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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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Music Within
    Starts strong but eventually collapses under its weighty sense of responsibility.
  2. Rails & Ties
    All the astute acting in the world can’t bring such a preposterous story into the station on time and intact.
  3. Mr. Untouchable
    As interesting, certainly, as “American Gangster,” and operating with a truer street sense of the characters involved.
  4. Slipstream
    Bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating.
  5. 30 Days of Night
    Nearly two hours long, 30 Days of Night makes you feel the cold (though it was shot in New Zealand) and feel the fangs, but it also makes you feel like 30 days is a pretty long time.
  6. Gone Baby Gone
    The film is reasonably effective all the same, though Affleck has yet to learn how to conduct each scene like a musical score, paying attention to matters of tempo and dynamics.
  7. Rendition
    In Rendition Gyllenhaal is supposed to be the smartest one in the room, yet he’s essentially just a good-looking plodder. And despite its whirligig story machinations, so is Rendition.
  8. Reservation Road
    The best efforts of the performers cannot authenticate a plot that no longer feels inevitable. It feels contrived. And the audience stays at a remove instead of entering someone else’s nightmare.
  9. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Things We Lost in the Fire finds Bier at an interesting juncture, half-Dogmatic, half traditionalist.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Wristcutters: A Love Story
    Quite a bit darker than most mainstream romantic comedies. As you might not expect, it’s also quite a bit more inventive and far wittier than most mainstream romantic comedies.
  11. Meeting Resistance
    While no doubt a contribution in terms of historical record, the 2003-2004 timeline of the movie makes it feel out of date. This offers perspective on the insurgents then, but leaves the viewer wondering what they would be thinking and saying four years later.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Ten Commandments
    For those who recall those old Classics Illustrated comics of the 1940s and ’50s--and even for those who don’t--there’s an endearing, earnest quality to The Ten Commandments that transcends its star-studded cast and computer-generated animation.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    O Jerusalem
    As a pocket history of the battles over Jerusalem in the ’40s, O Jerusalem is serviceable enough. But all the melodrama cheapens the real drama, and turns a war-torn region into a soap-opera stage.
  14. Canvas
    Canvas is a thoughtful, sweet film that handles its difficult topic--schizophrenia--with tact and tenderness.
  15. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    It is a silly film about serious matters.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Final Season
    Viewers who don’t flee the intrusively uplifting soundtrack and choking sentiment get just what that opening promised: a by-the-numbers, based-in-reality inspirational sports movie, thick with overwhelming pride and nostalgia for small-town farmland America.
  17. Khadak
    It’s slow--make that very slow--and the final half hour or so is mystifying and tedious. But it gorgeously recalls Fellini and “Koyaanisqatsi” and hauntingly pits ancient tradition against science, oppression and industrial rot.
  18. Lars and the Real Girl
    I find Lars and the Real Girl adorable in the worst way, bailed out only by most every member of its excellent cast.
  19. Sleuth
    Caine and Law may not be playing human beings, but Pinter’s sense of humor is at least more interesting than Shaffer’s. Caine in particular appears to enjoy honing his cold-eyed stare.
  20. We Own the Night
    Gray’s writing lacks the punch and zing that might take your mind off such rickety plotting.
  21. King Corn
    A breezy diary from a pair of first-time farmers, as well as a wry rebuke to a nation devoted to eating cheaply but not necessarily well, King Corn makes its points without much finger-wagging.
  22. Control
    The cast is excellent, particularly Riley and Morton and, as Joy Division’s brash manager, Toby Kebbell. He’s a great character, bitter and hostile and a scoundrel: a born manager of talent destined to tear itself apart.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    For the Bible Tells Me So
    Doesn’t shy from heart-tugging opportunities, and there’s a five-minute cartoon embedded in the movie that should have been excised, but beyond those problems and some stylistic dead air, this is a compelling, thought-provoking portrait of a quiet challenge rising within America’s churches.
  24. The Heartbreak Kid
    Monaghan’s comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness.
  25. Michael Clayton
    Michael Clayton is a here’s-how-it-happened drama, cleverly but not over-elaborately structured.
  26. My Kid Could Paint That
    It is a wonder, marked by a sense of wondrous skepticism that has nothing to do with cynicism.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    At its best, The Seeker is a pretty vivid fantasy book come-to-life; it does a decent, passable job of adding to the canon of kid-lit flicks.
  28. Lake of Fire
    By the end of Lake of Fire, you know full well you’re in the presence of a deeply conflicted filmmaker, bound to make all sides uneasy, even enraged.
  29. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    Near the end, we hear Cobain reveal his disdain for adults who “can’t even pretend, or at least have enough courtesy for their children, to talk to one another civilly.” A painful and unexpected moment.
  30. The Darjeeling Limited
    Spiritual journeys, even if they’re comedies, don’t really lend themselves to the extreme, anal-retentive formalism found in every frame of The Darjeeling Limited.
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