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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. Massoud, the Afghan
    A weak documentary. There's very little here to demonstrate the personality and leadership qualities that made Massoud both a legend and a martyr. Raw, sloppily edited, unfocused and without any sense of scale, it's personal journalism with its heart in the right place, and that's about it.
  2. Russian Ark
    A technical and visual tour-de-force.
  3. Dead or Alive: Final
    Takashi Miike is a master at making love-'em-or-loathe-'em spectacles, but even fans are likely to consider the final film of his Dead or Alive trilogy a minor entry in his oeuvre.
  4. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Here, Noyce lets his camera, the geography and the youngsters tell this exceptionally powerful story.
  5. Extreme Ops
    There is a fair share of turkeys at the multiplex this week, but none are quite as overcooked as Extreme Ops.
  6. Eight Crazy Nights
    To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah.
  7. Solaris
    A darkly brilliant sci-fi movie about emotions so deep, the story could be taking place within the chambers of the heart instead of an arid space station. At the same time, it is a coldly theoretical piece that could leave viewers unengaged.
  8. They
    It starts pushing buttons immediately and never lets up. This proves to be both its strongest asset and, unfortunately, its biggest flaw.
  9. The Emperor's Club
    The ethical issues driving Michael Hoffman's The Emperor's Club almost outweigh the improbable arc of its story, and Kevin Kline's endearing performance as a prep school classics teacher is almost worth the price of admission.
  10. Die Another Day
    As strong on action as it is weak on the interpersonal stuff. If Bond can get a new car for each episode, how about some new pickup lines?
  11. Friday After Next
    The movie's 85 minutes speed merrily along on a steady stream of outrageous antics, entertaining performances from seasoned pros (like John Witherspoon, as Craig's dyspeptic dad), and unforgettable introductions to new talent.
  12. Phantom
    With little dialogue, a murky night setting and the slowest of plots, this Portuguese fantasy only comes alive when it conforms to its true nature as arthouse pornography.
  13. Talk to Her
    This quiet yet jolting meditation on love, obsession, loneliness, friendship and fate has the quality to entrance you through a first viewing, and compel you to take its themes and characters home with you for further consideration.
  14. The Quiet American
    The movie adds nothing to the political dialogue, and the love story is mood-killingly sad. The lure of the exotic can be deceptive, it says. The moody, murky atmosphere leaves nothing clear except that mixed intentions will always yield mixed results.
  15. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    The first two stories are so well-drawn you hate to leave them. But Miller's femaleempowerment anthology carries a smart whiff of other literary looks at ordinary, extraordinary women, such as Grace Paley's "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute."
  16. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
    With Chomsky as its star, this documentary cannot go far wrong, even though filmmaker John Junkerman intersperses Chomsky footage with some really bad Japanese pop music.
  17. Better Housekeeping
    Gives cinema vérité texture to a fictional story of trailer-trash dysfunction (minus the trailer).
  18. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Chamber is chockablock with action (including a far more exciting game of Quidditch) and crafty special effects.
  19. Interview with the Assassin
    Barry, with a raspy Southern accent, gives a chilling portrait of a man who is absolutely sure he killed JFK. Whether he's a psychopath or a schizophrenic is not satisfactorily answered, but it's a fascinating question nonetheless.
  20. The Way Home
    Life-affirming story of love, kinship and sacrifice.
  21. Hell House
    Scary, all right, but not for the reasons the Dallas church had in mind.
  22. Ararat
    Only two hours long but it may take your mind another day to get through it. Egoyan has stuffed a lot into this personal and strenuously opaque film, which perhaps explains why its over-plotted, elliptical structure seems so onerous.
  23. Half Past Dead
    The martial arts are well represented, the gentler arts -- like, for example, acting -- are not.
  24. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    Frustratingly, though, and not a little ironically, Justman chooses to focus on the new stars when they sing, rather than on the Funk Brothers playing in the background. Just as curiously, he paints a remarkably rosy picture of the old days, overlooking the racism and exploitation the Brothers surely experienced.
  25. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Father Amaro comes off as another pedophile in a frock. You'd have to hose this guy down if he were driving a school bus.
  26. Revolution #9
    McCann's point of view overwhelms the human elements of his story, but this is, nonetheless, a riveting piece of filmmaking.
  27. Leela
    So far beyond Bollywood, I think it's set in the suburbs of L.A.
  28. The Rising Place
    As earnest as its artless young characters, Tom Rice's intermittently affecting debut walks a well-trod path without finding anything very new.
  29. 'R Xmas
    Despite the intriguing potential, the end result is a queasy stalemate.
  30. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    The far too whimsical God Is Great, I'm Not leans heavily on the charms of Audrey Tautou -- As adorable as Tautou is, miracles are beyond her.
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