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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. P2
    The minor pleasures of P2 lie in the simple effectiveness of the sleekly unshowy direction and the clean, unadorned script, which pares away extraneous distractions like motivation and complicated back stories to get on with the mechanics of tension and the obligatory jumps and startles (which stand in for genuine scares).
  2. War Dance
    Exploitive while it pretends to be empathetic.
  3. American Gangster
    A riveting piece of movie storytelling, mounted with a genuinely epic flair, shot and edited in a no-nonsense, classic style.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Bee Movie
    The riskiest move Seinfeld made was to create an unlikable protagonist who is wrong every step of the way, but treat him like a hero.
  5. Darfur Now
    The kind of movie you're glad somebody had the guts to make, but you don't really want to endure.
  6. Martian Child
    Amanda Peet exudes her patented mix of charm, beauty, humor and smarts as the best friend who may become more than a friend.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Sharkwater
    It may seem strange to contemplate the possibility that sharks are more victim than vicious. Yet after Stewart makes his case you may find them and their cause, as he does, all-consuming.
  8. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    This is an adrenaline-pumping, devilishly well-made thriller set against the downfall of an American family.
  9. Dan in Real Life
    The cozy, lived-in atmosphere created by the ensemble and the unlikely chemistry of Carell and Binoche are so genuine that you wish the rest of the film was just as effortless and authentic.
  10. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    Jimmy Carter documentary is a smug, self-righteous monologue.
  11. Music Within
    The combined efforts of three novice screenwriters fail to give shape to a life that was, although devoted to a noble cause, unexceptional.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    30 Days of Night
    With such a good concept for a vampire movie, it's hard to believe it turned out to be this boring.
  13. Gone Baby Gone
    The story is patently implausible and unnecessarily confusing, and it works to a moral dilemma for its hero -- and a trick ending for the audience -- that resolves the action with so little satisfaction that you wish they hadn't bothered.
  14. Rendition
    The movie is not exciting, original or instructive enough to justify the unpleasant experience.
  15. Things We Lost in the Fire
    The only downside is that Bier's vision of upper-middle-class America does not always seem authentic.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Wristcutters: A Love Story
    This delightful piece of whimsy uses its simple premise effectively to gain and keep our attention and to remind us simply that, while this world appears ordinary, it is still unbounded by reality.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Ten Commandments
    Bad animation and casting make Moses movie a zero, not a Ten.
  18. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    Favors pageantry over substance.
  19. The Final Season
    There are too many unearned runs to fully embrace this underdog triumph.
  20. Lars and the Real Girl
    A sweet little comedy, as easygoing and warmly innocuous as the benign irony of the title.
  21. Sleuth
    At 86 minutes, Sleuth '07 plays like a Cliffs Notes version of the original (which was skillfully adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his own hit play) with far too much of its pacing and delicious texture ruthlessly cut.
  22. Terror's Advocate
    Less a portrait of this controversial man than a touchstone "to trace the history of contemporary terrorism."
  23. We Own the Night
    At its core, it's an exploration of the demands and obligations of brotherly love, staged with honesty, originality and a surprising spark of intelligence.
  24. Control
    Control is director Anton Corbijin's first feature, and he too frequently makes the mistake of falling back on his rock video skills.
  25. The Heartbreak Kid
    It also has been retooled to be a Farrelly brothers comedy, which means most of Simon's wit has been replaced with gags involving S&M cruelty, explicit bestiality, flatulence, nose mucous, people urinating on each other, and foul-mouthed old men (Stiller's father, Jerry).
  26. Michael Clayton
    A spellbinding action-drama, skillfully built upon a scary corporate conspiracy, chock-full of enjoyable downbeat performances.
  27. My Kid Could Paint That
    It's a dissection of how the media found and fed and nurtured the story in their insatiable need for content to fill their news hours and talk shows, how it just as quickly turned on them and transformed the story from celebration to vilification, and how the public turned right along with them.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    The books' magic was rooted in its ties to Arthurian legend and British folklore, grandiose elements which Cunningham and Hodge have stripped.
  29. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    Even without the oral history, this trippy exploration of Cobain's earthy habitations would be worth seeing as a "Koyaanisqatsi" for the Puget Sound area.
  30. Trade
    Though it's ostensibly a thriller, Trade constantly works against the conventions of its genre in a rather audacious way -- finding, for instance, surprising moments of humanity in even the most monstrous of its villains.
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