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For 16,550 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Bad News Bears
    A straightforward, surprisingly faithful and definitely loving adaptation of the original.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Red Eye
    The plot is not absolutely airtight, but Craven's filmmaking is too fast-moving and too involving for this to matter. As a movie, Red-Eye is in every way as well crafted and sharply designed as the Boeing 767 Lisa fatefully boards.
  6. Clean
    Clean is one of those movies that's slightly off the mark in ways that are hard to put a finger on, but it is shot so soulfully and features such beautiful performances that it's easy to forgive the occasional false note.
  7. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    Perfectly delightful.
  8. The Memory of a Killer
    This is one terrific thriller with several wicked tricks up its sleeve, each more satisfying than the last.
  9. Transporter 2
    Delivers a satisfying late-summer escapist treat.
  10. 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.
  11. Keane
    A wholly unexpected and ultimately gratifying experience.
  12. Steal Me
    A beautifully realized small film of understated power.
  13. Proof
    Against considerable odds and despite a shaky start, Proof proves itself in every area.
  14. Stupid Boy
    Loic's journey is rich in incident and detail, and Garçon Stupide retains its dynamic momentum throughout.
  15. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    An unapologetic cheerleader for exploring the final frontier, Hanks wrote and produced (along with director Mark Cowen) this enthralling look at what might be the greatest technological feat of the 20th century.
  16. Forty Shades of Blue
    Sachs has pulled off a film of inferences and intimations, thanks largely to the casting of accomplished actors.
  17. Serenity
    A highly entertaining piece of genre-blending fun.
  18. The Gospel
    Rousing, affirmative entertainment.
  19. Before the Fall
    Commands attention from its very first frame and never lets up right through the fade-out. It is a splendid example of classic screen storytelling with no false steps, and Gansel's understated approach pays off with resounding emotional effect and meaning.
  20. Innocent Voices
    Mandoki, who with this film returns to the Spanish-speaking cinema after a string of Hollywood films, has brought a sure sense of the visual and taut construction to Innocent Voices, based on a true story. It is filled with wrenching images.
  21. The President's Last Bang
    An outrageous, savagely comical account of the disastrous circumstances surrounding the assassination of dictatorial South Korean President Park Chung Hee in 1979.
  22. After Innocence
    What emerges from these stories is a picture of the fallibility of the system and the vulnerability of innocent citizens, whom even scientific evidence cannot protect from incompetence, ego and prejudice, and of the courage of the exonerated victims to make meaning of their tragedies.
  23. New York Doll
    Though it is small in scale and lasts only 78 minutes, New York Doll, like any documentary, goes places we expect it to and places we do not. As journeys go, this is one to treasure.
  24. Paradise Now
    A powerful, poignant, provocative drama, it gets its strength from its dispassion, from an uncompromising determination to explain rather than justify or condemn, to put a human face on incomprehensible acts.
  25. The Passenger (re-release)
    A fascinating reflection of the era when it was made; but a starker indictment still of what film culture has become. In 1975, The Passenger was a night at the movies.
  26. Bee Season
    With the help of clear direction and some excellent acting, especially from Flora Cross in a memorable debut as Eliza, Bee Season is affecting in ways that movies have all but given up trying to be.
  27. Ellie Parker
    Ellie Parker is at once hilarious and harrowing, and in being so, seems right on target.
  28. Gilles' Wife
    Suffused with a painterly tenderness and cruelty, the French film Gilles' Wife - based on a 1937 Belgian novel by Madeleine Bourdouxhe - stars the extraordinary actress Emmanuelle Devos.
  29. The Syrian Bride
    Written, directed and acted with real compassion and sympathy for the humanity of its characters, no matter who they are or on what side of these multiple issues they turn out to be.
  30. The Ice Harvest
    A droll, dark Christmas treat for adults, a delightful alternative to the usual holiday-themed fare.
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