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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 Mudge Boy
    Deeply disturbing, but dramatically realized, and the movie marks Burke as a young talent to watch.
  2. A Silent Love
    Strong, subtle performances elevate A Silent Love, a slow-moving drama about an unlikely love triangle from first-time director Federico Hidalgo.
  3. Dragon
    Yen, who also choreographed the fights, is a natural hero, and the large canvas and pseudo-superhero tactics work for a bit, but then the action gets sidetracked in place of myth-building.
  4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    If there's anything more tiresome in film today than hip irony, it is forced irony, and here comes a boatload with Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
  5. I Am a Sex Addict
    The way he presents his romantic history is both clever and entertaining, but after a while the story becomes tediously familiar.
  6. The Ice Harvest
    The nasty, violent material has two small beacons of hope - Nielsen as a fair-weather stripper in the manner of old film-noir dames, and Quaid as a scurvy ­mobster who hates being cheated. With his puffy, reddened face, Quaid looks like a bad Santa.
  7. All the Light in the Sky
    Marie is middle-aged and at a crossroads in All the Light in the Sky, a movie that feels the same way — listless and searching and on its way toward something good.
  8. Big Man Japan
    When a movie is this strange, it's gotta count for something.
  9. The Interpreter
    An intelligent, old-fashioned nail-biter.
  10. Wish You Were Here
    Though much of the film is overcooked and overwrought, it’s well-played, and writer-director Kieran Darcy-Smith keeps us guessing, and watching.
  11. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    It's a shame, of course, that Madden brought the best to such an exotic Top locale without making the most of the opportunity.
  12. The Great Water
    Ultimately about the indomitability of faith, and the Christian symbolism is laid on thick. But the story, adapted from a famous behind-the-Iron-Curtain novel, sheds light on a subject few people have known about.
  13. Rubble Kings
    The era deserves far better than hipster nostalgia.
  14. Lucy
    A brazenly mindless thriller about the infinite capacities of the human brain. That said, sometimes we just want to shut down and give in to bombastic summer entertainment. In that regard, as usual, Besson delivers.
  15. The Devil Wears Prada
    Though there is enough haute couture on display for a season of "Sex and the City" envy, it has definite off-the-rack appeal to regular moviegoers. In fact, it may be the one film this year where you'll see Manolo Blahniks and Doc Martens on women sitting in the same row.
  16. Hello I Must Be Going
    Writer Sarah Koskoff's nuanced script and director Todd Louiso's ("Love, Liza") delicate tone follow indie terrain, but go the right way.
  17. The American
    The American, a movie as coiled as a snake and as still as a sleepy villa, is the rare grownup thriller that knows the link between peace and danger and the tension that comes from both.
  18. African Cats
    African Cats, while often adorable and at times gripping, is more of a TV-ready experience.
  19. Zoolander
    The humor is simple but far from dumb. The dueling "walk-off" between rival male mannequins is inspired, as are the sly juxtapositions of the male model's faux physicality with such real-world demands as coal mining.
  20. Harmontown
    We never do find out what really went on behind the scenes of “Community.” But the delightful success of a charismatic loner like Crittenden could be considered one of Harmon’s greatest accomplishments.
  21. Stop-Loss
    Despite several attempts, we're still waiting for the drama that convincingly captures the experienc of soldiers who've fought in Iraq. Stop-Loss" isn't that film, but at the very least its efforts are honorable.
  22. Trollhunter
    This is what happens when the Norwegians try to make their own "Blair Witch Project": We get three-headed trolls that hate Vitamin D and references to "Deliverance."
  23. Crazy/Beautiful
    An impressive portrait of the migraine of teenage girlhood, and also works on the more modest level of teen romance.
  24. September 11
    Some segments are anti-American, but to concentrate on that is to miss the variety, depth of opinion, and fierceness of the emotions that drive each director.
  25. Runaway Jury
    Brisk pacing and a remarkable cast achieve the sleight-of-hand effect of making you forgive some implausible twists and a sanitized ending.
  26. Stolen
    It's like racing through a detective novel, only to find the last page has been torn out.
  27. The Good Shepherd
    Even with its first-rate cast, current political relevance and tangled mysteries, The Good Shepherd remains as remote as Wilson himself. But frankly, if the lives of CIA spies are really this dreary, they may as well keep their secrets to themselves.
  28. Bustin' Down the Door
    Some of the talk gets a little bombastic, but it's hard to deny the thrill involved.
  29. Wrecked
    It's a tribute to Adrien Brody that Wrecked works as a modestly compelling thriller, since there's almost nothing to see but Brody himself.
  30. Big Miracle
    The genuinely sweet nature of this sometimes clunky movie is mixed with a little sass, and wins you over.
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