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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. Boy
    Waititi retains his quirky style, but it feels meaningful here, a valid effort to explore the difficulties in coming of age during tough times.
  2. Tears of the Black Tiger
    Director Wisit Sasanatieng uses every trick imaginable to create surreal postmodern nostalgia. Has he wound up with pure camp, or a cult classic? As he clearly understands, the best B-movies are both.
  3. Thumbsucker
    It's Pucci - who's already won a couple of acting prizes on the festival circuit, including Sundance - who steals the film with a wonderful performance blending the awkward innocence, vulnerability and pain of being a teen.
  4. Inglourious Basterds
    A fairy tale about the infinite power of film, it boasts all his swaggering trademarks: rapid-fire dialogue, gleeful violence, endless cultural references. But it's the sharp-eyed deliberation that makes the greatest impact.
  5. Never Let Me Go
    A film more moving than most but not as devastating as it should be.
  6. Babel
    A powerful movie that should win all the year's ensemble acting awards. Pitt has never done better dramatic work, Blanchett is as convincing as always, and - in introducing themselves to American audiences - veteran Mexican actress Barraza and Japan's Kikuchi are revelations.
  7. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    The film is an exasperating bore.
  8. Unstoppable
    It takes a little while to pick up speed, but once Tony Scott's Unstoppable starts moving, it becomes a lean, efficient action flick.
  9. Brave
    Gorgeously animated and featuring a tapestry of real-looking wonders, Brave is certainly a thing of beauty. But its emotional layers don't yield the same depth.
  10. Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub
    With its carefully-chosen soundtrack, funky animation, and enthusiastic interviews, Dean Budnick's affectionate documentary pays apt tribute to Wetlands, a local landmark that closed in 2001.
  11. Undercover Brother
    Satires like this tend to throw a lot of stuff at the wall, and in Undercover Brother, a surprising amount sticks.
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  12. Girlhood
    Garbus spent three years patiently mining for beauty in the ugliest of environments. The remarkable result stands as a challenge to anyone who would have seen only the worst and walked right by.
  13. Dung che sai duk
    Only in its final scenes do the usual WKW themes emerge in full bloom, but purists shouldn't miss it.
  14. Revolutionary Road
    As a whole, Sam Mendes' film of Revolutionary Road comes close but falls short of capturing Richard Yates' terrific novel.
  15. Live Free or Die Hard
    The action in this fast-paced, hysterically overproduced and surprisingly entertaining film is as realistic as a Road Runner cartoon.
  16. Up for Grabs
    Michael Wranovics' documentary replays this sorry chapter in all-American greed in glorious detail.
  17. The Beautiful City
    Like most Iranian films, it's a shaggy-dog story that builds so slowly you don't see the quietly shattering climax coming.
  18. Palo Alto
    Instead of falling into exaggerated exploitation, Coppola always stays true to the essence of adolescence — that sense of waiting, reacting and then waiting some more.
  19. The Opposite of Sex
    Opposite attracts with its wit.
    • New York Daily News
  20. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    There's far more to this groundbreaker who built an empire in the face of formidable challenges. So why would you miss it? Go already.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lion
    This amazing true story with remarkable performances by Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman and newcomer Sunny Pawar has, like the title would suggest, a blend of brute force and elegance.
  22. The September Issue
    When it's all over, we still don't know who Wintour really is.
  23. Fresh Dressed
    Early on, the doc is lively, with witty animation. As the music and the fashion trickle up, both getting more polished and produced, the film also settles down. It’s still interesting, just not as much fun.
  24. Beeswax
    Fans of Andrew Bujalski's previous mumblecore movies are the likeliest audience for his latest, a modest, slice-of-life indie that doesn't quite live up to his ­earlier efforts.
  25. Cinderella Man
    Without Crowe and Paul Giamatti, this movie would have little in its corner.
  26. The Last Lions
    Riveting, especially since these animals' population has horrifyingly dropped from 450,000 to 20,000 in a half-century.
  27. The Cooler
    When you realize The Cooler is not a comedy but a dark and violent love story, it's hard to reconcile its premise with its mood. The saving graces are the performances of William H. Macy as Bernie and Maria Bello.
  28. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    it's Van Zandt's family that provides the film's most memorable moments.
  29. Frontrunners
    Frontrunners is a lot rougher than Nanette Burstein's recent, similar documentary, "American Teen," and its comparable lack of gloss is both an asset and a flaw.
  30. Head Games
    Director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") has a worthy message, but never makes the case that he needs an entire documentary to deliver it.
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