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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 Grey Zone
    It's an intelligent, chilling movie, but one that can't quite shake those stage origins.
  2. Painted Fire
    Once again, the director's eye is faultless as he captures both the essence and beauty of the art of Jang Seung-up, Korea's legendary 19th-century painter. But he doesn't capture the artist's soul.
  3. Darfur Now
    A disquieting, and somewhat disjointed, call to arms, Theodore Braun's heartfelt documentary is undeniably important. But it may not be quite focused enough to ignite the passion he so clearly wants his audience to feel.
  4. 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.
  5. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
    This is an insider's tour - the uninitiated are, frankly, not likely to be converted.
  6. Human Weapon
    It's frightening because it's so effective in fomenting fear and because it's so easy to recruit bombers among repressed and hopeless societies.
  7. Straight-Jacket
    Day's primary mistake is an occasional attempt to get serious. With a deft comic touch and a topic that's still timely, he doesn't need to play it straight.
  8. A Piece of Eden
    All the full-blown wackiness turns a rather sweet movie into one that's decidedly overripe.
  9. RV
    The funny thing about RV - no, it's not the jokes, which mostly bomb - is that the characters are actually pretty likable. It's an odd achievement for a road-trip comedy that wants desperately to be loved for its potty jokes, not its humanity.
  10. Clerks II
    Some of the banter is fun, like Randal's debate with Elias over the relative merits of "Star Wars" vs. "The Lord of the Rings." But most is just trash-talk as shoptalk.
  11. 7 Year Zig Zag
    Green's aggressively whimsical autobiography, which he narrates entirely in rhyme, will challenge all but the most open-minded audiences.
  12. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Starts out as fresh as your popcorn, but turns stale before you finish it.
  13. Ned Kelly
    The result is a handsome, action-packed biographical drama with a credibility gap wider than the screen.
  14. An Everlasting Piece
    Coming from a big shot like Levinson, An Everlasting Piece feels like a gently amusing but undeniably minor diversion that, for whatever reason, needed to be gotten out of his system.
  15. Cote d'Azur
    You know this movie is French (apart from the subtitles), because everyone looks great, gets naked and later breaks into a peppy musical number about the joys of lobster and shellfish.
  16. Steep
    The skiers' explanations, on the order of "no risk, no adventure," won't wash with people born without the daredevil gene and watching them fly down these vertical blankets of snow, often out of control, is a little like watching a train wreck
  17. Burnt Money
    What makes this one stand out is the tugging, melancholy romance hiding behind the curtain of blood.
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  18. Private Property
    The performances are impeccable, but while director Joachim Lafosse carefully creates an atmosphere of suffocating dread, he could have let a little more air into this simmering hothouse.
  19. Dirty Laundry
    Looking for plot holes? You can't miss them. But if you go in hoping for a good time, you'll find that, too.
  20. Protocols of Zion
    Levin learned nothing that should surprise anyone who is both sentient and sane. But in tracing much of this contemporary anti-Semitism to a phony 19th-century document in which Jewish leaders lay out plans for taking over the world, we at least get some understanding of how some twisted people justify their hatred and fear of Jews.
  21. Bright Future
    Bright is pretty to look at, but it's a slow-moving, meandering work that isn't as complex or mysterious as it appears.
  22. Guinevere
    Polley, the paraplegic incest victim in Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter," gives a mesmerizing central performance.
  23. Stone Reader
    The result of Moskowitz's sleuthing is Stone Reader, a combination mystery, book celebration and -- sorry to say -- intrusively annoying self-portrait of the filmmaker.
  24. Yossi & Jagger
    The film is hampered by a somewhat shallow, soap-operatic climax. But Knoller is superb as a practical man trying to balance reason and emotion. Fox does an excellent job capturing the claustrophobia of army life, made all the more suffocating by having to hide one's true self.
  25. Isn't She Great
    Intermittently funny.
  26. The Kingdom
    Berg has an excellent eye for violent extravaganza and the action - especially a 10-15 minute set piece midway through - is as cleansing as a high colonic.
  27. Lord of War
    Niccol doesn't always get the mix right, and the tone here is inconsistent. But the movie remains compelling, largely because of Cage's dry, deadpan delivery.
  28. Sacco and Vanzetti
    Miller's film shows how quickly Americans facing perceived foreign threats are willing to ignore basic liberties. Sound familiar?
  29. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    Not a single moment of creativity or intrigue is to be found in the big-screen debut of the Disney Channel's most popular sitcom character.
  30. Fathers' Day
    At least Williams and Crystal, old pals off the screen, seem to be enjoying themselves.
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