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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. Dear Frankie
    Dear Frankie's surprises are few and low-key, but the story wraps up nicely.
  2. Face
    No amount of goodwill can rescue Face from its painfully literal script and acting that's all about projecting recognizable attitude rather than drawing in viewers.
  3. Gunner Palace
    A striking new documentary that shows the war in a way it's not been seen before: from the ground up.
  4. Walk on Water
    The new Israeli film Walk on Water is complex and paradoxical, at times frustrating but always involving. Something like the country that produced it.
  5. The Best of Youth
    Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.
  6. Cursed
    Outdoes recent releases such as "Boogeyman" in the fright department, but the "Dawson's Creek" sensitivity and unsatisfying effects undermine the lupine anxiety.
  7. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    These characters, which Perry worked into the narrative from other stage performances, may have been entertaining in those venues, but they undermine the film.
  8. Man of the House
    God-natured comedy.
  9. One More Round
    An unsuccessful concoction of sincerity, camp and crassness that is more interested in its parade of D-level celebrities than developing its characters.
  10. Up and Down
    Buoyed by an unreserved humanism and a cheerful sense of the absurd.
  11. The Other Side of the Street
    Spritely, tender and unpredictable.
  12. Sex Sells: The Making of 'Touché'
    A mildly amusing comedy about the vicissitudes of shooting porn that has little of the grit, sleaze and uncertainty that is the lot of the veteran pornographer striving for professionalism more often than not against all odds.
  13. Window Theory
    Too sophomoric to be believed.
  14. Turtles Can Fly
    Ghobadi uses the lack of resources and the surfeit of drama that had been the lot of the Kurds throughout Hussein's dictatorship and both Gulf wars much in the way De Sica and Rossellini used the European tragedies of the '30s and '40s,
  15. Because of Winn-Dixie
    Never quite works as a film. The failure to create appropriate cinematic metaphors reduces it to "happiness is a warm puppy" superficiality.
  16. Constantine
    Keanu Reeves has no peer when it comes to playing these sort of messianic roles -- he infuses them with a Zen blankness and serenity that somehow gets him through even the unlikeliest scenes with a quiet, unassuming dignity.
  17. Son of the Mask
    It's astonishing how dull a movie that packs so much visual overstimulation into its frames can be.
  18. Nabbeun namja
    What begins, rather promisingly, as a visceral yawp against class difference in contemporary South Korea slowly devolves into a prolonged exercise in pointless sadomasochism.
  19. Bigger Than the Sky
    This heartfelt valentine to the stage leaves no cliché unturned. If it has anything to recommend, it is the loving portrayal of the camaraderie of those who participate in art for art's sake who, to quote Cyrano, "work without one thought of gain or fame."
  20. Downfall
    The reality it confronts is so gripping, we cannot turn away. This may not be the most sophisticated retelling of what happened while Berlin burned, but what a story it is.
  21. Naked Fame
    An engaging and forthright documentary.
  22. Schultze Gets the Blues
    Simply too tedious and stretched out to be amusing. Had Schorr brought in his picture at 80 or 90 minutes Schultze might have been a different story.
  23. The Animation Show 2005
    If there's a theme to this group of films it's the richness of imagery gathered from a variety of forms including hand-drawn, computer-generated and hybrid work. Ink, pixels and clay are brought to life with equal parts darkness and light to evoke stories and moods that are anything but conventional.
  24. Ong Bak
    It's a display of phenomenal dexterity and nimble grace that's a joy to watch. That, friends, is entertainment.
  25. Bride & Prejudice
    Aside from the singing and dancing, it is the color and pageantry of India as filtered through the work of cinematographer Santosh Sivan that captivates us.
  26. Hitch
    Romantic comedies have become so cannibalistic lately that Hitch stands out for what seem like major innovations by comparison.
  27. Inside Deep Throat
    By turns funny and sobering, sweeping and intimate, the consistently entertaining Inside Deep Throat plays like a giddy prance through the minefield of the last three decades of American sex and politics.
  28. Uncle Nino
    A solid family film that strikes a shrewd balance between tough-mindedness and sentimentality and boasts a fine cast.
  29. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    The mellow, serendipitous The Parrots of Telegraph Hill is here to show you just how magical happenstance can be.
  30. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Features some charming songs by Carly Simon and is warmly animated so as to evoke nostalgia in parents.
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