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For 12,922 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: 6,619 out of 12922
  2. Mixed: 5,136 out of 12922
  3. Negative: 1,167 out of 12922
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  1. Machine Gun Preacher
    One can't escape the nagging feeling that the film doesn't dig deeply enough into its real-life hero. The film doesn't explore all those "whys" and "whats."
  2. Pearl Jam Twenty
    Cameron Crowe's feature documentary is among his most effective and deeply felt work.
  3. My Afternoons with Margueritte
    An appealing coming-of-middle-age comedy, My Afternoons With Margueritte exhibits a pleasantly light touch even when dealing with some fairly weighty issues.
  4. Drive
    So it's a fun, if not exhilarating, ride, one sped along with the help of a wonderfully assembled cast.
  5. Trespass
    A home-invasion flick that grabs viewers by the throat and only stops squeezing long enough to wipe sweat from its palms.
  6. 50/50
    Reiser has written his characters with an indelible sweetness and vulnerability, which allows the cast to deliver performances with some depth.
  7. Position Among the Stars
    An eloquently shot and closely observed documentary about a poor family in modern-day Indonesia.
  8. Straw Dogs
    Whereas Peckinpah managed not only to raise hackles but to get under the skin, Lurie manages only the former, which reduces the material to the level of sensation-mongering.
  9. Silent Souls
    Disquieting and unforgettable, like a good ghost story, this is a special film for special tastes whose admirers inhabit festivals and smaller niche markets.
  10. Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
    Cleverly put together by writer-director Matthew Bate, the film takes a bizarre, cult folktale and turns it into a picture that is more provocative than entertaining.
  11. Happy, Happy
    If it weren't so good-natured overall, Anne Sewitsky's feature debut Happy, Happy might seem entirely implausible, even for a comedy.
  12. Berlin 36
    The film, well made in every way, smartly focuses on an unlikely friendship between Gretel and the athlete who ultimately replaced her -- a high jumper who was later revealed to be a man!
  13. Restless
    The most banal and indulgent of Gus Van Sant's periodic studies of troubled kids, this agonizingly treacly tale comes off like an indie version of "Love Story" except with worse music.
  14. Jane's Journey
    Overall, film hits the right tone, and its brief but fascinating glimpses into Goodall's private life distinguishes it from the many TV docs on the lady.
  15. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
    The film tracks the history of the country, but viewers may feel the documentarian inserts herself too much into the story.
  16. The Mill and the Cross
    If ever a film cried out for the 3D treatment, it's The Mill & the Cross, an ambitious but frustratingly flat attempt to explore, analyze and dramatize a masterpiece of 16th-century art.
  17. I Don't Know How She Does It
    Amusing, but formulaic, romantic comedy.
  18. Killer Elite
    This muscular thriller--led by Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro--strives to be a genuinely good film, but unwilling to let go of proven formulas, it falls short.
  19. The Ides of March
    Classy and professional throughout, the technical work gracefully holds all the threads together.
  20. Moneyball
    The movie does achieve something nearly impossible: Someone who doesn't even like the sport may care about Billy Beane and the 2002 Oakland Athletics.
  21. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    Unfortunately, the R rating will prohibit the target audience -- namely teenage boys who find penis jokes endlessly hilarious - from seeing this relentlessly unfunny and vulgar effort until it shows up on video and cable.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shaolin
    Directed with feeling for its richly layered protagonists, the film is elevated by its emotional complexity but simultaneously dragged down by the relative shortage of propulsive, hardcore action.
  23. The Inheritors
    This is awareness-raising documentary cinema at its most urgent and necessary.
  24. Bobby Fischer Against the World
    Liz Garbus' documentary tells the compelling and powerful story of the late chess prodigy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
    Informative and, especially in its last hour, surprisingly dramatic.
  26. We Were Here
    Director David Weissman brings a rewardingly fresh and personal perspective to the subject.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Kingdom
    Sumptuously clothed in vintage fashion, pop idols Wu and Hsu may bring in a younger crowd otherwise indifferent to the dated subject, but their performances are unimpressive.
  28. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
    This is a film that should be seen by anyone who wants to learn where we've come from as a nation.
  29. Contagion
    The pressure cooker plot calls for intense performances all around but first among equals are Winslet and Ehle.
  30. Shark Night 3D
    The PG-13 film is heavy on scenes of cloudy blood in the water but almost entirely lacking shock shots of flesh torn asunder. (And while marketing relies heavily on bikinis, the movie's light on that kind of flesh as well.)
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