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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. Bright Young Things
    This is a wickedly funny skewering of a prewar London society gone mad with frivolity.
  2. End of the Century
    A thorough, gutsy and appropriately scuzzy-looking documentary.
  3. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Greenwald has created a crisp historical document that is worth your time, even if the information in it was not worth the President's.
  4. Rosenstrasse
    Director Margarethe von Trotta nearly buries the drama of the protest itself within the awkwardly sentimental framework of a contemporary New Yorker's quest to learn the truth of her widowed German mother's grief and history. But while the film concentrates on Lena, eloquently portrayed by Katja Riemann, the movie earns your empathy.
  5. Mean Creek
    A welcome departure from typical movies about teens, wherein their problems are external (the prom, status). Mean Creek is an adult movie that just happens to star young actors.
  6. Red Lights
    The movie's clever ambiguity allows a number of interpretations. Perhaps it is all a dream, a parable, or a combination of wishful thinking and reality.
  7. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    The actual fights between the predators and the serpents are too silly to contemplate. Both shiny and metallic, they look like kitchen appliances fighting it out. That's when you can see them. Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson ("Resident Evil") has created the darkest, if not worst, sci-fi movie since "Battlefield Earth."
  8. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    Too solemnly boring to entertain parents or older siblings - but, alas, too loud for a long nap - Yu-Gi-Oh! is basically a feature-length promotion for the trading cards.
  9. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    With We Don't Live Here Anymore, it's the audience that may want to leave and start a new life.
  10. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Although all the key players are back - including, fans will be glad to hear, Heather Matarazzo as cynical sidekick Lilly Moscovitz - the freshness of the first is long gone.
  11. Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
    It's said to be an autobiography, but that pertains only in the loosest sense. It's a comedy. It's a 1920s silent movie. It is practically indescribable. And it is pure genius.
  12. Danny Deckchair
    Danny Deckchair may be a trifle, but it offers a breezy lift for the dog days of summer.
  13. Collateral
    The whole movie is something of a joke, a feature-length prank that mixes stark violence and shock humor in the mold of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction." Though it is a far less ambitious entertainment than Tarantino's masterpiece, it has its moments.
  14. Little Black Book
    A screechy chick-flick relationship comedy with a lot of things working for and against it - mostly against it.
  15. Bang Rajan
    Unapologetically graphic and slightly marred by an artistic awkwardness, this is a rare and worthwhile glimpse into another nation's historical legend.
  16. Code 46
    But for what is at heart a thriller, Code 46 lacks both energy and tension.
  17. Last Life in the Universe
    The mildly surreal drama doesn't always make sense, but it sure does look great.
  18. Open Water
    The actors are unknowns, but Ryan does a lot with her little downturned mouth. There are as many shades of anxiety as there are shades of blue in the sea, and Ryan manages to find them all.
  19. Stander
    The movie is bookended by a powerful indictment of apartheid and a study of white guilt.
  20. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    The fourth documentary screed this summer to have grown out of the left's frustration with the nation's turn to the right. Keep 'em coming, I say.
  21. The Manchurian Candidate
    The performance of the movie is Liev Schreiber as Shaw, a man howlingly uncomfortable in his own skin.
  22. Thunderbirds
    Not only achingly dull, it has no respect for its origins.
  23. The Village
    The Village is Shyamalan's weakest story, and its ending - whether or not you're surprised by it - is a genuine clinker.
  24. Festival Express
    A raucous, riveting account of the greatest party you were never invited to.
  25. Gozu
    There are some genuinely funny moments amid the gore, but who knew this famously edgy director would find bathroom humor to be such a knee-slapper?
  26. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    The laugh ratio in this run-on of skits is pretty low, at least to the unaltered mind of one who's seen enough of these films and eaten enough White Castle burgers to last a lifetime.
  27. Intimate Strangers
    This has all the ingredients for a top-notch thriller except one - a thrill.
  28. Proteus
    John Greyson and Jack Lewis' experimental drama, about two prisoners who have a dangerous affair, is a challenging, flawed look at a little-known slice of history.
  29. Garden State
    Sometimes veers off into preciosity. But it offers something rare in the bond between Andrew and Sam.
  30. Los Angeles Plays Itself
    What Andersen does best is capture the sense of growing up and living among the landmarks of Hollywood's authentic back lot.
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