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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. 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.
  2. Dandelion
    Like its troubled protagonists, Mark Milgard's ultra-sensitive ode to adolescent angst is equal parts earnest and awkward. Should you happen to be a 15-year-old girl, you'll adore it.
  3. Never Been Thawed
    You may not realize just how much it takes to make a great mockumentar like "Waiting for Guffman" until you see Never Been Thawed.
  4. The Squid and the Whale
    A great divorce movie. It's also one of the canniest comedies ever made about a certain kind of literary pretension.
  5. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    A gentle comic stew of monster movies, adding dashes of Bugs Bunny irreverence and British gentility.
  6. The Greatest Game Ever Played
    LaBeouf ("Holes") has a scrubbed, ego-free innocence that is perfect for his working-class hero.
  7. Into the Blue
    An enjoyable, gorgeously photographed aquatic adventure whose stars are blissfully bodacious.
  8. Serenity
    While it's a geek's paradise from scene one, newcomers are likely to feel left out until they get their bearings. Fortunately, Whedon's characteristic humanity, coupled with the slyest sense of humor in Hollywood, greatly eases the transition.
  9. Capote
    What "Capote" fails to reveal to the audience is the sense of a homoerotic attraction between the author and Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.). It is more than implied that one exists, but there isn't a scene between them that supports it or even makes it believable.
  10. Going Shopping
    Though intermittently shrill, Shopping does have enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping.
  11. Little Manhattan
    What a treasure - a funny, tart, romantic comedy about tweens suffering the pangs of first love. It makes the cityscape an essential part of the romance, like a junior, vintage Woody Allen.
  12. MirrorMask
    Like many dreams, you won't remember it when you wake up. The style obliterates any emotional attachment.
  13. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    The actress' [Julianne Moore's] goodwill, alone, holds this schizophrenic story together - if just barely.
  14. The War Within
    Despite an admirable effort to explore topical concerns, both director and actor are obviously overwhelmed by the immensity of the subject matter.
  15. Three Days of Rain
    The acting and stories are uneven, but Erick Avari, as a man who wakes up to his humanitarian obligations, provides the movie's affecting center, and Peter Falk gives a harrowing performance as a hopeless drunk trying to manipulate his grown son.
  16. Flightplan
    The plot is contingent on everything going perfectly in ways no one can possibly predict, right down to the most outlandish happenstance of timing and human behavior.
  17. Roll Bounce
    Whether today's tweens will go for such wholesomely retro entertainment is questionable, but their parents - at least the ones who once donned rainbow knee socks and too-tight Calvins - will love to love it, baby.
  18. Daltry Calhoun
    A weird, unpleasant little movie.
  19. Dear Wendy
    Dear Wendy is absurd to the point of comic parody. Bloody as it is, it has no access to viewers' emotions, and its message - play with fire and you get burned - is too obvious to be provocative.
  20. Dirty Love
    The movie equivalent of a medical experiment gone horribly wrong and kept in a jar of formaldehyde as a warning to others: Comedy can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.
  21. Dorian Blues
    The buoyant McMillan is a charming presence, but he's entirely miscast as a character described as moody and angry.
  22. A History of Violence
    Don't let the slow, deliberate pace fool you. A lot is going on in David Cronenberg's masterful A History of Violence, and you'll miss it if you blink.
  23. Into the Fire
    Phelan makes nice use of the New York locations, but all the trees in Central Park can't make up for a clichéd script and characters who speak entirely in platitudes.
  24. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    The results are impressive. Maybe, as the U.S. falls abysmally behind other nations in the sciences, it will get kids interested in that field again.
  25. Occupation: Dreamland
    Straightforward and immensely powerful, the movie offers a blunt assessment of the war from soldiers currently fighting it, and their perspective is not pretty.
  26. Oliver Twist
    Kingsley seems determined to rescue this old chestnut of a character from Jewish stereotypes, but to what end? Oliver's boyhood has become worse than Dickensian - it's bland.
  27. 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.
  28. Proof
    Who knew a drama about numbers could be so thrilling?
  29. HellBent
    There are two ways of looking at Paul Etheredge-Ouzts' thriller, which he is proudly billing as "the first-ever all-gay slasher film." Either it's a truly lousy retread of horror-movie clichés, or it's a mildly amusing sendup of them.
  30. Cry_Wolf
    The low splatter quotient may not be enough to quell the blood lust of slasher fans, but several neat plot twists - and a surprise ending - make Cry Wolf a cut above the rest.
