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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. Eating Out
    The story doesn't make any real sense, and the production values are home movie-cheap. But the cast seems to be having fun.
  2. Eros
    When the producers of Eros, a triptych of short stories about eroticism and desire, described what they wanted from Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, American Steven Soderbergh and Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni, they must have written the memo in Chinese. Only Wong attempted something sensual.
  3. Winter Solstice
    Very little actually happens in the movie. There are no cathartic breakdowns or soul-changing epiphanies. Instead, we're offered a collection of small moments that feel so familiar, they remind us how false most films really are.
  4. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Gives moviegoers a funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire.
  5. The Friend
    Actors do an excellent job portraying young people struggling with an almost manic paranoia.
  6. Major Dundee (re-release)
    The movie still isn't great, but it's an important remonstration to that oldest of all studio-system curses: the producer who thinks he's more creative than the director.
  7. First Love
    The movie exaggerates a common dynamic between men and women.
  8. Sin City
    Sin City snaps, crackles and pops like no graphic novel ever brought to the screen. Mixing live-action with computer-generated images, it looks like the novels, talks and bleeds like the novels, is as muscular and voluptuous as the novels - and it leaves you breathless as only a movie can.
  9. Dust to Glory
    But where there is a natural poetry of motion in surfing movies, off-road racing is a herky-jerky pastime whose ­appeal is hard to fathom. I guess you had to be there.
  10. Girl Play
    With little plot and a stifling set, the ­movie needs stronger performances than its leads can offer.
  11. Control
    Smart, imaginative - and nearly ­impossible to watch.
  12. Look at Me
    This audience-pleaser is smart and acerbic. Jaoui has an uncanny ear - as director, co-writer and part of the inspired ensemble cast - for human foibles, self-deception, celebrity worship and female body issues.
  13. Beauty Shop
    The story and humor are so tame the movie barely merits No More Tears.
  14. Odessa... Odessa!
    The Brighton Beach crowds come off more like tourists, and the Odessans in Israel can't seem to decide which is their real homeland. And it's all very confusing.
  15. Guess Who
    A disappointing retread of a bunch of better movies.
  16. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Phenomenal acting, plus intelligent direction and themes, put The Ballad of Jack and Rose above other indie films about loss of innocence. At the same time, there is something garish about watching a father and daughter struggle with the snake of incest in their ill-advised Garden of Eden.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    D.E.B.S.
    Cute, campy and as proudly insubstantial as its heroines' micro-miniskirts, D.E.B.S. deftly fulfills its Jane Bond fantasies without so much as breaking a nail.
  18. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    Dynamite perfectly describes this riveting documentary.
  19. Nina's Tragedies
    Israeli director Savi Gabizon has created a nuanced coming-of-age portrait that ought to strike a chord with ­audiences ­everywhere.
  20. Oldboy
    This hunt for revenge is really a quest for self-discovery. The story, acting and brilliant directing elevate Oldboy into a human struggle to know yourself and your place in the universe, and to live with that sometimes terrible knowledge.
  21. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The movie awkwardly tries to present Bullock and King as an interracial odd couple. But the overall result is charmless, even insulting.
  22. Mondovino
    If you have a serious interest in wine and the ­patience for this kind of rangy, undisciplined filmmaking, you'll learn something. But you'll have more fun at a winetasting.
  23. Ice Princess
    Cusack is excellent as Joan, the only woman in the film who values a girl's brains over her body, so it's a shame Fywell treats her with amused scorn.
  24. The Ring Two
    An uneven story undermines this horror franchise, despite high-quality performances by Naomi Watts and David Dorfman.
  25. Melinda and Melinda
    But Allen can still write a good joke and there are some here. Not enough to say he has returned to form, but enough to remind you of what that form was.
  26. 16 Years of Alcohol
    But the film has a poetic pulse, its ups and downs accompanied by some smartly chosen pop songs, a seductive original score and McKidd's husky voice-over narration.
  27. Fifty-Fifty
    With a cast of mostly non-actors, the film seems rough-hewn, like something you'd find rusted along a road. But it's actually a sophisticated blend of crime thriller, coming-of-age story and social realism.
  28. Steamboy
    The weak story and bland hero are no match for the increasingly exciting visuals, while the score by Steve Jablonsky should be on exhibit in the Hall of Lead.
  29. The Rider Named Death
    A visually lavish but somewhat sterile adaptation.
  30. Milk and Honey
    Maggio and his stars find some unexpected truths in a familiar tale.
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