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For 16,534 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: 8,704 out of 16534
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16534
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16534
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  1. Corpse Bride
    Corpse Bride has more warmth and appeal than its title would indicate, but it is finally more grotesque than good-humored. And, even at 75 minutes, it feels longer than its content can comfortably support.
  2. Thumbsucker
    Thumbsucker aims high but swerves too frequently between the engaging and the credibility-defying to be satisfying.
  3. The Thing About My Folks
    Sweet but dramatically inert.
  4. Stupid Boy
    Loic's journey is rich in incident and detail, and Garçon Stupide retains its dynamic momentum throughout.
  5. One Bright Shining Moment
    The film's greatest asset and strongest selling point is the former senator from South Dakota himself, thoughtful and articulate at age 83, who talks candidly, even eloquently, about his political career.
  6. Venom
    Smartly directed by Jim Gillespie from a script by various hands, Venom is from Dimension Films and follows its stylish, energetic and darkly amusing horror movie tradition.
  7. Separate Lies
    To watch the film is to marvel at the cast's virtuosity at fleshing out the shallowest people in England, and the observable intelligence and talent of all those involved doesn't make Separate Lies any more compelling, or its characters more resonant.
  8. The Future of Food
    Detailed and intensely researched documentary.
  9. The Man
    In some ways, The Man plays like a sequel to some terrible movie that was mercifully destroyed before it was ever released.
  10. An Unfinished Life
    It's an acceptable film, but the story of family ties and forgiveness simply cannot manage the emotional connections it is desperate for.
  11. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    Muddled tale of faith and reason.
  12. Cote d'Azur
    This is a sophisticated adult treat in the French manner with an attractive and gifted cast and is essentially serious, yet often whimsical and always compassionate.
  13. Keane
    A wholly unexpected and ultimately gratifying experience.
  14. Steal Me
    A beautifully realized small film of understated power.
  15. Green Street Hooligans
    Serves up a lot of bone-crushing violence in an offbeat context with considerable style and energy, but the steady diet of brutal street fighting makes it all but impossible to connect with this picture, despite whatever visceral appeal it may offer.
  16. Kamikaze Girls
    A glorious blend of kitsch, grit, humor and uplift.
  17. Music from the Inside Out
    Anker evocatively captures the joys (and sometime frustrations) experienced by high-level artists working within an institution. The ardor they bring to their music is both enviable and inspiring.
  18. Make It Funky!
    There's not a second in the film that isn't a reminder that New Orleans in its architecture, cuisine and multicultural diversity as well as in its music is a unique and major American center of culture. Murphy has made a film more valuable than he surely ever could have imagined.
  19. Walking on the Sky
    Carl T. Evans' tedious drama Walking on the Sky serves primarily as an acting exercise for its cast and a showcase for its primary location, a scenic Manhattan rooftop.
  20. Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
    A potent and imaginative creative biography of virtuoso percussionist Glennie.
  21. Transporter 2
    Delivers a satisfying late-summer escapist treat.
  22. A Sound of Thunder
    The picture looks as murky as its story line, the sound is tinny, much of the dialogue is flat or confoundingly technical or merely risible, and most everything on the screen looks patently fake.
  23. Underclassman
    Marcos Siega's direction is well-paced, but writers David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg haven't brought anything sufficiently fresh or original to a formula plot to allow Underclassman to rise above the level of a mildly diverting video rental.
  24. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    She has something to say to everyone, and one can only hope that she is preaching to more than her choir of devoted fans.
  25. 3 Dancing Slaves
    Although graceful and dynamic, Three Dancing Slaves is none too substantial or original, lacking the edge or complexity of Morel's impressive debut film, "Full Speed."
  26. The Constant Gardener
    A film that grips us dramatically, intellectually and emotionally.
  27. William Eggleston in the Real World
    An elegantly discursive examination of one of the great modern photographers, a surprisingly intimate portrait of an elusive, laconic man.
  28. The Brothers Grimm
    Unfortunately, although Gilliam has always had a taste for the outre, he has allowed it to get out of hand here and swallow the picture whole. There's an excessiveness, an unwelcome too-muchness to "Grimm's" creepy moments.
  29. The Cave
    It's increasingly hard to work up a fright on the screen these days, but even if The Cave doesn't exactly terrify, it's fun and looks great.
  30. Undiscovered
    The whole movie could be clipped by about 95 minutes and it would make a swell little video for Simpson's performance of the title cut from the soundtrack.
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