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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. Gilles' Wife
    This is a lyrical art movie with admittedly limited commercial appeal, but worth seeing for cinematic explorers.
  2. The Syrian Bride
    The result is both tragic and darkly comic - in this complex environment, blame and sorrow are locked in a partnership of absurdity.
  3. Derailed
    James Siegel's best-selling thriller Derailed is a perfect commuter book that has become the most imperfect of movies.
  4. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Jon Favreau's adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's kid-lit adventure of the same name, more than fills the bill - though it's unlikely to draw anyone over the age of 11 (not counting baby-sitters).
  5. Pride & Prejudice
    Seeing the splendid new version of Pride & Prejudice can be hazardous to your health: There's a very real danger of swooning.
  6. Bee Season
    It took one novelist, one screenwriter and two directors - Scott McGehee and David Siegel - to cobble together this earnest nonsense, and if it weren't for 12-year-old novice Flora Cross, who plays its central character, all would be lost.
  7. Ellie Parker
    Shot on digital video, made on the run whenever Watts was available between gigs, the movie is a pointless, tedious eyesore.
  8. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    On stage, the attractive 34-year-old Silverman is very funny. She's too blue for Comedy Central, and too slow-paced for an HBO hour, but she'd come off better in either of those formats than she does in this mishmash.
  9. Cape of Good Hope
    The film does deserve credit for juggling difficult racial and class issues - but with a wacky score, cute puppies and silly side stories also jockeying for space, Bamford's best intentions tumble to a heap long before the movie ends.
  10. Good Morning, Night
    Though he doesn't possess the dangerous confusion of his tragically misguided heroes, veteran director Marco Bellocchio does share their capacity for raising thought-provoking points that end in an ineffectual tangle.
  11. The Comedians of Comedy
    While there is a great deal of laughter among the quartet, there's scarcely a giggle in it for the audience.
  12. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    A gangsta rapper without fire in the belly isn't terribly interesting, cinematically or musically.
  13. The Swenkas
    When these proudly strutting dandies glide through a grimy basement as if they didn't have a care in the world, their joy is irresistible, and Ronde's point is made.
  14. Chicken Little
    The studio's fresh corps of CG animators may get up to speed before the current four-picture cycle is completed, but if they don't get better material to work with, the sky will be falling along Dopey Drive.
  15. Jarhead
    The movie has some of the washed-out look of David O. Russell's excellent "Three Kings," but none of the edge. That's part of the point - that nothing leads to anything, at least not in this particular war.
  16. Brooklyn Lobster
    The triumph here is the natural, fluid way the characters interact, many of them displaying real-life, quirky senses of humor you don't often find in screenplays.
  17. The Dying Gaul
    These are three characters in search of a moral pulse.
  18. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Lovett's history is heavy on hedonism, but he does deliver a succinct perspective on this celebratory era - between the sad bookends of repression and loss.
  19. I Love Your Work
    Working with a self-consciously urgent, neo-noir style, Goldberg seems intent on expressing a meaningful message of some kind. It's too bad, then, that he has chosen such a shallow subject.
  20. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    Left-wing flame-thrower Robert Greenwald (Uncovered: The War on Iraq) gets after the global giant anyway, and he may have you thinking twice before entering another Wal-Mart parking lot.
  21. The Legend of Zorro
    Two hours of ludicrous action, forced humor and self-conscious romance.
  22. Prime
    The occasionally amusing, generally fatuous romantic comedy about a dazzling divorcee, a smitten Jewish boy and a controlling Jewish mom who also happens to be the divorcee's psychotherapist, is a high-concept movie with a Yiddish accent.
  23. Saw II
    Though the overall effect feels a little anemic compared with its predecessor, the ads promise blood, and - oh yes - there is blood.
  24. The Weather Man
    Nicolas Cage does such a persuasive job of portraying Chicago TV weatherman Dave Spritz as a train wreck of a guy that you wonder whether this might actually be a training film for a psychoanalytic convention on hopeless cases.
  25. little man
    But with her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up.
  26. New York Doll
    The film paints an affectionate portrait of a wry, somewhat addled man whose hard-partying past was in stark contrast with his later life - a fluffy cat nestles in his guitar case while he explains his nickname.
  27. Paradise Now
    At the stunning conclusion, you feel as if the weight of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has come down on your head.
  28. Three... Extremes
    Blood, grotesquerie and humor mix equally in the first two, but the full combo makes a savory witches' brew for Asian-cinema cultists (or Halloween lovers in need of a gore fix).
  29. Ballets Russes
    Goldfine discover so many fascinating themes within their seemingly narrow subject that anyone with the slightest interest in history or human nature will find it absorbing.
  30. Doom
    Even The Rock, who can usually be counted on to enliven any scenario, seems bored by the laughably feeble script.
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