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For 16,533 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: 8,703 out of 16533
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16533
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16533
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  1. 800 Bullets
    It thinks it's cute, but it's as charming as an old drunk going on about how he knew Eastwood back in the day.
  2. Sideways
    Exactly written, directed with a surgeon's precision and transcendently acted, Sideways brings emotional reality to a consistently amusing character comedy, making it something to be cherished like the delicate Santa Ynez Valley wines that are the story's vivid backdrop.
  3. Stella Street
    Once the filmmakers have got the celebrities settled into Stella Street, they have a hard time figuring out what to do with them. Stella Street is the road best not taken.
  4. Fish Without a Bicycle
    Feels like an acting exercise stretched to feature length.
  5. Happy Hour
    LaPaglia, Feeney and Stoltz soldier bravely through an uninspired, airless script.
  6. Undertow
    The result is a movie that doesn't add up to the sum of its parts, yet some of those parts connect deeply anyway.
  7. The Manson Family
    The less-than-persuasive result is like mediocre leftover psychedelic '60s underground cinema.
  8. Lightning in a Bottle
    One terrific concert film.
  9. Postmen in the Mountains
    Undeniably a heart-tugger, but it is also a stirring affirmation of the rewards of a job well done.
  10. The Machinist
    Not quite stunning enough to live up to a boldly bleak and unrelenting buildup.
  11. The Grudge
    More than anything, The Grudge suggests that it's time for Shimizu to move on.
  12. Surviving Christmas
    A dismally formulaic hodgepodge of crude humor and wan attempts to tug at the heart.
  13. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    Like Moore's film, Celsius hits too many topics with too broad a brush, resulting in yet another contribution to this campaign season's spin cycle of rhetoric.
  14. Sex Is Comedy
    Breillat's first foray into comedy is playful, whip-smart and far breezier in both tone and look than the stylized gender polemics she's known for.
  15. The Dust Factory
    A tedious, precious fantasy.
  16. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
    Cassavetes' riveting film not only re-creates the glory days of the Z Channel through a generous offering of film clips and interviews, but also presents a clear-eyed portrait of its creative driving force, Jerry Harvey, and the tragic circumstances of his death.
  17. P.S.
    Once you get beyond the absurdity of the premise, it works.
  18. Riding the Bullet
    The movie is so glum and flat-footed there's no reason to care.
  19. The Final Cut
    The thriller with a promising premise fails to deliver.
  20. Moolaadé
    There's such a rich sense of the fullness of life in Moolaadé that it sustains those passages that are truly and necessarily harrowing.
  21. Eulogy
    The movie is like a promising date that goes nowhere.
  22. Being Julia
    The filmmakers have brought such breadth and depth to the material. Everyone counts in this film, not just Julia Lambert.
  23. Hair Show
    Good-natured comedy.
  24. Saints and Soldiers
    Inspired by actual events, Saints and Soldiers benefits by being a small-scale war movie.
  25. Shall We Dance
    A sleek Hollywood crowd-pleaser, more movie than art film, but its makers have wisely stuck not only to the spirit but often even to the letter of the original.
  26. Team America: World Police
    Yes, it's inventive, yes, it's out-there and audacious, but no, it's not always as funny as those good things would lead you to hope.
  27. The Scandal
    Genteelly erotic, surprisingly emotional, exquisitely made from start to finish.
  28. Vera Drake
    As lovely and heartbreaking as Staunton is to watch, there's something about Leigh's attachment to his politics that leaches some complexity from the experience
  29. Around the Bend
    Gentlemen, it's a male chick flick - "The Dirty Secrets of the Ya-Ya Brotherhood."
  30. Vodka Lemon
    An appealingly wry little film that is as appetizing as its title.
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