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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Touching the Void
    Simpson and Yates give a good idea why individuals are drawn to extreme sports.
  2. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Fanning and Russell are a perfect, sweet-and-sour pair. And, of course, the horse is absolutely beautiful - which, in the end, is what this all comes down to, anyway.
  3. Click
    A near-saving grace is Christopher Walken, perfectly cast as the creepy store clerk who gives Michael the magic remote, then follows him through life like a gleefully incompetent guardian angel.
  4. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
    The framing sequences with Downey and the climactic scenes between father and son are a mess. Downey, at 41, is too old to be playing a character who can be no more than 31 or 32, and 50-year-old Eric Roberts is an even greater distraction as Montiel's imprisoned friend Antonio.
  5. Agent Cody Banks
    While Duff is fairly flavorless, Muniz proves that four seasons of "Malcolm" have made him a pro at navigating surreal silliness. Even when the script fails him, his well-honed instincts save the day.
  6. The Flower of Evil
    While it's not quite as satisfying as Chabrol's underappreciated "Merci pour le chocolat" (2000), it's still nasty fun at the expense of the upper middle class.
  7. I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen Years Old
    Sadr-Ameli's unflagging empathy and Alidousti's confident performance keep us rooting for this young heroine, who refuses to accept the limits forced upon her by both society and the law.
  8. Grateful Dawg
    You won't find many insights into the personalities, or even a hint of the demons that plagued Garcia until his death, but seeing the two men together -- keeps a smile on your face and your feet tapping throughout.
  9. A Map of the World
    If it's not one of the five best of 1999, it's a personal best for Weaver, and that's pretty good.
  10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Not quite as funny as it wants to be. Mostly, it's just silly. But as always, the Coens are entertaining themselves first.and their quirky individuality has served them and their fans well so far.
  11. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    This is compelling stuff, but Jones seems almost pathologically averse to upstaging the songs themselves.
  12. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    At one point, Junge complains that her memories are banal, and they are -- But when sounds of war penetrate the bunker and the end is near, the details become high drama.
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  13. Hard Ball
    A by-the-numbers tearjerker notable mostly for the most adorable little sluggers this side of the "Bad News Bears."
  14. 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.
  15. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    It's the many thoughtful, eloquent interviews with Fellini himself that serve as the heart of the film.
  16. A Very Brady Sequel
    The performances are all on-target. Shelley Long and Gary Cole reprise the lady and her fellow, with Tim Matheson as the interloper, Christine Taylor as the hair-obsessed Marcia and Jennifer Elise Cox as Jan, the mouth-breather.
  17. Beautiful Boxer
    Though a bit long and occasionally ­awkward, this drama ultimately does ­justice to its inspiration - the true-life tale of boxer-turned-transsexual Nong Toom.
  18. Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop
    Ultimately, it's too much information coming too fast.
  19. Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    It clearly wants to be more, but it's failed by its lightweight leads.
  20. Step Into Liquid
    What has changed most dramatically over the years is the camera's ability to shoot as if it were stationed on the wall of those rolling pipelines. For some, this is the next best thing to being there.
  21. Serendipity
    The lightweight bauble is perfect entertainment for now.
  22. Napoleon Dynamite
    With the exception of one truly glorious dance solo, the movie treats its hero - and his equally uncool family - with undisguised disdain.
  23. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Lovett's history is heavy on hedonism, but he does deliver a succinct perspective on this celebratory era - between the sad bookends of repression and loss.
  24. Red Doors
    There's enough affection and insight here to make Lee's next movie worth watching for.
  25. Mambo italiano
    So desperately eager to please: Gaudreault doesn't offer much in the way of wit or originality, but he's determined to win us over with sheer enthusiasm.
  26. El leyton
    Given the subject matter, the movie is almost fatally lacking in passion.
  27. Facing Windows
    Ozpetek moves things along at a snail's pace and lays the sentiment down thickly. But it's a potent tale, wonderfully acted by Mezzogiorno and Massimo Girotti as the old man.
