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  • 2% same as the average critic
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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. Che
    As political theater, Che moves from faith to impotence, which is certainly a valid reading of Communism in the 20th century. Yet as drama, that makes the second half of the film borderline deadly.
  2. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The original Day the Earth Stood Still had a paranoid poetry that lifted the audience up even as it warned the world to come together. This one is so dour it just comes off as a scolding.
  3. Doubt
    Shanley turns out to have dismayingly few original cinematic notions to back up the basic did-he-or-didn't-he hook in his study of conviction and compassion.
  4. Nothing Like the Holidays
    The troubles are broad, the plot twists giant, and the performances cheery in this carol to ethnic pride in Chicago's traditionally Latino Humboldt Park.
  5. Adam Resurrected
    The director, Paul Schrader, tries for cleansing audacity, but ends up too close to farce.
  6. Dark Streets
    Alas, the flimsy plot -- less a whodunit than an isn't-it-screamingly-obvious-that-that-guy-done-it! -- will have thriller fans singing the blues.
  7. Delgo
    Too grim for kids and too dumb for grown-ups.
  8. What Doesn't Kill You
    A tough, authentic street drama born, bred, and shot in the no-spin zone of working-class South Boston.
  9. Where God Left His Shoes
    Writer-director Salvatore Stabile has a good eye for the details of hard-luck ordinariness, and he sketches believable family bonds with a minimum of flourish.
  10. The Reader
    The film is notable for its nice performances, its handsome photography, and its very active music. If the preceding praise sounds generic, so is the movie.
  11. Wendy and Lucy
    Wendy and Lucy is like "Lassie Come Home" directed by Antonioni. What's piercing about it, and also disturbing, is that Reichardt views the renunciation of society with something close to righteous purity -- as a lefty romantic dream.
  12. Hunger
    A disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands.
  13. Cadillac Records
    It's an enjoyable ramble, with a feel for what made the early days of rock as wild as any that followed.
  14. Nobel Son
    Randall Miller (Bottle Shock), appears to be trying to cross a bad Elmore Leonard thriller with a bad indie-festival family-angst comedy. He gives us the worst of both worlds.
  15. Punisher: War Zone
    Dominic West (The Wire) plays a facially mutilated Mob boss as if he's in a broad SNL sketch.
  16. Frost/Nixon
    Surges with an energy and visual verve that improve the play and enhance the themes of dramatist Peter Morgan's script.
  17. The Black Balloon
    Toni Collette gives it the old "Little Miss Sunshine" try in The Black Balloon as an edge-of-kooky, very pregnant mama presiding over a chaotic household.
  18. Four Christmases
    Crassly enjoyable.
  19. Milk
    A fascinating film -- more docudrama than biopic.
  20. Transporter 3
    The villainous Polluter-in-Chief is eloquently played by Robert Knepper, familiarly loathsome as T-Bag on Fox's "Prison Break." And when Knepper and Statham get together, there's a fine showdown of grimaces.
  21. Twilight
    On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer.
  22. The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
    The past-and-present layering is a lot more resonant -- and less sketchy -- than the film's theme of ''betrayal,'' both familial and governmental.
  23. Special
    Thanks to Rapaport's brio in embracing the hero's drug-induced delusions, the movie is less a failure than a noble experiment gone awry.
  24. Bolt
    Bolt breaks no great new stylistic ground -- and yet it's a sturdy beaut.
  25. Lake City
    The story is as impersonal as it is labored.
  26. Australia
    Long before the second hour of Australia (which feels like the fifth), it's clear that Luhrmann hasn't found a satisfactory way to make a movie nearly as ballsy -- or coherent -- as he wants his creation to be.
  27. Quantum of Solace
    The point is, wherever he is, this James Bond is pissed. And that ceaseless anger begins to curdle every sequence that might otherwise bring a little happiness. I mean happiness for us, the viewers.
  28. A Christmas Tale
    The movie is enchanting.
  29. Eden
    Eden lacks the technique to give its stifled domestic-erotic feelings their full power.
  30. We Are Wizards
    This charm-filled documentary about passionate Harry Potter fans (and one foe) leaps all over the place.
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