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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. The Turandot Project
    The opera's story -- about a Chinese princess who rejects all her suitors -- is never even fully explained.
  2. Friday Night
    It is driven by the finely expressed -- if nearly mute -- performance of Lemercier. We learn a lot about this woman and her emotional state from Lemercier's subtle body language. As for Lindon's Jean, well, it's enough that he's there and doesn't require batteries.
  3. Sunset Story
    It's a poignant, realistic depiction of the ­elderly, far from the typical view of them as quaint and useless.
  4. Vénus beauté (institut)
    It's hard not to feel empowered by Nathalie Baye.
  5. Looking for an Echo
    The best performance comes from Venora.
  6. The Town Is Quiet
    Intermittently compelling drama.
    • New York Daily News
  7. Good Boy!
    A charming runt of a movie. It's not all it could be, but it's the best the pound had to offer this week.
  8. Fear X
    The movie is so glacially paced and underdeveloped that it often feels as numb as its grieving hero.
  9. Two Women
    A daring feminist movie that, while straightforward to a fault, is a rare opportunity to sample a female point of view from Iran, where such a thing is usually a veiled subject.
  10. Aquamarine
    It's not the best "Little Mermaid" movie - it's totally predictable and its trio of tweeners squeal at a pitch that could break glass. But it's also a bubbly confection about best friends, crushes on preening lifeguards, grrrl power and shades-of-blue fashion tips.
  11. 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.
  12. The Hoax
    It's hard to get a fix on what Hallstrom had in mind. The first half of the movie plays like a frenetic caper comedy...The second half turns psychologically dark.
  13. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    If you're wondering whether the rules of love change during war, you won't find a better case than the urgent, darkly comic relationship between these two.
    • New York Daily News
  14. Exiled
    The Macao settings are beautifully rendered, and the dark humor is often very funny. But it is noisy.
  15. Show Me Love
    Grainy color stock and tight closeups give the film a realistic feel that's accentuated by natural performances from the able young cast.
    • New York Daily News
  16. Mind the Gap
    Everyone somehow ends up in Manhattan for a contrived and predictable conclusion. In his last film role, the late Alan King is reduced to a stereotype of a cantankerous Jewish senior.
  17. Chaos
    It's not giving too much away to note that we've seen a lot of this before, in classic noir and postnoir films, though to name those films would spoil things.
  18. Osama
    Rough around the edges, but effectively presents the quandary of women during the repressive religious regime.
  19. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    Gilbert blatantly takes Chong's side, so your level of empathy will rise or fall depending on how strongly you connect with his subject's hazy, if enthusiastic, dedication to "the pursuit of righteous happiness."
  20. Ten Canoes
    The humor in de Heer's script is mostly anatomical, and the performances of the nonpro cast are stiffer than bark. But you've never seen anything like it.
  21. The Trench
    By the time they're ready to leave their trench, we're not at all ready to see them go.
    • New York Daily News
  22. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    All this frenzy, all these "quotes" from other movies, and yet Vol. 2 is strangely static - a dulling experience that can safely be admired from afar without it ever engaging the senses.
  23. Hamlet
    Some of the contemporary winks are questionable, but others are undeniably sharp.
  24. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Sticking closely to formula, Disney delivers a sweet script and charming storybook backgrounds, with serviceable, if sappy, songs from Carly Simon.
  25. 30 Days
    A hit-and-miss romantic comedy.
  26. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Designed as a giant put-on, "Kiss Kiss" is so inside Hollywood, so anxious to bite the hand that fed Black, that it plays like an elaborate prank. Some of it is a lot of fun; most of it is a lot of nonsense.
  27. From Hell
    An amazing physical specimen, beautifully photographed and edited. If you think of it as your own opium dream, you may dismiss the lousy story as a mere side effect.
  28. Lost in Beijing
    Part soap opera, part sitcom and part relocated French farce.
  29. Chapter 27
    It's a transformative role, but how widely seen it is depends on how strong a stomach one has for wall-to-wall paranoid ravings.
  30. Carandiru
    Babenco does a better job with place than with people: His explosively overcrowded jail is a teeming tenement, which makes the inevitable climax feel, finally, like something real.
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