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For 16,526 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: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
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  1. Black Swan
    Not just any kind of trash, it's high-art trash, a kind of "When Tutu Goes Psycho" that so prizes hysteria over sanity that it's worth your life to tell when its characters are hallucinating and when they're not.
  2. Disco and Atomic War
    Although like the Cold War itself, the film does drag on at times, "Disco" really is a delight.
  3. Undertow
    In a confident yet relaxed feature debut, Fuentes-León has created a wholly unified work of art.
  4. Me, Too
    Pastor and Naharro have written a great part for Dueñas and direct her with great care. In fact, her delicately nuanced portrayal is crucial to why this lovely film works so well.
  5. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    "A Man Within" won't be the last word on Burroughs, who died in 1997, but it's a welcome addition to the biographical canon - less as clear-eyed investigation than for the intimate and moving portrait it paints.
  6. The Nutcracker
    Your Thanksgiving turkey has arrived on schedule and it's called The Nutcracker in 3D.
  7. Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
    A warm and enthusiastic documentary.
  8. Made in Dagenham
    Hawkins' performance as "Dagenham's" unassuming heroine, an amalgam of several key figures who stepped up back in the day, is first-rate and already generating some Oscar talk.
  9. The Next Three Days
    About 33 minutes in, I couldn't help but think, if they do another close-up of your watch as it tick, tick, ticks toward another three, I will scream. But honestly, any screaming should be directed at Paul Haggis, who both wrote and directed this mess.
  10. The Kids Grow Up
    Block wears his neuroses so guilelessly on his sleeve and organizes his material with such skill, that what might have been insufferable navel-gazing attains poignancy.
  11. A Marine Story
    A Marine Story overcomes some flaws in continuity and superficial characterizations to drive home its underlying message about the injustice of "don't ask, don't tell" and the way the controversial policy deprives the military of born leaders. A worthy endeavor.
  12. The Taqwacores
    As a misfit-centric slap at religious conformity, the story's premise couldn't be more primed for trenchant social comedy, but screenwriter Knight and director Eyad Zahra opt for maintaining a thin veneer of tiresome obnoxiousness over exploring the contours of an emotionally complicated subculture.
  13. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Made with the on-camera cooperation of Spitzer (though not his wife), it is a sad, disturbing and in some ways tragic tale that in its lurid combination of sex and politics, banal hypocrisy and bare-knuckles power, seems very much an American story of our times.
  14. Outside the Law
    The filmmaker is at his best unspooling the politics of independence, which he does with such confident fervor that you always understand the fight.
  15. Morning Glory
    Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn't always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam.
  16. 127 Hours
    In the end, 127 Hours is one man's incredible, unforgettable journey; it took the extraordinary alchemy of Boyle and Franco to also make it ours.
  17. For Colored Girls
    Whatever stumbles there may be, they are offset by moments when For Colored Girls soars.
  18. Fair Game
    It seems to be doing everything right but still doesn't manage to leave you with a completely satisfied feeling.
  19. Four Lions
    Doesn't offer moviegoers one obvious message, but rather a complex and considered glimpse into a rarely seen world, one of utter absurdity and horror.
  20. Jolene
    More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, Jolene remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles.
  21. Red Hill
    Commendably entertaining.
  22. Change of Plans (Le code a changé)
    By the time this lightly entertaining look at life's emotional crises ends, even the characters you didn't think were sympathetic will have won you over.
  23. Wild Target
    Nighy is usually a treat to watch navigating life's bad turns, so it's especially frustrating that the filmmaker so often leaves him at loose ends.
  24. The Two Escobars
    One of the best sports documentaries in recent memory.
  25. Eichmann
    Eichmann, in all its solemnity, needs to be more dynamic; the film's portentous score further weighs it down.
  26. Shake Hands with the Devil
    A quietly powerful, incisive portrait of Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallarme (Roy Dupuis), who was sent to Rwanda in 1993 on a peacekeeping mission as the ruling Hutu attacked the rebel Tutsi, yet he was hobbled by the U.N. leadership and faced with the indifference of the world's superpowers.
  27. Walkaway
    Only 97 minutes but feels much longer. It suffers from a marked lack of energy, a condition not cured by its many, many pop-music-scored montages.
  28. Amer
    Consistently outrageous and relentlessly surreal, the Belgian film is, intentionally or not, frequently funny; it's also compelling and distinctive.
  29. Welcome to the Rileys
    Fortunately Stewart seems to thrive in water over her head, and when she pulls Gandolfini in with her the movie gels. It makes you wish the filmmaker had left them in the deep end longer.
  30. Monsters
    An attempt to counter noisy, hyper effects-laden alien invasion flicks with something teasing, indie and good for you. Instead, it's like a pendulum swing too far in the other direction.
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