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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. Deja Vu
    What is interesting is not how little sense Déjà Vu makes but how little that matters. If you want your films to add up logically, you're welcome to take your calculator somewhere else. But if you do, you will be missing out on some first-class genre fun.
  2. The Good Shepherd
    It's taken a dozen years for Eric Roth's smart, thoughtful, psychologically complicated script to reach the screen under Robert De Niro's careful and methodical direction, and it is easy to see why.
  3. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    Behind the Mask is original and weirdly delicious, and executed with gory aplomb.
  4. God Grew Tired of Us
    Quinn discovers an unexpectedly funny, trenchant fish-out-of-water-eye-view of American life.
  5. Tears of the Black Tiger
    It is astonishing to realize that the highly confident Tears of the Black Tiger marks the directorial debut of Sasanatieng, after having written two movies hugely successful in Thailand, yet in truth he belongs to a long line of first-rate filmmakers who understand the wisdom of taking big chances the first time at bat.
  6. Bamako
    Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating.
  7. The Astronaut Farmer
    Much of the credit for the movie succeeding goes to Thornton. In his able hands, Farmer is not so much someone who simply has faith in what he is doing but a man who believes with incontrovertible knowledge of what can be accomplished.
  8. Amazing Grace
    Fortunately, director Michael Apted and his team understand the challenges of this kind of story and have met them with intelligence and energy.
  9. Into Great Silence
    A transcendent, transporting experience, a trance movie that casts a major league spell by going deeply into a monastic world that lives largely without words.
  10. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    Scurlock does well to counter the more dire aspects of the film with a razor-sharp sense of humor.
  11. Offside
    A charming, character-driven film that conveys enormous feeling for its people
  12. The Lookout
    A writer's thriller. True, it's cleanly and efficiently directed, and it showcases some crackerjack acting, but the reason it's a real pleasure to watch is that a writer's sensibility is the foundation everything is built on.
  13. After the Wedding
    After the Wedding would never pretend to have any answers, but in hands this skilled the act of exploration itself couldn't be more illuminating, or more dramatic.
  14. Black Book
    As epic as its two-hours-and-25-minute running time indicates, Black Book is as subversive as it is traditional, both enamored of conventional notions of heroism and frankly contemptuous of them.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grindhouse
    A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.
  16. The Hoax
    The result is an unexpectedly satisfying fantasia of reality and imagination, a meditation on the nature of lies and deception, on how we come to embrace not the truth but what it suits us to believe.
  17. Red Road
    A spellbinding, intelligent thriller that takes its time to get where it's going but is well worth the trip.
  18. Alice Neel
    The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama.
  19. Jindabyne
    Jindabyne's strength and power come from a number of factors: its origin, its current landscape and the unusual way its writer-director, Ray Lawrence, has chosen to work.
  20. Triad Election
    Like any good sequel, this film takes what is familiar with the original's concept -- in this case, an internecine struggle for supremacy -- and deepens it.
  21. Les amitiés maléfiques
    Steeped in shrewdness about the often contradictory workings of human nature, Poison Friends is gratifying in the best tradition of French cinema.
  22. Flanders
    Nonprofessional actors Boidin and Leroux deliver intense performances which shoulder the emotional weight of the film.
  23. Golden Door
    Beautiful, spacey, trans-oceanic odyssey.
  24. Ten Canoes
    Ten Canoes is nonetheless audacious and impressive, but challenging work, requiring steadfast concentration.
  25. 12:08 East of Bucharest
    It's clear that an exceptional body of work is coming out of this country at this particular time and place. It's not necessary to categorize these films to enjoy them, it's just necessary to go.
  26. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    As compelling as the music and concert footage is, it is the vitality of the performers as characters that enables the movie to transcend the music documentary genre.
  27. Strike
    Despite the grim Cold War environment, Schlöndorff blends, mostly successfully, goofiness and melodrama into the overall social realist tone.
  28. Live Free or Die Hard
    A slick and efficient piece of action entertainment, fast moving with energetic stunt work and nice thriller moves.
  29. Hairspray
    What it offers isn't really a nostalgic look at a "more innocent time" so much as a saucy wink at a casually vicious time that is constantly being sold to us as innocent.
  30. The Simpsons Movie
    In some ways, it reminded me of the final "Seinfeld" episode. As much as I laughed throughout, I kept wondering what was with all the emotional lessons.
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