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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. Cassandra's Dream
    The Coen brothers might have pulled this off, but it's out of Allen's faltering reach.
  2. Chloe
    A tacky 'Fatal Attraction' for the lesbian set.
  3. Wilson
    In the movie version of Wilson, starring Woody Harrelson, no one flies or turns into a centaur. But quiet magic happens nonetheless.
  4. The Killing of John Lennon
    Piddington does a beautiful balancing act, creating a movie that works both on the level of suspense and as a detailed factual chronicle.
  5. Escape Plan
    As the unpredictable, mischievous inmate with the unlikely name of Emil Rottmayer, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sidekick role in Escape Plan may make audiences weep for the films we missed out on while he made speeches in Sacramento.
  6. Nabbeun namja
    South Korean director Kim Ki-duk does a bizarre riff on the twisted macho ethos of abusing women until they learn to love you.
  7. Guess Who
    A disappointing retread of a bunch of better movies.
  8. Sex Drive
    Just slightly funnier than you'd expect, this dashed-off teen comedy cribs from a thousand other movies, without coming up with anything original of its own.
  9. Daddy's Little Girls
    Subtlety has never been Perry's strength, but his previous films balanced the sermonizing with good humor and sincerity. Perhaps next time, he'll ease up on the lectures, and bring back the love.
  10. Meeting Resistance
    Less a documentary than an unshaped document, this haphazard collection of interviews with Iraqi insurgents is both enlightening and frustrating.
  11. S1m0ne
    Hilariously inventive Hollywood satire.
  12. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    Tops Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" in anger and frustration.
  13. Special Treatment
    As clichés trot through their sessions - it's like "In Treatment" as bedroom farce - we check out. Huppert, though, is as fearless as ever.
  14. Starbuck
    A high-concept goof that’s hard-pressed to surmount its twee preposterousness.
  15. Death of a President
    D.O.A.P. would be more effective, and more entertaining, if it took a cue from "Dr. Strangelove" and used Sterling Hayden's paranoid, quick-triggered Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper as the model for Cheney to get more outlandish behavior from him.
  16. Lucky You
    Perhaps this is just a bad performance by Bana; he's not shown me anything yet. But there's a more basic problem. If money is just a way of keeping score, and Huck doesn't care whether he's flush or busted, why should we?
  17. Clifford's Really Big Movie
    A really lame attempt to expand the marketing reach of the PBS-TV series.
  18. The Good German
    If you feel anything other than admiration for its craftsmanship, let me know; The Good German is as emotionally cold and unconvincing as any movie I've seen this year.
  19. Henry's Crime
    Director Malcolm Venville, who made the British gangster flick "44 Inch Chest," has a strong handle on the tone, so even the familiar twists feel fresh.
  20. Demolition
    Demolition is a wreck.
  21. 2012
    Doomsday views are a knockout, but the script is a real disaster.
  22. Mystery, Alaska
    Some terrific characters and some of the year's punchiest comic dialogue.
  23. Jackpot
    Shows that there's a limit to how much mileage one can get from offbeat, creepy and symbiotic.
  24. The Reckoning
    Has so many ideas working in it that they all but suffocate its thin plot.
  25. Loitering with Intent
    The title may suggest acts of indecency, but if there’s anything this mild dramedy could use, it’s a little more raciness.
  26. Helena from the Wedding
    Every generation gets a "Big Chill," and this tired but well-meaning indie contains many clichés of the "pals-pondering-life" movies that came before.
  27. Jane's Journey
    Though Lorenz Knauer's film is as thoughtful as his subject - with a break for interviews with Pierce Brosnan and Goodall's fellow UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie - the study of chimps is given short shrift.
  28. The Sacrament
    This sometimes-taut little thriller is sullied by its unnecessary masquerade as a documentary presented by HBO’s gonzo news show “Vice.”
  29. Beauty Remains
    If aesthetics are a prime factor in your movie choices, you may get something out of Ann Hu's overwrought, but beautifully atmospheric, period romance.
  30. Al Franken: God Spoke
    Humorist and liberal radio talk-show host Al Franken is a funny guy, and most of the people he attacks - Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney - are not. But the joke was on him when George Bush won re-election in 2004.
  31. Love Is in the Air
    With a snappy score made up of American standards and tons of Gallic spice, “Love” wins us over.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Direction: This Is Us
    The most telling quotes in the new One Direction documentary “This Is Us” don’t come from any member of the band. They come from their parents, who, at various times, carp about their kids’ trajectory from the moment they were put together on “The X Factor” back in 2010.
  33. Gang Related
    A cleverly written thriller in which he and Jim Belushi portray corrupt police detectives whose actions unleash an unpredictable chain of sometimes dire, sometimes hilarious events. [8 Oct 1997, p.32]
    • New York Daily News
  34. Set Fire to the Stars
    High art swings sort of low in this watchable but thematically repetitive drama.
  35. TRON: Legacy
    Bridges is enjoyable as he gives the older Flynn a Zen hero quality, and even breaks through the effects to make his younger-Clu-self oddly engaging.
