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For 9,316 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,171 out of 9316
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9316
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9316
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  1. Paris 36
    A little like spending the holidays with strangers. The spirits are high, the relationships are warm, the personal stories have a shared history, and even though you're on the outside of things, you appreciate the people in a remote and perhaps admiring sort of way. Still, when it's time to leave, you're not sorry.
  2. The Song of Sparrows
    Sparrows is a kind of cinematic fable. At times funny, sad, poignant and suspenseful, Sparrows is a showcase for Majidi's masterful storytelling - and Naji's superb acting.
  3. Forbidden Lie$
    It must be fun to make a film about a con artist when the con artist is a full and willing participant, literally going to the ends of the Earth to prove she is the real deal.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tulpan
    A tender, unforgettable comedy about a vanishing way of life.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Goodbye Solo
    Almost frighteningly alive.
  6. Monsters vs Aliens
    The movie is reasonably entertaining, though it helps to be 6 years old.
  7. The Haunting in Connecticut
    Contains so many insults to the audience's intelligence.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Guest of Cindy Sherman
    As soon as Guest of Cindy Sherman ended, I wanted to see it again for its high entertainment value and to determine better what I had just witnessed.
  9. Shall We Kiss?
    An engaging romantic comedy that's deeper, smarter and more pessimistic than it appears at first glance, a film with shrewd insight into the mysteries of human attraction.
  10. Knowing
    If you see only one bad movie this year, definitely make it Knowing. The first major disappointment from director Alex Proyas is a disaster movie, a horror picture, a "Da Vinci Code"-style thriller and an end-of-days religious film all at once.
  11. Sin Nombre
    There are some brief minutes when the tension drops and the story starts to sag, but Fukunaga almost always fills the frame with something worth seeing, and the story has a built-in suspense.
  12. I Love You, Man
    It's a hilarious comedy made even more successful because so much of the satire seems fresh.
  13. Duplicity
    More than confusing. It's opaque.
  14. The Great Buck Howard
    Doesn't allow the story's considerable nostalgia and sentimentality to overwhelm it.
  15. Skills Like This
    This is a slacker comedy with "festival" stamped all over it, so you can bet the consequences will be quirky.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Valentino: The Last Emperor
    At its heart, the film is about the intense connection between Valentino and his business partner of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti, the brains behind the branding.
  17. Sunshine Cleaning
    That Sunshine Cleaning was made by women is best revealed in the filmmakers' willingness to let the story breathe on its own terms, without bringing in anything extraneous, unwelcome and exciting.
  18. The Last House on the Left
    The remake of The Last House on the Left breaks the template, taking the 1972 original into an interesting new direction, with bold camera angles, good actors and a script that heaps on just as much character development as carnage.
  19. The Edge of Love
    Holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it's ultimately not the movie it might have been.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Race to Witch Mountain
    Wow, when Disney misses the "reimagining" mark, it really misses.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Tokyo Sonata
    Kurosawa's film is heavyweight fare: disturbing, slightly over the top, but satisfying, like a rich meal with a powerful aftertaste.
  22. Watchmen
    Part conscious and part unconscious, Watchmen tells us of a world without hope and then makes us wonder if we're already living in it.
  23. Phoebe in Wonderland
    It's a delicate, intelligent movie about modern parenthood and the pressures that children face, and it features a cast of talented actors who were clearly committed to the movie's message.
  24. Everlasting Moments
    Artful filmmaking of the old school.
  25. Fados
    For those who've never before heard fado, Fados will be a revelation - a window into a music that (like blues music) can be poetic, heartbreaking, melodramatic and redemptive, all at the same time.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tokyo!
    An experiment that rarely works this well.
  27. 12
    No matter how bad things get, you can always be thankful for this: You're not on trial for murder in Russia.
  28. Red Riding Trilogy
    One must be very, very, very, very, very interested in Yorkshire, circa 1980, to embrace and enjoy The Red Riding Trilogy. And yet ... there is something to be said for an enterprise this specific and uncompromising.
  29. Crossing Over
    A mess.
  30. Eleven Minutes
    If you're a fashion insider, you may find the entire film fascinating. If you're not, you may find it way too long.
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