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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 1.2 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. Fearless
    There's something grand and enveloping about Fearless.
  2. Jesus Camp
    It's a glimpse into a world most secular, metropolitan liberals never see, and it's likely to induce howls of both terror and hilarity from big-city audiences.
  3. American Hardcore
    Some of American Hardcore is amusing -- many of the aging punks Rachman and Blush track down have turned into highly ordinary middle-aged Americans -- and some is profoundly disturbing.
  4. The Science of Sleep
    No one who sees it will confuse it with anything else. Fans of Gondry's DIY low-tech aesthetic, which he blends, as always, with exceptionally sophisticated animation techniques, will adore it.
  5. Old Joy
    Old Joy is only 76 minutes long, but it has the contemplative power of Buddhist meditation. Reichardt gives us long, stoned takes of rural roads; shots of birds, insects and slugs in the spectacular Oregon rain forest; interludes with Mark's dog, Lucy. Some viewers may well be bored, or monumentally irritated, by this. I found it masterly, riveting.
  6. The Black Dahlia
    The plot has been greatly streamlined from Ellroy's book, but even so, it isn't any clearer, and the ending, convoluted and barely believable, hits with a thud.
  7. The Last Kiss
    The Last Kiss is more a capable-craftsman film than a work of genuine dramatic insight, but here and there it opens a window onto the terror and wonder of grown-up life, one its characters don't especially want to look through.
  8. Aurora Borealis
    Juliette Lewis makes Aurora Borealis into a funnier, richer, more powerful film than it has any reason to be.
  9. Haven
    A trashy thriller of the kind that used to make up the second half of double bills in crumbling downtown theaters, circa 1977.
  10. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    Sheds some unexpected light on the uneven and still undigested career of one of the most paradoxical artists pop culture has yet produced.
  11. Al Franken: God Spoke
    For me, Franken is funniest at his least guarded and his most incorrect, and as he inches toward becoming a politician himself, we get less and less of that.
  12. Hollywoodland
    Even though Brody works hard -- and he's got those magnificent drooping eyes, which suggest both innocence and a seen-it-all-before weariness -- his scenes don't spark, and the movie drags around them.
  13. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
    Greenwald isn't capable of the magisterial, mournful manner of, say, Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight," but the two films would make a natural double bill.
  14. 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.
  15. Le petit lieutenant
    A flinty, almost hardhearted work about characters who have lost almost everything in pursuit of some undefinable abstraction, like honor or their country or doing the right thing. It's an impressive film, but don't expect any warm fuzzies.
  16. Rolling Family
    Thoroughly wonderful.
  17. Saint of 9/11
    The simplicity and profundity of that faith, and the unquestionable nobility of Judge's death, are well captured here.
  18. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    This new picture will reach only a few devoted American spectators. That's too bad, because once you get used to the apparent flatness and emotional reserve of this picture, it's a sad, slyly comic tale of family trauma and reconciliation that packs a wallop.
  19. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Intriguing and often hilarious.
  20. Bubot Niyar
    Sad, sweet and oddly inspirational.
  21. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
    Burns has accomplished something both remarkable and reassuring. Remarkable because this is a compelling film, blending astonishing historical images with long-winded talking-head interviews, in vintage Burnsian style, and reassuring for almost the same reason.
  22. Beerfest
    Mediocre raunchy comedy.
  23. Idlewild
    Idlewild has just about everything a popular entertainment can offer. It also has a soul, and that comes free with the price of a ticket.
  24. Invincible
    The movie is straightforward in a way that makes it feel less manipulative than it might.
  25. The Quiet
    Babbit is skilled at creating atmosphere and mood, all of it creepy or sodden, and actresses Elisha Cuthbert and Camilla Belle put their hearts into their roles, which are, unfortunately, encased in a sleazoid TV movie of the week tarted up in art-school clothes.
  26. Fratricide
    Fratricide marks Arslan as one of Europe's hottest young talents, drawing simultaneously on the film traditions of America, Western Europe and the Middle East.
  27. Princesas
    Candela Peña is sensational in the leading role, and the film is big-hearted, poetic, sweet, sad and romantic.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    It's not necessarily the drama inherent in these stories that moved some to tears -- and it's possible that some audiences won't recognize the restraint Lee exercised in rendering them -- it's the heartbreaking matter-of-factness with which they're being retold.
  29. Snakes on a Plane
    While Snakes on a Plane barely stands up as a movie, it definitely qualifies as an event.
  30. Accepted
    An absurd little trifle, but it does have a kind of buoyant, punky energy.
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