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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Pulse
    Pulse works as a hypnotic meditation on contemporary alienation. Traditional horror fans, however, will search in vain for signs of life.
  2. Una Noche
    The energy, thrum and heartache of modern Havana keep this teen drama afloat when it just as easily could have drifted into cliché waters.
  3. Queen and Country
    Queen and Country features characters from the earlier movie. And it’s good. But “Hope and Glory” it is not.
  4. Charlotte's Web
    What it is, to borrow a word from the ever-eloquent spider Charlotte, is average. Don't misunderstand: While never quite enchanting, this "Web" is perfectly entertaining. But it could - and should -have been so much more.
  5. For Your Consideration
    This is Guest's fourth ensemble parody of showbiz subjects, and though his sketch-comedy style and acting troupe are now familiar, this is his most accomplished movie.
  6. Hustle & Flow
    The feel-good movie of the summer. And the song this pimp works up, about how hard it is to manage a stable of ho's, is catchy and moving.
  7. Winter Sleepers
    Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.
  8. Bread and Tulips
    As escapist fantasies go, this easygoing romance is a modest winner.
  9. Heaven
    Too bad Heaven creeps into town when it deserved more fanfare. Consider it buried treasure, a thriller for the art- house crowd.
  10. The Bourne Identity
    Thrillers have become so gnawingly generic that The Bourne Identity wakes the senses without leaning on cliché and soundtrack.
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  11. Miracle
    What is lacking in suspense is more than made up for in passion and in sports cinematography virtuosity.
  12. Bon voyage
    At times, the giddy tone makes it feel like a musical set on the eve of Pearl Harbor, but the acting is uniformly good and it's an absolutely gorgeous film to watch.
  13. Meet the Fokkens
    What we really want is to get to know them. Instead, the film too-aptly reflects life in their line of work: brief interludes rather than intimate soul-baring. That's a shame, since there can't be that many 70-year-old identical twin prostitutes with a 50-year history in the business.
  14. Last Ride
    Becomes too melodramatic and bleakly obvious. Weaving, though, as always, is never less than magnetic.
  15. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a seriously ridiculous put-on. And in this summer of overheated special-effects movies, it’s a cool blast of fresh air.
  16. Take This Waltz
    Is there another actor working today whose face registers the extraordinary range of emotions Michelle Williams can display? Even in a film as false as Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, her swiftly shifting expressions feel unerringly true.
  17. Bears
    A three-act story narrated by the affable John C. Reilly is grafted onto one “How’d they get that?” shot after another.
  18. Off the Map
    Perhaps the most evocative movie of the new year, Campbell Scott's Off the Map, moves at the pace of a Southwestern sunset and ends before you're quite ready to let it go.
  19. Land Ho!
    The lack of narrative fireworks is, oddly, the movie’s big gimmick.
  20. Europa Report
    Finally, a found-footage thriller that merits, and expands on, this irrationally popular format.
  21. Romántico
    It will be a long time before you forget the deep pain etched into the weary face of Carmelo Muñiz, the mariachi singer at the center of Mark Becker's immensely moving documentary.
  22. The Secret Life of Words
    Given the physical limitations of their characters, Polley and Robbins give remarkably compelling performances, and though the resolution of their slowly evolving relationship is a bit too pat, it is one you won't soon forget.
  23. Shanghai Ghetto
    This is a vital history lesson that many of us have missed but few are likely to forget.
  24. Avengers: Infinity War
    The script is surprisingly smart, pulling together all the subplots and cutting among all the locations. Chris Pratt’s Star Lord has some clever lines. Thanos is a far more complex villain than we usually get. And the movie ends on a stark and shocking note.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maps to the Stars
    For all its venom, “Maps” is one of the more compassionate movies from Cronenberg (“A Dangerous Method,” “Eastern Promises”). The corrosive humor and icy tone eventually give way to melancholy. No one here can be saved.
  26. Girl Model
    There are no supermodels or Cinderellas in this sadly compelling story, just predators and the impoverished dreamers who want to trust them.
  27. John Wick
    Plot is not the movie’s strong suit. But stylish set pieces are, including one epic blast-a-thon alongside a pool.
  28. The Way, Way Back
    With his rapid-fire delivery and big heart, Rockwell makes Owen his version of “M*A*S*H”’s Hawkeye Pierce, but the film’s layers of well-observed truths go deeper than that.
  29. Chef
    Scenes of Favreau at the grill bantering with Leguizamo and Cannavale could almost sustain an entire movie.
  30. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Gibney puts mystery back into a story we thought we knew.
  31. Detropia
    What the movie captures overall looks like a scene from a sci-fi, postapocalyptic nightmare.
  32. Why We Fight
    Whether we've reached the critical mass of "misplaced power" is the gist of the current national debate, and Why We Fight is a useful tool in that argument.
  33. Anita
    Anita Hill deserves a great documentary chronicling her life, her trials and her ongoing impact. This underwhelming effort isn’t it.