  36. Auggie Rose
    Goldblum, who has made psychological confusion his actor's stock-in-trade, gives Nolan's behavior just enough credibility to keep his quest alive for us, and Heche gives a delightfully unaffected performance as Lucy.
  37. Sidewalks of New York
    A waterlogged bagel, hardly the valentine to New York it imagines itself to be.
  38. The 6th Day
    Like Schwarzenegger himself, it looks tired, and a little bored.
  39. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    You watch with amazement their physical movements, how closely their lips match their overly precise, prerecorded dialogue, yet they're not human enough to get us past the stunt factor and lost in the drama.
  40. Tycoon: A New Russian
    With more than a passing nod to the Hollywood mob movie, Pavel Lounguine ("Luna Park") crafts this superb post-Soviet "Godfather" movie loosely based on the exploits of bad boy billionaire Boris Berezovsky.
  41. The Thing
    In terms of scares, this old-fashioned Thing is better than most new things.
  42. Beyond the Black Rainbow
    Add two more stars here if zoning out to weirdo-dreamy, '80s public-access TV with a synthesizer soundtrack is your idea of midnight fun. Because this ambitious, but not uninteresting, failure has that in its DNA.
  43. The Fifth Estate
    What a letdown it is to see this spellbinding, era-defining story tamed into such stodgy submission.
  44. My Fellow Americans
    Playing a pair of antagonistic one-term Presidents thrown together in a flimsy chase plot, Jack Lemmon and James Garner trade insults that aren't exactly in Lincoln's league.
  45. American Reunion
    What keeps the movie afloat, though, is Seann William Scott as Steve Stifler.
  46. Krampus
    No one has been too naughty to be subjected to this reindeer poop.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Desert Dancer
    Desert Dancer is a conventional protest drama, but it offers many magic moments — especially when co-stars Freida Pinto and Reece Ritchie perform sinuous routines. Or simply gaze into each other’s eyes.
  48. The Sentinel
    Implausible yet enjoyably diverting thriller.
  49. New York, I Love You
    Anyone who actually adores New York is unlikely to appreciate this disappointingly bland collection of shorts, which might as well have been called "Madrid, Te Amo" or "Cincinnati, You're the Best."
  50. Big Sur
    But with Kerouac declaring that “the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind,” we’re still left waiting for the filmmaker who can take us there.
  51. People Like Us
    Its hard sell wears you down and draws you in, even as you know you're being manipulated.
  52. Texas Killing Fields
    Rote, dull and point-blank obvious.
  53. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    These actors know how to liven up a room, yet here they're forced to perform in Miller's Theater for the Overwritten.
  54. Shoot 'Em Up
    This is likely the fastest-moving intentionally funny action movie ever made. It's as if the 21 Bond movies and four "Die Hards" had been distilled to remove their body fat (that is, character development, buildup, rest stops, etc.) and left us with only the killing and the punch lines.
  55. Broken City
    There is no urgency, and little honesty, to the convoluted goings-on unfolding here.
  56. Big Bad Love
    If the point of this umpteenth posttraumatic stress drama is that war is hell, even years after it's over and you're sitting in a movie theater, Big Bad Love makes it.
    • New York Daily News
  57. The Way of the Gun
    A confused, empty, only occasionally funny mess of a movie.
  58. The Business of Fancydancing
    The movie eventually chokes on its own pretensions.
  59. 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.
  60. Benji: Off the Leash!
    All the Benji productions have had a high corn content, but in this one, even the corn is cheap.
  61. The Grudge
    Like a good horror movie, the images, jolts and artistically directed disorientation will keep your stomach clenched...Like a bad one, it doesn't make a lick of sense.
  62. Terminator Salvation
    A fast-moving, rock 'em-sock 'em movie that continues the man-vs.-machines series begun 25 years ago.
  63. The Mummy
    Even if The Mummy is imitation Spielberg, it offers more bang for the buck than we're used to getting.
  64. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    Something has surely gone wrong when there is not a single moment in Ice Age: Continental Drift that equals the four-minute "Simpsons" short that precedes it.
  65. Hancock
    There's a great idea here, but it's buried within a muddled story that lurches between dark comedy and maudlin drama.
  66. Callas Forever
    This fictional "what if" scenario is a bit campy and stagey, like a session of Opera 101. But it has one great thing in its favor: Ardant.
  67. Antichrist
    Von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville") has no barriers, which absolutely can be a good thing. Here, though, his uninhibited nature is an omen of the pretentious butchery to come.
  68. 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.
  69. Sleuth
    Even lousy adaptations have worth, if they attract attention to little-seen originals.
  70. Mars Needs Moms
    While not every family film can plant a flag here, the happily offbeat Mars Needs Moms turns out to be a charming, subversive, minor addition to the club.
  71. Flannel Pajamas
    Ever been on a blind date that you knew would be dismal from the start? Well, this is the movie version of that date, stretched out over the slowest two hours imaginable.
