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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. The Island
    Classic Bay, except it's missing the crass director's fine-tuned rhythm, his feel for adrenaline, his breakneck edits and sense of humor.
  2. Bad News Bears
    The new Bad News Bears may not make you cheer, but it should provide laughs and a good time. Isn't that what some movies are all about?
  3. 9 Songs
    Ingenious with his use of music and hypnotic pacing, Winterbottom keeps us in his world as usual. But this time that world feels ever more gratuitous, meandering and puzzling, with sex that's less and less authentic even though it's real.
  4. The Edukators
    For a film that points out so much wrong with German society and shows such dubious, dangerous behavior, it leaves the audience with high spirits and a sense of crazy exhilaration.
  5. Last Days
    The poetry of Last Days has a stoned grandeur.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    November
    The fact is, neither Harrison or scriptwriter Benjamin Brand is very honest with the audience.
  7. The Devil's Rejects
    Evil isn't this boring.
  8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    A peach of a story delightfully imagined by Dahl and lushly realized by Burton. It's full of witty or awesome scenes, flights of fancy and characters either totally, lovably sweet or outrageously, humorously rotten.
  9. Wedding Crashers
    Walken is an odd choice for a D.C. power player, wasting his creepiness on this straight, respectable role.
  10. God's Sandbox
    If you're looking for purple romance with a social conscience, it doesn't get much more purple than God's Sandbox.
  11. Happy Endings
    Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy, but he bogs down every character with so much baggage that it's impossible to render them honestly without the captions.
  12. The Warrior
    Most of all, it's a film for moviegoers who love powerful stories and ravishing imagery: timeless, eternal, the kind of tales handed from one generation and culture to the next -- and alive in all of them.
  13. Dark Water
    As a sheer ghostly thriller, it's mostly a spell-binder, but I was disappointed at the ending.
  14. Fantastic Four
    I don't think it will seriously disappoint longtime fans, but it made me itchy as I watched it unfold in ways that the comics never did when I read them in the '60s.
  15. The Beautiful Country
    In the end, it's a heartening, rewarding experience to watch this journey--and, especially, its end.
  16. Saraband
    If it's not an actual masterpiece, it's at least the next best thing, a fully characteristic, fully alive work by a master of his art.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Chronicles
    This is an all-Latino film--a rarity and a pleasure--but what's most curious and refreshing is that Cordero allows the Latinos to naturally embrace their nationalities, accents and cultural peculiarities.
  18. Murderball
    Think "Mad Max" in wheelchairs.
  19. Rebound
    Bewilderingly bad.
  20. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    It's a thriller that comes at you with gut-clutching ferocity, spewing blood and sex, shaking you up and scrambling your responses.
  21. The World
    With rich irony, The World juxtaposes the teasing, grand images of the outside world's wonders with the insular community and the mundane lives of the park employees.
  22. Undead
    If only they didn't cannibalize their source material so much, then take an extreme rule reversal just before the end credits, they might have achieved something original, rather than just a fan-fiction derivation of George A. Romero's canon.
  23. War of the Worlds
    Rivets and amazes, even if it falls just frustratingly short of the mind-expanding grandeur it could have had.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tropical Malady
    Extremely slow--unbearably so at certain points. And even when there's no action, there's very little dialogue, and we're asked to follow the disjointed and dreamlike story line without the help of anything resembling a narrative.
  25. Bewitched
    An uninspired misfire of a TV-series knockoff that, despite its great cast and smart filmmakers, never manages to scare up much magic.
  26. Land of the Dead
    Romero's newest is a horror movie for hard-core fans of the gory and the gruesome and a classic genre film for genre aficionados.
  27. Rize
    A compelling, bittersweet hybrid of a movie.
  28. Yes
    This is the kind of movie that nice people call ambitious. Let's just leave it at that.
  29. March of the Penguins
    Mostly it's an incredible tale of ritual and perseverance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Lila Says
    Far less interesting than its premise, primarily because we never know what anyone is really thinking.
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