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For 2,129 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 One Battle After Another
Lowest review score: 0 15 Minutes
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,156 out of 2129
  2. Mixed: 747 out of 2129
  3. Negative: 226 out of 2129
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  1. Thumbsucker
    The parents are the casualties of Mills' misplaced sincerity, which makes Thumbsucker the quintessential misadapted head-scratcher.
  2. The Man
    Passable--just.
  3. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The acting in this movie is unusually bad--atrocious, even.
  4. The Constant Gardener
    Is Fiennes miscast? Perhaps. He's a high-strung, somewhat clammy actor--not the first to spring to mind for this warmly self-effacing plodder. But he's remarkably fine.
  5. The Brothers Grimm
    Like a lot of Gilliam's movies it's too overloaded--antic, indulgent, overdesigned--to get off the ground for more than a minute or two at a stretch.
  6. Eternal
    Turns out to be semi-enjoyable, semi-tacky retelling/updating of the old Elizabeth Bathory legend.
  7. The Memory of a Killer
    A gratifyingly slick and fast-moving Flemish thriller, directed by Erik Van Looy, with superb acting.
  8. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Too long, too sexist, and too--shall we say--flaccid. But it has its moments.
  9. Red Eye
    A minimalist exercise in maximalist suspense.
  10. Valiant
    Given all its World War II references and parodies, the best audience for Valiant would be addled, octogenarian ex-RAF pilots in the old folks' home.
  11. Reel Paradise
    Overlong at nearly two hours but still a sharp and amusing and subtle piece of filmmaking.
  12. Asylum
    McKellen's actions are queerly unpredictable (pun intended), but every plot other twist is portentously foreshadowed.
  13. Grizzly Man
    Makes for quite an emotional roller-coaster ride. You don't know whether to celebrate or mock, to laugh or weep.
  14. The Dukes of Hazzard
    A decent-enough rambunctious Southern-drive-in sort of time-waster, missing only the bare boobs that would make it the perfect socially irresponsible sexist entertainment for rednecks and uptight liberal elites who'd like to live the country-boy dream for a few hours. (Howdy, y'all!)
  15. Broken Flowers
    The ending is madly unsatisfying--yet dead perfect. This is a remarkable film.
  16. Duma
    It's rich, but slow, and children younger than eight (like mine) might get restless. But this big kid was lost in admiration.
  17. Junebug
    It's hugely entertaining, it's spectacularly acted, and it pricks you in all kinds of places. Maybe the best thing is to see it and let it bug you, too.
  18. The Aristocrats
    There is a special kind of pleasure in hearing jokes that have no redeeming social value. I'd like to think that this IS their social value-an invitation to free the mind.
  19. Hustle & Flow
    Howard might be a major actor. His DJay, though, is a major character in search of a major author.
  20. The Island
    There is nothing wrong with the action sequences beyond their sheer length and number. They're in the "Road Warrior" mode: hyper-fast and vicious.
  21. Bad News Bears
    Wholly unnecessary but highly enjoyable.
  22. 9 Songs
    9 Songs could have been "Last Rock Show in London." Unfortunately, it's stupefyingly dull, even with good music and at the short but resonant length of 69 minutes.
  23. Last Days
    An extraordinarily potent brew.
  24. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    This is a dazzling movie, yet some people (not kids, but maybe their parents) will be put off by its Grand Guignol ghoulishness.
  25. Wedding Crashers
    The script by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher is one of those high-speed, ping-pong-banter marvels in which you're still laughing from the last great line when you're hit by the next.
  26. Dark Water
    Salles brings an explorer's eye and breathless curiosity to this fetid milieu, and he gets the most brilliant performances imaginable for this sort of movie.
  27. Fantastic Four
    An overinflated B-movie with no grace, no subtext, no wit, and featuring beefcake/cheesecake actors who look like they've been plucked from the soaps.
  28. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    Audiard's take is fevered, immediate, and hopeful--a story of a man recovering his soul. The most intense and compelling sections of The Beat are almost word for word from "Fingers" (albeit translated into French), but this beat changes everything.
  29. War of the Worlds
    It's the human struggle that makes this a sci-fi masterpiece.
  30. Bewitched
    Using R.E.M.'s impassioned "Everybody Hurts"--written by Michael Stipe after the suicide of Kurt Cobain--to underscore shots of Kidman and Ferrell feeling blue about their inability to pair off is an aesthetic crime. The Ephrons should be fined and forced to do a few hundred hours of community service.
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