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For 16,524 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 2.3 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Offside
    A charming, character-driven film that conveys enormous feeling for its people
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Red Road
    A spellbinding, intelligent thriller that takes its time to get where it's going but is well worth the trip.
  11. Alice Neel
    The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Flanders
    Nonprofessional actors Boidin and Leroux deliver intense performances which shoulder the emotional weight of the film.
  16. Golden Door
    Beautiful, spacey, trans-oceanic odyssey.
  17. Ten Canoes
    Ten Canoes is nonetheless audacious and impressive, but challenging work, requiring steadfast concentration.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Strike
    Despite the grim Cold War environment, Schlöndorff blends, mostly successfully, goofiness and melodrama into the overall social realist tone.
  21. Live Free or Die Hard
    A slick and efficient piece of action entertainment, fast moving with energetic stunt work and nice thriller moves.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. La faute à Fidel!
    Blame It on Fidel is the thoroughly engaging, clear-eyed and charming story of a little girl grappling with the domestic fallout of tumultuous political times.
  25. 2 Days in Paris
    2 Days in Paris is pure Julie Delpy, figuratively and otherwise. Since first becoming known to American audiences in the early '90s, she's revealed herself to be an artist of sundry and unexpected talents, with a distinctive voice and point of view.
  26. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    Edgy and provocative but with a weakness for sensationalistic footage.
  27. The 11th Hour
    Thankfully for audiences, 11th Hour is not without hope. The filmmakers save the most exhilarating portion for last when they ask what's being done about the problems.
  28. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Obsession creates its own fascination, and never more so than in King of Kong, a sprightly new documentary that's as compulsively watchable as the vintage video game it focuses on is addictive.
  29. Eastern Promises
    Expertly realized and gunmetal slick, Eastern Promises whirs along with perfect efficiency, but doesn't stir much in the way of visceral horror despite its penchant for treating the human body like a chicken carcass on a block. (Squeamishness, yes.)
  30. The Rape of Europa
    A surprisingly vast and involving topic.
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