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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. Wordplay
    Delightful.
  2. Dog Lover's Symphony
    The only suitable ending for such a stinker involves a twist-tie and a baggie.
  3. Cars
    What's surprising about this supremely engaging film is the source of its curb appeal: It has heart.
  4. A Prairie Home Companion
    The result is at once familiar and disconcerting, meta-Keillor done in Altman's desultory, distracted style.
  5. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
    Crossing the Bridge does more than offer a wide variety of entertaining and intoxicating Turkish music. It also uses music to paint a portrait of a vibrant, cosmopolitan city and provide a window into a rich and varied national culture.
  6. The Heart of the Game
    An exhilarating story of loyalty and perseverance, The Heart of the Game succeeds as both inspiration and social commentary.
  7. The Long Weekend
    Excruciatingly unfunny.
  8. Autumn
    The twists and reversals that pile up, stirred by greed, friendship and betrayal, fail to register any meaning, simply accumulating -- so that ultimately Autumn is as dry and lifeless as the leaves that fall to the ground in its opening images.
  9. The Omen
    Despite slick camera work by Jonathan Sela and intense, naturalistic performances by Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles, The Omen retains the aura of ceremonious kitsch of the first movie, favoring a well-lighted, upscale Goth aesthetic punctuated with flashes of well-timed, cymbal-crashing shockers and giggly camp.
  10. The Break-Up
    I'd be happy to see it listed in an in-flight magazine, but "Annie Hall" it's not.
  11. District B13
    More athletes than actors, Raffaelli and Belle are terrific when their bodies are in motion but the movie grinds to a halt when they open their mouths.
  12. The War Tapes
    The film acutely captures the topsy-turvy uncertainty of life during wartime, where there's Burger King and land mines and Pizza Hut and snipers.
  13. The Puffy Chair
    A pointed and nicely observed screenplay that guides us on an often funny journey through familiar terrain made fresh by their off-center sensibility and three fine performances.
  14. Typhoon
    Ambitious and impressive, both in its provocative themes and superb production design using striking sets and locations in Korea, Russia and Thailand, this handsome epic amply rewards audiences willing to go the distance.
  15. The Conrad Boys
    The Conrad Boys reveals little cinematic instinct or imagination but has a deeply personal quality that becomes engaging.
  16. Favela Rising
    Memorable and significant.
  17. Peaceful Warrior
    The sage-elder/wayward-charge saga Peaceful Warrior aims for inspirational highs but mostly feels like a self-help book read aloud by actors.
  18. Coastlines
    For fans of Nunez's previous work, it's almost as if he put in all the clichés he would normally avoid and left out the wonderfully textured internal moments that made "Ruby" and "Ulee's Gold" unique.
  19. X-Men: The Last Stand
    Ratner seems to have found a theme that he can relate to: A terrifying trio of angry, undomesticated women who all but run away with the movie.
  20. Cavite
    A dark, riveting thriller.
  21. Fanaa
    To resort to strictly ethnocentric references, Fanaa is equal parts MGM extravaganza, Shakespeare lite and James Bond. In their heart of hearts, isn't that what movie audiences really want?
  22. An Inconvenient Truth
    Although the message of the film sounds bleak, it is actually quite rousing.
  23. La Moustache
    Emmanuel Carrère's witty, elegant La Moustache is a deliciously unsettling, beautifully sustained enigma, a film of much beauty and flawless performances, especially from Vincent Lindon in one of his most demanding roles.
  24. The Da Vinci Code
    While the story plays better on the page than the screen and some of the film's elements work better than others, a proficient Ron Howard version of things is certainly competent if only occasionally thrilling.
  25. Over the Hedge
    The disappointingly pedestrian computer-animated Over the Hedge will be more entertaining for little tykes than their older siblings and parents, and would not seem out of place on Saturday morning television.
  26. See No Evil
    A flavorless snack, time filler until "Saw III" and "Hostel 2" are served up.
  27. The King
    A dark and deeply unsettling movie with its roots in classical tragedy.
  28. Lemming
    The acting is serviceable and primarily of the stare-until-you're-uncomfortable variety, although Rampling is much more than that: She's a classic screen temptress with the aura of a melancholy spider.
  29. Mouth to Mouth
    As the film progresses, however, Murray becomes less and less sure of where things are heading or what it is she is trying to get at, such that the last few reels feel perfunctory and unengaged.
  30. Twelve and Holding
    Smart, compassionate filmmaking that captures both the intricacies and the tragedy of contemporary adolescence.
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