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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. Saint Ralph
    Though Butcher is appealing, Saint Ralph is anchored by Scott's persuasive work as a model of intelligent decency.
  2. Secuestro express
    Jakubowicz has aptly said of his film that "the beauty of Secuestro Express is how localized it is. The more local it becomes, the more universal it becomes." The truth of his remark resonates throughout this fast and furious film.
  3. Duma
    Enormously entertaining.
  4. The Chumscrubber
    Every adult in the movie is a caricature: Close, Janney and Wilson are compendiums of such broad, unattractive traits they make the ladies of "Desperate Housewives" look complex. The men, meanwhile, are weak, clueless and preening, with the exception of Fiennes, who's nuts.
  5. Junebug
    A deceptively simple, deeply resonant story about the inherent loneliness of family, the odds against assimilation and the enormous distances that can divide two people.
  6. Darwin's Nightmare
    Filmmaker Sauper put himself in harm's way numerous times to get so inside the situation, and the intimacy of his technique, his willingness to avoid hectoring voice-overs and simply talk quietly with his subjects, adds compelling believability.
  7. Must Love Dogs
    Forces them (the cast) to reenact the entire unabridged Encyclopedia of Treasured Romantic Comedy Clichés and Chestnuts, Revised Second Edition.
  8. Sky High
    Weighed down with gimmicks and special effects, a number of which are far from special, Sky High is best left to 10- to 14-year-olds because it's not likely to do much for older audiences and is too violent for the very young.
  9. Stealth
    A slick piece of summer entertainment that is counting on elaborate special effects to make its derivative, convoluted story line all but irrelevant.
  10. The Aristocrats
    There's something about professional comedians breaking down what's funny for civilians that gets annoying after a while.
  11. Tony Takitani
    An exquisite film, as elegant and precise as an impeccably cut diamond. It's small in scale but wholly mesmerizing, holding us captive as it demonstrates how much enveloping richness can be conveyed with a minimalist style.
  12. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    For an exquisitely melancholy story steeped in a sense of the past as a succession of great waves of political, ideological and economic change, it's fitting that the movie should end with an underwater sequence. It looks like a dream of a memory of a place about to be wiped out by the next great flood of history.
  13. The Devil's Rejects
    Crass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics.
  14. Hustle & Flow
    Unfolds in the satisfying fashion of classic Hollywood movies that strike a balance between grit and heart.
  15. The Island
    Chases, crashes and explosions are thick on the land in the second half of this movie, but though they are expertly done, their size, frequency and increasing disconnection from what was once a coherent story leave you feeling pummeled rather than exhilarated.
  16. Bad News Bears
    A straightforward, surprisingly faithful and definitely loving adaptation of the original.
  17. 9 Songs
    Yet for all its ballyhooed candor about sexual matters, it's a surprisingly baffling and opaque film, too artistic to be standard pornography and too zealously focused on being graphic to the exclusion of all else to succeed as drama.
  18. The Edukators
    A sweet, funny and gripping romantic adventure, it's about the limitations of political activism in this day and age, and what happens when your girlfriend and your best friend fall in love.
  19. Last Days
    What Last Days offers is a blank and narrative-free, but pitch-perfect, dreamscape on which to project your own personal ruminations on Kurt, fame, whatever, nevermind. If you have none, you're on your own.
  20. November
    Increasingly perplexing film, which is more concerned with being clever than satisfying.
  21. Meet the Family
    Good-natured and exuberantly politically - socially is more like it - incorrect, but it is woefully under-inspired and amateurish.
  22. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Burton's gifts ensure you won't be able to take your eyes off the screen, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be happy with what you're seeing.
  23. Wedding Crashers
    Witty, unhinged and fearless, it's exactly the kind of movie we need now.
  24. Happy Endings
    Why aren't there more American movies like this? I mean smart, unpretentious, sophisticated, un-condescending and cheap.
  25. The Warrior
    It is chockablock with brutality, but the violence is of the high-minded, self-congratulatory sort that indicates without actually showing.
  26. God's Sandbox
    It's good that God's Sanbox has such an intriguing premise and compelling performances, because Doran Eran's pacing tends toward slackness, and most of the dialogue is in an English that is often impenetrable.
  27. The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
    The interviews are carefully augmented with speeches by President Bush and other administration officials, plus footage from Iraq and Afghanistan, and powerful graphics detailing the depletion of the global oil supply.
  28. On the Outs
    Bracing and remarkably compact drama, which invests some standard movie tropes of rough-and-tumble urban life with deep feeling and urgency.
  29. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
    Delightfully demented.
  30. Murderball
    A thoughtful and provocative look at a previously little-seen world.
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