  34. Down Terrace
    Strong performances and understated cinematography help balance the self-conscious editing, but ultimately the entire affair feels false.
  35. Journey to the West
    Chow’s movies are always as sweet as they are silly, a combination he once again balances — alongside cool effects — with typically deft irreverence.
  36. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    This summer's best popcorn flick.
  37. Won't Anybody Listen
    Equally compelling and depressing.
  38. Son of the Bride
    Exquisitely moving story.
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  39. Friends with Money
    The four ladies of Friends With Money are people I wouldn't want to ride the bus with (not that some of them would be caught dead on public transportation). They're whiners with little self-knowledge. Perhaps that's what holds them together, but it's not pretty.
  40. Bethlehem
    “The Wire” meets the West Bank in this searing drama loaded with action and nuanced characters.
  41. X2: X-Men United
    A substantial improvement over "X-Men," in many ways, especially in visual and specialeffects departments.
  42. Delirious
    In the end, I don't know that Delirious has all that much to say about the fame game, but you'll laugh nonetheless.
  43. Paranormal Activity
    A "Blair Witch"-y creepshow that owes a lot to Japanese horror.
  44. Theater of War
    Passionate and ambitious, John Walter's chronicle of a Public Theater production is too scattered for broad appeal. But those who connect with his themes will find themselves quickly drawn in.
  45. Honeydripper
    Like previous films by the literary-minded auteur John Sayles, Honeydripper takes forever to develop its characters, its period and its location. But once it's done all that, the payoffs are rich.
  46. The Double
    The Double belongs to a very specific club. If you’re on its wavelength, it’s a dive into quirky, murky fun. But even if you are, this oddball offering is vague and slippery, a calmer brother to “Brazil” or Orson Welles’ Kafka tale “The Trial.”
  47. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    There’s some cross-cultural deadpan comedy, but unfortunately, the main character is too removed from reality to be truly sympathetic. The specifics of this movie are engaging, but the big picture stays buried.
  48. I Remember Me
    Feels like reading someone else's diary. Undoubtedly, there's some very important stuff in there, but it's most interesting to the person who wrote it.
  49. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    As they talk between classes about oppressive husbands, abusive brothers and arranged marriages, it becomes clear that the frivolities Americans take for granted can be their lifeline. In this tentatively hopeful setting, a single lipstick becomes leverage.
  50. The Place Beyond the Pines
    The poetry in The Place Beyond the Pines can be elusive, but also easy to get lost in.
  51. Notting Hill
    The overall result is a romantic comedy that indulges fantasies, calms insecurities (can an ordinary bloke stack up?), and breaks and mends hearts with surgical precision.
  52. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    Emphasizing the importance of new media, Stelter is ready to bring the paper back to the future, though this terrific tale of an establishment in transition ultimately plays like "All the President's Men," with the intrigue coming from inside the building.
  53. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Perversely funny.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Shining
    The opening scene of The Shining is along a narrow mountain road while the “Dies Irae” plays ominously on the soundtrack. The camera veers out away from the car toward the horizon as if to bear down on something significant… and then comes back to the car. The movement is a sort of portent for the direction of the movie, which takes two and a half hours to go nowhere.
  55. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    And still the dialogue is astonishingly feeble, the acting unforgivably wooden. To paraphrase Yoda, the only creature with ­truly human dimensions ever since Harrison Ford's cowboy-mechanic Han Solo departed the galaxy: Bored I am.
  56. Paris
    Has a mature tapestry of characters, a welcome sense of humor and, most crucially, a lovely Juliette Binoche.
  57. Fratricide
    While the boys' fates do seem a little too predestined, that may well be Arslan's intention. When you're idling in no man's land, it's all too easy to get uprooted.
  58. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    Does something no other Jesse James movie has done: It tells the truth.
  59. Fracture
    The kind of thriller we've seen a thousand times before. Fortunately, nobody told leads, Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins, both of whom devoutly believe they're in another, better movie.
  60. This Filthy World
    Tossing off one-liners about drugs and porn to a New York audience, even Waters sounds a little bored.
  61. Inequality for All
    The wonkiness is at a minimum and Reich delivers it with tales from his own life, since he’s the son of a dress store owner and a mom who helped in the shop. Essential viewing, no matter how you cut it.
  62. The Valet
    An old-fashioned joy.
  63. 12 O'Clock Boys
    Coco’s angry frustration, Pug’s bruised confusion, and the police helicopters constantly hovering above the defiant bikers say enough.
  64. People Places Things
    This is boilerplate rom-com fare with few plot surprises. But thanks to witty dialogue, strong performances and sure-handed direction, the movie’s also smart, hilarious and an absolute delight.
  65. Reykjavík
    Much of this is pretty funny, in its perverse, disorienting style, and there's an irrepressible sunniness to the relationship between Lola and Hlynur's mother.
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  66. The Italian Job
    A slicker, faster-paced, high-tech upgrade that lifts the sprightly spirit and the main action set piece from the original while developing its own twists and a new ending that, though a bit too pat and eager to please, is a vast improvement.
