  16. Two for the Money
    It's a compelling drama, if only a little hollow. For my money, Pacino's bark is ultimately better than Two For the Money's bite.
  17. The Squid and the Whale
    Steering clear of phony melodrama and indie pretense, Baumbach captures a crisis in one family's life that, though it shakes the foundation, leaves all four Berkmans drifting toward highs and lows unknown, each of them only dimly aware that, no matter what the movies tell us, we never really come of age.
  18. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    For 40 minutes or so it's really good, in fact, as lovely and daft as the stop-motion animated W&G shorts that preceded it.
  19. Into the Blue
    Mad props to Peter Zuccarini, who headed the team of ocean-bound photographers and captured some remarkably vivid footage, and also to the actors, who spend plenty of time looking cool, calm and collected swimming with the predatory fishes.
  20. Capote
    The movie's excellence, a stylistic world apart from the strikingly photographed but rather hysterical 1967 film version of Capote's masterwork, is in capturing its subject without pinning him down.
  21. Going Shopping
    There's just enough neurotic or sharp badinage and Rodeo Drive realism to make it all go down easy.
  22. MirrorMask
    It's hollow.
  23. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    No one expects documentary realism in these memoir-to-movie transfers. It's reasonable, however, to expect more vibrant and expressive fictionalized treatment than this.
  24. The War Within
    The War Within has within it a war of its own, one between docudramatic truth and familiar melodrama, however low-keyed.
  25. Three Days of Rain
    A "Chekhovian" movie that's closer to the master's mood than many, it's also a jazzy, rainy day film that makes serious and amusing points about life and people in the midst of its downpour.
  26. The Greatest Game Ever Played
    About overcoming adversity and one's innermost fears. On this count, Paxton hits the ball squarely in capturing the psychology of his characters, but hooks it into the sand trap of effects and thematic overselling.
  27. Serenity
    A brash, funny, action-packed bit of sci-fi ecstasy--and a giant raspberry to the execs who let "Firefly" fall out of the sky.
  28. Flightplan
    A thriller of passive virtues, the steely intensity of Jodie Foster notwithstanding. It's not too violent. It's not assaultive. Even James Horner's music plays it cool.
  29. Roll Bounce
    The movie is a thing of honey and gloss, yet there's just enough heart in the central father/son relationship, and in the teenagers' ensemble interactions, to make it glide by.
  30. Dear Wendy
    It's a long slog, not because what the film says is provocative but because the technique is as slack as the writing.
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