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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. Night Catches Us
    "Night" never quite coalesces into the forceful drama it hopes to be.
  2. Bhutto
    It's a fascinating story, and too epic to be contained here. But the directors certainly capture our interest, even as they leave us wanting to know more.
  3. All Good Things
    The film ends up wrestling itself into a corner, though it's saved by a corrosive central performance from Ryan Gosling and a disconcertingly hypnotic feel.
  4. I Love You Phillip Morris
    I Love You Phillip Morris not only blasts gay stereotypes back decades, it could actually make people wish for a third "Ace Ventura" movie. Both of those are an accomplishment, though neither is a compliment.
  5. Black Swan
    A psychosexual thriller that lures its viewers into a woozy nightmare.
  6. Undertow
    Without excessive emotion or drama, director Javier Fuentes-León's film - and Mercado's performance - gently captures the power of emotions whose silent rattle is even stronger than reality.
  7. Willets Point
    As for that unpolished screenplay, the less said the better.
  8. The Legend of Pale Male
    You won't find a tale more true to our city than the extraordinary history of Pale Male. It's just unfortunate that Frederic Lilien's documentary is as clunky as his subject is graceful.
  9. The Nutcracker
    Do not, in fact, go at all. Because aside from the actual nutcracker, most of the crucial elements are missing from Andrei Konchalovsky's bizarre miscalculation. Magic and joy top the list.
  10. Family Affair
    Chico Colvard's tragic documentary is blunt and rather artless, but it does make for impactful, and deeply disturbing, viewing.
  11. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    The author of "Naked Lunch" and his words were funny, freaky and sometimes just Out There. Yet as "there" became "here," Leyser shows, Burroughs seemed to be everywhere.
  12. Today's Special
    This full, sweet comedy, adapted by star Aasif Mandvi from an Off-Broadway play, has a city flavor and a wry take on familial obligations.
  13. Made in Dagenham
    A slow, solid movie that, like Rita, sneaks up on you with its intelligence and pluck.
  14. The Next Three Days
    It's laughably, eye-rollingly absurd.
  15. Skyline
    It's finally here: The most boring alien-invasion movie ever.
  16. Eichmann
    The final fate of Adolf ­Eichmann is certainly a compelling subject. But its dramatic impact is severely diminished here by stilted filmmaking and wooden performances.
  17. Shake Hands with the Devil
    Spottiswoode relays this tragic story with respect and sadness. But Michael Donovan's script is stuffed with clichés, and Dupuis is unable to convey the depth of Dallaire's emotions.
  18. Helena from the Wedding
    Every generation gets a "Big Chill," and this tired but well-meaning indie contains many clichés of the "pals-pondering-life" movies that came before.
  19. Disco and Atomic War
    Director Jaak Kilmi's remembrance of growing up under Soviet rule never tries to be anything more than a curiosity.
  20. Morning Glory
    This often-witty baby-of-"Broadcast News" tries hard to be liked, like the TV fluff it's built around. The news is that, often, it succeeds.
  21. Fair Game
    Though based on a true story with a well-known outcome, Doug Liman's Fair Game is as suspenseful as any fictional thriller -- and considerably more tragic.
  22. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Gibney puts mystery back into a story we thought we knew.
  23. 127 Hours
    Once Franco's on his own, everything is played across this terrific actor's deceptively goofy face.
  24. For Colored Girls
    "This is a woman's trip," it is announced in Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls, and how you respond to those words will likely determine how you respond to the film itself.
  25. The Kids Grow Up
    The small moments loom large in this moving, bittersweet and often funny documentary.
  26. Wild Target
    The script does boast a fair share of zingers, delivered with arch wit by a crack team of professionals.
  27. Jolene
    The tone veers wildly, from wacky indie to melodramatic soap opera. Like the other men in her life, Ireland adores Jolene without entirely understanding her.
  28. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    The Swedish edition, which ends with this bleak finale, is downright grim.
  29. The Taqwacores
    The actual Taqwacore movement is distilled in blatantly simplistic fashion, but Zahra does capture the novel's adolescent excitement, in which a new generation rediscovers rebellion all over again.
  30. Punching the Clown
    Every aspiring performer will appreciate Gregori Viens' unassuming comedy, which cheerfully skewers industry pretensions and media-fueled trends.
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