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For 16,535 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: 8,705 out of 16535
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16535
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16535
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  1. Freedomland
    Anyone who has seen the trailers for Freedomland, which don't exactly skimp on maternal angst, already knows this is going to be a sad-mommy story. What we don't know is that it may be a bad-mommy story as well.
  2. Battle in Heaven
    Reygadas asks audiences to plunge headlong into his chaotic vision of the world, no questions asked but complete trust required. Not everyone is going to be willing or able to take this leap of faith, but those who do go along with Reygadas may well feel they have come away having undergone a stunning revelatory experience.
  3. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    Director Timur Bekmambetov has combined two things that never connected before. He's taken a glossy Hollywood-type fantasy thriller about the battle between supernatural forces of good and evil right here on planet Earth and infused it with a homegrown, distinctively Russian soul.
  4. The Second Chance
    A movie-of-the-week treatment of race and class, the film credibly portrays the day-to-day workings of an urban ministry.
  5. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Julia Jentsch strong and graceful, quiet knockout of a performance is the film's most potent weapon.
  6. Winter Passing
    Harris, of course, is in a different league from the rest, and his depiction of the tortured writer is remarkably well-realized, considering the nonspecific yet somehow overly familiar inscrutability of the character. Despite its limitations, there's something appealing about the world Rapp has created.
  7. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    CSA is rough around the edges, especially where the acting and some of the film's invented characters are concerned. But the way CSA works out its ideas is so provoking that its drawbacks are not difficult to ignore.
  8. Curious George
    Turns out to be as simple, friendly, kid-appropriate and nontoxic as any major motion picmerchtainment franchise could ever hope to be.
  9. Firewall
    For though it is a reasonable facsimile of a successful thriller, this film (named after a barrier that protects computers from hackers) never manages to be more than mildly effective.
  10. The Pink Panther
    The best thing about the replica is how wholeheartedly Martin throws himself into the physical comedy, which is uniformly hilarious.
  11. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    It's the record of a life, a musical and spiritual autobiography, and as directed by Jonathan Demme it taps into the kind of unashamed, unsentimental emotion that's become increasingly rare in films of any kind.
  12. A Year Without Love
    A Year Without Love is only Berneri's third feature yet is an elegant, economical work.
  13. A Good Woman
    The film is well intentioned and mildly diverting, but in attempting to modernize its story it has lost many of the things that make the original so memorable and not gained much in return.
  14. When a Stranger Calls
    Droopy remake.
  15. Something New
    The movie nicely captures the area around Baldwin Hills, is crisply written by Kriss Turner and portrays the upper-middle class black community seldom seen in mainstream TV and film. However, the characterizations, even the leads, rarely rise above archetypes.
  16. FAQs
    The campier aspects of the film are not enough to make up for its lapses into melodrama and just plain silliness.
  17. Cowboy del Amor
    Charming, bittersweet.
  18. Bubble
    Despite its refreshingly straightforward style and compelling performers, the movie feels encased in an invisible, filmy membrane of its own. Soderbergh keeps his characters on one side of the wall and his audience on the other. As to which is living in the real world, I guess that's open to discussion.
  19. Annapolis
    Franco is a refreshingly offbeat screen presence and in lighter moments boasts an appealing smile. He may be someone to watch, but too bad there's little room for emotional spontaneity - acting, in other words - in a rote Hollywood drill such as this.
  20. Big Momma's House 2
    This isn't your father's cross-dressing. At the same time, the science of comedy attains a new level of appreciation, since hardly anything about this sluggish sequel to the 2000 box office hit comes close to being funny.
  21. Nanny McPhee
    A spicy little pastry with just the right proportions of flakiness and gooeyness.
  22. Little Jerusalem
    Philosophy and religion become entangled with love and sex in Karin Albou's intelligent, sensual drama.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Manderlay
    Trier gets lost in his own rhetoric, forgetting to entertain his flock while raking them over the coals.
  24. Roving Mars
    Not having a way to capture images of the machines at work means that too much of Butler's film -- his credits include "Pumping Iron" and the Imax film "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure" -- is disappointingly made up of computer simulations.
  25. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    The trouble with describing a story this complex and digressive is that it's hard to keep it from sounding complicated and hard-to-follow. But for a movie about movies, it's surprisingly humanistic, cheerful and true to life.
  26. Go for Zucker
    Zippy, well-played, Wilder-esque farce.
  27. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    Not Brooks' funniest film, but it possesses his trademark wry humor and is slyly observant.
  28. Why We Fight
    The long line of recent muckraking documentaries that has preceded Why We Fight does nothing to diminish its force.
  29. End of the Spear
    What creeps in is the dramatic simple-mindedness attendant with a purity-of-purpose mind-set.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Underworld: Evolution
    Wiseman, a former art director and music video director, has a definite sense of style and pace, and the creature transformations are eye-popping. In addition, the cast raises the movie above the level of routine genre schlock.
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