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For 16,536 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 16536
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16536
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16536
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  1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    To be fair to Deathly Hallows, the filmmakers have tried hard to fill the proceedings with battles and chases and debilitating curses. Genuine filmmaking excitement, however, is harder to provide.
  2. Tiny Furniture
    What the film does well is capture the confusion of the identity abyss of twentysomethings of a certain social class.
  3. Nothing Personal
    As for the many loose ends the director leaves, you can either tie them or leave them loose, either way is fine since the experience as much as anything is what Antoniak was after.
  4. Meskada
    A piece filled with well-drawn characters and steadily building tensions, a story told in an economical, unshowy way, but as a whole, the movie never quite builds a solid momentum or finds a true sense of purpose.
  5. The Warrior's Way
    South Korean filmmaker Sngmoo Lee's debut feature is less a genre-spanning romp than a tiresome lab experiment in computer-generated tropes and green-screen oppressiveness.
  6. Bhutto
    As Bhutto, the thorough and involving documentary on her life conveys, Benazir was a formidable personality all by herself.
  7. I Love You Phillip Morris
    It's clear from first frame to last that the filmmakers decided to go broad, very broad, with a story that swings between hysterical, hyper-sexual, bizarre, surprisingly tender and just plain awful. This is one mixed bag of a movie.
  8. Black Swan
    Not just any kind of trash, it's high-art trash, a kind of "When Tutu Goes Psycho" that so prizes hysteria over sanity that it's worth your life to tell when its characters are hallucinating and when they're not.
  9. Disco and Atomic War
    Although like the Cold War itself, the film does drag on at times, "Disco" really is a delight.
  10. Undertow
    In a confident yet relaxed feature debut, Fuentes-León has created a wholly unified work of art.
  11. Me, Too
    Pastor and Naharro have written a great part for Dueñas and direct her with great care. In fact, her delicately nuanced portrayal is crucial to why this lovely film works so well.
  12. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    "A Man Within" won't be the last word on Burroughs, who died in 1997, but it's a welcome addition to the biographical canon - less as clear-eyed investigation than for the intimate and moving portrait it paints.
  13. The Nutcracker
    Your Thanksgiving turkey has arrived on schedule and it's called The Nutcracker in 3D.
  14. Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
    A warm and enthusiastic documentary.
  15. Made in Dagenham
    Hawkins' performance as "Dagenham's" unassuming heroine, an amalgam of several key figures who stepped up back in the day, is first-rate and already generating some Oscar talk.
  16. The Next Three Days
    About 33 minutes in, I couldn't help but think, if they do another close-up of your watch as it tick, tick, ticks toward another three, I will scream. But honestly, any screaming should be directed at Paul Haggis, who both wrote and directed this mess.
  17. The Kids Grow Up
    Block wears his neuroses so guilelessly on his sleeve and organizes his material with such skill, that what might have been insufferable navel-gazing attains poignancy.
  18. A Marine Story
    A Marine Story overcomes some flaws in continuity and superficial characterizations to drive home its underlying message about the injustice of "don't ask, don't tell" and the way the controversial policy deprives the military of born leaders. A worthy endeavor.
  19. The Taqwacores
    As a misfit-centric slap at religious conformity, the story's premise couldn't be more primed for trenchant social comedy, but screenwriter Knight and director Eyad Zahra opt for maintaining a thin veneer of tiresome obnoxiousness over exploring the contours of an emotionally complicated subculture.
  20. 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.
  21. Outside the Law
    The filmmaker is at his best unspooling the politics of independence, which he does with such confident fervor that you always understand the fight.
  22. Morning Glory
    Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn't always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam.
  23. 127 Hours
    In the end, 127 Hours is one man's incredible, unforgettable journey; it took the extraordinary alchemy of Boyle and Franco to also make it ours.
  24. For Colored Girls
    Whatever stumbles there may be, they are offset by moments when For Colored Girls soars.
  25. Fair Game
    It seems to be doing everything right but still doesn't manage to leave you with a completely satisfied feeling.
  26. Four Lions
    Doesn't offer moviegoers one obvious message, but rather a complex and considered glimpse into a rarely seen world, one of utter absurdity and horror.
  27. Jolene
    More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, Jolene remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles.
  28. Red Hill
    Commendably entertaining.
  29. Change of Plans (Le code a changé)
    By the time this lightly entertaining look at life's emotional crises ends, even the characters you didn't think were sympathetic will have won you over.
  30. Wild Target
    Nighy is usually a treat to watch navigating life's bad turns, so it's especially frustrating that the filmmaker so often leaves him at loose ends.
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