  28. CQ
    May have more enthusiasm and attitude than good story sense, but it, too, is the work of someone who might be at this game for a long time.
    • New York Daily News
  29. eXistenZ
    David Cronenberg is one of the most intellectual film makers around.
    • New York Daily News
  30. Inside Deep Throat
    Beautifully assembled and edited by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye") and is often very funny.
  31. An American Haunting
    There are jolts galore in a movie stuffed with the basic tricks of the evil-spirit trade - banging noises in the attic, slamming doors and windows, spinning clocks, shaking beds, rabid beasts, disappearing children and the occasional moment of eyeball-rolling possession.
  32. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    There's nothing here for kids, or, for that matter, anyone who claims to be an adult. But if the title makes perfect sense to you, the movie probably will, too.
  33. Price of Glory
    Fathers and sons with problems expressing their feelings makes for a story that is universal, and that has also been done to death. Thankfully, the boxing scenes are extensive and pack the appropriate punch.
  34. Southpaw
    Less a complete story than a work-in-progress.
  35. Amélie
    Whether you're charmed or bored by the movie depends entirely on your feelings for Amelie, a young woman whose hyper-quirky personality both takes some getting used to and grows old fast.
  36. A Good Baby
    This intelligently acted and well-paced story avoids most of the clichés.
  37. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Doesn't probe quite as deeply as it should.
  38. Slipstream
    Writer, director and star Anthony Hopkins releases his inner muse with Slipstream, and guess who shows up - David Lynch!
  39. The Eye
    It's unabashedly derivative and spooky enough to keep you up at night.
  40. The Jacket
    Adrien Brody is cornering the market on roles where he's hunted, haunted and under-nourished.
  41. Cradle Will Rock
    A missed opportunity to shed light on one of America's most turbulent times.
  42. 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.
  43. Fade to Black
    A loving tribute to one of the most important figures in hip hop. From Jay-Z to himself.
  44. Evan Almighty
    Carell and Freeman are great together and Wanda Sykes' acerbic humor is perfect for her role as Evan's perplexed assistant.
  45. Head-On
    Unremittingly explosive, Head-On is not an easy film to watch. It is, however, a memorable one.
  46. Cléo from 5 to 7
    If French film makers would consider the story they have to tell as paramount to the technique of telling it, I'm sure they would interest a wider audience than they do now. [05 Sep 1962, p.37]
    • New York Daily News
  47. Camp
    There's humor and expected back-story pathos.
  48. Catch That Kid
    A passable, but entirely uninspired "Spy Kids" wanna-be.
  49. My Wife Is an Actress
    Although the movie is not as hilarious as you'd hope from the screwball setup, Gainsbourg and Attal make a solid comedy team.
    • New York Daily News
  50. Bicentennial Man
    A fragmented, episodic feel and a conclusion that seems both remote and remote-controlled.
  51. Trees Lounge
    Buscemi wittily captures the desperation of lives gone downhill in prettified surroundings although, like the Trees Lounge patron who suddenly stops breathing, the audience feels the life force slowly being sucked out. [11 Oct 1996, p.70]
    • New York Daily News
  52. Hulk
    I wanted more. I expected more. The filmmakers said it was going to be smart - really smart - like all of Lee's movies. Instead, it's big, dumb and fun.
  53. Odessa... Odessa!
    The Brighton Beach crowds come off more like tourists, and the Odessans in Israel can't seem to decide which is their real homeland. And it's all very confusing.
  54. Innocence
    It's reassuring to see love and sex in one's 70s depicted as fully replenishing. At the same time, it's sobering to think that it's no easier in the twilight of life to make rational decisions regarding the heart.
