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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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    Warm Bodies
    Hoult's genuinely awkward charm and Palmer's tomboyish wholesomeness disarm an audience overfamiliar with this story. The two ably communicate the primitive and irrational feelings of falling in love.
  2. Keeping the Faith
    A mostly accomplished first film, with precise comic timing and some hilarious moments.
  3. With All Deliberate Speed
    Feeling very much like it is meant to educate students who don't understand the ruling's relevance, "Speed" doesn't boast much in the way of innovative storytelling. What it does offer is a story that still badly needs to be told.
  4. McFarland USA
    The actors are in good form, but McFarland, USA can’t find its footing.
  5. Bride Flight
    The plotlines are clichéd and the score overbearing, but uniformly strong turns go a long way towards shaping the lush, nostalgic atmosphere. Don't forget to bring tissues.
  6. Gloomy Sunday
    Is it possible for an historically -based Holocaust movie to be schmaltzy? This one sure comes close.
  7. A Perfect Day
    Director de Aranoa keeps things moving, though, with a firm sense of pace and a rough, punk-edged soundtrack.
  8. Mr. Nice
    So what we're left with is a sort of contact high, drifting gently over to our seats in the back row.
  9. Guys and Balls
    There are moments of genuine emotion between the wacky tryouts and the nail-biter finale, and it seems churlish to complain. But there's little room for laziness around superior players like "Shaolin Soccer" and "Bend It Like Beckham."
  10. The Concert
    How much control are you willing to cede when you see a movie? Because director Radu Mihaileanu is fiercely determined to manipulate your every emotion.
  11. 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.
  12. The Heat
    Every foul-mouthed joke [McCarthy] cracks, every unexpected physical gag she underplays, is so funny you forget how often we’ve seen this setup. Or, when it comes to women, how rarely.
  13. Red Doors
    There's enough affection and insight here to make Lee's next movie worth watching for.
  14. Machete
    So now we have a full-length Machete movie, and it turns out that, as usual, less is more.
  15. The Visit
    The actors seem exhilarated.
  16. Illuminata
    Beneath the noisy, farcical surface of John Turturro's Illuminata is a thoughtful and unusually mature meditation on love.
  17. Under solen
    Ultimately, it's the casting and the story that are too good to be true. If a newspaper's classified ad section could document a success like this one, there would never be a slump.
  18. In Her Shoes
    A bungled mess that spends an hour creating two characters whose lives are about as believable as a successful ambush set by Wile E. Coyote for the Roadrunner.
  19. The Governess
    Though Driver's offbeat beauty and Wilkinson's weathered visage make for an unlikely pairing, it works because their passion wells from something deeper than physical apperance. [31 Jul 1998]
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  20. Tomorrowland
    This fantasy adventure lacks focus when it should be laser-sharp, and stumbles when it could soar.
  21. What Would Jesus Buy?
    You know that deflated feeling you get after you've spent a lot of time and money shopping - and have little to show for your efforts? This disappointing biography, about performance artist Reverend Billy, does an awfully good job recreating it.
  22. Tumbledown
    So what's the problem? A hundred small annoyances, including storylines that peter out into inexplicable dead ends, others...that drone on too long, a dozen too many reaction shots from Hannah's dogs, important characters whose motivations are unclear, and a lack of romantic chemistry between Hannah (Rebecca Hall) and Andrew (Jason Sudeikis).
  23. Love Is All You Need
    It’s a mystery as to how so much talent combined to create such a cynically superficial product.
  24. On My Way
    Predictable as the adventure may be, the company — and the countryside — make it worthwhile.
  25. Protocols of Zion
    Levin learned nothing that should surprise anyone who is both sentient and sane. But in tracing much of this contemporary anti-Semitism to a phony 19th-century document in which Jewish leaders lay out plans for taking over the world, we at least get some understanding of how some twisted people justify their hatred and fear of Jews.
  26. Brothers at War
    He does accomplish his main task, to take us into places civilians rarely go, and give witness to the immense challenges soldiers like his brothers face every second they’re required to be at war.
  27. RED
    To underestimate actors of this caliber -- even in a popcorn action flick -- would be dangerous indeed.
  28. Rules Don't Apply
    Like Cohen's output, Rules Don't Apply as a whole is strangely hypnotizing. It has not been edited as so many other recent movies have, down to the nub, removing everything but the highlights you can produce movie trailers from. This thing breathes and creaks. It works. Maybe the cracks are what let the light in.
  29. The Debut
    A likable, if somewhat earnest, exploration of cultural identity.
  30. Interview with the Assassin
    Barry, with a raspy Southern accent, gives a chilling portrait of a man who is absolutely sure he killed JFK. Whether he's a psychopath or a schizophrenic is not satisfactorily answered, but it's a fascinating question nonetheless.
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