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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. Shaolin Soccer
    Proving there's always a new way to tell an old story, Stephen Chow pulls out all the stops for one of the silliest, sweetest and most fun family films in recent memory.
  2. Valley of Tears
    The town's entrenched racism is impossible to ignore, but the efforts toward change make a compelling history.
  3. Goodbye Lenin!
    Wolfgang Becker's premise is absurdist and makes great sense as political satire.
  4. Noi the Albino
    The laconic Lemarquis does a solid job carrying off Kári's dryly mordant wit, making this eccentric story well worth watching.
  5. Family Fundamentals
    The film is somewhat hampered by the refusal of the parents in two of the three families to participate in it. Though the children provide an eloquent, impassioned presence, their parents' absence is overwhelming.
  6. The Edukators
    The dialogue between the captive and the captors gets a little didactic, and the ending is as contrived as it is cynical. Weingartner obviously has more in common with the rich man than the kids.
  7. Bound by Flesh
    Most of all, she (Zemeckis) brings generosity and compassion to the Hiltons’ tragic story.
  8. The Hateful Eight
    Weird, wild and way-too-long.
  9. The Illusionist
    Eisenheim's storybook romance with aristocrat Sophie (Jessica Biel), the childhood sweetheart now expected to become Leopold's princess, is the most compelling thing about a film that should dazzle the eye as much as stir the heart. It does not dazzle.
  10. Office Space
    Work was never funnier.
    • New York Daily News
  11. Pulse
    Pulse works as a hypnotic meditation on contemporary alienation. Traditional horror fans, however, will search in vain for signs of life.
  12. Una Noche
    The energy, thrum and heartache of modern Havana keep this teen drama afloat when it just as easily could have drifted into cliché waters.
  13. Queen and Country
    Queen and Country features characters from the earlier movie. And it’s good. But “Hope and Glory” it is not.
  14. Charlotte's Web
    What it is, to borrow a word from the ever-eloquent spider Charlotte, is average. Don't misunderstand: While never quite enchanting, this "Web" is perfectly entertaining. But it could - and should -have been so much more.
  15. For Your Consideration
    This is Guest's fourth ensemble parody of showbiz subjects, and though his sketch-comedy style and acting troupe are now familiar, this is his most accomplished movie.
  16. Hustle & Flow
    The feel-good movie of the summer. And the song this pimp works up, about how hard it is to manage a stable of ho's, is catchy and moving.
  17. Winter Sleepers
    Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.
  18. Bread and Tulips
    As escapist fantasies go, this easygoing romance is a modest winner.
  19. Heaven
    Too bad Heaven creeps into town when it deserved more fanfare. Consider it buried treasure, a thriller for the art- house crowd.
  20. The Bourne Identity
    Thrillers have become so gnawingly generic that The Bourne Identity wakes the senses without leaning on cliché and soundtrack.
    • New York Daily News
  21. Miracle
    What is lacking in suspense is more than made up for in passion and in sports cinematography virtuosity.
  22. Bon voyage
    At times, the giddy tone makes it feel like a musical set on the eve of Pearl Harbor, but the acting is uniformly good and it's an absolutely gorgeous film to watch.
  23. Meet the Fokkens
    What we really want is to get to know them. Instead, the film too-aptly reflects life in their line of work: brief interludes rather than intimate soul-baring. That's a shame, since there can't be that many 70-year-old identical twin prostitutes with a 50-year history in the business.
  24. Last Ride
    Becomes too melodramatic and bleakly obvious. Weaving, though, as always, is never less than magnetic.
  25. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a seriously ridiculous put-on. And in this summer of overheated special-effects movies, it’s a cool blast of fresh air.
  26. Take This Waltz
    Is there another actor working today whose face registers the extraordinary range of emotions Michelle Williams can display? Even in a film as false as Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, her swiftly shifting expressions feel unerringly true.
  27. Bears
    A three-act story narrated by the affable John C. Reilly is grafted onto one “How’d they get that?” shot after another.
  28. Off the Map
    Perhaps the most evocative movie of the new year, Campbell Scott's Off the Map, moves at the pace of a Southwestern sunset and ends before you're quite ready to let it go.
  29. Land Ho!
    The lack of narrative fireworks is, oddly, the movie’s big gimmick.
  30. Europa Report
    Finally, a found-footage thriller that merits, and expands on, this irrationally popular format.
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