    • New York Daily News
  55. The Thing Called Love
    The whole movie is something of a country-music clich, and it takes all of your imagination to be as enthusiastic about the characters' singing as they are. But The Thing Called Love is worth a look on the big screen. [16 July 1999]
    • New York Daily News
  56. Right at Your Door
    The movie has an ironic and unpredictable ending, but it doesn't wash away the sour taste of Brad's behavior.
  57. Cabin Fever
    Other than a few witty jokes and a game cast, there's nothing particularly special here.
  58. Sylvia
    Paltrow does this role exceptionally well, but it is underwritten.
  59. Spanglish
    An unusually shallow and facile work for Brooks, but the writing and the performances - other than Leoni's - keep us at least halfway involved.
    • New York Daily News
  60. 9 Songs
    Michael Winterbottom nakedly goes where no "respectable" director has gone before - to sex and beyond! His provocative 9 Songs is the first movie by a director of Winterbottom's standing to depict real, uncensored sex between its lead actors.
  61. Yom Yom
    Though the results are only moderately compelling, the film's problems stem not from a lack of ideological thrust, but rather from a protagonist who is so phenomenally unlikable.
  62. In the Valley of Elah
    What Haggis obviously wants to explore is what the war in Iraq is doing to the humanity of our soldiers there. By approaching it indirectly, he simplifies it to a degree that I expect will anger many Iraq veterans.
  63. A Room for Romeo Brass
    Meadows is very good with the boys' relationship, and achieves his and Fraser's central goal of showing how childhood bonds can be simultaneously fragile and strong.
  64. Made
    None of the criminal skulduggery feels quite right, but the comic bits between Bobby (Favreau) and Ricky (Vaughn) are freewheeling fun.
  65. Stoned
    The good news here is that Woolley and his writers have taken the mystery surrounding Jones' tragic 1969 death as their main interest, and have adopted as fact the long-cherished rumor that the blond rocker's drowning was a case of murder. It may be speculative history, but at least it's a story.
  66. You, Me and Dupree
    Though it is not nearly as funny as last summer's "Wedding Crashers," directing brothers Joe and Anthony Russo's You, Me and Dupree has plenty of chuckles and another sparkling, post-adolescent surfer-dude performance from Owen Wilson.
  67. Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    A light-footed comedy that suggests that for even the most desperate, love is just around the corner.
  68. The Hours
    A meticulous, elaborate stunt, a movie two degrees of separation from its source, and maybe another degree from viewers' hearts.
  69. Something's Gotta Give
    It's hard to imagine anyone other than Keaton pulling this off.
  70. 2046
    Like Wong's past films, 2046 is lovely to behold, elegantly moody and rich in atmospherics. And the women caught in Chow's web are extraordinary beauties.
  71. Looking for Kitty
    Offers moments of striking insight amid the inevitable self-indulgence.
  72. Sacrifice
    Best of this trio is Bruno's 50-minute Sacrifice, a series of vivid and heartbreaking interviews with girls and young women who have been sold or drafted out of rural Burma into sexual bondage at Thai brothels.
  73. Liam
    Handsomely mounted but disappointingly slight.
  74. City of Men
    The movie's power comes less from its contrived story than everything else: the stark setting, chaotic energy and authentic cast.
  75. The Last Samurai
    Cruise isn't horribly miscast, a la Tony Curtis in "The Son of Ali Baba" or John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," but he doesn't miss by far.
  76. Sunshine State
    Though his latest, Sunshine State, shows Sayles usual literary care, it's a very slight work compared with such cinematic tomes as "Lone Star," "Matewan" and "Eight Men Out."
    • New York Daily News
  77. Before the Fall
    The homoerotic relationship between Friedrich and Albrecht is stopped short by tragedy, but the point is made - to Friedrich and the audience - that fascism has no room for humanity.
  78. The Science of Sleep
    The result is a charming, inventive, ambitious, surreal mess.
  79. The Architect
    There are too many characters undergoing life changes in the story for each to be properly developed in an 82-minute movie. But for the most part, the actors get the work done.
  80. 28 Days Later...
