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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Friday After Next
    The movie's 85 minutes speed merrily along on a steady stream of outrageous antics, entertaining performances from seasoned pros (like John Witherspoon, as Craig's dyspeptic dad), and unforgettable introductions to new talent.
  2. Acts of Worship
    Reeder makes a compelling lost soul, so that even the most soddenly moralistic moments are worth watching.
  3. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    It's the subject himself, still brimming with passion in his 80s, who provides the most inspiring moments.
  4. Stander
    The movie is bookended by a powerful indictment of apartheid and a study of white guilt.
  5. The Warrior
    The title-character's redemption comes very slowly. But if you have patience, this is a stately, beautifully composed story.
  6. The Gleaners & I
    Varda injects her sprightly personality into the film, a seasoning that sometimes overwhelms the stew.
  7. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Young kids will be so distracted by the silly songs and clever contemporary references that they won't even realize they're sitting through cinematic Sunday school.
  8. Novo
    Imagine that, instead of trying to solve his wife's murder, the amnesiac character in Christopher Nolan's "Memento" had gone on "50 First Dates." That comes close to describing French director Jean-Pierre Limosin's playfully sexy tale of memory lapse.
  9. 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.
  10. Antitrust
    Becomes a very conventional suspense film, replete with virtually every cliche of the genre, some used more than once.
  11. Brothers in Arms
    Clearly meant as an endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee's character.
  12. Hey! Is Dee Dee Home?
    The result, while slight, is a poignant portrait of one of New York's all-star outlaws.
  13. What Alice Found
    Digital video is both the blessing and the curse of writer-director A. Dean Bell's well-conceived but underachieved What Alice Found.
  14. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
    It's left to the ideally cast McDormand to keep everything on track and, as expected, she weathers every tonal change with competence, confidence and a perfectly stiff upper lip.
  15. Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise
    Feels like a VH1 slice-of-life with all the toppings. Yet it benefits from the fact that even a slice of it's title subject is a full meal.
  16. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    The sole asset of "Bobby Long" is Johansson. Blossoming before our very eyes, she gives Pursy the combination of hope and determination that makes her journey worthwhile.
  17. Jim Brown: All American
    We never really learn what Lee thinks of this man, other than that he is worth every second of a 130-minute documentary.
  18. Where's Marlowe?
    Belongs to an intellectually stimulating subgenre that examines the thin line between documentary maker and subject.
  19. The Dream Catcher
    A deeply felt, if occasionally amateurish, journey through some very affecting terrain.
  20. Welcome to Collinwood
    It takes us about half the film to adjust to its quirkiness, and we leave the theater with both laughter cramps and the feeling that it should have been funnier a lot longer.
  21. Cool and Crazy
    Every time things start to get dull, you're brought up short by another moment of surprising beauty.
  22. Mojados: Through the Night
    Modest but memorable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Michael Jordan to the Max
    We get zilch on what kind of human being he is.
  24. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Mostly a lazy string of setups and sight gags, of tongue-in-cheek confrontations between the two stars that barely amount to sketches.
  25. The Pinochet Case
    The film is at its most compelling when the witnesses are telling their stories, and at its least in covering Pinochet's circuitous legal route to Britain's House of Lords.
  26. Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
    If even one audience member leaves more concerned with the evils of poachers than the pleasures of Pokemon, Disney's more than done its job.
  27. Love Actually
    Structurally, Love Actually is less like "Four Weddings" than it is "Scary Movie 3." ­Curtis throws every gag he can think of at the screen and the ones that don't stick, he throws again and again.
  28. Red Satin
    Despite some contrived plotting, Amari and Abbass have so much empathy for Lilia's shy self-discovery, it's a pleasure to watch her gradually give in to her newfound joy.
  29. Man on the Train
    One of the small pleasures of the movie is likely to escape American audiences. The bank robber is played by Johnny Hallyday, a pop icon of great magnitude in France, and the old man is played by Jean Rochefort, an acting staple of that country's cinema. The mere juxtaposition of these two personalities forms a comic set of expectations.
  30. Psycho Beach Party
    Smart, fun and mildly subversive, but it rides the wave of its joke a little too long.
  31. Turistas
    As the latest in a never-ending chain of thrillers about young people lost and dying in a hostile land, John Stockwell's Turistas at least offers the visual benefits of exotic settings and a cast of barely clad hardbodies.
  32. Broken English
    Both neurotic and endearing, it's so carefully accessorized you may not even notice that, at heart, it's a standard-issue romantic comedy.
  33. Grace Is Gone
    Bednarczyk's natural instincts put most programmed Hollywood moppets to shame, and the quietly affecting O'Keefe shows genuine talent.
  34. The Operator
    In its unleashing of relentless, cosmic retribution, The Operator is not unlike the recent "Joy Ride."
  35. Rent
    As a conventional drama, Rent would be a pretty corny soap opera. As filmed theater, it's only slightly more con­vincing. The saving graces - and there are many - are Larson's original songs and the comfortable fit of its ensemble cast.
