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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. Ghosts of Cité Soleil
    Dives into the brutal heart of a place most people would avoid at all cost.
  2. Birthday Girl
    It's a slight, old-fashioned B movie, the last thing you would expect from an actress coming off a breakout year, but it has a charm and freshness we don't see much these days.
    • New York Daily News
  3. Dudley Do-Right
    Mostly pitched at a new crop of children who will detect the movie's mildly sarcastic, audience-winking tone with no problem.
  4. Quills
    The things you can look forward to, however, are the humor, intellectual musing, emotional tumult, superb acting and challenging adult questions.
  5. This Is England
    Turgoose, in his first film role, is entirely convincing as the strong-willed but naïve Shaun, and Graham is a genuine fright as the feral prototype of the violent skinhead culture on the horizon.
  6. Anywhere But Here
    An actress' dream.
  7. The Blue Angel
    This is melodrama with broad theatrical flourishes, but Dietrich's sensuality is still a natural wonder, and with a new print, the Film Forum run offers a rare opportunity to see it big-screen-size.
  8. Tape
    An entertaining, post-modern mulling of the nature of truth, and whether truth is ever so fixed that it can be captured on tape.
  9. Dinner Rush
    As tension mounts through the evening, Giraldi cleverly sweeps in and out of conversations -- and brings it all together in a climax that is as hard to see coming as it is to resist.
    • New York Daily News
  10. The Cockettes
    The Cockettes epitomized a brief confluence of new possibilities, not so much in theater as in personal style, lending them a certain historical value that greatly exceeds their contribution to theater.
    • New York Daily News
  11. Mini's First Time
    This is a pitch-black sendup of a classic femme fatale, a teenage version of the husband-killers in "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," without the saving grace of passion.
  12. Sputnik Mania
    The archival footage here is great, and the cosmos-conquering craziness will satisfy space-race nuts.
  13. Promises
    The filmmakers caught the kids arguing their cases like adversaries on "Judge Judy," sticking to phrases they've memorized or absorbed only too well.
  14. Beautiful People
    Behind the inspired wackiness is a story about how our warlike nature needs some changing before we can all live in relative harmony.
  15. Joe the King
    The movie isn't a day in the park, but it manages to close on an existentially uplifting note.
  16. Les convoyeurs attendent
    Poignant, eccentric comedy.
  17. U2 3D
    You have never seen a concert film like U2 3D, and it may change your expectations for the rest of your rocking years.
  18. Red Dragon
    I quibble over a film that has none of the artistic pretensions of "The Silence of the Lambs." This is more of a greatest-hits Hannibal movie, with a thunderingly portentous soundtrack, lots of mugging and autopsy detail, and a bang-up double ending.
  19. Crimson Gold
    Another excellent example of how Iranian cinema uses deceptively simple techniques to decode devastating truths about human nature.
  20. Lovely & Amazing
    By turns cheerful, funny and melancholy, and at all times honest, Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing stands out in the current run of ensemble women's films.
    • New York Daily News
  21. Waking the Dead
    It's a romantic weepie.
  22. O
    This is a serious and well-acted drama, not a jokey ripoff, whose relevance (however distant) to Columbine is a plus.
  23. Solaris
    A darkly brilliant sci-fi movie about emotions so deep, the story could be taking place within the chambers of the heart instead of an arid space station. At the same time, it is a coldly theoretical piece that could leave viewers unengaged.
  24. In America
    If you're looking for a bit of an uplift, you could do worse among the gloom of so many holiday dramas.
  25. Power Trip
    To Devlin's great credit, he keeps us rapt throughout.
  26. Lilo & Stitch
    The whole movie is a blast, thanks to a whip-smart script clearly written for kids and grownups alike.
    • New York Daily News
  27. Such a Long Journey
    Seth, who played Nehru in the Oscar-winning "Gandhi," gives a subtly layered performance as a complex, tormented and very decent man in crisis.
  28. Swingers
    It's a "First Wives Club" for single guys, giving voice to a whole range of authentic, if not always responsible, attitudes and emotions.
  29. Bukowski: Born into This
    He's not someone you may wish you'd known, but he's a fascinating street character.
  30. Rain
    Movies about the dawning of female sexuality and its links to mother-daughter competition are tough to pull off, but Rain is a splendid example of how to get it right.
    • New York Daily News
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