    [Boyle] shrugs off any intellectual pretense to rollick in a dead-on scare fest. On that level, 28 Days Later is indeed a frightfully good time.
  81. The Big Tease
    One of those bright ideas for a TV sketch that convinces someone it's too good to waste on the small screen. It's not.
  82. Battle in Heaven
    Reygadas is clearly out to shock us, to shake us and show us a host of furious ideas about class, gender, religion, nationality, love - really, there's very little he doesn't throw into this thickly ambiguous stew. If only he hadn't made his deliberately confusing, heavily symbolic story quite so difficult to digest.
  83. Justice
    Most of the supporting cast (including Daphne Rubin-Vega and Michael Jai White) underwhelms. Still, Palladino is a strong lead, and there's no denying the film's emotional core.
  84. The Road to El Dorado
    Pretty much a road to nowhere.
  85. Praying with Lior
    Trachtman's gentle profile does make for touching viewing, but she leaves too many questions unanswered.
  86. Union Square
    Despite its problems, there's a touching sweetness at the heart of Nancy Savoca's intimate family drama about estranged sisters trying to reconnect.
  87. Digging for Fire
    The cool cast includes casual drop-ins from Sam Rockwell, Melanie Lynskey and Sam Elliott. The actors give off the feeling that we’ve wandered into the middle of a conversation among friends. This being a Swanberg movie, that’s kind of what is happening, complete with tiny epiphanies and people you want to hear keep talking.
  88. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    This is a mother's tale, and in Swinton's expert hands, Eva must ultimately deal with the fallout from an uncomfortable truth: She just never liked her kid.
  89. Fifty Shades of Grey
    Credit goes to director Sam Taylor-Johnson and her screenwriter, Kelly Marcel, who've stripped the first book of its biggest flaws, while still honoring its essence. And lead Dakota Johnson makes for an ideal heroine, though — as doubters feared — her chemistry with costar Jamie Dornan doesn't always sizzle.
  90. Unmade Beds
    Overly familiar but endearing nonetheless, this coming-of-age indie from Alexis Dos Santos is most likely to appeal to those who recognize themselves in the story's lost heroes.
  91. Lost River
    "Mad Men" co-star Hendricks’ radiant beauty works in striking contrast to the near-apocalyptic surroundings. Even though this movie is unusual, Hendricks emanates classic Hollywood movie-star appeal.
  92. London River
    The script, co-written by Bouchareb, is regrettably simplistic. But Blethyn and Kouyaté inhabit and expand the film's earnestly instructive intentions, leaving us with a deeply-felt experience rather than a naively-sketched lesson.
  93. The Edge of Heaven
    Like a more personal, less pretentious version of Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Babel," this spiraling dissection of circumstance, choice and fate is more about thoroughness of vision than tricky storytelling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Uprising (2013)
    This important, moving event was, as we know, documented in real time, but in Uprising gets put into a crucial context.
  95. Farewell, My Queen
    Whether accurate or not, it's certainly entertaining to watch regal intrigues through the eyes of lady-in-waiting Sidonie (Léa Seydoux). That Jacquot handles the action so lightly is a credit, considering that it takes place during some of the tensest moments of the French Revolution.
  96. Point Blank
    The twists and turns involve a high-level assassination, corrupt cops, squint-inducing violence and plenty of fearlessness.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering
    It's riveting stuff, but Merola might have strengthened his argument with a little journalistic balance.
  98. City of Ember
    Though the film ultimately falls short of its considerable promise, there's more than enough here to keep thoughtful moviegoers - of any age - intrigued.
  99. Sympathy for Delicious
    Though Bloom feels like he dropped in from another movie, it all spins on screenwriter Thornton's charismatic performance, which also accounts for the survival instinct inside the film.
  100. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    The claymation visuals are charming, and an enthusiastic, if somewhat underused, cast works hard to sell the better jokes (though the funniest gag is a silent monkey butler).
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