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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. 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.
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