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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. Carnage
    Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Jeepers Creepers II
    Horror movies don't have to make sense in the real world, but when you have to help their internal logic along this much, it's pretty much a cue for heckling -- or checking your watch.
  3. The Other Side of the Bed
    A smart, sprightly little movie with beguiling actors and few inhibitions. Though there's nothing startlingly new here, there's a freshness and vigor to the acting, and the crisscrossing love affairs hold your interest.
  4. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    Meadows clearly has a flair for working with actors and for depicting the rough-and-tumble of ordinary provincial lives. If he could go just a bit deeper, the truly great Midlands movie just might surface.
  5. Civil Brand
    Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence.
  6. Suddenly
    At first look, it's a stark and thin story of misguided youth. But give it a week. The girls stay with you, the small moments echo, and you realize that, though this movie doesn't lend itself to a punchy summary, it lends itself to the screen.
  7. Dog Days
    Be forewarned: Dog Days, like many of Seidel's films, will drive some moviegoers to rage and walkouts with its unrelentingly depressing tone. But it also a remarkable, deeply disturbing work by a brilliant filmmaker.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Don't Tempt Me
    If the filmmakers wanted to talk so much, they should have just gotten together for a long, anecdote-filled, wine-soaked Spanish dinner party and amused themselves.
  9. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    Painfully blasé coming-of-age story.
  10. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Rogowski's transition from youth-culture poster boy to murderer demands deeper analysis.
  11. Marci X
    The actors had little to work with in this passe social satire, but sharper performances might have saved Marci from total humorless ruin.
  12. Rana's Wedding
    Starts out slowly, unfolding a family history through the poetic use of black-and-white photographs -- blending the figures of Rana's ancestors into the frame as if they still watched the family.
  13. The Medallion
    A magic-meets-macho cop movie that's more gimmick than actual movie.
  14. My Boss's Daughter
    This is a movie that boggles the mind: a bad-taste comedy that makes the average effort by the Farrelly Brothers (mysteriously thanked in the credits) look like a Merchant-Ivory film.
  15. Thirteen
    An excellent, unforgettable film.
  16. Uptown Girls
    In Uptown Girls Murphy is like a puppy in traffic; you're confident she'll reach the curb but only because the cars are swerving, not because her moves are so deft.
  17. American Splendor
    Such a stylistic inconsistency might be bothersome in another film, but here it's just part of the texture.
  18. Passionada
    It's a good small film for intelligent audiences who like to watch the movie camera explore other regions and other communities -- something all our movies should do more often.
  19. Open Range
    A blend of the classical and the trite, the beautiful and tawdry, the genuinely moving and the cornball. Oddly, producer-director-star Costner often can't seem to tell the difference.
  20. Grind
    This movie is just not cool or hip or in any way extreme. Sitting through Grind is a real grind.
  21. Shaolin Soccer
    The movie overflows with action, slapstick and cliches, but the cliches never impede the action, and the slapstick is so expertly performed, it doesn't annoy you -- much.
  22. Freddy vs. Jason
    Succeeds as a guilty pleasure, a monster mash that clobbers the recent lackluster sequels plaguing both legacies. If only that were a higher compliment.
  23. Le divorce
    Somehow lacks lightness and weight. This is a movie that tries to work a bloody suicide attempt and a murder into a comedy of manners, with almost everything registering in the same narrow spectrum of inconsequence.
  24. S.W.A.T.
    Technically clever but emotionally bankrupt...it's an almost laughably opportunistic movie.
  25. Step Into Liquid
    As a bonus, "Liquid" also includes eye-popping footage of the top surfers in the world (Taj Burrow, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama) -- wave riders who make the impossible look easy.
  26. Freaky Friday
    Freaky Friday commits a lot of sins; luckily, it has Curtis and a few others to cover them up.
  27. The Magdalene Sisters
    A fierce, brilliant film that breaks (and then mends) your heart.
  28. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    A movie best suited for a lazy afternoon or a languorous night, particularly if you're a Francophile. Charming, glamorous, emotionally suggestive but slight, it's full of beautiful and colorful people.
  29. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    A surprisingly insightful, non-judgmental meditation on a troubled marriage-with-kids.
  30. American Wedding
    The crass sentimentality of American Wedding increasingly fits Norman Mailer's definition: "the emotional promiscuity of the basically unemotional." The jokes are unemotional, uncouth and mostly unfunny.
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