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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Darfur Now
    The film gets a little ''We can fix this!'' inspirational for a chronicle of such staggering darkness.
  2. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    Captures the Joe Strummer who, in the late 1970s, just about firebombed the rock establishment with his fury.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Martian Child
    The problem with Martian Child is that it wants to be a story about outcasts, but Dennis doesn't come off as a cute little rebel.
  4. Sharkwater
    This beautiful and urgent eco-doc takes a bite out of the shark mythology made indelible by "Jaws."
  5. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Mesmerizing.
  6. Bella
    In stories like this defiantly unsubtle, structurally clunky specimen, causes women who are considering abortion to think again, and self-selecting audiences to enjoy a light, luxurious weep.
  7. Dan in Real Life
    A nimble and supple and moving comedy.
  8. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    It's galvanizing to see it played out through the furious contradiction of Carter's personality. He is pious, stubborn, compassionate, testy, moral, unreasonable, and wise.
  9. Rails & Ties
    Rails & Ties is like one bad TV movie that slammed into another.
  10. Saw IV
    He now imparts so many life lessons via his Rube Goldberg thresher devices that he's starting to turn into the Rod Serling of severed body parts. Now that's torture.
  11. Lynch
    As skewed, prismatic, and free of fluff as the man himself.
  12. 30 Days of Night
    You can expect a lot of shredding and gurgling. 30 Days of Night is relentless, but it's also relentlessly one-note.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Comebacks
    Probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than "Daddy Day Camp," "Baby Geniuses 2," and "BloodRayne."
  14. Gone Baby Gone
    Affleck the director shows excellent instincts, not least of which is letting his younger brother, Casey, hold the center as a young guy not as smaht as he thinks he is.
  15. Rendition
    Rendition certainly makes the case that torture, whatever name it goes under, is indefensible, yet one can agree with that view entirely and still feel that the movie is just a borderline exploitation of what anyone who reads the papers already knows.
  16. Reservation Road
    There's a kind of tough beauty to this deft, satisfying thriller.
  17. Things We Lost in the Fire
    No matter what panache Bier adds, Things We Lost is still a TV-scaled tear-duct drama about a beautiful woman who pushes past sadness in her House & Garden home.
  18. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    The whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way.
  19. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    Too bad Kapur's new, glittering sequel also shows up feeling prematurely old, square, and cautious. A production of exquisitely complicated wigs and expensively grand wide shots, it pauses often to admire its own beauty, leery of messing with previous success.
  20. Lars and the Real Girl
    Really, I think we put up with Lars at all only because Gosling has such an affinity for the wounded boy birds he tends to play that it's easy to watch him do his thing.
  21. Sleuth
    It's like "Deathtrap" crossed with "Cribs" as staged by Stanley Kubrick.
  22. Terror's Advocate
    The title Terror's Advocate is both a statement of fact and a worrisome understatement in a documentary as slippery as its subject.
  23. Why Did I Get Married?
    Perry is of the spell-everything-in-capital-letters and act-it-out-loudly schools. Yet his sensitivity to women is a tonic.
  24. We Own the Night
    The story is too patterned and too contrived.
  25. King Corn
    Aaron Woolf's we-are-what-we-eat documentary King Corn is a lively introduction to the corn industrial complex.
  26. Control
    Control goes past the clichés of punk rock-god gloom to offer a snapshot of alienation that's shockingly humane.
  27. Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
    The film completely misses what should have been its real target -- the filming of Game of Death, a martial-arts campfest worthy of Edward D. Wood Jr.
  28. For the Bible Tells Me So
    The film's argument against overly literal Bible readings may not preach to anyone but the converted, and when For the Bible Tells Me So strays from scripture, its ardent plea for sexual freedom within modern Christian life grows a bit too late-night PBS generic.
  29. The Good Night
    The filmmaker's got good taste -- and luck -- in casting.
  30. The Heartbreak Kid
    Grodin always seems like a real guy, whereas Stiller, even working it, is just the designated loser-clown of the megaplex era. He's too harmless to break any hearts.
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