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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. Saving Face
    A worthy addition to what must take up a whole section of the video store - the heartwarming comedy that reaffirms the power of personal choice, while also promising to love and to cherish even the most hidebound cultures.
  2. A Common Thread
    A lovely, almost painfully intimate story of female bonding that never panders to its characters or its audience.
  3. Sex, Politics & Cocktails
    Enthusiastic performances help, but without a logical script or confident direction, the fizz very quickly goes flat.
  4. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
    Not bad. It actually might have been considered pretty good had it been made 30 years ago, when people might have cared about the backstory of Father Merrin.
  5. Second Best
    A guy flick, but I can't imagine many male viewers actually identifying with Elliot or his friends. The depression would be unbearable.
  6. Stolen Childhoods
    Meryl Streep narrates this global update on child-labor abuses with all the enthusiasm and alarm of someone reading "The Pet Goat" to a classroom of second-graders.
  7. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    And still the dialogue is astonishingly feeble, the acting unforgivably wooden. To paraphrase Yoda, the only creature with ­truly human dimensions ever since Harrison Ford's cowboy-mechanic Han Solo departed the galaxy: Bored I am.
  8. Mojados: Through the Night
    Modest but memorable.
  9. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Other than a tortured apology from Bill Clinton for having misunderstood the gravity of the situation, there isn't a peep of remorse heard from the normally sanctimonious West. And Dellaire's final bit of self-abuse is to blame himself for his failure to shame the world to action.
  10. Mindhunters
    In 1939, when "Ten Little Indians" was published, Agatha Christie mysteries were the crème de la pop literature. Her fans depended on logic in her stories, and they got it. Mindhunters would have insulted their intelligence, and it should insult yours.
  11. Kicking & Screaming
    Even a soccer-savvy audience has better things to do - like instilling unsportsmanlike behavior in their kids or sabotaging rival teams.
  12. Monster-in-Law
    Fonda's performance is a perfect storm of histrionics, and she leaves nothing and no one standing.
  13. Unleashed
    Unleashed serves two masters, each one disappointingly: It's a brutal series of over-amped fights, and it's a touching story of human nature at war with itself.
  14. Mad Hot Ballroom
    This winning documentary about fifth-graders who learn ballroom dancing is one of those movies that make the world a brighter place.
  15. My Mother
    This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.
  16. Layer Cake
    Laced with flashbacks and stylistic tics, but it never loses its forward momentum, and to the last shot, it avoids predictability.
  17. Kings & Queen
    Arnaud Desplechin's sprawling drama exudes a go-for-broke determination that is frustrating and exhilarating.
  18. Modigliani
    It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously.
  19. Tell Them Who You Are
    In the new, personal documentaries in which you pick up a camera to help get a grip on your own life, there is a queasy line between inspiration and therapy. Mark Wexler crosses back and forth over that line.
  20. House of Wax
    It's a good thing Jaume Serra's House of Wax wasn't shot in 3-D like the original 1953 horror classic - Paris Hilton is in it and she doesn't have a third dimension.
  21. Kingdom of Heaven
    For all its scale, grandeur, historical context and political brass, "Kingdom" is no more compelling a period drama than last year's "Alexander."
  22. Fighting Tommy Riley
    The sort of slick-looking indie that plays well at film festivals, this heavy-handed boxing drama is really just a flyweight bulked up on cliches and false sentimentality.
  23. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    What Short does not deserve - and neither do we - is a feature-length movie about Jiminy.
  24. Mysterious Skin
    A well-conceived story that is very hard to shake.
  25. Up for Grabs
    Michael Wranovics' documentary replays this sorry chapter in all-American greed in glorious detail.
  26. The Great Role
    Director and co-writer Steve Suissa misses every opportunity to go deeper, either for laughs or pathos.
  27. Brothers
    Tapping into the basest fears of war while subverting all expectations, director Susanne Bier deftly reads between the headlines.
  28. A Hole in One
    Director-writer Richard Ledes shows better command of 1950s period atmosphere than he does of either his subject or his cast.
  29. Crash
    Concludes in a shower of ashes, which is fitting because this movie is a billowing bonfire of ugly human behavior. Rarely have there been so many characters in need of timeouts, cold showers or house arrests.
  30. Writer of O
    It is a mash note from first-time filmmaker Pola Rapaport to Aury, but its attempts to dramatize passages of the book are at odds with Aury's advice that "Story of O" was a piece of writing "not meant to be spoken."
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