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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. Dig!
    The no-frills documentary also makes it clear that Newcombe is the real deal -- both supremely gifted and organically nuts.
  2. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    The film won't likely change any minds, but there's a taut political essay beneath the blatant campaigning.
  3. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with Jesus.
  4. Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Skip the movie, stay home, read the book and say three Hail Marys.
  5. Tying the Knot
    Absorbing documentary about gay marriage is most persuasive when most specific.
  6. Shaun of the Dead
    In this truly retro horror flick, the heroes and heroines don't just quip over the action (though they do get off some funny lines); they're knee-deep in it, and scared sh------.
  7. The Forgotten
    Midway through, the plot pulls itself out of its doldrums with a sudden, heart-twisting turn. Ruben still knows how to cut a sequence for maximum jolt, and, ultimately, he and DiPego manage to summon up some of the B-movie paranoia that fueled "The Stepfather," turning in a pleasantly nonsensical roller-coaster ride.
  8. The Motorcycle Diaries
    A gorgeously burnished vintage post card come to life, Motorcycle Diaries has about as much depth and emotional currency as the cardboard that post card would be stamped on.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Shot
    Appealingly cheesy, a tribute to the hope that springs eternal in the hopelessly inept.
  10. Hollywood Buddha
    The result is at once a woefully overfamiliar bashing of Hollywood superficiality and a seemingly unwitting paean to the self-absorbed enlightenment that passes among industry folk for personal growth.
  11. Incantato
    There may, somewhere in the premise of Incantato, lie the inspiration for a fine farce, but under Avati's shaky stewardship, the picture is leaden and charmless.
  12. Mind the Gap
    You can see what's coming five minutes into the movie, but capable acting lends it a certain superficial charm.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Moog
    Largely, you get to watch a nice old guy waxing philosophical in his beloved vegetable garden, in his workshop or amid city traffic. If that switches you on, then plug in.
  14. Anatomy of Hell
    Anatomy of Hell offers one of the most hateful and mechanical representations of sexuality I've ever seen.
  15. A Dirty Shame
    I love what his films stand for -- inclusivity, tolerance, liberation and fun -- but I’ve always felt about his movies as I do about Monty Python: Half an hour is a riot; an hour and half starts to be a chore.
  16. September Tapes
    Intentionally blurs fiction and reality.
  17. Rick
    This impressive - and utterly depressing - feature debut is another in the current rush of testaments to the power of the new corporation to suck the goodness from its employees and all who have the misfortune to enter its orbit.
  18. The Yes Men
    An uproarious and appalling piece of consciousness-raising.
  19. The Take
    This film puts a pained human face on the cost of the corporate status quo.
  20. Mr 3000
    Mr. 3000, which starts out promisingly, squanders Mac's natural gift of salty gruffness by shoehorning him into a dull, heartwarming cinematic lesson on humility and the joys of teamwork.
  21. Wimbledon
    Director Richard Loncraine (Richard III) moves things right along, but during the final tennis match, his pacing is undone by sports-movie convention, particularly the witless color commentary offered by tennis legends John McEnroe and Chris Evert.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    For Conran, after they finished shooting pesky actors, the real fun began at the computer screen with his delirious imagination in free-fall.
  23. Silver City
    Fails to allow the talented ensemble time to develop "Sunshine State’s" fine, Altmanesque ensemble feel, again and again missing the human and leaving cartoons that satisfy only as agitprop.
  24. Merci Docteur Rey
    This is less a coming-out tale than a showcase for late-middle-aged hysterical divas in flowing caftans to yell, scream and ride roughshod over the young homosexuals who are nominally the movie's center.
  25. Cowboys & Angels
    For all the violence and breaking-up-to-make-up that go on, there's never really a sense of risk or exploration, and the film's pulse never rises above faint.
  26. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    This sophomoric stuff is pure self-indulgence, a drone to accompany the admittedly eye-popping sound-and-light show. Oshii looks like yet another director who has gone off the deep end, believing too absolutely his own good reviews.
  27. Incident at Loch Ness
    Razor sharp and funny as hell, Incident at Loch Ness is the harpoon hurled into the hot-air balloon of “reality” entertainment.
    • 6 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    A May-September sex farce so prodigiously unintriguing that audiences could be forgiven for stampeding from theaters to strangle its writer-director, Gary Preisler, in his sleep.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cellular
    The whole thing skims along on suspension of disbelief.
  30. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    This is efficient, soul-numbing moviemaking, diverting enough for blistering September afternoons when what's onscreen is secondary to how high they've cranked the air conditioning.
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