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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. Monsoon Wedding
    Monsoon Wedding is going to be a big art-house hit because it's one of those movies that reassures audiences that people in other countries are just like us.
  2. Black Snake Moan
    A wild and sweet little picture about sex, redemption and music, though perhaps not necessarily in that order.
  3. 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.
  4. Hard Ball
    It may follow a formula, but sometimes formula equals comforting routine. And there are times, in the movies and elsewhere, when routine is exactly what you need.
  5. The Road
    Laranas does cultivate a mood of distinctive menace and mystery, not to mention a convoluted and ambitious chronology.
  6. Alice et Martin
    It isn't an entirely successful or satisfying film, but it's far from dismissible.
  7. Wild Canaries
    The 21st-century combo of screwball comedy and half-baked thriller in Wild Canaries isn’t exactly like anything you’ve seen before, and it offers an unpredictable ride that’s kind of fun, or at least sporadically simulates fun.
  8. My Wife Is an Actress
    A light, enjoyable night out. This happens largely because of Charlotte Gainsbourg, who's simply adorable. Attal shoots her with tenderness throughout, a tenderness that comes from familiarity.
  9. Cars 2
    A fun, silly, kid-friendly summer popcorn entertainment.
  10. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    By no means a great movie...the movie is most liable to rekindle warm gratitude for all the pleasure he gave us.
  11. As Good as It Gets
    Appreciate it instead as an exceedingly well-crafted fairy tale, alive with eccentric, overdrawn Dickensian characters and irresistibly wholehearted sentiment, and you'll enjoy perhaps the most accomplished and satisfying work of Brooks' career as a middlebrow entertainer.
  12. Super Size Me
    Super Size Me is exploratory, as opposed to being just numbingly didactic, and that's what makes it so engaging.
  13. Beeswax
    This warm, graceful and fundamentally optimistic movie snuck up on me, in the best possible way.
  14. 10 Items or Less
    It's nice to see a bit of intimate, offhanded moviemaking that focuses on actors, as opposed to stars.
  15. In & Out
    The movie swirls around Kline a little too much -- he's a brilliant comic actor, but he isn't allowed to cut loose as much as we'd like, to show us the slightly loony person we know is lurking beneath this ultrasane. character's veneer.
  16. Bring It On
    Unexpected late-summer treat.
  17. Bluebird
    A delicate and affecting drama with grace notes of mystery and redemption.
  18. Lynch
    Lynch offers a fascinating view of Lynch's irascible personality (and insatiable appetite for coffee and cigarettes), and captures him discussing his formative years in Idaho and Philadelphia, as well as his 30-year involvement with Transcendental Meditation.
  19. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    There’s a freshness and an unjaded quality to almost every scene that makes you want to keep watching.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    City of Angels
    Neither Ryan nor Cage indulges in their usual excesses -- hers a perky, chipmunk vivacity and his a rampant goofiness that's always struck me as disingenuous…doesn't try too hard, doesn't lean on or overexplain its spiritual underpinnings and doesn't push for tears. As a result, it turns out to be pretty effective in drawing them.
  21. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    The picture consists mostly of performance footage of Silverman, which, despite the fact that it's shot on grainy, anemic-looking digital video, is a pleasure to watch.
  22. Ender's Game
    Straightforward, a bit literal-minded, very faithful to the book and largely compelling.
  23. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    Simultaneously dark and sweet, always a difficult combination to pull off. It views its characters with both archness and affection, and even as it lovingly recalls films of another era it insists that the painful awkwardness of youth is perennial.
  24. The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
    It's entirely sincere and genuinely not terrible. Burns knows the milieu of his suburbanized New York Irish-American characters at a bone-deep level (enough to induce powerful flashbacks in someone of my background), and the tone of regretful, tragicomic, low-key melodrama he strikes is just right.
  25. Marley & Me
    Marley & Me gets so much surprisingly right. It may be designed to reach a broad audience, but it doesn't pander.
  26. 9 Songs
    While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its DIRECTNESS is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.
  27. House of Sand
    It's an impressive film, beautifully photographed and marvelously acted. But is it more than a set of undeniably gorgeous affectations?
  28. How to Deal
    Janney's role is smaller than Moore's, but it's hardly insignificant. Moore has youth on her side, and youth is timelessly appealing. But Janney is the bigger, more memorable presence, and she's much more fun to watch.
  29. Change of Plans (Le code a changé)
    Change of Plans may not be earth-shattering cinema, but it's masterfully structured and edited (by Sylvie Landra) with a first-rate cast.
  30. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    May have said more about race in America today than any other movie of last year.
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