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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. Gunner Palace
    Tucker has done a bang-up job, distancing and hypnotizing us with his frenzied, fragmented, sexy images. But war isn't a video game.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Walk on Water
    Despite the film's pat plot turns and instructional tone, there are moments of charm, thanks to the fetching, committed cast.
  3. Dear Frankie
    Doesn't revert to hairpin plot twists or other dramatic trickery to hook us in; Auerbach simply lets us live with her characters-which, it turns out, is reward enough.
  4. The Best of Youth
    A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic.
  5. Cursed
    More an uninspired letdown than a flabbergasting turkey... One reason for this lack of bite lies in the werewolves themselves. They're a bit too teddy-bearish, even oddly cuddly, and the fright scenes work better when you don't see much of them.
  6. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    The film may be bad-and mad-but it's not predictable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Other Side of the Street
    It's a rare combination of romance and sly social commentary, delivered with a raw emotional punch.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Up and Down
    All of these folks are damaged souls, trying their best to find purpose and forgiveness.
  9. Man of the House
    A sweetly benign comedy that allows the actor (Jones) to lampoon his tough guy image honed in "The Fugitive" and "U.S. Marshals."
  10. Constantine
    Though the story is potentially fascinating and the visuals sometimes spellbinding, the movie itself is stranded in the purgatory of the second-rate.
  11. Son of the Mask
    Even with a new leading man and a more family-friendly rating, some things never change: The Mask still stars Industrial Light & Magic.
  12. Downfall
    Downfall, whatever its shortcomings, bears strong witness to great evil. That is its triumph as a film.
  13. Schultze Gets the Blues
    The scenery is pretty and the locals endearing, but Schorr never gets past charming.
  14. Turtles Can Fly
    A beautiful, intensely moving film.
  15. Because of Winn-Dixie
    Tries hard to be sweet but plays like "Pollyanna" with fleas.
  16. Her Majesty
    Against "Whale Rider's" well-acted, intimate story, Gordon's film feels like an endless spiral of sub-par soap-opera acting, mired in trite, predictable dialogue.
  17. The Animation Show 2005
    When applied properly, short-form animation can bring dreams and nightmares to life like no other medium.
  18. Bride & Prejudice
    It's "knowingly" off-the-rails--and if you're in a tolerant or adventurous mood, very entertaining.
  19. Hitch
    The movie, like Hitch, tries to be cool, funny and sweet but falls on its face without generating any real sympathy, smarts or humor.
  20. Inside Deep Throat
    Full of groovy music and comic characters--many with a priceless reaction to Lovelace's oral party trick--but it hardly manages to say anything new or thoughtful.
  21. Uncle Nino
    It's all neat and sweet and one-dimensional, more the moral to a story than a story.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    The film is more than a lesson about overcoming bigotry and ignorance. It's also just a beautifully animated romp through the world of Pooh as created by A.A. Milne.
  23. Ong Bak
    Infusion of comedy elements keeps the story light, without dragging it into the cartoonish.
  24. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    The kind of well-crafted, character-driven work that wows regional film festival crowds and public television audiences but seldom gets seen outside those circles.
  25. The Wedding Date
    Wedding Date is neither good art, good entertainment nor even good trash.
  26. Nobody Knows
    Nobody Knows, by the often excellent Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, is one of those special movies that can give us a new way of seeing.
  27. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    McAvoy does his best with this subpar, heart-tugging material. At times his mix of easy charm and inner demon pulls Rory out from under the tired script, but those pesky dramatic forces keep pushing him back in for every predictable plot development.
  28. Sunset Story
    You probably won't find two more fascinating camera subjects, two livelier conversationalists or two richer, more rewarding, more engaging and inspiring companions in any movie, fiction or non-fiction, this year.
  29. Alone in the Dark
    That this bit of pustulence is based on a video game of the same name is no surprise. It explains the thin plot, characters and abundant gunplay.
  30. Hide and Seek
    Surprises with its intensity and grip.
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