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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. L'Enfant (The Child)
    What it lacks is an intensity, a passion at the center...It is, nonetheless, a lovely and often powerful film.
  2. Stoned
    The soundtrack is a mess, with period music out of sync with the period, as when the 1967 song, "White Rabbit," underscores a 1965 acid trip.
  3. Find Me Guilty
    The lack of irony, let alone ambiguity, in an upside world in which mobsters are the underdogs, should sink the film, but Lumet's laid-back professionalism and Diesel's big-hearted performance give it an affable buoyancy.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    She's the Man
    Most of the laughs are due to Bynes, a vibrant young actress with excellent comedic chops.
  5. V for Vendetta
    It's the strangest comic-book superhero movie you're likely to see this year. For anyone looking for something totally different in this most overworked of Hollywood genres, this is it.
  6. Thank You for Smoking
    A sly, smart and very funny caricature of corporate politics and image culture.
  7. Take My Eyes
    Actors Laia Marull and Luis Tosar explore the intricate details of a relationship based on the laws of attraction and repulsion, in which the intellect is repeatedly devastated by primal passion.
  8. Don't Come Knocking
    For all of its minor pleasures, this encore lacks the depth of its conviction.
  9. The Devil's Miner
    It's a simple film with a direct message, but the glimpses of the surrounding social culture that has adapted to the horrors give this Third World "How Green Was My Valley" its identity.
  10. Failure to Launch
    Somehow the screwball concoction does not jell. The stars are pleasant but unexciting, the goofy ensemble has a few moments of hilarity but never catches fire, the laughs are very scattered and the film's title is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  11. The Hills Have Eyes
    Almost 30 years later, it's just as primal.
  12. The Shaggy Dog
    The movie is just this side of terrible. It misses all the charm and fun of the original. Allen's mugging is incorrigibly unfunny.
  13. Ask the Dust
    Farrell is badly miscast as an ethnic Italian with an inferiority complex, the star-crossed love story has very little emotional pull, and even the (heavily CGI-enhanced) period atmosphere ultimately seems rather forced and self-conscious.
  14. Duck Season
    The spirits of Jim Jarmusch and Kevin Smith hover over this breezy slacker comedy set on a comatose Sunday afternoon.
  15. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The results are shapeless, excessively lurid and often unpleasant, with Argento shamelessly vamping the white-trash junkie mother and truck-stop hooker. She apparently forgot whose story she was telling.
  16. Shakespeare Behind Bars
    This unusual journey behind prison bars is not only a plea for the rehabilitation of incarcerated criminals, but a testament to the redemptive powers of art.
  17. Neighbour No. 13
    Though it's rarely dull, first-time feature director Yasuo Inoue has a better eye for intriguing and unusual imagery than dramatic staging, and he illustrates his points long before he runs out of un-endings.
  18. 16 Blocks
    Never quite transcends its origins as a high-concept action thriller, but the clean professionalism of Donner's direction, the low-key turn by Willis and the street-level heroics make it a satisfying piece of genre filmmaking.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aquamarine
    If "Splash" was a movie for grownups and "The Little Mermaid" was a film for kids, it's safe to say that the latest flick to feature a mermaid is aimed directly at those who are neither adults nor children, but rather lost somewhere in that awkward middle zone in between.
  20. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    The film doesn't shy away from the political side of hip-hop.
  21. Merry Christmas
    The overall saga is moving, the performances are first-rate, the production values (which do not rely on the usual cartoonish CGI effects) are strong, and Carion captures the special insanity of stalemated trench warfare with an unusual horrific flair.
  22. Woman Is the Future of Man
    Behind the dry humor is a sense of hollowness in the two men who obliviously fall back into old patterns of reckless, loveless sex without missing a beat.
  23. Our Brand Is Crisis
    Never more than a dull and confused film about Bolivia's 2003 presidential election.
  24. Tsotsi
    A confused and improbable redemption song.
  25. Running Scared
    Writer/director Wayne Kramer's approach to storytelling is to withhold any information that might give away the plot.
  26. Unknown White Male
    While a fascinating subject, Bruce is a bit of a poseur, keenly aware of how he comes across on camera.
  27. Eight Below
    An Americanized remake of the 1983 Japanese movie, "Antarctica," which told the true story of a pack of huskies that somehow managed to survive a brutal winter by themselves at Japan's East Antarctica station in 1957.
  28. Freedomland
    Like most Price movies, it's challenging, engaging and free of the usual thriller cliches.
  29. Battle in Heaven
    Some audiences will find it an endurance test and Reygadas doesn't make it easy with his confrontational imagery, but he provokes emotions not often explored on screen.
  30. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    Bekmambetov's tone is so gravely serious that the drama tends to become arch and theatrical, despite sardonic punches of dark humor. But his imagery is striking (his imagination overcomes his limited budget), his style is assured and he's given the subtitle adaptation a dramatically dynamic dimension by giving the words the presence of an incantation taking physical form.
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