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For 7,293 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    God Grew Tired of Us
    Against all odds and historical improbabilities, God Grew Tired of Us is a pleasant, uplifting documentary about genocide and ethnic cleansing.
  2. Happily N'Ever After
    After the first hour or so of strained puns and wisecracks, you start feeling that the sooner the ending comes, the happier it will be.
  3. Freedom Writers
    In the recent "Half Nelson," a similarly themed classroom pic, liberalism struggled to balance its lingering hopes with its systemic despair. That film was pure fiction, yet felt absolutely true. This one is apparent fact, yet seems abjectly false.
  4. Miss Potter
    With its tasteful palette and twee charm, Miss Potter is the china plate of movies, a Peter Rabbit collectible entirely suitable for mounting on the nursery wall.
  5. Pan's Labyrinth
    This is like no movie you've seen before, a haunting mixture of horror, history and fantasy that works simultaneously on every level.
  6. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    While Tom Tykwer's lavish and lively screen adaptation of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is certainly not a stinker, there is something decidedly off about it.
  7. Arthur and the Invisibles
    Arthur and the Invisibles may be a tale for children, but it's got the bad habits of a profligate adult -- the thing borrows shamelessly from its betters and then pretends to be self-sustaining.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Flying Scotsman
    While the world of competitive cycling can be extremely exciting, not every one of its events is captivating. A well-intentioned biopic about Scottish cycling maverick Graeme Obree, The Flying Scotsman is hampered by the fact that its hero earned his greatest renown for riding around and around on a velodrome … alone … for an hour.
  9. Notes on a Scandal
    We're left with the weakest part of the novel -- the lurching and often melodramatic plot -- plus the chance to see two splendid actors, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, do the best they can with what they're given (sadly, in Blanchett's case, not much). Okay, no one would call that trade-off a scandal, but it sure ain't much of a bargain.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Black Christmas
    Lazy, perfunctory and free of tension, the new version will satisfy neither the admirers of the original nor anyone looking for a gory respite from seasonal good cheer.
  11. Children of Men
    Children of Men is a nativity story for the ages, this or any other.
  12. The Good Shepherd
    Where's 007 when you need him? Neither shaken nor stirred, The Good Shepherd is a flat draft of history that looks at the Central Intelligence Agency's early years through the horn-rimmed gaze of a fictional spook.
  13. Night at the Museum
    A fantastic holiday toy that, amazingly enough, doesn't require batteries.
  14. We Are Marshall
    An enjoyable time-waster, distinguished by an unexpectedly sharp comic turn by McConaughey, lots of boisterous horseplay and some stirring emotional clinches. All in all, an entirely serviceable night out for buddies looking to locate hidden feelings.
  15. Venus
    Like similar English comedies, it also teeters on the mawkish.
  16. Curse of the Golden Flower
    This colour-drunk, sumptuous late Tang Dynasty (928 AD) drama is huge on spectacle but as devoid of delight as a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic.
  17. Letters from Iwo Jima
    For all its emphasis on doomed honour and grim death, Letters from Iwo Jima is also sentimental.
  18. The Painted Veil
    The whole affair seems curiously bloodless and often more torpid than torrid.
  19. Rocky Balboa
    Rocky Balboa scores a split decision: A familiar start, some flat-footed middle rounds and a solid, flailing finish. And since Stallone has promised to throw in the towel on the franchise, we'll add an extra half star in honour of his diligence in the gym.
  20. Dreamgirls
    Dreamgirls is one of the best movie musicals in memory.
  21. The Good German
    Here's what's good about The Good German: The look is fantastic; technically, the movie is a retro marvel. Here's what's bad: The script sucks; it keeps promising to be clever, engaging, subtle and completely fails to deliver.
  22. Breaking and Entering
    Minghella is a smart guy with splendid intentions but, ultimately, he's a victim here of his own liberal contrivances.
  23. Charlotte's Web
    It's not exactly radiant, but at least the movie's a little bit humble.
  24. Eragon
    An exercise in competence guaranteed neither to offend the initiated nor to charm anyone else.
  25. The Pursuit of Happyness
    Both Smith and his son are appealing presences, but The Pursuit of Happyness seems to take place in a sociological vacuum. Gardner's insight into his difficulties begins and ends with the thought that, in the pursuit of happiness, there's a lot more pursuit involved than happiness, and unasked political questions seem to dangle ominously over the entire movie.
  26. The Holiday
    For some (okay, me), The Holiday, like the holidays, will require some girding up, and is best met halfway with a self-immunizing smile. Otherwise, the good cheer may ring false; worse, it might even seem to sell love cheap, and lovers short.
  27. Blood Diamond
    The combination of DiCaprio's soulful, self-effacing work in Scorsese's "The Departed," and this unexpectedly complex portrait in a simple-minded movie, make it the best year of his career since the big boat crash of 1997.
  28. Apocalypto
    A lotta woe to sit through, with not much to think about and only one matter to address. After the two hours-plus have sped by with brutal alacrity, all that's left is for the survivors of the bloodbath to hose down and suss out a "new beginning." I'm still searching for mine, but you might have better luck.
  29. Unaccompanied Minors
    Why bother suffering through 90 minutes of bad company for a few moments of holiday cheer? Especially when you can still stay home alone and watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas" somewhere on TV.
  30. Screamers
    If this sounds intriguing, we should add that System of a Down is a lousy live band. And director Garapedian, for all her public-minded zeal, isn't capable of corralling her interviews and opinions into a coherent polemic.
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