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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 2.1 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. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    The flourishes don't answer the question most on Potterites' minds -- who lives, who dies? -- but they briefly stupefy.
  2. Fed Up
    Some lessons are overfamiliar (almonds good, corn syrup bad), but the section on corporate influence over school lunches is enough to make you spit out that 20-ounce soda from the concession stand.
  3. Smashed
    What's new about the unsensationalized portrait of one-day-at-a-time progress (and setbacks) is the low-key energy of this drunks' tale, by and for a generation with a high tolerance for humor and a low tolerance for soapiness.
  4. Paradise Now
    Of all the shocks in the riveting and timely political thriller Paradise Now, the most unsettling may be the dignity bestowed on a pair of prospective Palestinian suicide bombers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    Alan Paton's seminal novel of apartheid in 1940s South Africa receives a sanitized and overly sentimental treatment, trivializing the book's relentless power.
  6. What Doesn't Kill You
    A tough, authentic street drama born, bred, and shot in the no-spin zone of working-class South Boston.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Waking Ned Devine
    Unfolds with such unforced inevitability that absurdity never condescends to sticky adorableness.
  8. Land of the Dead
    In Land of the Dead there are virtually no good parts. The movie is listless and uninspired.
  9. Inspector Bellamy
    Depardieu and Marie Bunel (as Bellamy's wife) have a terrific interplay, but Chabrol's sharp direction can't quite rescue his fuzzy script.
  10. The Boss of It All
    This satire of empty-suit capitalism has scalding moments, but most of it suggests Being There meets The Office gibberized into theater of the absurd.
  11. A Family Thing
    Any other writers handed this premise would probably play it for cheap laughs, but Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson have made an earnest drama out of it, one lightened by a few affectionate laughs and much heartfelt sentimentality.
  12. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    A marvelous movie.
  13. Monument Ave.
    But where would these lads be without the pop-culture-happy language of Quentin Tarantino to fuel their bull sessions? Nowhere, that's where.
  14. The Imitation Game
    The film is anchored by yet another hypnotically complex Cumberbatch performance. He's turning greatness into a habit.
  15. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    Greenwald floats the vital issue of whether Wal-Mart should be restrained by antimonopoly regulations, but his real question is cultural: Even with its rock-bottom prices, is Wal-Mart in the best interest of American consumers?
  16. London Road
    The result, alas, is totally bolloxed, as a Brit might say, by execution.
  17. Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Elegant yet surprisingly remote royal-court drama.
  18. This Is Elvis
    Its ambition is so great that the production’s occasional melodramatic touches can not only be forgiven, but viewed as having been executed in the spirit of the man himself.
  19. Chasing Amy
    The hit-and-run outlandishness of "Clerks" was a stunt. With Chasing Amy, Smith has made his first real movie.
  20. The Water Horse
    Parents can trust that none of their wee ones will ask for a stuffed water horse for Christmas. The star of this Scottish fable, about the mythical Loch Ness monster, looks like a raw chicken breast with teeth when he hatches.
  21. Man Push Cart
    This modern slice of neorealism has been made with a skill, and humanity, that suggests Bahrani may have a "Bicycle Thief" in him yet.
  22. Tadpole
    Where ''Rushmore'' surprises and delights with its spiky depiction of sprawling American idiosyncrasy, Tadpole's more urbane, less complicated charms are specifically made in New York City.
  23. Spy Kids
    It's Alan Cumming who takes over the movie as the impish mastermind Fegan Floop.
  24. Wonderland
    The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism.
  25. All the Real Girls
    It's thrillingly original, lyrical, and wise, and the filmmaker conveys the mutable intensity of young love with the authoritative originality of an important filmmaker.
  26. Time of the Wolf
    There are no zombies out of ''28 Days Later'' to alleviate the slow creep of realistic doom in this chilly, tense corker.
  27. The Raid 2
    The Raid 2 will make you feel like Christmas came nine months early. Some action sequels don't know when to say when. But here's one where too much is just the right amount.
  28. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    They'd be crazy not to give Meng'er Zhang, as Shang-Chi's ferociously watchable sister Xialing, her own spin-off, and Awkwafina, who spends at least a third of the movie in a fanny pack and lime-green parachute pants, polishes her sardonic slacker M.O. to a high one-liner shine.
  29. Luca
    The story's bright swirl of Pixar pixie dust, jangle soundtrack, and gentle lessons on accepting otherness and learning to move past fear feel like a temporary passport: a sweetly soulful all-ages dip in la dolce vita.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Seconds
    The technical dazzle can’t make up for the boring, unsympathetic characters. With no one to root for, this arty, humorless film ends up pretentiously empty.
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