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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. The Hunting Party
    Black comedy becomes funnier as the action becomes darker and more perilous, but The Hunting Party fails to locate the absurdity in the central situations and goes for midget jokes instead. In the end, you're not sure if you're supposed to be watching "The Three Amigos" or "Hotel Rwanda."
  2. Milarepa
    It's doubtful Milarepa will be opening in Beijing any time soon; all the more reason it deserves a look.
  3. The Unknown Soldier
    Where Verhoeven loses his way is when he allows himself to sink into a seemingly endless recounting of atrocities, getting away from the main moral and philosophical questions his film brings up so provocatively.
  4. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    James and Beth have fun in a grocery store pretending to be different characters meeting in the aisles. As they learn, sometimes the moment works, sometimes it doesn't. The same can be said for this unfailingly modest film.
  5. Death Sentence
    While there is the requisite amount of shorn limbs and splashing blood one might expect from the director of "Saw," Wan should be saluted for putting the coup de grâce off-screen.
  6. Freshman Orientation
    An uneven coming-of-age comedy.
  7. The Nines
    Rather than come across as fantastic or dreamlike, the stories have a vivid, hyperreal quality to them.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Halloween (2007)
    It's a more polished, high-fidelity version of a story that's played out on screen many times since 1978, but once Zombie runs out of subtext, he's right back to the same old slasher text: "Blood. Guts. The end."
  9. Exiled
    To packs the moments of contemplation with as much suspense as the action sequences and is a master of ratcheting up tension through small details.
  10. Self Medicated
    Self-Medicated is not loathsome or lurid, just one-sided and in need of guidance -- ironically so, because that's what its protagonist so steadfastly refuses to accept. The movie's lack of nuance is balanced by its good intentions.
  11. Balls of Fury
    A lifeless pingpong comedy that ricochets from one flat gag to the next.
  12. Deep Water
    Disturbing, unnerving and wire-to-wire involving, Deep Water is the story of a dream that got so wildly out of hand that it ensnared the dreamer in an intricate trap of his own devising.
  13. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    There is a guilty-pleasure quality to watching Atkinson at work even when Mr. Bean has overstayed his welcome. The film's lightness makes you wish you were the one headed to the beach.
  14. The Nanny Diaries
    The social bite of the popular novel fades into a generic chick flick.
  15. Resurrecting the Champ
    Delivers a heckuva story marred by some credibility problems but lands the majority of its punches via subtly powerful performances and a moving undercard of paternal connection.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Right at Your Door
    A dumb twist can be excused, however, if your characters keep the thing afloat, which makes perhaps the most unforgivable sin of this claustrophobic terror scenario the fact that we have to spend it with arguably the two least interesting people in Los Angeles.
  17. September Dawn
    A rare case in which one can't help but wish the film were somehow worse than it is, for it would then be easier to dismiss outright. Jon Voight's turn as a fictional local Mormon leader and, in particular, Terence Stamp's performance as Brigham Young have a strange, unnerving conviction about them, and give the film an oddly engaging pull.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    War
    War ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eye of the Dolphin
    Overly earnest and roughly constructed, the film is bearable largely thanks to the performance as the daughter by Carly Schroeder, recently seen in the girls' soccer pic, "Gracie."
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Closing Escrow
    A spoof, sometimes a funny one, and sometimes just plain overkill.
  21. The Hottest State
    Personal and heartfelt, it's nevertheless bogged down by a lack of perspective on the material and a pointlessly frilly visual style.
  22. Hannah Takes the Stairs
    There's something to be said for cinema this perversely naturalistic.
  23. Superbad
    What with everyone so focused on the raunchiness, it comes as a complete surprise to find that Superbad is in fact a love story.
  24. Them
    Them is surprisingly tight, efficient and economical, conjuring a super-creepy atmosphere and incredible tension seemingly out of nothing at all.
  25. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    Edgy and provocative but with a weakness for sensationalistic footage.
  26. The 11th Hour
    Thankfully for audiences, 11th Hour is not without hope. The filmmakers save the most exhilarating portion for last when they ask what's being done about the problems.
  27. The Invasion
    Still effectively creepy and surprisingly unnerving despite the occasional misstep and rumors of a troubled production, the new film illustrates why and how the power of the original story remains undiminished more than half a century after its creation.
  28. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Obsession creates its own fascination, and never more so than in King of Kong, a sprightly new documentary that's as compulsively watchable as the vintage video game it focuses on is addictive.
  29. The Last Legion
    Not as bad as it sounds nor as good as it might have been.
  30. Primo Levi's Journey
    For while the idea of comparing the Europe of 60 years ago to the Europe of today sounds didactic, the results are anything but. Ferrario turns out to have a delicate, unforced eye for elegant counterpoints, and his style unobtrusively draws you into the journey.
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