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For 16,550 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 2.2 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Wonderland
    This is the latest addition to a new type of drug movie -- one that exploits addiction for a lot of self-adoring showboating.
  2. School of Rock
    Takes a clever premise and Black's unflagging manic energy and comes up with a pleasing mainstream comedy that uses new people and attitudes to entertain in old-fashioned ways.
  3. Camera Obscura
    An L.A. neo-noir raised to an insufferable degree of artiness.
  4. Bollywood/Hollywood
    Lacks the sharpness and sophistication necessary for it to appeal beyond Indian audiences.
  5. My Life Without Me
    A splendid cast, coupled with Isabel Coixet's deeply committed writing and direction, goes a long way to make this movie affecting to watch even it if doesn't hold up well to reflection once the lights go up.
  6. Prey for Rock & Roll
    Some of what happens feels real, a lot doesn't, but even when the screenplay groans with clichés, the four lead actresses play their parts with truckloads of heart.
  7. Duplex
    Its drawback is that it's a one-joke affair, leading to a repetitiousness that makes the film seem overlong even at 87 minutes.
  8. The Rundown
    For much of the film, Berg is content to act like a Michael Bay wannabe, orchestrating large action set pieces that get increasingly tiresome and WWE-like as individuals get mindlessly slammed into the dust.
  9. Under the Tuscan Sun
    It's a pleasure to watch Lane's delicately lived-in face tremble with feeling -- it's the truest thing in the movie -- but the character's desperation feels wrong, the worst kind of sellout.
  10. Bubba Ho-tep
    Limp spoof.
  11. Luther
    After a summer of numbing mindlessness, there is something frankly refreshing about a movie that deals even superficially with as significant a figure as the rebellious 16th century theologian Martin Luther, one of the founders of Protestantism and the man who put the reform in the Reformation.
  12. Yossi & Jagger
    Performances are crisp, as is everything else about this vital, economical film, proof that less really can be more.
  13. Demonlover
    It's an exasperating, irresistible, must-see mess of a movie about life in the modern world and so very good that even when its story finally crashes and burns the filmmaking remains unscathed.
  14. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    The most comprehensive and devastating documentary yet on that tragic country.
  15. Cold Creek Manor
    A lightweight popcorn movie, hardly the scariest of the year but with enough jolts to be satisfying. Writer Richard Jefferies' solid script emphasizes character and psychology over plot and provides Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone with engaging, multidimensional starring roles.
  16. Mambo italiano
    Intent on offering viewers a good time yet manages to sneak in considerable substance in a disarming, even old-fashioned manner.
  17. In This World
    What we are seeing may be a representation of the truth, but it is not real, and this collision of artifice and reality is jarring and disconcerting. This is a hurdle but not an insurmountable one. Even if it is counterfeit in a number of ways, the story In This World tells finally wins us over because it is too disturbing and well told not to.
  18. Anything Else
    Feels newly hatched. Some of the laugh lines creak as loudly as grandma's rocker and the cultural references send up billows of dust.
  19. Blue Hill Avenue
    This is a demanding, intelligent film of considerable complexity and of sufficient seriousness to justify its 128-minute running time.
  20. How It All Went Down
    The only element that keeps the film from falling apart entirely is powerful physical presence of Pollio, an experienced, impassioned young actor.
  21. Casa de los babys
    There is often not enough space for all these personalities to truly play out. They tend to become types rather than people, representatives of classes and points of view more than individual human beings.
  22. To Be and to Have
    Part of what makes a great documentary great is the subject, and though the film never scrapes below the surface of the schoolteacher -- we never find out if he lives alone or has children of his own -- Lopez pulls as hard on the imagination as a fictional character.
  23. Secondhand Lions
    Something we want to like more than we can. It's a mild family film with an excellent cast that never develops traction.
  24. The Fighting Temptations
    A rousing, warmhearted comedy, as infectious as the gospel music it celebrates.
  25. Underworld
    Alas, as is often the case with lower-end genre movies, the story cooked up by Wiseman and his friends, actor Kevin Grevioux and the film's screenwriter, Danny McBride, is decidedly less important than the look of the film and its influences.
  26. Emerald Cowboy
    Rich in authentic locales but is unevenly directed by Andrew Molina and is hazy in its chronology. Hayata's story in all its myriad implications might well have been better told in documentary form.
  27. The Year That Trembled
    Evokes the fear, anger and conflict that swept over the country at the time, but it doesn't offer sufficient fresh insights to justify doing so.
  28. Millennium Actress
    Millennium Actress fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before.
  29. Dummy
    A romantic comedy of considerable charm and humor.
  30. Luster
    Has a charming, skittish quality, and Lewis finds pathos and humor in his characters' often painful search for love.
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