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For 16,539 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 2.2 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: 8,706 out of 16539
  2. Mixed: 5,816 out of 16539
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16539
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  1. Honor Flight
    They all share their amazing war stories and life memories with great humility and warmth.
  2. Waiting for Lightning
    Unfortunately, the athlete himself simply isn't much of a presence in this documentary, even as the film aims to celebrate him.
  3. Buffalo Girls
    Underlining it all is the exuberance and charm of the two main subjects, who make this world seem disarmingly innocent.
  4. Deadfall
    Some of the language is smart, sinister and ironic in just the right ways, particularly when Addison, Eric Bana's serial-killing mastermind, delivers it. In other cases, the dialogue is so ludicrously off - either unnecessary, or unnecessarily misogynistic if a cop is doing the talking - that it's hard to believe the same person wrote it.
  5. Lay the Favorite
    Romance and capers exist in Lay the Favorite, they just aren't played well.
  6. California Solo
    In some sense, California Solo is like meeting an engaging stranger: At first there's a certain air of enigmatic mystery that makes you want to spend time with them, but eventually things turn awkward and you just want to get away.
  7. Quartet
    Quartet is very much a performance piece, which plays to Hoffman's strength - as an actor he knows when to allow this excellent ensemble breathing room and when to tighten the belt.
  8. Playing for Keeps
    At some point you hope the actor (Butler) will find a movie that will give him the right material to make hearts truly beat faster. Until then, it appears we'll have to settle for films with more flaws than his characters.
  9. Hyde Park on Hudson
    Though he has competition, especially from the folks playing the visiting royals, Murray is very much the reason to see "Hyde Park."
  10. Rust and Bone
    Romantic but pitiless, fearlessly emotional as well as edgy, Rust and Bone is a powerhouse.
  11. Talaash
    The provocative noir experience that Talaash promises, with its jazzily scored, moodily lighted opening montage of a Mumbai red-light district at night, is nowhere to be found once this meandering mystery begins.
  12. Addicted to Fame
    "Addicted" proves a strangely sad yet wildly compelling cautionary tale.
  13. Dragon
    Dragon has enough interesting left turns in style, mood and psychodrama to make it stand out.
  14. What a Man
    With its stock characters and low-expectation high jinks, the German import What a Man could have been fabricated on the Hollywood rom-com assembly line.
  15. Silent Night
    The movie's intended audience will likely be satisfied by its parade of gory mayhem, cheap thrills and groan-worthy dark humor. Everyone else: You're on your own.
  16. The Collection
    Melton and Dunstan have created little more than a hollow shell for an empty box.
  17. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
    The movie creates something of the sensation of huffing industrial solvents - in a good way! - a waking-sleep zombification that can't exactly be described as pleasurable but definitely has an odd, distinct power.
  18. Back to 1942
    Director Feng Xiaogang captures the epic scale of the exodus as well as the often-harrowing details, yet emotional connection proves more elusive.
  19. The Central Park Five
    It projects equal parts fury and despair as it reveals how a particular group of individuals was caught in the unforgiving gears of the criminal justice system.
  20. Killing Them Softly
    The writer-director becomes so intent on hammering home the parallels between economic decay, political disappointments and petty criminals, there is nothing soft, or subtle, about it. He should trust his audience more.
  21. The Gatekeepers
    A documentary potent enough to alter how you see the world.
  22. Hitchcock
    Hitchcock puts major league star power at the service of its peek-behind-closed-doors premise. But whatever that relationship was like in real life, this is one cinematic portrait of a marriage we could have lived without.
  23. Price Check
    Writer-director Michael Walker keeps a firm grip on his smart material, offering up big laughs, lots of recognizable behavior and, in the end, a wistful glimpse at life's inevitable priorities.
  24. Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed
    A revealing, disturbing look at how political and corporate forces have seemingly undermined the freedom and safety of our nation's equine population.
  25. Chasing Ice
    The before and after imagery of Balog's project speaks for itself, with the power and strange beauty of the evolving landscape strong evidence that something is indeed happening, now and fast.
  26. Red Dawn
    While a foreign regime exerting its emergent power over America certainly has a familiar ring to it, if anything, this new Red Dawn is a movie in search of its moment.
  27. Rise of the Guardians
    There is a lot to savor in Rise of the Guardians, but sometimes too much of a good thing can be exhausting.
  28. Life of Pi
    There are always moral crosscurrents in Lee's most provocative work, but so magical and mystical is this parable, it's as if the filmmaker has found the philosopher's stone.
  29. Funeral Kings
    The easygoing charm of Funeral Kings and its impulse toward honesty over overstatement robs the film of true dramatic tension, and a number of story lines - involving drugs, rivalry, love interests - are left somewhat unresolved.
  30. Bel Borba Aqui
    What the film lacks in biographical depth, it makes up for with stirring visuals (including effective bits of split screen, time-lapse photography and animation), a vibrant score and an infectious, in-the-moment spirit.
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