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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. Bewitched
    An uninspired misfire of a TV-series knockoff that, despite its great cast and smart filmmakers, never manages to scare up much magic.
  7. 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.
  8. Rize
    A compelling, bittersweet hybrid of a movie.
  9. Yes
    This is the kind of movie that nice people call ambitious. Let's just leave it at that.
  10. 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.
  12. Herbie Fully Loaded
    If "Mean Girls" was Lohan's debutante ball, "Herbie" sits her back at the kiddie table. She's matured, and no longer fits in the Disney mold.
  13. The Deal
    Has the worst happy ending I've seen in a while.
  14. The Perfect Man
    I've had the unique pleasure of reviewing almost all of Duff's movies, and if there's one thing to say about the girl, she's consistent: nice, sweet, blond, inoffensive and uninspiring.
  15. Heights
    These are not people me and you and everyone we know know--these are "short version" people, characters who comfort each other by quoting Shakespeare.
  16. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    It's a familiar dance, but something only July could invent, a vignette much like her characters: beautiful, flawed, organic--fine alone but better with the others.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Summer of Love
    It's all very mesmerizing, for them and us.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Talent Given Us
    One fears, however, that not every uncomfortable scene was scripted, and that we have just been privy to some awfully private moments. It makes for uneasy viewing, sure, but it's one of the most compelling rides around.
  19. King of the Corner
    Moments of this film reminded me of Alexander Payne's great library of male dysfunction -- "Election," "About Schmidt," "Sideways" -- not because King of the Corner actually reaches Payne's plane, but because I wish it had tried.
  20. Batman Begins
    Nolan is a fascinating, offbeat choice for a huge movie franchise such as this. Just as Bale turns Batman into a near-tragic obsessive -- a Scarlet Pimpernel with the soul of a Hamlet and Monte Cristo -- Nolan turns Batman Begins into something much closer to Miller's "Dark Knight" interpretation.
  21. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    This romantic-comedy action movie is a fizzle.
  22. The Honeymooners
    The movie suffers from a devastating flaw for a comedy: It isn't very funny.
  23. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    There's really just not a lot here. I'm sure Racer's story will entertain the very wee ones -- but so do keys.
  24. Howl's Moving Castle
    Perfect for anyone with a youthful heart and a rich imagination.
  25. 5x2
    When you piece it all together, it becomes mildly fascinating.
  26. Café Lumière
    It's a film objet d'art to contemplate and treasure.
  27. High Tension
    Like all horror films, High Tension builds to a final, sobering flash of chaos that settles all scores. Some viewers will hate Aja's movie for its end-game reveal; others will love it for the very same reason.
  28. Lords of Dogtown
    The look and feel here is classic Hardwicke: gritty and dark, so as to fool you into thinking this film is serious business.
  29. Rock School
    Hilarious, inspired, frenzied.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Apres Vous (After You)
    A sweet, if dramatically overlong trifle.
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