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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. Encounters at the End of the World
    Takes you places an ordinary documentary filmmaker might’ve gone to yet missed completely.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    A grandly kitschy rendering of Genghis Khan's early years.
  5. 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.
  6. 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."
  8. 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.
  9. Savage Grace
    Savage Grace comes up bland and seems to go nowhere in particular.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Sex and the City
    Michael Patrick King's screenplay hits all the right notes, building on the warmth and familiarity of the series (which King also wrote).
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Strangers
    Bertino's taut, spare thriller is plenty scary without relying on pseudo-historical context. Anchored by convincing performances from Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler, both of whom elevate their roles above the standard horror-movie caricature, this is an enormously unsettling movie.
  12. The Children of Huang Shi
    Cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding manages some lovely images, and some of Spottiswoode’s compositions remind you he's capable of fine work. But Hogg never comes to life, on the page or on the screen.
  13. War, Inc.
    This script bumps along, good ideas jostling with weak, derivative ones, and Seftel doesn't seem to know which way he wants to handle the material. Also, with Cusack playing yet another soul-fried wiseacre running on emotional autopilot, the piece doesn't have much of an engine.
  14. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Does not know when to quit. Nor does it extract much fun from a cockamamie story provided by George Lucas.
  15. The Edge of Heaven
    It's a vivid ensemble experience, and the acting is wonderful.
  16. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    Roughly the same as the first in terms of quality and style. It delivers without much visual dynamism, and with a determined emphasis on combat. In the 1951 novel the climactic battle between the good Narnians and the bad Telmarines lasted a few pages. The film version of the same battle feels like "The Longest Day."
  17. Reprise
    A kinetic delight, Reprise comes from director Joachim Trier, born in Denmark but raised in Oslo, Norway, and it’s a highlight of the filmgoing year so far.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sangre De Mi Sangre
    The acting is impeccable, with Hernandez radiating an air of sleazy charm and Ochoa doing terrific work as a bitter man who's just lonely enough to have chinks in his well-developed armor.
  19. Speed Racer
    At its best, it's buoyant pop entertainment focused on three things: speed, racing and retina-splitting oceans of digitally captured color.
  20. The Fall
    It has a rich premise and no lack of amazements. What it lacks in any sort of dramatic shape.
  21. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
    A movie whose satire proves as lame as its clunky title.
  22. Surfwise
    The film is a restrained, straightforward report about an iconoclastic family whose pain and dysfunction play out against a backdrop of tumbling ocean waves, muscular surfers and golden sunsets.
  23. What Happens in Vegas
    The screenplay by Dana Fox (she was one of the rewriters of "27 Dresses") devolves into a series of humiliating pranks that always give the upper narrative hand to the male lead. Talk about depressing. I mean, that's what male screenwriters are for--to unfairly stack the deck against the female leads.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Before the Rains
    It's more that the plot is incredibly predictable, the score is manipulative and the denouement completely unsatisfying. I can sit through cliched and even offensive (to a point). Just leave me with a little bit of mystery, an iota of suspense. That’s all I ask.
  25. Fugitive Pieces
    The performances are often more compelling than the movie's sometimes static storytelling.
  26. Iron Man
    As big-budget comic book adaptations go, this one's a gratifying freak--the right kind of conflicted, as well as quick-witted. It's a lot of fun.
  27. Made of Honor
    Dempsey's pleasant enough, but he hasn't yet learned how to play against a mediocre script's obviousness. Monaghan has, which is gratifying.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Mister Lonely
    Like so many lovely cinematic dreams, Mister Lonely inevitably descends into nightmare, with an unsettlingly grim conclusion that, again, seems more imagistic than idea-driven.
  29. Redbelt
    Not everyone can act his material with ease. But Ejiofor, who brings a serene gravity to every exchange, was born to do Mamet.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Son of Rambow
    A quirk-heavy comedy that tonally reads almost exactly like "Millions," as executed by amateur actors having the time of their lives.
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