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For 3,654 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Caesar Must Die
Lowest review score: 0 Summer Catch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,408 out of 3654
  2. Mixed: 966 out of 3654
  3. Negative: 280 out of 3654
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  1. Pathfinder
    In a way, it's perfect: You can't imagine anyone seeing this mess and not feeling lesser for the experience.
  2. Perfect Stranger
    Joins the growing list of blandly made erotic thrillers that contain no eroticism, few thrills and fewer likable characters.
  3. Everything's Gone Green
    A bloodless film that aims for wry but leaves you merely asking "why?"
  4. Year of the Dog
    A rough little comedy of tone. White, making his directorial debut, asks if the search for self is still heroic when the discoveries are unpleasant.
  5. Grindhouse
    It's inconsistent fun, and it's a little too layered with self-congratulatory irony to be truly transporting.
  6. The Hoax
    It's all polished and slick and credible, but it never truly engages. Perhaps it's because Irving's story is well-known; perhaps it's because of the script's repetitions and tangents; or perhaps it's simply because Hallstrom himself is ambivalent about his protagonist.
  7. The TV Set
    Weaver is hilarious and horrifying.
  8. Black Book
    The storytelling -- the script is co-written by Verhoeven's old collaborator Gerard Soeteman -- is messy, and the result never feels real or human or vital.
  9. Blades of Glory
    Also fun: tiny characters such as Jimmy's surprisingly helpful stalker (Nick Swardson); the film's final moments, which owe more than a little to "Grease"; and the skating costumes, which take their influence from such cultural touchstones as "Tron."
  10. The Lookout
    If you enjoyed any of Frank's previous work, or thought "Brick" was the bomb, you'll love this.
  11. After the Wedding
    It's a riveting character study/soap opera.
  12. Killer of Sheep
    Having heard tell of its wonders for decades, I found the actual movie less transporting than I'd been led to expect. It's clearly a brilliant debut.
  13. Shooter
    The film has about five endings, each sillier than the next. Before it's over, the business end of that sniper rifle looks kind of inviting.
  14. Reign Over Me
    The good news is that this movie is no "Spanglish;" the bad news is that Sandler's performance is actually better than the material deserves.
  15. Air Guitar Nation
    There are occasional moments of wisdom, drama and emotion, but we never quite forget the blunt confession of one of the founders of the world championship, who admits that the whole thing began as a joke. Psst, buddy: it still is.
  16. First Snow
    If you approach First Snow as a straight thriller, it's not terribly satisfying.
  17. Offside
    Within this simple structure, Panahi manages at once to celebrate and critique his nation's passions, sexual politics, sporting heritage, laws, morality and class system. It's a fictional feature but, like many Iranian films, it feels uncannily real, particularly in its final rousing minutes.
  18. I Think I Love My Wife
    Chris Rock probably has a solid writer/director effort in him. This isn't it.
  19. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    There are moments that stir, and it's always lovely, but it's generally too remote to gain hold of you truly.
  20. American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
    You'll suspect, and even hope, that what's on screen is a hoax, but it seems to be at the very least one version of the truth.
  21. 300
    The movie swings back and forth from awesome to awful so regularly and rapidly that it's like a jai alai match.
  22. The Host
    The Host isn't just a terrific monster movie. This South Korean box-office smash is also a laugh-out-loud comedy and a surprisingly angry political satire.
  23. The Namesake
    Nair takes mostly low-key material about a traditional Indian family raising kids in America and turns it into something sensual, funny and quietly devastating.
  24. Zodiac
    It doesn't break ground like "Seven" or "Fight Club"; it's not a thrill ride like "Panic Room." But it's a mature, thoughtful and full-bodied movie that compensates for the demands it makes with the rewards of craftsmanship, rigor, skill and art.
  25. Black Snake Moan
    A gorgeous, life-affirming movie. On paper, it sounds lurid bordering on ridiculous.
  26. Into Great Silence
    You might not be able to picture yourself in such a life, but you'll be glad that it persists.
  27. The Astronaut Farmer
    The result is a modestly accomplished, modestly agreeable, altogether forgettable film.
  28. Reno 911!: Miami
    By film's end, you've enjoyed a middle-of-the-road episode of the series, basically. And as usual, Deputy Trudy and Lt. Dangle are getting the best lines while about one-third of the jokes hit their marks.
  29. Gray Matters
    Nothing shakes this pathetic attempt at humor from its self-satisfied torpor.
  30. Starter for 10
    If you're inclined toward women of the smart/sly variety, you'll leave with a massive crush on Hall. You might remember her as Christian Bale's long-suffering wife in "The Prestige." Here, she comes off as a sort of college-aged, raven-tressed, human rights-obsessed Emma Thompson, only cooler.
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