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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. Bombay Eunuch
    A riveting story.
  2. Suddenly
    Just when you think it's a violent drama, it turns into a comic road picture, before finally becoming a tender romance.
  3. I Capture the Castle
    A Jane Austen-like tale of sense and sensibility, with some of the wit, but, alas, none of the linguistic legerdemain.
  4. Kiss Me, Stupid (re-release)
    Cinephiles and Billy Wilder fans get a rare opportunity to see the "slightly dirtier" European ending to the director's 1964 sex farce.
  5. The Upside of Anger
    In making such an appealing movie about characters who are usually swept under the Hollywood rug, Binder does us all a service.
  6. The Dreamers
    As tawdry as this may seem, Bertolucci is not trying to one-up himself. He was 27 when the student riots occurred and very much a participant in a revolution that was both complex in its implications and naive in much of the behavior. He has caught that perfectly
  7. Rank
    That final night of competition is exciting stuff, capped by a heroic victory ride, but this is otherwise a plodding feature about decent young people in a rough-and-tumble sport that makes you wonder how many IQ points they have being bucked around inside their heads.
  8. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    It's certainly been a while since we've seen a movie this resolutely old-fashioned. But while the script feels a little stiff and moralistic at times, it's hard to fault a film with such an intelligent, good-hearted heroine.
  9. Sleeping Dogs Lie
    Goldthwait explores his themes more thoughtfully than you'd expect, but ultimately, we know just how things will end. And what's subversive about that?
  10. This Christmas
    No matter how silly the situation, each member of the uniformly strong cast creates a nice balance between sentimental and sweet - which is just how every holiday gathering should feel.
  11. Laggies
    The unavoidable obstacle is that the perpetually elegant Knightley does not belong. Not at a prom, not furtively partying in a parent’s basement and not, alas, in this movie.
  12. Free Fire
    Free Fire is more of an exercise in how to stretch-out a single scene than a typical movie.
  13. Keanu
    Maybe Keanu would have been stronger in the hands of a more experienced director — they brought Peter Atencio over from their show — but Key and Peele know how to deliver the laughs and killer chemistry.
  14. Megamind
    Plays out like a clunky, not-so-incredible "Incredibles," or a more-despicable "Despicable Me."
  15. Burn After Reading
    Hopped up like a Bugs Bunny cartoon on mescaline and as chatty and uppity as a 5-year-old, Burn After Reading could be seen as the Coen brothers' need to let loose after the tightly wound "No Country for Old Men."
  16. Invincible
    So yes, you'll roll your eyes when the coach defies Papale's naysayers by insisting that "he has heart." But if there's a single surprise on this familiar field, it's that the movie does, too.
  17. Petits frères
    Crushingly realistic.
  18. Diamonds and Rust
    Directors Adi Barash and Ruth Shatz do a brilliant job of letting the South African, Israeli, Cuban and Namibian men aboard speak for themselves.
  19. Boiler Room
    Energetic, provocative.
  20. Shutter Island
    For all the trickiness and bluster, Shutter Island is dead inside.
  21. Amigo
    Cooper, Torre and Dane DeHaan, as a soldier smitten with a local girl, stand out among a strong cast. With its big ideas on an intimate scale, this is Sayles' best in a decade.
  22. ATL
    Fresh and unexpected. It feels like a real window on the lives of disenfranchised youths - these are in South Atlanta - as they make their way in a society that doesn't cut them any breaks.
  23. Youth in Revolt
    While Cera is charming enough to keep us watching, he's never allowed to cut loose -- even though that's supposed to be the whole point of the movie.
  24. Stander
    The movie is bookended by a powerful indictment of apartheid and a study of white guilt.
  25. Julia
    The end result is like Quentin Tarantino reworking a Charles Bukowski story.
  26. Severance
    You'll need a strong stomach, but director Christopher Smith mixes lots of laughs into the gore. Despite its predictable finish, Severance is bloody good fun.
  27. The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
    Burns has assembled such a fine cast that we leave feeling satisfied, as if we didn't get the iPad mini we wanted, but a pretty good novel instead.
  28. Sugar Town
    A bad Altman impression of the L.A. rock scene.
  29. Happy, Texas
    The performances are first-rate, with the always inventive Macy a standout as the hopeful, tormented Chappy, and Zahn a scream as the lovably imbecilic Wayne.
  30. V for Vendetta
    Hugo Weaving, weaving deftly beneath a fixed plastic grin and Prince Valiant wig as the mysterious avenger in V for Vendetta, both chills and amuses throughout this enjoyable - if occasionally irresponsible - comic-book thriller.
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