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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. Black Cloud
    There's considerable universality in Black Cloud's plight, yet Schroder makes it personal and deeply felt. In a direct, unpretentious manner, Black Cloud expresses most effectively its hero's struggle with himself.
  2. Don't Move
    has a rich, lyrical sweep and floats between past and present, reality and imagination, with ease. It is a richly satisfying experience.
  3. Dot the I
    First-time writer-director Matthew Parkhill prefers to lean on clever plot devices, amp up the roles of the movie's sideline jesters, crank up the static noise and fail to notice that his engaging little romance has broken with reality and veered into hollow pastiche.
  4. Fabled
    Where Fabled flounders is when it attempts to reconcile the many contradictory story elements.
  5. Nowhere Man
    The bleak absurdity of its predicaments cries out for a tone of pitch-dark comedy to stave off the unintended laughter that it is virtually certain to elicit.
  6. Off the Map
    It takes a rugged survivalist mentality to sit through 108 minutes of Off the Map, a self-consciously loopy and mystical drama about a family that lives off the map, off the grid, off the land and mostly off their meds in the mangy desert of New Mexico.
  7. Be Cool
    Although Travolta is as smooth as ever, the picture is a bust, a grimly unfunny comedy with no connection to reality, and worst of all, running on and on for two dismal hours.
  8. The Jacket
    Intermittently compelling but unavoidably improbable.
  9. The Pacifier
    Has sufficient mayhem to please Diesel's action fans while allowing the star to reach out to family audiences.
  10. Dear Frankie
    Dear Frankie's surprises are few and low-key, but the story wraps up nicely.
  11. Face
    No amount of goodwill can rescue Face from its painfully literal script and acting that's all about projecting recognizable attitude rather than drawing in viewers.
  12. Gunner Palace
    A striking new documentary that shows the war in a way it's not been seen before: from the ground up.
  13. Walk on Water
    The new Israeli film Walk on Water is complex and paradoxical, at times frustrating but always involving. Something like the country that produced it.
  14. The Best of Youth
    Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.
  15. Cursed
    Outdoes recent releases such as "Boogeyman" in the fright department, but the "Dawson's Creek" sensitivity and unsatisfying effects undermine the lupine anxiety.
  16. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    These characters, which Perry worked into the narrative from other stage performances, may have been entertaining in those venues, but they undermine the film.
  17. Man of the House
    God-natured comedy.
  18. One More Round
    An unsuccessful concoction of sincerity, camp and crassness that is more interested in its parade of D-level celebrities than developing its characters.
  19. Up and Down
    Buoyed by an unreserved humanism and a cheerful sense of the absurd.
  20. The Other Side of the Street
    Spritely, tender and unpredictable.
  21. Sex Sells: The Making of 'Touché'
    A mildly amusing comedy about the vicissitudes of shooting porn that has little of the grit, sleaze and uncertainty that is the lot of the veteran pornographer striving for professionalism more often than not against all odds.
  22. Window Theory
    Too sophomoric to be believed.
  23. Turtles Can Fly
    Ghobadi uses the lack of resources and the surfeit of drama that had been the lot of the Kurds throughout Hussein's dictatorship and both Gulf wars much in the way De Sica and Rossellini used the European tragedies of the '30s and '40s,
  24. Because of Winn-Dixie
    Never quite works as a film. The failure to create appropriate cinematic metaphors reduces it to "happiness is a warm puppy" superficiality.
  25. Constantine
    Keanu Reeves has no peer when it comes to playing these sort of messianic roles -- he infuses them with a Zen blankness and serenity that somehow gets him through even the unlikeliest scenes with a quiet, unassuming dignity.
  26. Son of the Mask
    It's astonishing how dull a movie that packs so much visual overstimulation into its frames can be.
  27. Nabbeun namja
    What begins, rather promisingly, as a visceral yawp against class difference in contemporary South Korea slowly devolves into a prolonged exercise in pointless sadomasochism.
  28. Bigger Than the Sky
    This heartfelt valentine to the stage leaves no cliché unturned. If it has anything to recommend, it is the loving portrayal of the camaraderie of those who participate in art for art's sake who, to quote Cyrano, "work without one thought of gain or fame."
  29. Downfall
    The reality it confronts is so gripping, we cannot turn away. This may not be the most sophisticated retelling of what happened while Berlin burned, but what a story it is.
  30. Naked Fame
    An engaging and forthright documentary.
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