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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. Last Days
    It's like a walking tour inside the head of a deeply troubled, deeply talented young man, where most of the systems have already shut down.
  2. Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
    Clearly intended as a reminder that one person can move - or, at least, save - mountains.
  3. November
    Convoluted and unsatisfying psychological drama.
  4. Rittenhouse Square
    At its best moments, the film offers a tender portrait of the park's youngest regulars, charmingly earnest performers from a nearby music school. But then, inevitably, their stories fade into a backdrop, as his camera turns to catch yet more women sunning in the square.
  5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    The eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) can't feel pleasure, even though he's surrounded by it, so it's weirdly appropriate that the movie isn't "fun," even if it's amazing to look at.
  6. Wedding Crashers
    Good, indecent fun starring two of the most amiable comedy actors around.
  7. Happy Endings
    The themes are about the power and consequences of sex, but the stories are too glib and episodic to leave any impression.
  8. The Reception
    Well-acted but otherwise lackluster drama.
  9. The Warrior
    The title-character's redemption comes very slowly. But if you have patience, this is a stately, beautifully composed story.
  10. On the Outs
    What makes the film feel genuine, however, are the performances.
  11. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
    A movie about identity that can't quite pinpoint its own, Andrew Douglas' road-trip documentary about the Deep South does eventually meander toward audience enlightenment.
  12. Dark Water
    This is a quieter, more psychologically dense movie, where the payoff is sometimes no payoff at all - for instance, Tim Roth plays a cut-rate divorce lawyer whose own weirdness (he seems to live out of his car) is never explained.
  13. Fantastic Four
    It needed a star like Clooney at its center, and a character actor like Alan Rickman as Dr. Doom. You don't expect realism from a comic-book movie, but you do want the characters to seem larger than life.
  14. The Beautiful Country
    Bai Ling plays a resourceful prostitute from a Malaysian refugee camp who grows harder and more alienated by the day. Nick Nolte, Tim Roth and Temuera Morrison offer strong supporting performances.
  15. Murderball
    When it comes to sports movies, there's nothing like the real thing, and there's never been anything quite as real as the documentary Murderball.
  16. Saraband
    This is as bitter and despairing an exploration of the human spirit as any of Bergman's films, and it is just as vibrantly written and directed.
  17. Chronicles
    The movie suffers from tipping its hand too easily and hating its subject so much.
  18. Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
    The inspector general is an interesting figure, and the images of criminals sobbing over their newfound inner peace are certainly memorable.
  19. Steve + Sky
    For everyone who has been waiting on a movie in the Ghent dialect, your patience has paid off. Happily, Felix Van Groeningen's low-budget romance is also sly - if utterly superficial - fun.
  20. Rebound
    A dreary comedy in the same mold (as "The Bad News Bears," only moldier.
  21. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped has nonetheless brought attention to a nearly lost classic. For more than two decades, "Fingers" was not available on video or DVD and was rarely screened. But it's available now, and if you've never seen it, put it on your must-rent list immediately.
  22. Undead
    Gore fans will dig the makeup effects and some of the tongue-in-cheek slice-&-dice.
  23. The World
    The World has a pokey pace, but it presents a uniquely powerful look at the new big kid in the global economy.
  24. War of the Worlds
    Go for the extraordinary special effects, by all means, but not if you want to feel good about yourself or humanity. And heed the PG-13 rating, because this movie takes no prisoners.
  25. Tropical Malady
    This challenging, inventive movie from Thailand is not for everyone.
  26. A Decent Factory
    Though it lacks a focus or greater artistic vision, Thomas Balmès' no-frills documentary offers Westerners a valuable glimpse into the sweatshops of the new China.
  27. Bewitched
    The result, at best, is a sweet failure.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Land of the Dead
    Land is pure entertainment and superbly well done. It is not as scary as it is gross, and its grossness is so outrageously graphic (hint: don't seat yourself next to a zombie at your next barbecue) that it is laugh-out-loud funny.
  29. Rize
    Exhilarating.
  30. Yes
    The actors are emotional, but the presentation is theoretical to the point of absurdity.
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