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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. City of Ghosts
    In some ways it's not a film that surprises us much. But it's a notable directorial debut anyway -- smartly written, very well cast and skillfully done.
  2. House of Fools
    A humane and fantastic work, and it touches us precisely because Konchalovsky shows the reality of both the soldiers and the madhouse inmates. His movie is just what he intended: a nightmare that speaks the truth.
  3. The Real Cancun
    This movie thrusts you so close to these intoxicated idiots that you practically have to wipe off secondhand tequila, sweat and spit stains afterward.
  4. A Decade Under the Influence
    As wide and deep as the directors fish for anecdotes, it's surprising that there isn't more focus, more context.
  5. Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    The movie is rich with detail, characters and a specific historical context, even if its narrative is incoherent. But its cheap, gauzy veneer and primitive special effects are fun on their own terms.
  6. Lilya 4-Ever
    What's remarkable as we watch Lilya's plunge (and the brief, false rays of light that illuminate it) is how real Moodysson makes her plight, how intensely he makes us empathize with Lilya.
  7. Holes
    With the movie's attentions spread so thin, almost everything begins to seem peripheral - even if almost every loose end is tied together, no matter how unlikely the connection.
  8. Winged Migration
    This French documentary gives us unprecedented intimacy and sweep.
  9. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Doesn't aim for more than padding a plot around Kennedy so he can do his Brad "B-Rad" Gluckman character full-force. And the joke soon wears thin.
  10. Chasing Papi
    It's a shame that these actors, stars already in the Latino community, with most also having played small parts in Hollywood's more white-bread movies, got such a poorly written script for their American coming-out party.
  11. A Mighty Wind
    The tweaking here feels affectionate, yet you soon suspect that these subjects make for awfully easy pickings.
  12. Love and Diane
    One of the most searing, heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant mother/daughter stories ever put on film.
  13. Bulletproof Monk
    First-time director Paul Hunter delivers a quick-cut, loud movie that betrays his MTV roots -- but then again, the script never demands that he do much more than exactly that.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Young Unknowns
    There is nothing to redeem this movie, and no real reason to see it.
  15. Anger Management
    Without insult to either film, Anger Management could be called "Punch-Drunk Love" for the masses.
  16. Better Luck Tomorrow
    The film lacks a single emotionally authentic moment.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ghosts of the Abyss
    Ultimately, this talking dog don't hunt.
  18. XX/XY
    What makes XX/XY so engaging; it attempts to define love through broken characters who know neither themselves nor the meaning of love.
  19. Levity
    A film of almost paralyzing gravity and large ambitions that, almost inevitably, it can't quite meet.
  20. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    Magnetic, beautiful stuff.
  21. The Man Without a Past
    A powerful film made with minimal means, it's a story of poor people on the fringes of society, done without sentimentality or condescension but with wicked humor.
  22. Phone Booth
    A lean, mean tension machine, setting up its premise, executing it with smarts, throwing in enough twists to keep things interesting, and wrapping it up before anyone can get fatigued or reflective. It's on the money.
  23. DysFunktional Family
    Griffin may well get there, but he's not there yet.
  24. What a Girl Wants
    Were it not for young star Amanda Bynes' energetic good nature in the face of drab dialogue and wooden stereotypes, What a Girl Wants might have been a career-ending movie violation rather than just an embarrassing fender-bender.
  25. A Man Apart
    Sometimes, you can use a smaller devil to catch the Devil, the movie suggests. But in this case, the entire movie goes to hell in record time.
  26. The Good Thief
    There's a zest and brilliance in Neil Jordan's racy heist thriller The Good Thief that makes it almost intoxicating to watch.
  27. Cet amour-là
    The film, like its lovers, is fond, giddy and poetic about love and death.
  28. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    Its fascination may be limited to those already very familiar with his works and collaborators - and his sensual, highly subjective style.
  29. The Core
    Elaborate misfire, which misuses an unusually good cast.
  30. Stevie
    So troubling and unflinchingly honest that watching it becomes a test of empathy and compassion.
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