  31. Just Like Heaven
    The problem comes when the movie turns into a tedious, faith-based diatribe against medical science.
  32. Lord of War
    Niccol doesn't always get the mix right, and the tone here is inconsistent. But the movie remains compelling, largely because of Cage's dry, deadpan delivery.
  33. Everything Is Illuminated
    It's as if two-thirds of the book have been reduced to one-word chapter headings.
  34. Corpse Bride
    The story itself is a smooth little gem.
  35. Hard Goodbyes: My Father
    Panayotopoulou does handle the material with sensitivity, but she relies too much on her young hero's unlikely precocity, which unwittingly diminishes the intensity of a child's very real grief.
  36. Thumbsucker
    It's Pucci - who's already won a couple of acting prizes on the festival circuit, including Sundance - who steals the film with a wonderful performance blending the awkward innocence, vulnerability and pain of being a teen.
  37. The Thing About My Folks
    It's the same old, same old - except with some really snappy one-liners.
  38. One Bright Shining Moment
    Instructive but aggressively biased liberal history lesson.
  39. Human Error
    The movie's a botch, but at least it'll make you feel good about your own daily drudgery.
  40. Finding Eleazar
    Because his self-conscious musings are given so much space, it helps to arrive at the movie already awed by Shicoff's talents so you can overlook his (and this dramatically unfocused film's) flaws.
  41. G
    It's an ugly affair overall, but at least you can say you've never seen such beautiful shirts.
  42. Venom
    A witless, derivative slasher flick.
  43. Separate Lies
    A neat, twisty little domestic drama about smart people, foolish choices.
  44. I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
    A fascinating capsule of an era long past.
  45. The Future of Food
    Garcia's somber narration is a turnoff, but this plucky little diatribe gets you thinking about the larger implications facing future generations.
  46. Chain
    Thought-provoking, but not quite as profound as it pretends to be.
  47. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    Certainly has the look and feel of a masterpiece, but it's missing the emotional core that most moviegoers need.
  48. The Man
    The screenplay has no idea how to modulate the banter between the movie's talented stars so that it approximates affectionate and playful sparring.
  49. An Unfinished Life
    It's no great thing, but in their (Weinstein brothers') heyday as Oscar campaigners, they could have made Redford a contender.
  50. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The dullest exorcist movie ever made.
  51. Cote d'Azur
    You know this movie is French (apart from the subtitles), because everyone looks great, gets naked and later breaks into a peppy musical number about the joys of lobster and shellfish.
  52. Keane
    Keane is a movie you might see on a dare, and though I think it is brilliantly conceived, I wouldn't dare to dare you.
  53. Steal Me
    The teen actors grin twitchily as if tickled by sudden growth spurts, but apparently nothing can hurt their chances with the females in this libidinous zip code.
  54. Campfire
    A good movie that could have been better, Joseph Cedar's sensitive Israeli drama falters when he trades sociological observations for political ones.
  55. Green Street Hooligans
    Wood is compelling, but Charlie Hunnam ("Nicholas Nickleby") is the one to watch.
  56. Kamikaze Girls
    A charmingly loony tale of two young loners who form an unlikely bond, this droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame.
  57. Music from the Inside Out
    With a soundtrack that ranges from classical to jazz to bluegrass, this is not only an obvious choice for ­music lovers, but required viewing for anyone interested in the mysteries of creative inspiration.
  58. Make It Funky!
    A suddenly vital biography, Make It Funky, pays apt homage to the unique gifts New ­Orleans has given its country over the last century. Watching it ought to inspire anyone to return the favor.
  59. Walking on the Sky
    Earnest but practically unwatchable movie. I haven't spent an hour and a half with worse company since high school detention.
  60. Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
    The result is a feast for the senses.
  61. Transporter 2
    This stripped-down premise made the first "Transporter" fun: It's all about driving skills and choreographed fights, not logic. Even with so few requirements, Transporter 2 runs on empty.
  62. A Sound of Thunder
    Burns doesn't even bother to disguise his New York accent, any more than he does his boredom.
  63. Underclassman
    A remedial comedy for idiots.
  64. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    She has tackled difficult subjects with sharp wit, but this self-congratulatory set falls well short of our ensuing expectations.
  65. 3 Dancing Slaves
    Gaël Morel's intermittently poignant study in familial discord isn't quite substantive enough to support its histrionic tendencies.
  66. The Constant Gardener
    A slick, fast-paced production with first-rate performances and an emotional punch you won't soon forget.
  67. Games of Love and Chance
    The play within the movie is much more entertaining.