  36. Moonlight
    A wild dream that spins into a nightmare, Moonlight isn't quite as provocative as it aims to be. But it will stick in your mind, and may even disturb your sleep.
  37. Bubba Ho-tep
    Much of the film is sub-sophomoric, but Campbell and Davis give hilarious deadpan performances.
  38. The Princess and the Warrior
    Princess is far more contemplative than "Run Lola Run," far less energized, and the little tricks of fate that made his last film so unique seem like sophomoric affectations here.
  39. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Turns out to be less than the sum of its wonderfully silly and bizarre parts.
  40. Vitus
    A fairly average movie about a very unusual child, Vitus does have an earnest charm.
  41. The Turandot Project
    The opera's story -- about a Chinese princess who rejects all her suitors -- is never even fully explained.
  42. Friday Night
    It is driven by the finely expressed -- if nearly mute -- performance of Lemercier. We learn a lot about this woman and her emotional state from Lemercier's subtle body language. As for Lindon's Jean, well, it's enough that he's there and doesn't require batteries.
  43. Sunset Story
    It's a poignant, realistic depiction of the ­elderly, far from the typical view of them as quaint and useless.
  44. Vénus beauté (institut)
    It's hard not to feel empowered by Nathalie Baye.
  45. Looking for an Echo
    The best performance comes from Venora.
  46. The Town Is Quiet
    Intermittently compelling drama.
    • New York Daily News
  47. Good Boy!
    A charming runt of a movie. It's not all it could be, but it's the best the pound had to offer this week.
  48. Fear X
    The movie is so glacially paced and underdeveloped that it often feels as numb as its grieving hero.
  49. Two Women
    A daring feminist movie that, while straightforward to a fault, is a rare opportunity to sample a female point of view from Iran, where such a thing is usually a veiled subject.
  50. Aquamarine
    It's not the best "Little Mermaid" movie - it's totally predictable and its trio of tweeners squeal at a pitch that could break glass. But it's also a bubbly confection about best friends, crushes on preening lifeguards, grrrl power and shades-of-blue fashion tips.
  51. The Illusionist
    Eisenheim's storybook romance with aristocrat Sophie (Jessica Biel), the childhood sweetheart now expected to become Leopold's princess, is the most compelling thing about a film that should dazzle the eye as much as stir the heart. It does not dazzle.
  52. The Hoax
    It's hard to get a fix on what Hallstrom had in mind. The first half of the movie plays like a frenetic caper comedy...The second half turns psychologically dark.
  53. 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.
    • New York Daily News
  54. Exiled
    The Macao settings are beautifully rendered, and the dark humor is often very funny. But it is noisy.
  55. Show Me Love
    Grainy color stock and tight closeups give the film a realistic feel that's accentuated by natural performances from the able young cast.
    • New York Daily News
  56. Mind the Gap
    Everyone somehow ends up in Manhattan for a contrived and predictable conclusion. In his last film role, the late Alan King is reduced to a stereotype of a cantankerous Jewish senior.
  57. Chaos
    It's not giving too much away to note that we've seen a lot of this before, in classic noir and postnoir films, though to name those films would spoil things.
  58. Osama
    Rough around the edges, but effectively presents the quandary of women during the repressive religious regime.
  59. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    Gilbert blatantly takes Chong's side, so your level of empathy will rise or fall depending on how strongly you connect with his subject's hazy, if enthusiastic, dedication to "the pursuit of righteous happiness."
  60. Ten Canoes
    The humor in de Heer's script is mostly anatomical, and the performances of the nonpro cast are stiffer than bark. But you've never seen anything like it.
  61. The Trench
    By the time they're ready to leave their trench, we're not at all ready to see them go.
    • New York Daily News
  62. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    All this frenzy, all these "quotes" from other movies, and yet Vol. 2 is strangely static - a dulling experience that can safely be admired from afar without it ever engaging the senses.
  63. Hamlet
    Some of the contemporary winks are questionable, but others are undeniably sharp.
  64. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Sticking closely to formula, Disney delivers a sweet script and charming storybook backgrounds, with serviceable, if sappy, songs from Carly Simon.
  65. 30 Days
    A hit-and-miss romantic comedy.
  66. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Designed as a giant put-on, "Kiss Kiss" is so inside Hollywood, so anxious to bite the hand that fed Black, that it plays like an elaborate prank. Some of it is a lot of fun; most of it is a lot of nonsense.
  67. From Hell
    An amazing physical specimen, beautifully photographed and edited. If you think of it as your own opium dream, you may dismiss the lousy story as a mere side effect.
  68. Lost in Beijing
    Part soap opera, part sitcom and part relocated French farce.
  69. Chapter 27
    It's a transformative role, but how widely seen it is depends on how strong a stomach one has for wall-to-wall paranoid ravings.
