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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. Sweet Sixteen
    Compston, with Loach's uncanny guidance, gives a performance of such natural power you'd think you were watching a drama-class prodigy like James Dean rather than a moonlighting high-schooler.
  2. The Alamo
    Alamo buffs will be delighted, and everyone else will be treated to something that feels like Old Hollywood crossed with new sensibilities.
  3. Intimate Stories
    As stripped down as its title, this gentle Argentinian road movie makes much out of very little.
  4. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    Dynamite perfectly describes this riveting documentary.
  5. I'm Going Home
    With this moving, contemplative portrait of an artist who has suddenly become an old man, de Oliveira refuses to patronize either his hero or his audience.
  6. Marooned in Iraq
    It's part grim Beckett-like drama, part joyous picaresque, and all quite mesmerizing.
  7. Children of Love
    A powerful drama that turns a common event -- the rending of a family -- into an intimate, personal affair.
  8. Dogville
    Surprises, repulses and provokes. It's also brilliant and infuriating, wise and naïve, outrageous yet unforgettable.
  9. The Clearing
    Redford has rarely done this kind of intimate drama, effectively a two-character play on the mountain, and he's very convincing. As is Dafoe.
  10. 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.
  11. The Circle
    How dangerous it is to be a woman in Iran, especially one going against the wishes of her menfolk, is brought home time after time in these related vignettes.
  12. Heaven
    Too bad Heaven creeps into town when it deserved more fanfare. Consider it buried treasure, a thriller for the art- house crowd.
  13. Dr T and the Women
    One of the curmudgeonly director's sweetest films, and features one of Richard Gere's most affecting performances.
  14. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Only the most hardhearted would fail to be swayed by Messner's surprising strength, and -- dare I say it -- irresistible charm.
  15. Make It Funky!
    A suddenly vital biography, Make It Funky, pays apt homage to the unique gifts New ­Orleans has given its country over the last century. Watching it ought to inspire anyone to return the favor.
  16. Paragraph 175
    Explores the comparatively enlightened Berlin culture that had allowed homosexuality to flourish in intellectual and social circles before the Nazis forcibly changed the national mind-set.
  17. Suzhou River
    This Asian-flavored Hitchcock is a complicated tale with no easy answers.
  18. Saint of 9/11
    Overly reverent but still immensely touching.
  19. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Aside from conspiracy theories, Kasparov's undoing inspires a fascinating discourse on genius, competition, humanity and the ghost in the machine.
  20. Fearless
    Li's performance is stronger here than it has been in previous films.
  21. Transformers
    A classic Michael Bay mega-movie. Interested in plot and character development? Move along. You're blocking the view.
  22. Mean Girls
    Likable Lohan doesn't exude the vulnerability that would give the movie true heart, and Fey, head writer for "Saturday Night Live," crafts better punch lines than plots.
  23. Layer Cake
    Laced with flashbacks and stylistic tics, but it never loses its forward momentum, and to the last shot, it avoids predictability.
  24. Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    The documentary fascinates not only because of its subject matter but because the three people - whose backgrounds are individually developed - are so likable.
  25. Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
    Spellbinding.
  26. Super Troopers
    There's a thin line between smart-stupid and just plain stupid, and Super Troopers walks it with ease.
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  27. American Gun
    While this is not exactly a hopeful movie, it's a polished exercise in the kind of social commentary that can wake people up.
  28. Wah-Wah
    Thanks to Grant's script and direction, the exotic Swaziland location (a film first) and an engaging cast, this smartly crafted drama radiates a gently comic pulse.
  29. Backstage
    Director Emmanuelle Bercot's film offers a fascinating account of how a vulnerable star might mistake fan worship for something real.
  30. Close to Home
    Filmmakers Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hagar don't seem as interested in taking sides as they do in exploring universal themes.
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