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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. Happy Hour
    Unfortunately, what you'll remember most about the movie is its banal script and dialogue so ripe it almost laughs at itself.
  2. Sex Is Comedy
    A strange creature, a narcissistic mock documentary.
  3. Team America: World Police
    It turns out that puppets can tell us more about who we are as a nation than the most meticulous documentary. In Team America: World Police, the potty-mouthed, crazily brilliant musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the result is hilarious, shocking and bound to offend nearly everyone.
  4. Shall We Dance
    This is a "What were they thinking?"-size disaster, with the wrong actors in the wrong roles in a project that had no reason to be remade in the USA.
  5. Being Julia
    It's a virtual clip reel of grandly comic moments that remind us what a good actress can do when parts are scarce.
  6. Eulogy
    In the expanding genre of quirky comedies, first-time writer-director Michael Clancy's messy, fitfully funny Eulogy is among the quirkiest.
  7. Hair Show
    Mo'Nique, co-star of TV's "The Parkers," gives a loud, brassy performance as Peaches Whitaker.
  8. P.S.
    Its premise had me worn out by the second reel.
  9. Moolaadé
    It's a deceptively simple tale that tackles, serenely and with surprising humor, issues of gender, power, custom and change.
  10. Saints and Soldiers
    In his feature film debut, Little uses washed-out color and a you-are-there immediacy to tell a powerful wartime tale of survival, morality and honor.
  11. In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
    Bannon's film makes good use of historical footage to show how a B-list Hollywood actor made the unlikely ascension to commander-in-chief.
  12. The Final Cut
    Can't cope with its own weirdness.
  13. The Scandal
    Through a subplot dealing with Catholic missionaries, an underlying theme of Western encroachment on ancient Korean culture permeates this lushly filmed tale.
  14. Vera Drake
    A marvel of character-driven drama that no serious filmgoer should miss.
  15. Friday Night Lights
    Rousing, action-packed.
  16. Raise Your Voice
    What is unusual and exciting about the movie is the assemblage of raw talent in the cast.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Arna's Children
    The film provides a rare glimpse into the other side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and serves as a chilling reminder that the hostilities aren't about to end anytime soon.
  18. Around the Bend
    Might as well have been titled "That Kentucky Fried Chicken Movie." That's how it will be referred to, anyway, though some people may insert an adjective such as "convoluted," "disappointing," or "anti-climactic" before the name of the fast-food franchise.
  19. Primer
    One of those purposely head-scratching films meant to be viewed more than once. The extra ticket sales should easily cover Carruth's initial $7,000 budget.
  20. Go Further
    Offbeat, engaging documentary.
  21. Stage Beauty
    It's not as clever, or as consistently funny, or as well-cast as "Shakespeare in Love," but Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty is the most fun I've had with the Bard since that 1998 Oscar winner.
  22. The Hillside Strangler
    Here's one for the Sick Voyeurs Club.
  23. Vodka Lemon
    Saleem makes clever use of imagery, with the beautiful, snow-filled vistas representing his characters' personal and social isolation. But "Vodka" moves about as fast as the distant ice caps melt.
  24. Taxi
    Bad as he is, Fallon cannot claim Taxi's worst moment. That belongs to Ann-Margret.
  25. Tarnation
    Tarnation represents a breakthrough in the possibilities of the personal film as a mix of poetry and journalism. It's also harrowing as hell.
  26. Ladder 49
    There's a lot of flashy acting going, notably by Travolta, who has not been more engaging on-screen in a decade, and by newcomer Barrett, a willowy Aussie who, as a woman living with the specter of death, gives the film's most complete performance.
  27. Shark Tale
    Not wildly imaginative, and it has a tepid mix of movie references. But the physical environment and characters make it irresistible.
  28. I Heart Huckabees
    The cinematic equivalent of the mad-scientist experiment gone awry. It seems to be grooving on its own strangeness, at the expense of its connection with a paying audience.
  29. Dig!
    A riveting rock documentary.
  30. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Does an excellent job of telling Kerry's side of it.
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