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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
    What is most involving about Gould is the extraordinary way he played.
  2. Love and Other Drugs
    A love story that is actually worth falling for, with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal excellent at steaming up the screen in Love & Other Drugs.
  3. For Colored Girls
    Whatever stumbles there may be, they are offset by moments when For Colored Girls soars.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Making the Boys
    Making the Boys reveals just how bound up Crowley's play is with the history of the gay community, most heartbreakingly in the number of original company members who died from AIDS.
  5. White Material
    Simultaneously poetic, dramatic and realistic, White Material is an altogether stunning work.
  6. The King's Speech
    The gift of The King's Speech is that it allows us to look on as a pair of masterful actors re-create a monumental test of wills.
  7. Another Year
    It may sound commonplace, but in the hands of master filmmaker Mike Leigh, the everyday becomes extraordinary.
  8. Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
    Clearly, the directors have to be Merritt advocates to hang in there that long, but the film that resulted has elements that keep it from being simply a fan's notes.
  9. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Made with the on-camera cooperation of Spitzer (though not his wife), it is a sad, disturbing and in some ways tragic tale that in its lurid combination of sex and politics, banal hypocrisy and bare-knuckles power, seems very much an American story of our times.
  10. Barney's Version
    Whatever the film's flaws, and like its protagonist, there are times when things get a bit out of control, watching Giamatti use Barney to wrestle with success, failure, friendship, love and increasingly with time is exhilarating.
  11. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
    You might want to tuck Damien Chazelle's name into your memory bank if his filmmaking debut, the terrific jazz improvisation that is Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, is any indication of what his future might hold.
  12. Cool It
    By bringing in a diverse group of big thinkers to take part in a very animated, sometimes agitated, discussion, the filmmaker has succeeded in bringing what could have been a very dry mountain of data, theories and experimental research to vibrant life.
  13. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
    What unfolds is a dark comic thriller and action-hero send-up, a strange alloy of daredevil helicopter maneuvers and night of the living elves. Captured in atmospheric widescreen camerawork, the end-of-the-world frozen landscape (actually Norway) is spectacular and spooky.
  14. Shake Hands with the Devil
    A quietly powerful, incisive portrait of Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallarme (Roy Dupuis), who was sent to Rwanda in 1993 on a peacekeeping mission as the ruling Hutu attacked the rebel Tutsi, yet he was hobbled by the U.N. leadership and faced with the indifference of the world's superpowers.
  15. Amer
    Consistently outrageous and relentlessly surreal, the Belgian film is, intentionally or not, frequently funny; it's also compelling and distinctive.
  16. Gnomeo and Juliet
    This gently amusing, genuinely sweet animated film makes you smile from start to finish?
  17. Sucker Punch
    A wonderfully wild provocation - an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp through the id that I wouldn't have missed for the world.
  18. The Magician
    Writer-director-star Scott Ryan's darkly comic faux documentary, a gritty, shot-off-the cuff gem and a top prize winner in its native Australia. [29 Oct 2010, p.D8]
    • Los Angeles Times
      • Posted Aug 4, 2022
  19. Undertow
    In a confident yet relaxed feature debut, Fuentes-León has created a wholly unified work of art.
  20. Bhutto
    As Bhutto, the thorough and involving documentary on her life conveys, Benazir was a formidable personality all by herself.
  21. Applause
    It is a singular performance and a deeply affecting if imperfect film.
  22. Summer Wars
    Hosoda, who directed the cult film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time," has made a sophisticated yet poignant family entertainment with an appeal beyond Japanese animation buffs.
  23. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
    Beautiful and melodic as well as pointedly political.
  24. Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
    It marks a subtle, assured and altogether distinctive feature debut for writer-director Rao and its radiant leading lady, rock star and stage performer Monica Dogra.
  25. Jumping the Broom
    This endearing picture is proof that it is still possible for a major studio release to be fun, smart and heart-tugging and devoid of numbskull violence and equally numbing special effects.
  26. Kaboom
    Araki lets his absurdist imagination run wild, and Kaboom takes the time-honored gambit of gradually revealing that nothing is as it seems to delightfully cockamamie extremes.
  27. Scream 4
    The kills themselves are both bountiful and bloody, the movie references are brilliant and bloody, the funny is very frequent and very frequently bloody, but to say any more would ruin the boo.
  28. Kung Fu Panda 2
    The big action pieces, particularly the final face-off, are masterful both for their cleverness in bringing down the house and the detail jammed into every frame. Even composers Hans Zimmer, who's scored a zillion movies, and John Powell seem to be having more fun than usual.
  29. Carbon Nation
    Although it contains its moments of doom and gloom about the potential effects of climate change, the excellent documentary Carbon Nation is an inspiring look at the many recent advances in clean energy and green technologies.
  30. Cedar Rapids
    If that all sounds like a lot of good, clean fun, a word of warning. In what seems to have become the genre's raison d'etre, the dialogue is so blue at times that you'll probably feel the heat of the blushing cheeks on either side of you, especially whenever Reilly's fast-talking savant of smut shows up.
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