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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. Harry Brown
    It's a strong directing debut for Barber, who uses the poignant power of Harry's experience to take a universal cut at decaying communities and the poverty of soul as well as pocket.
  2. Mercy
    A romantic drama with some good qualities -- among them earnestness and strong performances -- but not enough to completely overcome the strain of its clichés.
  3. Please Give
    With her new film, the poignant and funny Please Give, Holofcener is at the top of her game.
  4. The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
    There are terrible movies and there are loathsome movies. And then there's that rare breed so idiotic, exploitative and sickening one wishes they could be scrubbed from memory. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is such a specimen. Would that I had 100 legs to kick it.
  5. Anton Chekhov's The Duel
    If it weren't for the masterful work of director Dover Kosashvili, this rich, evocative film wouldn't have nearly the impact it does.
  6. The Back-up Plan
    Good slapstick is actually an art -- unfortunately not one practiced here -- and bad slapstick is just tedious.
  7. The Losers
    There are enough clever bits, in that exploding-bodies kind of way, to inject some fun into the party. White and director of photography Scott Kevan, who collaborated on "Stomp the Yard," have some seriously inventive visuals, which at times are smash-cut fabulous.
  8. Best Worst Movie
    In its more amusing and accepting moments, Best Worst Movie captures the geek-joy fizz when fame morphs into notoriety, and artlessness becomes its own art.
  9. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    Knives, explosions and knockabout humor have been added to taste. As vigorously staged as it all is -- sometimes confusingly, occasionally with camera-torqueing flair and impressive stuntwork -- the urge to thrill grows wearisome. Were audience members to be included as a collective character as well, they'd be "The Tired."
  10. Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
    Always the drama is tempered with an equal measure of off-center humor that keeps things crackling.
  11. Paper Man
    Every time Kudrow exits the picture, imagining her fed-up character's life away from the twee therapeutic noodlings of Paper Man makes for its own time-killing retreat from dull indie-film reality.
  12. Oceans
    Once Oceans' exhilarating visuals get going, it's easy to ignore the words. This really is a film that manages to show us things we've never seen and make what we have already seen look different and new.
  13. Death at a Funeral
    The movie version of karaoke. It sings the same tune as the 2007 British underground hit, but it's a little, and at times a lot, off-key.
  14. Kick-Ass
    This shrewd mixture of slick comic-book mayhem, unmistakable sweetness and ear-splitting profanity is poised to be a popular culture phenomenon because of its exact sense of the fantasies of the young male fanboy population.
  15. The Joneses
    The ending feels a bit rushed and incongruous, but the film never leaves behind the humanity of its characters.
  16. The Cartel
    A brisk, incisive and mind-boggling -- no other phrase will work -- exposé of his native New Jersey's public education system.
  17. The City of Your Final Destination
    Filled with unrealized possibilities and fraught with flaws, Final Destination seems destined to be little more than a footnote in the anthology of extraordinary films to come out of the long creative collaboration between producer Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
  18. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Subversive, provocative and unexpected, Exit Through the Gift Shop delights in taking you by surprise, starting quietly but ending up in a hall of mirrors as unsettling as anything Lewis Carroll's Alice ever experienced.
  19. Handsome Harry
    Gordon's way with actors and with screen storytelling is as impeccable as ever.
  20. No One Knows About Persian Cats
    The narrative arc swings between light and darkness, from the sheer joy of the Persian rappers who practice on top of an unfinished skyscraper, to Nadar's arrest and interrogation for his black-market DVDs. In Ghobadi's hands, though, it always feels real.
  21. The Perfect Game
    An imperfect film, but an unusual case in which the heart of both the story and its telling do help in smoothing over other deficiencies, sweet and disarming in its belief that something like a baseball game can make a bigger difference.
  22. The Secret in Their Eyes
    A beautifully calibrated movie in the most traditional sense of the word -- the ideal marriage of topic, talent and tone.
  23. Date Night
    All this is good as far as it goes, but the problem is the good parts don't last long enough.
  24. After.Life
    The afterlife is not, however, nearly as deadly or as ghastly as the movie itself, an undertaking so tortured that it digs a deeper grave with every passing scene.
  25. The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
    Director/co-screenwriter Gabriel Bologna, working vigorously at hokey predictability, wastes little time getting us to wish his obnoxious characters (why do people who seemingly hate each other always vacation together?) would find their inner maniacs already.
  26. Everyone Else
    The result is a film that unsettles as often as it seduces, though it does very well with both.
  27. La mission
    The film oozes with authenticity -- sometimes a bit too much so -- and a genuine passion for the gritty, colorful, proud neighborhood that's still a few steps behind the progressive city it calls home (the Bratts grew up in and around the Mission).
  28. The Square
    As one might expect from stuntman-turned-director Nash Edgerton, the action is well staged.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    When You're Strange
    Distressingly short on creative spark or historical illumination.
  30. Who Do You Love
    Nostalgia and blues buffs who missed that lively film ("Cadillac Records") could do worse than this entertaining, if sometimes slight, revisit directed by Broadway veteran Jerry Zaks.
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