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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. Milwaukee, Minnesota
    Maybe if Mindel had focused more on his characters, less on the silly "noir" trickery, his film would do Garity justice. As it is, go find better work, kid.
  2. Caterina va in città
    Though "Caterina" is unusually well-acted and crafted for this kind of movie--and both more than casually insightful and irreverent about modern Italian school life, teenage mores and politics--Giancarlo is the one character who makes the movie special.
  3. Cinderella Man
    Ultimately, it's Paul Giamatti ("Sideways"), playing Braddock's manager Joe Gould, who shines. In another actor's hands, Gould would be a secondary character lost in Crowe's shadow, but Giamatti outshines his co-stars at times with his everyman looks and delivery.
  4. Deep Blue
    In terms of pure visual scope, Deep Blue might be one of the best IMAX films never created for the IMAX screen.
  5. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    More often then not, the relationships and performances are strong and moving, with an effect both breezy-fun and profound.
  6. The White Diamond
    One of the year's best documentaries.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Longest Yard
    Where the original was a serious film with funny moments, this movie isn't sure if it's a drama or comedy, too incompetently rendered to be both. What it accomplishes instead is to be nothing at all. An excessive, stupid, empty-headed nothing.
  8. Madagascar
    The film never gets going. It's too slow and plodding for kids--even too obvious.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ninth Day
    Though The Ninth Day longs for a grander scope, it never lifts much beyond Kremer's personal dilemma.
  10. Genesis
    Capable of enthralling.
  11. Saving Face
    Younger viewers might be annoyed with Saving Face for not being more in-your-face progressive and edgy. Older audiences will be happy that it's not.
  12. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    All the "Star Wars" movies will continue to entertain us for many years to come. They were grand fun, and this last one's a corker.
  13. Mindhunters
    Mark my words: Mindhunters will do for psycho-thrillers what "Showgirls" did for stripper movies.
  14. Monster-in-Law
    It would take the dark wit of a Billy Wilder or a Coen brother--or at least a Neil Simon--to put across this kind of material.
  15. Unleashed
    Unleashed is like an old dog: No new tricks.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    My Mother
    If you are at all squeamish about incest and/or prefer sex scenes without violent undertones, you should avoid this movie.
  17. Layer Cake
    Don't let the fast-and-loose vibe fool you: Right up to its operatic finale, this is one tight one last job.
  18. Tell Them Who You Are
    Chicago-bred Haskell is such an intense, contentious, prickly figure, he would tend to take over any film portrait, and he definitely dominates here.
  19. Kicking & Screaming
    It's Ferrell who is the vehicle, a mow-you-down comic engine, and everyone else is just along for the ride in this marginally effective, starkly unoriginal family comedy.
  20. Kingdom of Heaven
    A gargantuan epic, a historical adventure-drama of overwhelming visual grandeur.
  21. Mysterious Skin
    An absorbing story. Even though it takes you to places you may not want to go, the film never loses its human touch--that feel of skin on skin or of the past inescapably invading the present.
  22. House of Wax
    Gratuitous gore and young, nubile flesh bind together a cardboard plot.
  23. Brothers
    While the film's strength lies in an ensemble effort, it's really Sarah and Jannik who provide the film with its most compelling characters, its momentum and, ultimately, its heart.
  24. Crash
    Like Robert Altman's "Short Cuts," it is an all-star fresco, but the stars--none of whom carries the movie--get to play the kind of morally ambivalent, sometimes unlikable parts that big-name actors usually avoid.
  25. xXx: State of the Union
    What isn't scary--or exciting, amusing or fun--is XXX: State of the Union, a movie so preposterous, cliché-packed and over the top that it makes the original "XXX" seem as good as the original "State of the Union."
  26. Another Road Home
    Politics hovers over every moment of Another Road Home, Elon's layered, loving and deeply personal documentary about her quest to find the Palestinian caregiver who raised her.
  27. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Its gorgeous black-and-white photography, dirty and matte, will almost convince you that anything this slow, small and bereft of dialogue must be important.
  28. The Holy Girl
    Takes a potentially explosive subject and does it subtly and perceptively.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wild Safari 3D
    One caution: If you get motion sickness, beware, as much of the ride is bumpy and there's some hill-climbing and -descending that some might find disturbing, even in the comfort of an IMAX theater seat.
  30. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Even if this new version of "Hitchhiker" doesn't quite capture it all, you'll still want to stick your thumb out and catch a ride.
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