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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. Afterschool
    It's both a supremely controlled exercise in form and tone and an intriguing exploration of the ways new technology intersects with age-old questions of dominance, control and individuality, particularly in the school setting.
  2. Stuart Little 2
    Hits every color note just right. It's a visual antidepressant.
  3. Auto Focus
    Kinnear's performance has to be one of the most sympathetic acts of decency one actor has ever extended to another. Crane always wanted to be a real, respectable movie actor. Channeled through Kinnear, he finally gets his wish.
  4. Ever After
    Casting Barrymore as Cinderella is an inspired idea, and a tribute to director Andy Tennant's ability to see through the public's perception of Barrymore to her essence as a performer.
  5. Rabin, the Last Day
    It’s no ordinary movie: Rabin, the Last Day is a disorienting mixture of drama, documentary and meticulous re-creation, and very little of it takes place on the last day of Rabin’s life.
  6. Fast Five
    Fast Five is a fantasy that in no way resembles real life; ordinary morality doesn't apply, and the audience knows that as well as the filmmakers do.
  7. Seven Psychopaths
    The film has moments of real brilliance and pathos; flawed as it is, Seven Psychopaths isn't like anything else you'll see this year, or any other.
  8. Tuck Everlasting
    A neo-vampire movie for tender-hearted preadolescent girls who are afraid of sex. If that's your thing, go for it. But there's something genuinely creepy, and not in the good way.
  9. Dinosaur 13
    This is not one of those Eisenhower-Little Rock moments where you get to feel warm and fuzzy about the power of the state being on the right side of history.
  10. The Informant!
    Not for the first time in his career, Soderbergh has made a mainstream film that is simultaneously a thought experiment.
  11. Crimson Peak
    Here’s the thing about Crimson Peak, which is lurid and ghastly and immensely enjoyable and frequently spectacular and also thinner and less substantial than it wants to be, like a meal eaten in a dream.
  12. The Two Faces of January
    A subtle, underplayed psychological drama with terrific work by all three actors.
  13. Crash
    These interlocking stories don't move along as swiftly or as urgently as they should, and much of the dialogue thumps along on square wheels.
  14. Don Jon
    This is a sweet, lively and funny movie rather than a fully realized one, but it makes clear that Gordon-Levitt has a natural feeling for cinema and should do more of it.
  15. The Eye
    Although I have mixed feelings about The Eye, there's no question the Pangs have a natural talent for cinema. They create bright, unfussy images and work terrifically with actors.
  16. Bend It Like Beckham
    Bend It Like Beckham is supposedly a movie about youth; its biggest shortcoming is that it rarely feels young.
  17. So Close
    Next to the Hong Kong action picture So Close, nearly every Hollywood thriller of the summer looks like an elementary-school project thrown together the Sunday night before it was due.
  18. The Prestige
    The Prestige is a trick box with too many false bottoms. Ultimately, the last one simply gives way -- leaving us with a hole, and a little residual darkness, but not much else.
  19. Family Law
    An alternately charming and frustrating comic entertainment.
  20. Elegy
    While excellent in many technical respects, is a muted, pretty, anesthetic concoction that's never fully satisfying.
  21. Carancho
    Trapero makes naturalistic films with plenty of sex, violence and dark humor; in Carancho you can see the influence of 1950s film noir, the ballsy renegades of 1970s American cinema (especially early Martin Scorsese) and a little touch of the Coen brothers.
  22. SherryBaby
    The wonder of Sherrybaby is that we can admire Sherry's exuberance and evident love of life -- and the extraordinary actress who portrays her -- without really being sure where she's going.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Reviewed by
      Max Cea
    Landline
    With Landline, Robespierre once again proves herself to be one of the funnier filmmakers working. Just as important, she proves herself to be one of the more empathetic directors out there.
  24. Stardust
    Imaginative and intricate, but it's also joyfully casual, maybe to the point of being a little messy in places. But even its flaws work in its favor.
  25. Trembling Before G-d
    By the end of Trembling Before G_d, you desperately wish that at least some of DuBowski's subjects would see the light.
  26. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    An affable entertainment, both a celebration and a satire of lowbrow pleasures.
  27. The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
    An oddly graceful combination of fairy tale and romantic comedy, set in a forgotten corner of the world.
  28. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    May be very much about feelings, but it's made with a drab, juiceless, tasteful efficiency that distances us from the characters instead of drawing us closer to them.
  29. Jackass Number Two
    Part of what makes "ackass Number Two so frighteningly watchable -- even against your better judgment -- is the way the guys delight in one another's bumps, bangs and bruisings: First, they feel one another's pain; then they laugh like hell.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kick-Ass
    With Kick-Ass, there are more cheap thrills, gory explosions and superheroes than a movie geek's YouTube mash-up.
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