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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wind Chill
    This isn't merely a horror film about things going bump in the night, but a study of the effects of desolation on our sense of personal consciousness.
  2. Diggers
    Archetypal characters and somewhat formulaic plot notwithstanding, Diggers has the conviction to avoid tying things up with a bow and allows us the privilege to imagine where its denizens will go afterward.
  3. The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
    Mournful and engrossing, the film traces Gutierrez's life through the people he knew and the places he lived.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Something to Cheer About
    The outline of a great story, but it never fills in the gaps.
  5. Banished
    A trite, incoherent tale.
  6. Fakers
    The scenario isn't entirely plausible, but the actors are engaging and you can't beat the running time.
  7. Zoo
    Zoo is a cool sensibility married to a hot topic, a poetic film about a forbidden, unsettling subject. Elegantly made and eerily lyrical, it deals with what director Robinson Devor has accurately called "the last taboo, the boundary of something comprehensible."
  8. 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.
  9. Hot Fuzz
    Wright and Pegg are storytellers who weave their naughty bits into genuine characters and a plot. It's a ridiculous plot, but one that's absolutely in the spirit of the films they're satirizing.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vacancy
    A ruthlessly efficient stalk-and-slash machine.
  11. Fracture
    It boils down to experience's arrogance, intellect and wealth versus youth's cockiness, resilience and hard work, and the actors appear to have a good time playing the game.
  12. In the Land of Women
    The 27-year-old Kasdan displays an ability to bring a refreshing, human touch to what could be overly familiar material that echoes what his father did in films like "The Big Chill" and "Body Heat."
  13. Alice Neel
    The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama.
  14. The Valet
    A complete master of cinematic farce, Veber's latest venture, The Valet, makes creating deliciously funny comedy look a lot easier than it has any right to.
  15. Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
    Although ill-served by the lack of expert voices or elaboration on viable choices, Plagues and Pleasures is an often-fascinating document of change -- incremental as evaporation, or catastrophic as flooding.
  16. Stephanie Daley
    Brougher has taken material that sounds contrived and potentially exploitative and used her gift for careful observation and restrained emotionality to give it surprising authenticity.
  17. Downtown: A Street Tale
    As writer as well as star, Dedio expresses passionate concern for the lost young souls of Lower Manhattan but by and large doesn't define his characters strongly enough to involve the viewer in their fates very deeply.
  18. Red Road
    A spellbinding, intelligent thriller that takes its time to get where it's going but is well worth the trip.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    A little of this junk-drawer fusillade goes a long way.
  20. Pathfinder
    One of the funniest films of the year. That's not good news for this attempted action-adventure, which clearly lost its way in its own copious fog.
  21. Perfect Stranger
    It is an acceptable enough thriller, neither the worst you've seen nor the opposite.
  22. Redline
    Redline isn't exactly a car wreck, mainly because it's far less exciting, and you can, in fact, look away. Perhaps at your shoes.
  23. Everything's Gone Green
    The film's tone is on the sitcom side, but its likable cast and zany subplots make it palatable.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lonely Hearts
    While not much of a detective story, Robinson's period film does provide a captivating look at the dynamics that turn Fernandez and Beck into serial killers.
  25. Year of the Dog
    With pathos competing equally against the often pungent laughs for the audience's attention, it's a movie that is both unsettling and amusing, most comparable to "Chuck & Buck" in tone.
  26. Slow Burn
    Beach's storytelling tactics, much like the film as a whole, would simply be annoying if they weren't also borderline insulting.
  27. Private Fears in Public Places
    A masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2.
  28. Rock the Bells
    Stressful to watch, but its entertaining stage performances and document of people under pressure should interest even non-rap fans.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Disturbia
    What the new movie lacks in craft, suspense and metaphoric richness it makes up for with, um, gadgets.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grindhouse
    A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.
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