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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. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Though it happens two-thirds into the movie, when Lili is abandoned by the others in Greece without either luggage or money, Le Besco's vulnerability draws us into her predicament.
  2. Illuminata
    Beneath the noisy, farcical surface of John Turturro's Illuminata is a thoughtful and unusually mature meditation on love.
  3. Jesus' Son
    Movies about junkies are often brutal to watch, but Jesus' Son has such a light touch, you have little to fear. Little to gain, too.
  4. The Woman Chaser
    An only intermittently amusing genre parody.
  5. The Outsider
    As is often the case with Toback's films, even as you're shaking your head at his shameless self-indulgence, you can't help but keep on watching.
  6. Latter Days
    In equal parts earnest and awkward, this romance between a Mormon missionary and an L.A. party boy falls significantly short of its lofty goals.
  7. The Keys to the House
    Both Rossi and Charlotte Rampling, as the mother of another young patient, do fine work. But the only surprises come at the end, too late to move us the way they should.
  8. Major Dundee (re-release)
    The movie still isn't great, but it's an important remonstration to that oldest of all studio-system curses: the producer who thinks he's more creative than the director.
  9. Shanghai Noon
    A silly buddy caper that should delight the adolescent at heart, even if some of the jokes have been sitting too long in the desert sun.
  10. One Bright Shining Moment
    Instructive but aggressively biased liberal history lesson.
  11. Phat Girlz
    The plus-size personality of comic actress Mo'Nique fills the screen in Phat Girlz, a sweet, if thinly plotted tale.
  12. American Dreamz
    Where good satire is drawn with a surgeon's scalpel, this comedy is done with a brush broad enough to paint - or, at least, hit - the side of a barn. But in the softer realm of parody, it has a good premise, a couple of funny performances and enough giggles for a reasonably good time at the movies.
  13. Gabrielle
    Chereau keeps us locked inside their suffocatingly unhappy home, making for an intensely theatrical chamber piece.
  14. Factotum
    Bukowski fans - and they are legion - may fill in the blanks from their own knowledge of the writer and find Factotum a more complete character study than it really is. For the rest of us, there are a few laughs - and a corking hangover.
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  15. The Protector
    While the story's silly, the stunts, choreographed by Jaa and popular Thai filmmaker Panna Rittikrai, are spectacular.
  16. Breaking and Entering
    There's a great deal of potential here, but like Will, Minghella loses his bearings whenever he wanders too far from home.
  17. Untraceable
    I like the idea of a cybercrimes agent cracking cases through superior knowledge of the Internet. Marsh could be a great heroine for a continuing series. But Untraceable essentially forces its audience to identify with those who would be willing accomplices to torture and murder. To understate the point, that's not an audience-friendly approach.
  18. Walk on Water
    The film nearly drowns in earnest morality.
  19. Zero Day
    A speculative re-enactment of the 1999 Columbine slaughter, told from the point of view of two suburban high school nihilists as they videotape themselves preparing for the last and "best day" of their lives.
  20. Meet the Robinsons
    It takes nearly an hour before Stephen J. Anderson's 3-D, animated comedy Meet the Robinsons begins to make sense, and when it does, the film literally takes off. But unless you're familiar with the children's book by William Joyce from which it's adapted, that first hour is a cluttered, noisy, nearly unendurable mess.
  21. Julien Donkey-Boy
    I'd never seen anything like it, and can say that I hope to never see anything like it again.
  22. The Holiday
    A harmlessly cheery confection.
  23. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    Scurlock barely acknowledges the logical reality of any credit card transaction: If you choose to buy something, you will have to pay for it eventually.
  24. Redacted
    Like "Lions for Lambs," Redacted is more significant in its sense of purpose than its uneven execution.
  25. Fantasia 2000
    Whether it's any good depends on your expectations.
  26. Climates
    Like Ceylan's earlier films, Climates is as gorgeous as it is self-consciously composed, but an hour and 40 minutes is a long time to spend with Isa, forget three seasons.
  27. Otomo
    A potent drama.
  28. Overnight
    It turned out that he (Duffy) had an ego like a giant ChiaPet. With a little money sprinkled over it, it grew out of control.
  29. Stolen Childhoods
    Meryl Streep narrates this global update on child-labor abuses with all the enthusiasm and alarm of someone reading "The Pet Goat" to a classroom of second-graders.
  30. Raising Victor Vargas
    There's something uniquely gratifying about watching nonprofessionals deliver totally natural performances.
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