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For 1,070 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Frost/Nixon
Lowest review score: 0 Gigli
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 709 out of 1070
  2. Mixed: 172 out of 1070
  3. Negative: 189 out of 1070
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fido
    With its use of aggressively cheerful hues that are equal parts Technicolor and Tim Burton Candyland, Fido is a "boy and his dog" movie thrown into a horror movie blender. This is perfectly realized in a jaw-droppingly funny "Timmy's trapped in the well" sequence that almost seems like it could have been made in the 50s had George Romero ever worked on "Lassie."
  2. Pieces of April
    A modestly scaled film on every level, but Hedges and company manage to ring true on almost all the material's sweet and sour notes.
  3. District B13
    If you've been disappointed by the recent rash of mediocre blockbusters, District B13 may provide some of the mindless fun you're looking for.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fearless
    Despite some amusing jabs at America's influence on traditional China, this film leaves even this American viewer feeling oddly patriotic (or maybe just wishing she lived in China.)
  5. Lars and the Real Girl
    Lars's attraction to Bianca is like an audience's to an actor onscreen -- the object is fake, an approximation, but for some that's better than flesh and blood. Bianca is a work of art. And so is Lars and the Real Girl.
  6. Thumbsucker
    The movie has a lot of good bits and terrific performances, including a too-perfect Keanu Reeves as a mystic orthodontist.
  7. Babel
    While you can never completely put the fact that you are watching Pitt and Blanchett out of your mind, they both give charged, emotional performances.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Those expecting a return to the depravity and menace of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 notorious original will be disappointed.
  9. Girlhood
    Documentarian Liz Garbus masterfully turns her minimalist camera's eye on young girls institutionalized at the Waxter Juvenile Facility near Baltimore.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Revolutionary Road
    Revolutionary Road isn't emotionally engaging or moving; it's awfully similar in theme to Winslet's 2006 movie "Little Children."
  11. Live Free or Die Hard
    An unexpectedly retro throwback to '80s actioners and '90s hacker movies, totally preposterous in both its heroic near-death escapes and abstract tech-jargon explanations for how anyone with geeky inclinations can remotely override any computer system with a few easy keystrokes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cooler
    Driving the plot, Baldwin gives an inexorable, career-marking performance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Duplicity
    Even the great cast didn’t make following the convoluted plot any easier. And all that jumping around makes the film feel a lot longer than it is.
  14. The Painted Veil
    If The Painted Veil ultimately lacks some of the novelty and ambition of the year's best pictures, it still ranks as one of 2006's quiet gems.
  15. Joshua
    One of the most diabolical things about this psychological thriller is just how open to interpretation it is.
  16. The Last Winter
    A richly drawn, ambitious character piece both socially relevant and genuinely suspenseful.
  17. The Bank Job
    The suspense aspect works like mad, but what's also noteworthy is the character component, which at times evokes a "Smash Palace"-era Donaldson.
  18. Redbelt
    For whatever its flaws, Redbelt offers up a good deal of Mametian red meat while also trying to break out of some of the strictures that Mamet's erected around his own work.
  19. Chicago 10
    The courtroom scenes are the animated ones…and said animation looks rather cruder than your average PS3 game.
  20. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    Although this installment is a beautiful stand-alone thang (check out how its chronology-juggling storyline creates a perfect circle, structure-wise).
  21. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, most intriguingly, nails what makes video games so much fun.
  22. Crazy Love
    Directed with little flair, a one-sided perspective and a questionable sense of moral responsibility by Dan Klores (his negligent lack of an editorial voice in the couple's lunacy reeks of train-wreck exploitation), Crazy Love is a disturbingly captivating tabloid horror, but that's not Klores' doing.
  23. The Cuckoo
    The film has its charm, mostly found in its lead characters, who engage in harmless hijinks due to their language and cultural differences.
  24. Monsieur Ibrahim
    With the careful timing and nuance of a master actor, Sharif turns a two-dimensional sketch into the film's most absorbing character.
  25. Infamous
    Understanding what McGrath is trying to pull off is not the same thing as McGrath pulling it off; as ambitious as it is, Infamous falters in execution too often to create a lasting impression.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    North Country
    There is something almost reverential about the way director Niki Caro shoots the winding roads leading into Minnesota's North Country mining community, just before dismantling all of it piece by piece.
  27. A Housekeeper
    Understated, quietly amusing, and steadily paced.
  28. The World's Fastest Indian
    A sweet, watchable little film.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Monster House
    Smaller kids might find the movie too intense at times, especially when DJ, Chowder, and Jenny find themselves literally in the belly of the beast. But everyone else should enjoy a good, goosebumpy scare.
  30. Shaolin Soccer
    Comedy-action lunacy of a truly high, and endlessly bizarre, order.
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