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For 16,524 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. An Adolescent
    Decidedly uneven yet intriguing.
  2. Sueño
    First-time writer-director Renée Chabria's sincerity and commitment to Sueño are so complete they override its sentimental streak and some overly familiar plotting.
  3. My Big Fat Independent Movie
    A big fast bust.
  4. Screen Door Jesus
    A slyly observed slice of Americana.
  5. Forty Shades of Blue
    Sachs has pulled off a film of inferences and intimations, thanks largely to the casting of accomplished actors.
  6. A History of Violence
    A ticking time bomb of a movie, a gripping, incendiary, casually subversive piece of work that marries pulp watchability with larger concerns without skipping a beat.
  7. Flightplan
    The movie loses some of its initial atmospheric tension as paranoid thrills give way to Rambo high jinks.
  8. Roll Bounce
    Has plenty of affectionate humor to balance some serious heart-tugging. And as for the roller-skating, it for sure provides a lot of razzle-dazzle action with lots of virtuoso terpsichorean touches.
  9. Daltry Calhoun
    In the parlance of "The Player," Katrina Holden Bronson's Daltry Calhoun would be pitched as "Because of Winn-Dixie" meets "Napoleon Dynamite," and that is definitely not a good thing.
  10. Dear Wendy
    By the time this astute and entirely distinctive film is over, the folly of America's love affair with guns, past and present, is laid bare with the same inescapable force with which Gregg Araki exposed the horror of child molestation in "Mysterious Skin," a similarly poetic and deceptively affectless film.
  11. Dirty Love
    It will surely yield nominations for worst picture.
  12. Dorian Blues
    With its moments of comic relief overly exaggerated and at odds with its realistic tone, Dorian Blues is at its best at its most serious.
  13. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    An unapologetic cheerleader for exploring the final frontier, Hanks wrote and produced (along with director Mark Cowen) this enthralling look at what might be the greatest technological feat of the 20th century.
  14. Occupation: Dreamland
    Has an intimate, personal quality. Rather than showboating for the camera, the soldiers get to a deeper level, conveying a surprisingly reflective and aware sensibility.
  15. Oliver Twist
    Polanski's version, though handsomely realized, is a fairly conventional rendering of the novel that probably won't be counted among his best films.
  16. Everything Is Illuminated
    Schreiber takes Foer's sprawling, multilayered, multigenerational beast and hones it into a post-Glasnost buddy picture; a polished nugget of a road movie, focused mainly on Alex and Jonathan's growing sense of identification with each other and with their origins.
  17. Proof
    Against considerable odds and despite a shaky start, Proof proves itself in every area.
  18. HellBent
    A hard-charging horror movie with a clever gay twist.
  19. Cry_Wolf
    A clever teen thriller with intricate plotting, deft characterizations, sharp ensemble performances and a darkly ironic twist at the end.
  20. Just Like Heaven
    There are moments when it is possible, with effort, to forget the plot and its tired premise and enjoy Witherspoon and Ruffalo's chemistry and imagine they are in another movie. But never for long.
  21. Lord of War
    Any time you're watching a film in which the statistics in the voice-over have more intrinsic drama than the protagonists' lives, you know you're in trouble.
  22. Corpse Bride
    Corpse Bride has more warmth and appeal than its title would indicate, but it is finally more grotesque than good-humored. And, even at 75 minutes, it feels longer than its content can comfortably support.
  23. Thumbsucker
    Thumbsucker aims high but swerves too frequently between the engaging and the credibility-defying to be satisfying.
  24. The Thing About My Folks
    Sweet but dramatically inert.
  25. Stupid Boy
    Loic's journey is rich in incident and detail, and Garçon Stupide retains its dynamic momentum throughout.
  26. One Bright Shining Moment
    The film's greatest asset and strongest selling point is the former senator from South Dakota himself, thoughtful and articulate at age 83, who talks candidly, even eloquently, about his political career.
  27. Venom
    Smartly directed by Jim Gillespie from a script by various hands, Venom is from Dimension Films and follows its stylish, energetic and darkly amusing horror movie tradition.
  28. Separate Lies
    To watch the film is to marvel at the cast's virtuosity at fleshing out the shallowest people in England, and the observable intelligence and talent of all those involved doesn't make Separate Lies any more compelling, or its characters more resonant.
  29. The Future of Food
    Detailed and intensely researched documentary.
  30. The Man
    In some ways, The Man plays like a sequel to some terrible movie that was mercifully destroyed before it was ever released.
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