  67. Come Undone
    There isn't much here besides two self-absorbed kids.
  68. The Inheritance
    Don't see The Inheritance if you're already depressed. This airless downer from Danish director Per Fly is about an heir who makes one wrong decision from which even lousier decisions effortlessly flow.
  69. Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    It's the next best thing to being front and center.
  70. Protagonist
    While Yu's experimental approach brings valuable insight to the human condition, the interviews themselves too rarely measure up to her ambitious structure.
  71. Neighbors
    Neighbors stakes its claim in suburban-property cliches. Given the dull, stale results, maybe the end of the world was a better fit.
  72. War Dance
    Overly polished, but deeply affecting, documentary.
  73. Noah
    Noah, Darren Aronofsky’s often ludicrous, occasionally thoughtful epic, puts theology front-and-center, and doubles down on its blockbuster ingredients — like adding huge rock monsters with glowing eyes.
  74. Whip It
    It's that happiest of surprises: a multiplex movie that genuinely respects its young audience.
  75. Z for Zachariah
    Terrific and gripping.
  76. Praying with Lior
    Trachtman's gentle profile does make for touching viewing, but she leaves too many questions unanswered.
  77. The Housemaid
    Korean director Im Sang-soo can't improve on Kim Ki-young's 1960 original, a jarring and operatic cult favorite. Still, he does tweak the themes in intriguing fashion.
  78. The President's Last Bang
    This South Korean political satire might not have historical resonance for American audiences -- it's loosely based on the 1979 assassination of dictator Park Chunghee by his own people -- but it takes the same comically dim view of governmental power and procedure as "Dr. Strangelove."
  79. Primer
    One of those purposely head-scratching films meant to be viewed more than once. The extra ticket sales should easily cover Carruth's initial $7,000 budget.
  80. Into Eternity
    Unfortunately, Madsen (a Danish filmmaker, not the American actor) has an approach to this rich topic that is repetitive and simplistic, as if he wasn't quite sure how to fill out even a brief feature.
  81. The Good Thief
    With his haggard good looks and bearish presence, Nolte is the main event in this colorful three-ring circus of a heist picture.
  82. The Pleasures of Being Out of Step
    This mellow chronicle of Nat Hentoff is like a tour through New York’s past.
  83. Gladiator
    If there's a soft spot in your heart for the sword-&-sandal epic -- and from the star rating above, I think you can guess where I stand -- then you'll swoon with giddy delight over Gladiator.
  84. Last Days in the Desert
    Moviegoers don’t get much to chew on either, besides a decent performance by Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and a demon, plus some OMG-worthy landscapes.
  85. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    As fans of "Freaks and Geeks" know, Segel is a master in the art of humiliation, and it's been a long time since we've seen anyone debase himself so thoroughly for our amusement.
  86. Home
    This is, in its way, a horror movie -- not least because it will burrow into your own brain, as a reminder of all the ways the modern world is making you crazy, too.
  87. Snow Angels
    It does give Sam Rockwell another opportunity to creep us out, and Kate Beckinsale a new shot at believability. Too bad the movie around them meanders.
  88. Thirteen Days
    An excellent movie about a real-life nail-biter, forcefully acted, true to its period and directed with clarity.
  89. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    If you're wondering whether the rules of love change during war, you won't find a better case than the urgent, darkly comic relationship between these two.
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  90. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Though younger fans of Cameron's 1997 blockbuster may be a little disappointed at the lack of, well, Leo, Cameron persuades us to share his obsession with the ship's history.
  91. Almost Peaceful
    These are people who are just waking up to life again. It may appear to be the ultimate non-action ­movie, but in the context of these lives, it is the highest kind of ­drama.
  92. Kung Fu Panda 2
    Kung Fu Panda 2 plunks down squarely in the spot marked for "chop-socky action with heart."
  93. Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
    This hard-working film may not be a balm, but it can help.
  94. Robot and Frank
    No one conveys late-life elegy and cool intellectual cunning like Langella.
  95. Slither
    Slither is neither repetitive nor reverent. It is a dark and hilarious spoof of those movies, one in which both the characters and the audience seem to be in on the jokes.
  96. Future Weather
    The movie works best as a calling card for young Haney-Jardine, whom we can surely expect to see more of on the festival circuit.
  97. In Bruges
    The banter between these unlikely partners seems inspired by Quentin Tarantino's ingeniously insipid dialogue, delivered with indelible deadpan sincerity by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in "Pulp Fiction." Neither the dialogue nor the characters are as interesting here.
  98. Ned Rifle
    Just when it seemed Hal Hartley was going to be forgotten, along comes the Long Island-based auteur’s terrific new feature. It’s a follow-up to his opus “Henry Fool.”
  99. Been Rich All My Life
    An invaluable chapter in the story of our city.
  100. Nocturnal Animals
    It sounds a little too clever, but it's not. It's just clever enough.
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