  68. William Eggleston in the Real World
    Refreshingly offbeat documentary.
  69. The Brothers Grimm
    The result is a bit of a mess: sometimes delightful, sometimes tedious, always creative.
  70. The Cave
    The Cave looks pretty cool - if you're into stalagmites, stalactites and that sort of thing -and the action is nonstop once they're in the hole. Unfortunately, there are no reference points in the dark to let us know where everyone is in relation to each other and to the monsters, and, therefore, there's little suspense.
  71. Undiscovered
    On paper, the "rising stars" of Meiert Avis' low-flying romantic comedy Undiscovered are Steven Strait and Pell James, but the real star is Tyson the Skateboarding Dog.
  72. The Baxter
    Modest and polite. That's not a ringing endorsement of Michael Showalter's good-natured comedy, but there are enough laughs in it if you're willing to settle.
  73. Eternal
    It's impossible to overstate the silliness of all this, but it would still be a decent Halloween trick - if it were Halloween.
  74. Formula 17
    At least it's as sweet as it is superficial.
  75. The Memory of a Killer
    Absorbing, operatic.
  76. Wall
    Lingers too long on wordless, symbolic shots of the wall itself. But there's no denying the power of seeing two cultures standing so helplessly on opposite sides of a single fence.
  77. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
    This is an insider's tour - the uninitiated are, frankly, not likely to be converted.
  78. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Works on every level. The humor and language are as crude as an R rating allows, but Carell and Apatow's script is so hip, funny and - yes - innocent that it's never offensive.
  79. Red Eye
    The movie is fun, fun, fun.
  80. Valiant
    The visuals might be undistinguished, but the voices are excellent.
  81. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    You can't look away, not only because the carnage is so masterfully photographed, but because the director sucks you into his bleak, poetic, even sensible vision of cosmic brutality. Not for the faint-hearted!
  82. This Divided State
    If there's anybody left who believes in free discourse, the students were clear winners.
  83. Supercross
    Unfortunately, while director Steve Boyum is a successful stunt man and off-road biker, his skills do not extend to the relatively passive arena of filmmaking. Somehow, he even makes much of the action static.
  84. Reel Paradise
    The result is a gorgeous, third-person version of an extended family-vacation movie that the Piersons, their friends and their former Fijian neighbors can enjoy for years to come.
  85. The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    It is a devastating indictment of the ruling class of Money, Miss.
  86. The Skeleton Key
    The only thing to do, then, is settle back and appreciate Hudson's no-nonsense performance, an appealingly mature turn that makes you hope she has turned her back on second-rate romantic fluff. (Whether second-rate horror represents actual improvement is another matter.)
  87. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    You don't have to rise very high to get above the level of these gags.
  88. Four Brothers
    If you can overcome the graphic nature of its casual violence, it is a lot of fun. The banter among the brothers is well-written and has a genuine fraternal feel to it. And the chases and shootouts have a fresh malevolence to them.
  89. The Great Raid
    Not a great movie, but it certainly does justice to the great historical event it dramatizes.
  90. Asylum
    Asylum is as dark as Dracula's mood on a moonless night, and people suffering from depression should think twice before opening the coffin. This thing would put off Mary Poppins.
  91. The Goebbles Experiment
    Ultimately, the project suffers from a nearly complete lack of contextualization. We could surely use some background on Goebbels' complicity in mass genocide while listening to him brag about his beautiful, healthy children and happy family life.
  92. Grizzly Man
    Though some see Treadwell as an idealistic martyr who made the ultimate sacrifice for his passion, others vilify him as an arrogant fool who courted his own end.
  93. Pretty Persuasion
    Sets out to be a social critique but settles for smug disdain.
  94. Pulse
    Pulse works as a hypnotic meditation on contemporary alienation. Traditional horror fans, however, will search in vain for signs of life.
  95. The Century of the Self
    It will make you laugh, and feel like crying.
  96. Clean
    When these two powerhouse performers come together, a rather predictable tale ignites with surprising force.
  97. A State of Mind
    Despite the obvious cultural differences, what we come away with is a surprising sense of familiarity. Not even the widest political chasms, Gordon finds, can eradicate the universal pleasure of a young girl's giggle.
  98. The Dukes of Hazzard
    Though its PG-13 rating allows for much cruder sex humor, the movie version of "Dukes" is nearly identical to the TV series in its corniness, in its incessant car chases and in its ogling of the posterior of cousin Daisy Duke.
  99. Broken Flowers
    This is Murray's subtlest performance, and one of his best.
  100. 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.
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