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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. Love and Diane
    One of the most searing, heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant mother/daughter stories ever put on film.
  2. 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.
  4. Anger Management
    Without insult to either film, Anger Management could be called "Punch-Drunk Love" for the masses.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Levity
    A film of almost paralyzing gravity and large ambitions that, almost inevitably, it can't quite meet.
  9. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    Magnetic, beautiful stuff.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. DysFunktional Family
    Griffin may well get there, but he's not there yet.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Cet amour-là
    The film, like its lovers, is fond, giddy and poetic about love and death.
  17. 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.
  18. The Core
    Elaborate misfire, which misuses an unusually good cast.
  19. Stevie
    So troubling and unflinchingly honest that watching it becomes a test of empathy and compassion.
  20. Assassination Tango
    The movie is an odd mix of tones and styles, and the thriller plot is casually introduced, shoved aside and reintroduced. But, like all Duvall's work, Assassination Tango breathes with humanity.
  21. Basic
    The movie, one of those surprise-twist detective stories, doesn't really stand up to scrutiny in the cold light of the theater lobby.
  22. Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
    Advertised as having a Southern-influenced point of view, the jokes are witty and universal enough for everyone.
  23. Head of State
    The difference between Head of State and a good comedy is like the difference between Chris Rock and a real actor.
  24. Raising Victor Vargas
    In the tradition of indie films "Girlfight" and "George Washington," Sollett's emotive, sub-improvising style leads to pitch-perfect performances from a watertight cast in a loose, joyfully fresh film.
  25. View from the Top
    Why Paltrow, who was accepting a best actress Oscar four years ago, would take this clumsily written role is anyone's guess.
  26. Dreamcatcher
    Most novels can't be encapsulated well enough in a conventional two-hour movie format, and Dreamcatcher may be one of them -- a miniseries gone wrong.
  27. Boat Trip
    Technically it does not qualify as one of the worst American-made movies ever. It only feels that way. The movie's offenses are too numerous to catalog.
  28. Down and Out with the Dolls
    The movie belongs to the women, and they perform with attitude and power.
  29. Piglet's Big Movie
    With its welcome lessons on friendship and self-esteem, is not only appropriate for preschoolers, but it also has enough sophistication for older kids.
  30. Japan
    The work of a remarkable new talent. By the movie's towering, final tracking shot, this imaginative, dazzling film achieves distinction.
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