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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Romance & Cigarettes
    With Walken around, hair up high, of course there are fleeting moments of fascinating weirdness, but even then, you're still moderately embarrassed for the cast.
  2. Shoot 'Em Up
    Its pulpy violent excess will tip over...into slightly more excessive excess. That's its silly, scuzzball joy.
  3. The Brothers Solomon
    The sheer, animal idiocy beaming from their faces in the opening credits of The Brothers Solomon creates the film's only moment of uncalculated comic joy.
  4. The Hunting Party
    What makes The Hunting Party an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    A wry movie that, packed with his well-known friends and scored intermittently to bouncy accordion music, plays like a softer episode of "Curb."
  6. Death Sentence
    The morality of revenge is barely at issue in a movie that pushes the plausibility of revenge right over a cliff.
  7. The Nines
    John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality.
  8. Halloween (2007)
    This Myers is more problem child than bogeyman.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Exiled
    One of those wearisome Hong Kong action movies where characters engage in Mexican standoffs not so much to ratchet up excitement or generate tension but rather to look cool for as long as possible.
  10. Balls of Fury
    A joke of a title in search of a movie with a single good joke.
  11. Deep Water
    A spooky, moving documentary.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Illegal Tender
    For a second, the movie has the snap of a truly surprising thriller -- like a Hispanic "Kill Bill" -- about an aging lioness willing to kill to protect her cub.
  13. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    Atkinson's goofball grotesquerie never lets up -- right through to the inspired finale.
  14. The Nanny Diaries
    For a light comedy, The Nanny Diaries turns out to have an off-putting theme. It glorifies the romance of slumming.
  15. Resurrecting the Champ
    The gooey sanctity of the bond between fathers and sons all but nullify Jackson's zesty performance.
  16. Right at Your Door
    There are no zombies to distract from the plausibility of Right at Your Door. And that's what makes this smart, coolly horrifying American indie thriller one of the scariest movies you're likely to see all year — a post-9/11 nightmare about terrorism, panic, and paranoia with real, waking-life implications.
  17. September Dawn
    The audience gets the message (religious fanaticism: bad), but nothing we see is convincing on its own.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    War
    There are few cinematic crimes more heinous than making a boring action movie. Sadly, that's what the first hour of Triads-versus-Yakuza thriller War is.
  19. The Hottest State
    Whatever you're imagining -- self-serving self-awareness; unedited hipster mopes; yammering dear-diary script -- The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke's bathetic tale of a good-looking young actor's first heartbreak, is far worse.
  20. Hannah Takes the Stairs
    What defines the slacker-geek twentysomething men and women who wander through Joe Swanberg's too-hip-to-be-romantic comedy Hannah Takes the Stairsis that they treat their libidos as minor accessories -- only to stammer through every casual conversation as if they were on a first Internet date.
  21. Superbad
    Superbad is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad, in a coming-of-age tale so old-fashioned the girls might just as well be wearing bloomers.
  22. Death at a Funeral
    By the end of Death at a Funeral's effortful farce about busted British propriety, you may feel that peculiar facial ache that comes from wishing to laugh with no really satisfying release.
  23. Them
    You'd better deliver the goods. And Them, despite some moody imagery out of the "Blair Witch" school, never does.
  24. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    There's no denying its grip: It is lurid, fascinating, sickening, and eye-opening.
  25. The 11th Hour
    This activist documentary -- alternately impassioned, despairing, edifying, and hectoring about all the ways humans are screwing up the earth in a death rattle of hubris -- shouts, People, do something! In contrast, "An Inconvenient Truth" feels positively hushed.
  26. The Invasion
    The movie isn't terrible; it's just low-rent and reductive.
  27. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A funny and madly arresting new documentary.
  28. The Last Legion
    Every once in a while, though, Firth's eyebrow hints, Can you believe I'm wearing this dorky leather breastplate?
  29. Delirious
    It would be nice to see a sharp, funny, penetrating satire of the new, kicked-up culture of empty media fame, but Tom DiCillo's scattershot buddy movie Delirious isn't it.
  30. 2 Days in Paris
    Delpy wrote and directed this study of a relationship heading (it would seem) for the rocks. She stages it with a funny and diverting improv-y flow.
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