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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. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    With husband and wife starring, you can't help but wonder which details here are autobiographical. No matter: This is obviously a deeply personal work for Attal, whose comic timing and passion can only serve him well both on screen and off.
  2. Sahara
    Action films can't be this consistently absurd, can't paint their heroes into such dangerous corners, from which only cocktails of luck and divine intervention can save them, over and over. It's a bad-faith bargain with the audience and bad storytelling.
  3. Kung Fu Hustle
    Chow's savagely funny cinematic love letter places Hong Kong legends Yuen Wah, Leung Siu Lung and former Bond girl Yuen Qiu in well-cast pivotal parts, establishing Kung Fu Hustle not only as an endearing homage to a genre's history, but an astonishing piece of cinema in its own right.
  4. Sin City
    Sin City is an evil place, full of awful people, an obsessive movie full of monomaniacal tough guys. Yet when Miller and Rodriguez move it into gear, noir lives.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dust to Glory
    Filmmaker Dana Brown's major error is that he doesn't just shut up and get out of the way.
  6. Control
    A highly exciting, visually alive thriller.
  7. Look at Me
    A witty and psychologically perceptive look at the Parisian literary scene.
  8. Beauty Shop
    The diversity of the Beauty Shop ensemble is a large part of what makes it so much fun to watch;
  9. Guess Who
    Just doesn't have the same zing.
  10. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    But the film disappoints, partly because it inspires such large expectations.
  11. D.E.B.S.
    So what started as a female "Agent Cody Banks" happily and seamlessly becomes so much more, with style and substance existing in unusual harmony for a spy spoof.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nina's Tragedies
    Watching Nina's Tragedies, an Israeli film that pocketed 11 of its country's Oscar-equivalents, is a rare but almost perverse experience.
  13. Oldboy
    It's a movie of such jaw-dropping violence, wild improbability and dazzling style it overpowers all resistance.
  14. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    An exhausting, predictable, even maddening moviegoing experience.
  15. Mondovino
    It's such a knowledgeable work and so pleasantly obsessed with its subject that it will interest even audiences whose attraction to wine is only casual.
  16. Ice Princess
    I'll describe the central characters in Disney's new ice-skating flick, Ice Princess, and you guess the plot.
  17. The Ring Two
    Despite some impressive technical achievements, it too looks like a movie with little reason for being.
  18. Melinda and Melinda
    Allen gives us at least half a classic comedy - more than we usually get at the movies these days - while having some elegant fun with an idea that has intrigued poets and smart alecks through the ages: the interchangeability of comedy and tragedy.
  19. Steamboy
    Though Katsuhiro Otomo's animated Victorian-era adventure Steamboy stars British characters, it's a Japanese film through and through.
  20. Hostage
    Good action movies live on style and excitement. But they also need credibility, and in Hostage, ALMOST a good genre piece, plausibility keeps getting slaughtered.
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  21. The Upside of Anger
    It's a bizarre but engaging fling.
  22. Millions
    One of the more delightful and satisfying family movies.
  23. In My Country
    A stirring, large-souled movie.
  24. The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    An irresistible Irish comedy, lovingly told, beautifully acted and graced with the perfect balance of chuckles and bittersweet heartache.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dot the I
    Despite some moments of genuine tension, Dot the i walks (and occasionally hops right over) a very fine line between thriller/drama and parody.
  26. Off the Map
    One of those sweet, intelligent, nicely made films.
  27. Robots
    Wildly inventive, sweetly subversive.
  28. Be Cool
    Even if you enjoyed the mean, funny 1995 John Travolta-Elmore Leonard crime comedy "Get Shorty"-and many of us did-this forced sequel isn't likely to help you repeat the experience.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Jacket
    A gripping drama that will leave thoughtful cinemagoers wrestling with basic Big Questions.
  30. The Pacifier
    Cheerful but mind-numbing.
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