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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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    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Halloween (2007)
    It's a more polished, high-fidelity version of a story that's played out on screen many times since 1978, but once Zombie runs out of subtext, he's right back to the same old slasher text: "Blood. Guts. The end."
  2. Exiled
    To packs the moments of contemplation with as much suspense as the action sequences and is a master of ratcheting up tension through small details.
  3. Self Medicated
    Self-Medicated is not loathsome or lurid, just one-sided and in need of guidance -- ironically so, because that's what its protagonist so steadfastly refuses to accept. The movie's lack of nuance is balanced by its good intentions.
  4. Balls of Fury
    A lifeless pingpong comedy that ricochets from one flat gag to the next.
  5. Deep Water
    Disturbing, unnerving and wire-to-wire involving, Deep Water is the story of a dream that got so wildly out of hand that it ensnared the dreamer in an intricate trap of his own devising.
  6. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    There is a guilty-pleasure quality to watching Atkinson at work even when Mr. Bean has overstayed his welcome. The film's lightness makes you wish you were the one headed to the beach.
  7. The Nanny Diaries
    The social bite of the popular novel fades into a generic chick flick.
  8. Resurrecting the Champ
    Delivers a heckuva story marred by some credibility problems but lands the majority of its punches via subtly powerful performances and a moving undercard of paternal connection.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Right at Your Door
    A dumb twist can be excused, however, if your characters keep the thing afloat, which makes perhaps the most unforgivable sin of this claustrophobic terror scenario the fact that we have to spend it with arguably the two least interesting people in Los Angeles.
  10. September Dawn
    A rare case in which one can't help but wish the film were somehow worse than it is, for it would then be easier to dismiss outright. Jon Voight's turn as a fictional local Mormon leader and, in particular, Terence Stamp's performance as Brigham Young have a strange, unnerving conviction about them, and give the film an oddly engaging pull.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    War
    War ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eye of the Dolphin
    Overly earnest and roughly constructed, the film is bearable largely thanks to the performance as the daughter by Carly Schroeder, recently seen in the girls' soccer pic, "Gracie."
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Closing Escrow
    A spoof, sometimes a funny one, and sometimes just plain overkill.
  14. The Hottest State
    Personal and heartfelt, it's nevertheless bogged down by a lack of perspective on the material and a pointlessly frilly visual style.
  15. Hannah Takes the Stairs
    There's something to be said for cinema this perversely naturalistic.
  16. Superbad
    What with everyone so focused on the raunchiness, it comes as a complete surprise to find that Superbad is in fact a love story.
  17. Them
    Them is surprisingly tight, efficient and economical, conjuring a super-creepy atmosphere and incredible tension seemingly out of nothing at all.
  18. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    Edgy and provocative but with a weakness for sensationalistic footage.
  19. 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.
  20. The Invasion
    Still effectively creepy and surprisingly unnerving despite the occasional misstep and rumors of a troubled production, the new film illustrates why and how the power of the original story remains undiminished more than half a century after its creation.
  21. 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.
  22. The Last Legion
    Not as bad as it sounds nor as good as it might have been.
  23. Primo Levi's Journey
    For while the idea of comparing the Europe of 60 years ago to the Europe of today sounds didactic, the results are anything but. Ferrario turns out to have a delicate, unforced eye for elegant counterpoints, and his style unobtrusively draws you into the journey.
  24. Delirious
    A story peopled by flawed archetypes, it's an achingly funny film that is also a little sad around the edges.
  25. Skinwalkers
    There's a lot that remains unclear about the powers and abilities of the creatures in Skinwalkers, largely robbing the film of tension as events transpire in a slapdash, haphazard manner.
  26. Cut Sleeve Boys
    The bones of something more interesting are there -- how people come to mentally and emotionally define themselves and the ways in which they often need to realign those beliefs -- but Yeung can never reconcile his impulses toward humor and human conflict, so things tend to sputter about, feeling disconnected and episodic.
  27. 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.
  28. Descent
    Depending on your revenge story preferences, the brutally pretentious Descent is either a payback flick with an agonizingly formless middle, or a soul-darkening head trip bracketed by a crude vengeance tale. Mostly, though, it's indie provocation trapped between shock and blah.
  29. Rush Hour 3
    There's precious little that is fresh or new about the movie.
  30. Stardust
    Floating in on an airy breeze of dreams and true love, the lively adventure-romance Stardust offers that elusive quality summer movies are supposed to possess but rarely do -- total escape.
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