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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Science of Sleep
    It's this edge that saves The Science of Sleep from its own whimsy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Old Joy
    A precise, subtle and emotionally affecting portrait of the fraying friendship between two men, director Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy is an increasingly rare sort of American independent film: It aspires to be something other than a Hollywood movie with less money.
  3. The Black Dahlia
    Film noir is a style, but self-conscious film noir is just a stylistic tic, less a genre than an ailment. And The Black Dahlia has got a really bad case -- this thing is so mannered it convulses.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everyone's Hero
    Some films, like "Shrek," "The Incredibles" and "Finding Nemo," manage to strike the right balance. Others, like Everyone's Hero -- opening today -- do not.
  5. Gridiron Gang
    If you like your sports movies, especially your football movies, larded with more clichés than a politician's stump speech, Gridiron Gang begs to be seen.
  6. The Last Kiss
    Actor-turned-director Tony Goldwyn elicits solid performances from the cast, then undercuts them by resorting to a trite montage or a clunky set-piece, inevitably scored with an obtrusive rock tune telling us what to feel and when to feel it.
  7. Confetti
    With barely a laugh to be found, Confetti takes the "mock" right out of the mockumentary, and you can guess what's left. Yep, a Umentary, a brand new genre best defined by what it's not -- not real like a doc, not funny like a mock, not this thing or that thing or much of anything.
  8. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    Speaking as one of the mourners, did I mention how pleasant it is to revisit footage of John Lennon? And to listen to his music which, in this case, comes either in taped performances or laid onto the soundtrack, no fewer than 40 songs drawn almost exclusively from the post-Beatle, pro-Ono phase of his career.
  9. Keeping Mum
    Black comedy often asks viewers, in exchange for the hilarity, to suspend their moral objections along with their disbelief...Here, we keep our part of the bargain only to be cheated of our payoff.
  10. Hollywoodland
    This summer has given us two Supermen to choose from in our own distemperate times: "Superman Returns" was for the starry-eyed idealists, Hollywoodland is for the bleary-eyed cynics.
  11. The Protector
    The movie is a series of ever more elaborate fight sequences and increasingly more and larger opponents.
  12. Crank
    So blatantly contrived it could be called The Fast and the Spurious, Crank has the small saving grace of being intentionally ridiculous. The action sequences are more notable for their outrageousness than their visceral power.
  13. The Wicker Man
    The Wicker Man is one of those "what were they thinking?" movies.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mutual Appreciation
    What's so fresh about Mutual Appreciation is how acutely it represents the social rituals of today's post-collegiate types.
  15. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    My mood kept fluctuating, as did my reaction when the end credits rolled: This is seriously lovely; this is fluff; this is seriously lovely fluff.
  16. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Gets under your skin as another thought-provoking wake-up call about the power of studios and the corporations that back them.
  17. Beerfest
    Beerfest is safety-by-numbers comedy. A troupe, as opposed to a single comic star like Adam Sandler, shares the comic load and, well, at least the film is funnier than "Click."
  18. Idlewild
    Artistic originality is not so common a commodity that you can afford to get too fussy about the details.
  19. How to Eat Fried Worms
    How to Eat Fried Worms arrives just in time to placate preteen boys who resent being unable to see the frankly more adult though equally immature "Snakes on a Plane."
  20. Invincible
    Despite its title, the movie admirably sticks to its game plan of ennobling the everyman as opposed to turning Papale into some kind of Superman.
  21. The Quiet
    Characters already too wicked to be credible start doing stuff simply too stupid to be believed, with no help from a cast way too overmatched to be useful.
  22. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    The same didactic instincts that sometimes mar Lee's fictional filmmaking serve him well as a documentarian and eulogist, both with Four Little Girls and this film, a record of the worst natural disaster in American history.
  23. Snakes on a Plane
    There is also a capable, wisecracking stewardess (Julianna Margulies) and, what a surprise, a steward who appears to be doing a Paul Lynde impersonation.
  24. Accepted
    The humour in Accepted is maddeningly safe.
  25. The Illusionist
    For a film meant to float on a gossamer veil of mystery, The Illusionist falls -- make that flops -- with quite the heavy thud. It's an intended piece of magic that plays like a ponderous slab of melodrama, sleight of hand gone ham-handed.
  26. Factotum
    Embracing such depths, Bukowski somehow made his art. Simulating them, Factotum just makes us queasy.
  27. Trust the Man
    A botched adult romantic comedy that strands its leading player, and its audience, in a wearying, sitcom-slight battle of the sexes.
  28. Conversations with Other Women
    For once, the gimmick is a perfect reflection of the characters.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Pulse
    Tedious, baffling and ultimately laughable.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Step Up
    Until the movie stumbles under the weight of its noble intentions and its tediously formulaic story, it delivers a few lively, well-shot dance sequences and some winning moments.
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