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For 7,601 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: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Meet Dave
    The heartbreaking thing about Meet Dave...is its occasional funniness amid a sea of pablum. If it were completely rank, it'd be less frustrating.
  2. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    This is a superb picture, sharp, open-minded, wised-up and cinematically accomplished.
  3. Das wilde Leben
    The film's tone is utterly indistinct, beyond fatuous adoration of its subject.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Like Thompson's work itself, it sometimes feels like a smoke screen, a colorful but distracting, distracted set of pretenses hiding as much as they reveal.
  5. Diminished Capacity
    Striving for low-key character comedy, Diminished Capacity ends up diminishing its returns.
  6. Hancock
    Not even Smith's charisma can mitigate the chaos that is Hancock.
  7. Tell No One
    Enough talk; enough flashbacks. Sometimes the best thing a mystery can do is give its protagonist a reason to run like hell.
  8. Finding Amanda
    This debut picture never makes up its mind about what sort of comedy it wants to be. But at least it has one--a mind, that is.
  9. WALL-E
    While I may argue with the little guy's taste in musicals, it's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other.
  10. Wanted
    What are Jolie and Freeman and McAvoy doing here, besides acting cooler than Clive Owen in "Shoot ’Em Up"? Cashing a check, that's what. Bekmametov may have talent, but the arrested-adolescent "escapism" of this picture emits a pretty bad odor.
  11. Elsa y Fred
    Though recalling a truckload of antecedents, "Harold and Maude" and "Sweet November" among them, Elsa & Fred manages enough fresh touches and performance subtleties to stand alone as an irresistible, bittersweet comedy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
    Yauch clearly understands this world, but his film would have profited from looking more deeply at fewer players.
  13. The Last Mistress
    The picture's visual style is clean, exact and beautifully photographed by Yorgos Arvanitis.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Roses and Petrol
    Hoffs' Dublin appears to consist of stock street footage and a lot of stand-in California, which makes a hash of an exterior scene in which the characters complain about the incessant rain as the sun clearly shines through the damp.
  15. Get Smart
    Missed it by that much. Actually, the new version of Get Smart misses by a fair-size margin.
  16. The Love Guru
    The Love Guru”does not bring out Myer's best, and aside from a deft early Bollywood parody, there’s nothing visually to help the fun along.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    Strictly a kids' movie--brimming with easy-to-swallow life lessons.
  18. The Happening
    After the insufferably dense mermaid mythology of "Lady in the Water," Shyamalan clearly wanted to keep things simple. He whizzed straight past "simple" to simplistic.
  19. The Incredible Hulk
    Until the last 20 minutes, which stumble around in an attempt to set up a sequel, The Incredible Hulk keeps slamming everything forward, satisfyingly.
  20. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    A fascinating documentary, one much better than its rather flat and unimaginative title.
  21. My Winnipeg
    Deeply personal, wryly funny and fantastically cinematic.
  22. Encounters at the End of the World
    Takes you places an ordinary documentary filmmaker might’ve gone to yet missed completely.
  23. Kung Fu Panda
    Everything about Kung Fu Panda is a little better, a little sharper, a little funnier than the animated run of the mill.
  24. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    An Israeli-on-Arab version of "Shampoo," You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is terrible in many ways, and shoddy in every way that has to do with filmmaking. But politically it's sort of interesting.
  25. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    A grandly kitschy rendering of Genghis Khan's early years.
  26. Mother of Tears
    Mother of Tears can't rival the David Lynchian otherworldliness of "Suspiria," but at least you know you're in the hands of a director.
  27. The Promotion
    Then there's screenwriter Steve Conrad. He's interesting. He likes his protagonists to suffer a little en route to finding a better place, and not in the usual sitcomic ways.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Bigger Stronger Faster*
    Bell confronts Smelly, labeling him a cheater. But he also sympathizes with him, explaining, "There is a clash in America between doing the right thing and being the best."
  29. The Foot Fist Way
    Staggers and wanders and feels far longer than its 85 minutes, and it's best considered a calling card for better things to come.
  30. Savage Grace
    Savage Grace comes up bland and seems to go nowhere in particular.
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