  70. Carandiru
    Babenco does a better job with place than with people: His explosively overcrowded jail is a teeming tenement, which makes the inevitable climax feel, finally, like something real.
  71. Portraits chinois
    The group in Portraits Chinois is a little too diverse and unwieldy to keep emotional track of.
  72. Hollywoodland
    It's a bit of a hodgepodge - unnecessarily complicated, clumsily structured, uncertainly directed and, as a whodunit, ultimately unsatisfying.
  73. Smokin' Aces
    There's no question Carnahan has an eye for composition, an ear for dialogue and a sense of pace that, if put to better use, could make an audience beg for relief. But the characters in Smokin' Aces are about as lifelike as the occupants of vehicles destroyed in a car-safety test.
  74. Cruising
    Creepy in 1980, Cruising is almost macabre now, knowing that most of the young men involved in rough, unprotected sex then began dying of AIDS shortly afterwards.
  75. Willard
    Glover, wearing his close-cropped hair in a pompadour and striking beady-eyed, furrow-browed poses that scare the hair off a tarantula, makes it as much fun as a rat revenge movie can be.
  76. Two Ninas
    Intermittently amusing.
  77. Dan in Real Life
    Sweet it is. Remotely connected to real life, however, it is not.
  78. We Own the Night
    When it goes wrong, specifically when Bobby is given a badge like an angry Earp brother in "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," the story turns into something barely at the level of a TV cop show.
  79. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    Kubrick leaves himself wide open to ridicule from the minute he picks up Dr. Floyd’s space investigation of the mysterious monolith...The setting is a technical marvel, but advertising plugs make it a super-commercial and destroy its impact.
  80. Gunner Palace
    Provides an intimate, nonpoliticized, uncensored and totally unappealing look at the lives of U.S. soldiers serving during a grim and uncertain period of insurgency.
  81. Any Given Sunday
    While the football sequences are carefully constructed, the sensation we get from the blizzard of images and teeth-jarring sound effects is of having our head used as the football.
  82. Arctic Tale
    The flat narration by Queen Latifah doesn't help, but Adam Ravetch and his wife Sarah Robertson's nature film, Arctic Tale, fails to inspire the kind of rapturous response we felt for "March of the Penguins" for other reasons.
  83. Woman on the Beach
    The two-part film focuses on Jung-rae's one-night stand with the protégée of a colleague he invites to his seaside retreat, and then with a second woman who merely reminds him how much he liked the first. The scenery's great and the performances adequate, but wake me when it's over.
  84. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Amusing and good-natured, but necessarily thin.
  85. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    Proudly, and often hilariously, juvenile, "Destiny" is packed with typically grandiose Tenacious D anthems - the sort that thrill 15-year-old boys listening alone in their bedrooms.
  86. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Popcorn-buyers, beware: This is no "Shrek," with raucous adult humor sailing over the heads of wee ones. This is "Sesame Street"-level, with white hats, black hats and simple moral messages.
    • New York Daily News
  87. Melinda and Melinda
    But Allen can still write a good joke and there are some here. Not enough to say he has returned to form, but enough to remind you of what that form was.
  88. Hannibal Rising
    This strikes me as the final nail in the franchise's coffin. I can't name an actor who could have made young Lecter as interesting as the older one, but Ulliel does not come close.
  89. Amu
    As writer, director and producer, Bose has taken on more than she can handle - a fact increasingly obvious each time she stumbles over political themes. But she has a genuine gift for atmosphere, making the many wordless scenes, in teeming streets and on crowded trains, the movie's best.
  90. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    Mostly, Benazzo and Day leave us alone to take in the extraordinary sights and sounds.
  91. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Although all the key players are back - including, fans will be glad to hear, Heather Matarazzo as cynical sidekick Lilly Moscovitz - the freshness of the first is long gone.
  92. The Muse
    No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
  93. TMNT
    At its best, TMNT does recall the slangy fun of the series' glory days. But there are too many moments when it feels as stale as one of Mikey's half-eaten pizzas.
  94. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
    Not bad. It actually might have been considered pretty good had it been made 30 years ago, when people might have cared about the backstory of Father Merrin.
  95. Fast Food Fast Women
    As usual, Thomson steers right into the heart of vulnerability, with a painfully true performance as a guarded, confused soul.
    • New York Daily News
  96. The Walker
    Schrader's main interest is not in the mystery, per se, but in the political intrigue of incestuous Washington, where conflicts of interest are the norm and morality is indeed relative. The points are well-taken, but Harrelson's performance often gets in their way.
  97. Love in the Time of Cholera
    "Love" would be intolerably boring were it not for the frequent injections of humor, thanks largely to Hector Elizondo as Florentino's uncle, and for Bardem's ultimately winning performance.
  98. Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe
    For the most part, the Plastics' music -- is not extraordinary. But as it's told here, their story is.
  99. What's Cooking?
    This is ensemble work at its best.
  100. The Filth and the Fury
    It's just twice as much as we need to know about the Sex Pistols.
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