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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. 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.
  2. Tears of the Black Tiger
    A few more films like Tears of the Black Tiger, and kitsch will be on its way to having a bad name.
  3. Thumbsucker
    Pucci proves to be one of the most charismatic male ingenues since Johnny Depp.
  4. The Cruise
    Miller hit documentary gold when he met Levitch. But this marvelously structured, sensitively edited, deep and compassionate portrait (in atmospheric, made-for-Manhattan black and white) of one man hopscotching a fine line between verbal genius and psychological miswiring is Miller's own jewel, the work of a gifted filmmaker.
  5. Inglourious Basterds
    In Tarantino's besotted historical reverie, real-life villains Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are played as grotesque jokes. The Basterds are played as exaggeratedly tough Jews. The women are femmes fatales.?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Mermaid
    The Mermaid is at its best when it embraces the ridiculous, no-holds-barred, farcical comedy that Chow has become known for, thanks to films like Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer.
  7. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
    If anything holds Dragon together, it’s Jason Scott Lee’s intensely likable performance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Never Let Me Go
    It's a very tony fantasy of class oppression and fascist medical exploitation (themes that may speak louder in England), but it's a lyrically inert movie.
  9. Babel
    Measured in anything other than biblical cubits, the sum of Babel's many parts turns out to be a picture that suggests Americans ought to stay home and treat their nannies better.
  10. Man from Reno
    None of it would work without the two leads: As the author on the run, Ayako Fujitani conjures a rare mix of demureness and daring. And as the sleuthing lawman, Pepe Serna uses his cement-mixer voice and boxer’s mug to convey a real bloodhound determination.
  11. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Bad Lieutenant doesn't go where you expect, but it has a stubborn, trippy logic.
  12. Unstoppable
    The exchange of substance for speed may not appeal to all, but if you're on board you'll find it hard to disembark.
  13. Brave
    Merida may be a headstrong heroine, a feisty animated hybrid who calls to mind Katniss Everdeen, Bella Swan, and the neo-fairy-tale protagonist who faces off against her evil stepmother in "Snow White and the Huntsman." But she is also, for safety's sake, a nice girl in a pretty green dress who loves her family and believes in dynasty.
  14. Viva
    Havana’s crumbling trapped-in-time beauty also plays a starring role, but it’s Medina who provides the movie’s raw, tender heart.
  15. God's Creatures
    As an acting showcase, Creatures is more than admirable; as a tourism ad for Ireland, untenable. As a movie experience, alas, it's both intriguing and teasingly incomplete.
  16. Undercover Brother
    Lee's images of black and white stereotypes are agreeably silly yet altogether too thin and vanilla safe.
  17. Dung che sai duk
    For the love of all things sensual and mysterious, see this one on a big screen.
  18. Enter the Void
    Director Gaspar Noé proved a shock poet in "Irreversible" (2003). In Enter the Void, he's a shockingly tedious show-off.
  19. Revolutionary Road
    The best thing about Revolutionary Road, a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.
  20. Live Free or Die Hard
    An enjoyable pop projection of post-9/11 anxiety.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Up for Grabs
    I say the movie is infuriatingly unfair to Hayashi; others will cry foul for Popov. See it with an umpire.
  22. The Opposite of Sex
    Traffics in the coyly blasphemous, aren't-we-dysfunctional family-disaster chic that has become the single most annoying trend in independent filmmaking.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Romeo and Juliet
    The whole thing sinks on the shoulders of its pretty teen stars (Hussey and Whiting), who exhibit all the raw talent and sensuality of bit players in some bad Spanish soap.
  24. Lion
    Where Saroo goes and what he finds there left me in tears, but you feel that a complicated true story has been airbrushed into a postmodern legend.
  25. The September Issue
    Lusciously revealing fly-on-the-wall portrait of Anna Wintour.
  26. Fresh Dressed
    Midway through, the narrative gets a little bogged down in the details of retail; still, Fresh is a colorful, comprehensive trip.
  27. Beeswax
    There are fine, fresh observational moments, but the film is much ado about not so much.
  28. Cinderella Man
    How exceptional a film actor is Russell Crowe? So exceptional that in Cinderella Man, he makes a good boxing movie feel at times like a great, big picture.
  29. The Last Lions
    The footage, by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, is stunning.
  30. Rocketman
    Egerton’s whole-body commitment captures not just Elton’s outrageous physicality — in costume designer Julian Day’s hands, he’s essentially a one-man Mardi Gras — but his enduring sadness and insecurity (and the self-sabotaging behavior it was too often funneled through) without tipping into showbiz-tragedy cliché. He’s the starry-eyed cosmonaut the part demands, but merely, endearingly mortal too.
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