  72. The Man Who Copied
    Manages to tackle some serious issues without sacrificing its inherently sweet nature.
  73. Bedazzled
    This updated version has the good sense to star Brendan Fraser, who is shaping up as one of our finest romantic-comedy stars.
  74. Harvard Man
    Sillier than it is clever, and Toback's self-indulgence is tiresome. He's a genuine auteur, all right, but his life and the funky tastes that inspire him are just not as interesting as he thinks they are.
    • New York Daily News
  75. Harrison's Flowers
    The movie does have one very perplexing major flaw. It throws in some minor-character narration toward the end, as if test audiences had lost their ability to concentrate, and this was the filmmaker's only solution for getting us back on track.
    • New York Daily News
  76. Words and Pictures
    Words and Pictures doesn’t get the dunce-cap award, but it does lose points for feeling phony and contrived — especially during the moments when it appears overly proud of what it is.
  77. Stars in Shorts
    None of the seven shorts here is worth a single, well-made feature. But there are a few amusing moments to be found.
  78. The Whore's Son
    Austrian director Michael Sturminger's debut feature creates a visually evocative environment in which to explore some significant themes, from religious repression to Freudian guilt.
  79. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
    With costumes taking precedence over character, the movie ultimately seems more concerned with atmosphere than action.
  80. Tristan and Isolde
    It's that rare movie that had me wishing I was at the opera.
  81. V/H/S/2
    This sequel to last year’s surprise buzz-maker takes the same appreciative approach to scare-flick tradition: Take hipsters, mix into classic genre riff, goose until ludicrous; repeat. Not every try is successful, but as with any anthology, if you don’t like one, sit back and wait for the next.
  82. Formula 17
    At least it's as sweet as it is superficial.
  83. Tickling Leo
    Throughout, Davidson's intentions are honest but become lost in a haze of overly familiar story beats.
  84. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
    My 3-year-old date had a fine time, pronouncing the movie "very good" and backing up her assessment by going 90 minutes with barely a fidget. Which may actually be the highest compliment any movie can ask for.
  85. Stuck in Love
    All those cliched literary trappings come together in Stuck in Love, but the final product feels more like a footnote than a finished work.
  86. When Comedy Went to School
    Think you know all about comedy? This thorough, funny and thoroughly funny chronicle of the Catskills Mountains resorts — that is, the Borscht belt — will still teach you a thing or two.
  87. I Think I Love My Wife
    For each joke that is fresh, there are at least three that fall thuddingly flat. Rock suffers a problem common to comedians moving from sketches to features; he hasn't quite been able to get his performance level above caricature. To his credit, he's made more of this than you'd expect from the lame premise.
  88. Great Directors
    To eavesdrop on Bernardo Bertolucci, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach and John Sayles, as they talk politics; David Lynch and Todd Haynes, discussing inspiration; and Catherine Breillat, Agnès Varda, Richard Linklater and Liliana Cavani as they riff on controversy and aspiration, even for a little while, is a real treat.
  89. Riddick
    The story feels like quicksand. Riddick, which couldn’t even qualify for proper summer movie placement, moves like Martian molasses and can’t present an action scene to save its life. You’ll wish you had Uncle Martin’s ability to speed people — not to mention awful movies — up.
  90. Cooties
    Despite the funny premise, Cooties doesn’t live up to its potential.
  91. Men in Black II
    Michael Jackson is an alien? Tell me something I don't know.
    • New York Daily News
  92. Green Dragon
    The Buis seem not to have complete confidence in their unique, imprecise style, which is too bad.
    • New York Daily News
  93. The Monkey's Mask
    Kelly McGillis quite literally as you've never seen her -- as a manipulative, icy sex goddess in whose bedroom there are no limits.
  94. Dead or Alive
    Takashi is a master of the jagged quick cut and the shocker finish, and his head-spinning story is pumped up with almost more bravado than a single screen can handle.
  95. Around the World in 80 Days
    With the exception of one masterfully choreographed - and improbably bloodless - martial-arts gang fight, the new version of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is one of the lamest remakes of a classic film I've ever seen.
  96. The Flying Scotsman
    For a much better film about a similar story, rent "The World's Fastest Indian," with Anthony Hopkins on a motorcycle.
    • New York Daily News
  97. Everybody Has a Plan
    It’s not easy to play twins (in another language, no less), without relying on showy mannerisms to define them. But Mortensen pulls it off. Your move, Franco.
  98. The Black Dahlia
    In writer Josh Friedman and director Brian de Palma's attempts to condense the book's convulsively odd final chapters, they've created an even loonier melodrama.
  99. The Ultimate Gift
    This drama from Fox Faith Movies has a mercifully light hand in selling its Christian-values themes, but its plodding story about a spoiled young scion who must complete 12 tasks assigned him by his late grandfather is still a slog.
  100. Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
    A limited amount of original footage -- awkwardly enhanced with reenactments -- gives the film a somewhat narrow focus. But in a way, the dry tone fits.
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