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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. The Perfect Sleep
    Although the script by star Anton Pardoe is ambitious and creative, its dizzying array of characters, along with a dense story that unfolds more like a checklist of showdowns than an organic narrative, make for a tedious sit.
  2. Race to Witch Mountain
    A fast and furious (yes "fast and furious" in that way) wild ride of a movie in which the good guys are good (some of them really, really good), the bad guys are good (very scary good) and the car chases (around a thousand of them by my count, though it was hard to keep track with all the screeching tires and twisted metal) are pretty spectacular.
  3. Tokyo Sonata
    Bold, acutely observant and universal in its wide-ranging concerns and implications.
  4. Brothers at War
    Rademacher's vigorous commitment to making the documentary, as well as to his large, close-knit family, deserves respect.
  5. Watchmen
    Snyder stands revealed here as more of a beginner than a visionary in his uncertain approach to making an on-screen world come alive.
  6. Phoebe in Wonderland
    There are problems for us as well in Wonderland. Like its main characters, the film is having an identity crisis -- is it a parable for adults or a fable for children? Its childlike whimsy doesn't always fit with its very grown-up themes.
  7. Fados
    A centerpiece of the film is a tribute to the late, legendary Amália Rodrigues, a woman of commanding, majestic beauty and presence, who is seen with her pianist in rehearsal, searching out every nuance of a song she is to perform. Unfortunately, Fado's other performers are not identified.
  8. Sherman's Way
    It's lost-in-life meets lust-for-life in the reliably regenerative wine country, which means most moviegoers could hand this emotionally stranded odd couple a road map of where they'll be by the closing credits.
  9. Tokyo!
    A fun jaunt around the city and a quick tour of the preoccupations of three leading directors? Now there's a bargain.
  10. Explicit Ills
    Undone by a deadly twofer: lack of trust in characterization coupled with single-minded faith in spelled-out messages.
  11. 12
    There is an unnerving and hopefully implausible twist at the end, but for the most part, Mikhalkov's 12 is magnetic.
  12. Red Riding Trilogy
    The powerfully disturbing Red Riding trilogy will haunt you waking and sleeping, night and day. If you survive the watching of it, that is, which is no easy thing.
  13. Crossing Over
    Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
  14. Echelon Conspiracy
    All Echelon can offer is some wobbly action and views of Red Square.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    Even with the low expectations The Legend of Chun Li engenders, it still somehow manages to be a letdown.
  16. An American Affair
    A mess of a film that can't quite figure out what it wants to be: an illicit love story, a political thriller or a coming-of-age set piece
  17. Examined Life
    It won't be everybody's idea of entertainment but the heady documentary "Examined Life" provides a sound forum for an influential cross-section of professional thinkers to theorize on such weighty topics as life and death, politics, the environment and disabilities.
  18. Eleven Minutes
    Lively and suspenseful.
  19. Fired Up!
    Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired.
  20. Must Read After My Death
    At its heart, and there is a great heart to be discovered here, Morgan Dews' documentary Must Read After My Death is a searing and intimate account of an unconventional woman struggling not to lose her identity or her sanity in the rigid 1950s suburban world of stay-at-home moms, well-behaved children and sparkling-clean houses.
  21. Gomorrah
    The fingerprints of the Camorra are everywhere, this film wants us to know, and its grip is lethal.
  22. Two Lovers
    Themes of loneliness, alienation and unrequited love are not new, but there is always that sense of the unexpected in Phoenix that keeps you curious.
  23. Friday the 13th
    Not fun, louder than it is scary, not even all that gory, this new Friday the 13th has Jason, all right, but otherwise it's missing nearly everything that made the original films work.
  24. Under the Sea 3D
    Practice has delivered something close to perfection as this new film offers a startling experience that takes you down into the Great Barrier Reef without the expense, hypothermia or oxygen tanks.
  25. Coraline
    A remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge.
  26. He's Just Not That Into You
    The result is a bit like a weightless swirl of cotton candy with a mere second of sweetness before it dissolves on your tongue. But then there's nothing wrong with cotton candy, and besides, the filmmakers never promised more. I guess they're just not into that.
  27. The Pink Panther 2
    There is no real plot, the movie's filled with friends of Steve, the comedy is terribly overplayed, or the comedy is overplayed terribly (again, you can choose) -- what you're left with is a bag of tricks that has seen better days.
  28. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Though you might wonder whether there's room in a movie marketplace that already feels overstocked with romantic comedies, Confessions of a Shopaholic arrives fashionably late and dressed to kill.
  29. The International
    Despite being structured in an intriguing way -- bits of confusing action are shown first and explained later -- The International never finds its footing.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fanboys
    Fanboys doesn't have a fan's obsessive attention to detail, or the giddy geekiness that can make Tarantino's movies both thrilling and trying. It's not nearly nerdy enough.
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