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For 12,935 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,626 out of 12935
  2. Mixed: 5,141 out of 12935
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12935
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  1. Something to Cheer About
    The film, which thankfully doesn't wear out its welcome with a scant running time of 64 minutes, is fairly prosaic stylistically. But the admittedly rough-hewn footage of the games is thrilling, and the pride and self-respect instilled in the players by their success is still evident today.
  2. The Treatment
    Best of all is Holm, who is consistently hilarious as the sarcastic shrink from hell.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Day Night Day Night
    Shows tremendous control and discipline, especially for a young filmmaker on her first feature. Director Julia Loktev might be working on a profoundly low budget, but her camera work and lighting are precise and imaginative.
  4. The Wendell Baker Story
    In large part the film succeeds, feeling like a good-natured throwback.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gandhi, My Father
    Khan's work, despite great performances, may not ride the popularity charts, and the film may have to content itself with attracting limited arthouse audiences.
  6. What Would Jesus Buy?
    Despite effective moments, VanAlkemade's film is too diffuse. He gives us snippets of the group's spirited performances, but their effect on audiences remains unclear.
  7. Outlaw
    Brainlessly entertaining action picture.
  8. Anamorph
    There are undeniably arresting moments along the way, thanks to Dafoe's subtly intense performance and the well-crafted visuals.
  9. American Teen
    For all of its access and exposure, American Teen seems skin-deep. It's well shot, with good production values and lots of cool music. But it's fun and facile in much the same way reality TV is.
  10. Sixty Six
    You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy Sixty Six, but it probably wouldn't hurt.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Girl Cut in Two
    Its impact is weakened by a limp ending and a sense that it all adds up to rather less than the sum of its parts.
  12. The Secret of the Grain
    A penchant for suffocating close-ups and an overabundance of scenes that go on far too long mar Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain, an otherwise engaging drama about an immigrant Arab family in France.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    New York
    Although the film is a routine thriller with few surprises, it deserves attention because its topic, even eight years after Sept. 11, is one that many South Asian Americans still take very seriously.
  14. Unmade Beds
    More atmospheric than compelling.
  15. Mammoth
    If one thinks of "Babel" minus the melodrama and histrionics, you get a clearer picture of what Moodysson has done here.
  16. Eyes Wide Open
    The observational detail is impressive and the two men's growing affection is well-drawn but Takerman's depiction of the conventions and strictures of religion and the impulses of two closeted gay men are too understated to achieve universality.
  17. Videocracy
    Morbidly fascinating Swedish doc about Berlusconi's Italy hits the mark.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    3 Idiots
    The film's good points, though, are marred by a slow start and a nerve-jangling soundtrack.
  19. The Ghost Writer
    This is a slicker, shallower exercise. It's hypnotic as it unfolds, but once the credit roll frees you from its grip, it doesn't bear close scrutiny.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blue Beard
    Stylized, pure cinematic retelling of this ancient tale of misogyny will enchant some and bore others.
  21. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    Displaying his usual mixture of broad, sitcom-style humor and soapy melodramatics, it's an entertaining if hokey effort that his target audience will eat up.
  22. When You're Strange
    A must for Doors fans as the film attempts to disentangle the facts from the myths surrounding the legendary band.
  23. It Came from Kuchar
    This is an affectionate portrait rather than a meaningful critical analysis.
  24. No One Knows About Persian Cats
    Of the many performers captured by D.P. Turaj Aslani's highly mobile video camera, an unframed woman singer identified as Rana Farhan is a standout.
  25. Behind the Burly Q
    A love note to '30s-era burlesque that plays best for those already invested enough in the milieu to hang on every word of aged strippers.
  26. Mother and Child
    Some may find the film overly schematic, but Garcia smartly uses three parallel narratives to probe the extraordinary nature of motherhood.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Touching Home
    Despite dialogue devoid of subtext, weaknesses in the screenplay and uneven performances, the story, as rendered, has a disarming innocence.
  28. Cyrus
    Insightful but ultimately ponderous entertainment.
  29. Two in the Wave
    While the film clips are well chosen, it's disappointing that the director often fails to identify the movies from which they are taken.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Raajneeti
    Its adult and hard-hitting subject matter probably won't bring in masala-loving family crowds, but it offers a lesson with long-lasting emotional and moral impact for thinking audiences.
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