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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Happy Together
    Happy Together feels joylessly fussed over.
  2. The Hoax
    An entertaining botch of a movie.
  3. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    By the end of Who Killed the Electric Car? you'll be worked into a lather one way or another. Paine crams in more theories, ideas and arguments than the movie can easily hold, but that's OK with me.
  4. Outsourced
    Simply too bright and pleasant to become a huge hit, but it's a confident little genre film with near-classic charm.
  5. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Crisp, informative documentary.
  6. Wuthering Heights
    This may test your patience, it's not for everyone, it's a stretch to call this "entertainment" and so on. As far as Heathcliff being black – well, deal with it. Arnold's simply right about that one, and it's Laurence Olivier and Ralph Fiennes and all those costume-drama versions of the story that are wrong.
  7. Only Human
    A movie that is never elegant but is often hysterically funny, and maintains a rabbit-on-speed pace that Hollywood comedy long ago abandoned.
  8. 21 Grams
    Uprooted from their home soil, González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga can't quite manage to make this gloomy, improbable stew of romance, film noir and pseudo-metaphysical speculation hang together.
  9. Caramel
    It's a reassuring and delicious film, but in no sense an adventurous one.
  10. Save the Green Planet!
    The best film in the alien attack, conspiracy theory, "Silence of the Lambs" rip-off, disgraced-cop drama, deranged circus wirewalker, anti-capitalist parable genre I've seen this year.
  11. Rampart
    This movie's too small and too dark to have gotten Harrelson into the overcrowded best-actor race, but it's without question one of the year's great performances.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Your Friends & Neighbors
    LaBute has made a comedy this time around, but it's not so much black as simply bleak.
  13. Sacco and Vanzetti
    A bit pedantic, but thorough and interesting throughout, a must for history buffs.
  14. Contagion
    A chilly, fascinating thriller at odds with itself.
  15. Pieces of April
    Although Pieces of April doesn't quite stick together as a whole -- in some places it's conventional and a bit contrived, particularly the ending, which feels rushed and a little tough to buy -- Hedges peppers it with enough wonderful moments that you can't help warming up to it.
  16. Bad Santa
    But Bad Santa does feature one last turn from the late John Ritter as a twittery department-store manager (his name, Mr. Chipeska, is a stroke of brilliance that I still can't quite put my finger on).
  17. Fearless
    There's something grand and enveloping about Fearless.
  18. Cedar Rapids
    Often hilarious, although I found it so amped-up and overly broad that I was exhausted before the movie was over.
  19. At the Edge of the World
    The summer season's most surprising and thought-provoking documentary.
  20. Happy Christmas
    A subtle, witty, wise and deeply compassionate American movie.
  21. Strayed
    It's an impressive, intelligent, compact piece of filmmaking...But Téchiné might be one of those directors whose work is best appreciated by critics and other filmmakers.
  22. Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    Watching a movie about the late trash-TV pioneer turns out to be fascinating, even when his story is told as messily as it is here.
  23. Tears of the Black Tiger
    This is a scrapbook, a happy jumble, of many of the things we instinctively respond to in movies: color, shape, sound and movement, all intensified by heightened emotion.
  24. Inglourious Basterds
    Unwieldy, long-winded, self-indulgently nutso and, in places, very, very boring. It also caps off its two-and-a-half-hour run time with an extended finale – partially orchestrated to David Bowie's "Cat People" theme song, no less – that I could watch again and again with pleasure
  25. Never Let Me Go
    Director Mark Romanek captures the slightly seedy and rundown reality of '70s and '80s British life in astonishing and even tragic detail; this is more like a period piece than a science-fiction movie.
  26. Babel
    I hate to criticize anybody for artistic ambition, but the problem with Babel isn't that it's a bad movie. It's a good movie, or, more accurately, it's several pieces of good movie, chopped up in service of a pretentious, portentous and slightly silly artistic vision.
  27. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Less like a movie than an interpretive-dance piece, with Cage as its lurching, depressed-satyr star.
  28. Unstoppable
    If a movie can be both exciting and boring at the same time, that movie would be Unstoppable an adrenaline-infused runaway-train flick that perfectly distills director Tony Scott's talents and limitations.
  29. Brave
    Moms and girls everywhere deserve this movie, absolutely, and I hope they have a great time. But they also deserve much more, and much better.
  30. Undercover Brother
    A joyful mix of high and low humor, pulled off with style and an eye for glamour (Danielle Hollowell deserves special praise for her costumes; she's the high priestess of fitted snakeskin).
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