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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. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    If you're looking for cinema, skip this. But as a religion-based self-help workshop for victims of ­childhood abuse, it'sa deadly accurate button-pusher.
  2. Tying the Knot
    Besides the personal stories, de Sève deftly puts the issue in historical and political perspective through an overview of the evolution of marriage, plus a slew of talking heads representing both sides of the battle.
  3. Infernal Affairs
    The plot is intricate and tight. The preamble is a bit challenging to sort out. But the movie's engine is the relationships and the characters' inner lives, all of it boiling with emotional intensity.
  4. Shaun of the Dead
    Its social satire is so dead-on.
  5. First Daughter
    There are plot holes you can fly Air Force One through.
  6. The Forgotten
    The last act, when the movie falls apart like a cheap toy, is both a deus ex machina and an anticlimax.
  7. The Motorcycle Diaries
    There is no great story being told here. Mostly, it is a conventional road movie - a buddy comedy even - about the quests of two likable guys. The memoirs exist only because of Guevara's subsequent fame as a revolutionary leader in Cuba, Congo and Bolivia.
  8. The Last Shot
    But there's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of "the business" and nothing to mitigate its sour taste.
  9. Hollywood Buddha
    This off-putting satire is a jumble of misguided ideas that gather like lint in the navel of self-obsessed director Philippe Caland.
  10. Incantato
    Neri Marcore gives a beautifully understated performance.
  11. Mind the Gap
    Everyone somehow ends up in Manhattan for a contrived and predictable conclusion. In his last film role, the late Alan King is reduced to a stereotype of a cantankerous Jewish senior.
  12. Moog
    Moog mostly has the amiable, 70-ish inventor recounting his story, from his teen years as an electronics whiz in the Bronx to his development of a smaller, cheaper synthesizer.
  13. Anatomy of Hell
    The award for hardest-to-watch movie of the year.
  14. A Dirty Shame
    All trash, all all the time, a run-on burlesque of lust.
  15. September Tapes
    The results are often exciting and, except for occa­sional overacting by Calil, feels authentic. But the whole notion of exploiting a war and its victims to shoot a commercial feature is reprehensible.
  16. The Yes Men
    A sobering documentary done in a whimsical style.
  17. The Take
    Their ultimate success is a classic victory for the little guy.
  18. Mr 3000
    Bernie Mac gives surprising wisdom and heart - along with the laughs - to what could have been just another generic baseball comedy.
  19. Wimbledon
    As a love story, Wimbledon is a washout. As a meditation on sports psychology, it might help improve your game.
  20. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Missing beneath its fabulous surface, however, is anything like a beating heart.
  21. Head in the Clouds
    Charlize Theron's Gilda in Head in the Clouds invites comparison to Rita Hayworth in 1946's "Gilda," which adds a touch of the ludicrous to this already strained material set in wartime France.
  22. Zelary
    Zelary succeeds as moving indictment of war.
  23. Silver City
    It comes off as a fairly straightforward assault on the kind of political corruption that has crossed party lines in movies since the dawn of the medium, and in books before that. The pleasure here is in the dialogue, the characters and the cast.
  24. Merci Docteur Rey
    With a plot laden with mistaken identities, voyeurism, marijuana-laced brownies and even a cameo by Vanessa Redgrave playing herself, "Merci" tries too hard to be madcap.
  25. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The love and attention Oshii poured into animating Batou's pet basset hound proves that the human instinct dominates even in a movie dependent on technology.
  26. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
    A droll gem that celebrates movie love with feeling and deadpan humor.
  27. Incident at Loch Ness
    Herzog, who deadpans his way through the high jinks, is the best thing about the movie, but even he gets wearisome before Nessie has sunk the boat.
  28. Particles of Truth
    If ever a cast of characters needed a good dose of Prozac - or maybe just a hug - it's in this downbeat, low-budget indie.
  29. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    It all makes Nat Lamp's recent "Van Wilder" look like an instant classic.
  30. Cellular
    As Ryan, Evans attempts to graduate from "Not Another Teen Movie"-type fare to more adult stuff. He holds his own, but he has no edge.
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