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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. Appaloosa
    Though the leads do fine work, their efforts often feel slightly futile. Despite a few flashes of the darker tone percolating under the surface, the movie remains too well-mannered to truly pull us in.
  2. Battle in Seattle
    Well-intentioned but as earnest as a college freshman discovering campus politics.
  3. The Duchess
    A rousing period drama with all the familiar trimmings: gorgeous costumes, palatial settings and romantic intrigue.
  4. Hounddog
    Rarely has there been a movie as misguided as Hounddog, which self-righteously indulges in exploitation while loudly decrying it.
  5. 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."
  6. The Women
    Is it an exaggeration to call The Women the worst movie of the year? Well, yeah, probably. But it may be the most disappointing, given all the effort that went into it.
  7. Righteous Kill
    Of the supporting performances, Gugino, Leguizamo and Wahlberg offer solid turns, but are let down by dialogue.
  8. Flow: For Love of Water
    Flow makes you thirsty for more information.
  9. Moving Midway
    Cheshire refuses to look away, no matter how complicated things get. In fact, it's the tangled, tortured roots that most inspire him, turning this deeply personal film into a potent meditation on our nation's past.
  10. Towelhead
    Ball knows one trick, and it's sure over.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Family That Preys
    Perry's notoriously overstuffed plots have sometimes been top-heavy, but this movie, like Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters," hangs on an elegant structure that doesn't feel forced.
  12. Bangkok Dangerous
    Adds to the sad realization that this once-vibrant and witty actor (Cage) is completely controlled now by his inner teenager.
  13. A Secret
    Beautifully acted and exquisitely photographed, director Claude Miller's superb drama, from Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel, is awash with the ripples created by unlived lives.
  14. Everybody Wants to Be Italian
    As for that title, neither character is Italian, but each thinks the other is - a weak device designed purely to inspire a slew of stereotypes.
  15. Mister Foe
    Jamie Bell gives a watchable performance in this self-conscious, coming-of-age drama, though the film's overall effect is best described as David Lynch lite.
  16. Ping Pong Playa
    A decidedly lightweight amusement.
  17. The Pool
    Smith ("American Movie") sees the poetry in everyday people, and lets his rambling story find its own rhythm.
  18. Disaster Movie
    Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead?
  19. Babylon A.D.
    The plot makes absolutely no sense.
  20. I Served the King of England
    A film as unique as this is a gift that shouldn't be ignored.
  21. My Mexican Shivah
    All this story needs is a mariachi band to walk in on all the overwrought mourners. Oh, wait ... yep. There it is.
  22. Sukiyaki Western Django
    A lightweight goof that feels a little dashed-off.
  23. Year of the Fish
    David Kaplan's sweet, if superficial, fairy tale won't change the world, but it makes nice use of its setting (Chinatown) and visual style (rotoscope animation).
  24. Traitor
    Nachmanoff fills the movie with a sense of gripping, '70s-style grittiness that helps undercut the web-of-evil tone.
  25. Death Race
    Well, you've got to say this for Death Race: It knows what it is and doesn't apologize for it. What it is, incidentally, is junk.
  26. The House Bunny
    not a good comedy. But there's no airbrushing out the funny surrounding its star.
  27. The Longshots
    It also has another watchable turn from Ice Cube, and, as with his previous films, the rap artist-actor leads by example.
  28. Hamlet 2
    There's a lot of potential here, and a sharper script might have made all the difference.
  29. Trouble the Water
    Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal utilize the footage Kim and Scott Roberts had taken throughout the disaster, showing how residents suffered, survived and came together to help when official assistance let them down.
  30. Momma's Man
    A little miracle, Azazel Jacobs' lovely story of a life lost and found tackles big issues -love, maturity, fulfillment - in deceptively modest fashion.
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