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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 0.9 points 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. Wah-Wah
    The film is so well acted -- by Byrne, who makes Harry's internalized agonies and continuously carried torch for his ex-wife touching, and by Watson and Hoult -- that its more cloying moments, including a staged version of the musical "Camelot" (which is too long), are a moot point.
  2. 13 Tzameti
    The language and the landscape is French, but the sensibility and style is unmistakably Eastern European.
  3. Role Models
    In this brand of comedy, nothing succeeds like excess, and this film is seriously deficient.
  4. The Kite Runner
    Only a qualified success. It suffers in its transition from page to film, and my guess is that its devoted fan base will think the adaptation misses the mark by more than a few inches.
  5. Criminal
    The film is inherently calculated and cold, so smugly satisfied with itself and its surprise final trick that it seems to be running its own con to convince us the script's house of cards is actually substantial, original and slick.
  6. The Green Mile
    A richly textured thriller.
  7. The Jane Austen Book Club
    Swicord has enough savvy to conjure up a terrific cast that compensates for her rote direction.
  8. The Incredible Hulk
    It may be that the Hulk role was not made for sensitive method actors like Norton or Bana. When '70s TV-"Hulk" Lou Ferrigno made his obligatory cameo, a palpable wave of affection swept through the Seattle preview audience.
  9. Hair High
    When Plympton's freak flag flies, Hair High delivers the same whacked-out weirdness of his shorts. The rest of the film simply stretches out the simple premise and marks time between his ideas.
  10. Unlawful Entry
    Unlawful Entry is a heck of a nail-biting suspense piece, and a surprisingly intelligent movie about the paradox of police brutality. [26 June 1992]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  11. Est - Ouest
    Has the sensibility of a Hollywood "woman's picture" of the '40s -- the weepie saga of a married woman trapped in an untenable situation.
  12. My Dog Skip
    It works because it never tries to be more than the very personal memory piece it is.
  13. Enduring Love
    There's something flat and obscure about this well-acted stalker movie.
  14. Lust, Caution
    The perfectly dressed surfaces couldn't be more lovely, but the long fashion show to the finale smothers the emotions under the length and the look, and Lee's insights into the messy feelings that simmer and stew in the hothouse of sex are, frankly, fairly mundane.
  15. Transformers
    It's all about the sheer visceral rush of mega action.
  16. Lower City
    In trying for realism, Machado only achieves dramatic inertness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Best Man
    A delightful, inspiring and ultimately redemptive comedy-drama.
  18. Dogville
    But as an artist, von Trier's contempt for humanity is becoming harder to hide with stylistic flourish. He doesn't even try here, and his arrogance is topped only by his misanthropy.
  19. The War Within
    The film is highly critical of America's counterterrorist efforts, and not at all subtle in making the point that our stupidity and Nazi-like methods have helped create -- and vastly acerbate -- our problems.
  20. Boynton Beach Club
    The movie is funny without disrespecting its characters. But there is a sadness at its heart, because, although the possibilities for romantic happiness diminish after the age of 65, the dynamics of sexual attraction and coupling never change.
  21. The Machinist
    Bale is totally convincing, if not especially endearing.
  22. Glastonbury
    Captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind.
  23. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    The biggest surprise for Miike fans and musical lovers alike is that for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy "Happiness" is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness.
  24. The Emperor's New Clothes
    The film's European locations, sets (in Rome's Cinecitta studios) and photography are unusually striking; Rachel Portman contributes an elegant score; and Holm (who played the emperor once before in 1981's "Time Bandits") embodies the character with an effortlessly regal charisma.
  25. Femme Fatale
    It's hard to call it thrilling -- these aren't characters you actually care about and De Palma isn't as concerned with building tension as playing visual games -- but it sure sparkles.
  26. Them
    A gruelingly dull slog through basic horror-movie conventions, should be dumped in the Seine.
  27. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Carrera's direct, unadorned style has none of the searing imagery or cinematic imagination of "Y Tu Mama," but it bristles with passion, anger and a palpable sense of betrayal.
  28. Overnight
    More than simply a raw-nerve success-gone-sour story. It's a revenge tale, and the directors come out on top.
  29. Signs & Wonders
    Though Signs & Wonders loses its bubbles and runs flat in its anticlimactic final moments, it's far more inventive and demanding than any movie of recent memory.
  30. Everybody's Famous!
    It makes for a sweet and heartwarming story even as it celebrates and justifies the entire ridiculous phenomenon that Deruddere has been spoofing all along.
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