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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rescue Dawn
    For the most part, Rescue Dawn is a marvel: a satisfying genre picture that challenges the viewer’s expectations.
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    A sleek, swift and exciting adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s longest novel to date.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hula Girls
    You’ve seen this film many times. It always works.
  4. Interview
    Vaporous and chilled to freezing, Interview lacks a single honest moment, but it does have plenty of diverting ones.
  5. My Best Friend
    A comforting, sentimental tale of a kind that would be insufferably maudlin if made in Hollywood and unbearably affectless if it showed up at Sundance. Somehow it’s easier to take in French.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Reservations
    The emotional details of Kate, Nick and Zoe’s journey are surprising, honest and life-size, and the film’s determination to present their predicament sympathetically, without appealing to retrograde ideals of femininity and motherhood, makes it notable, and in some ways unique.
  7. The Willow Tree
    The Iranian director Majid Majidi’s sad, soulful film The Willow Tree is his second movie to explore blindness and sight on multiple levels.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Them
    The movie is scarier if you know nothing about it going in. It has no larger agenda. It’s not an allegory, a satire or a commentary. It’s just a modestly relentless suspense picture that propels its characters through a series of dreamscapes.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Descent
    Hard to watch but essential to see, Descent is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place.
  10. Rocket Science
    The surest sign of the movie’s integrity is that it resists any temptation to build the story to a climactic debate.
  11. Stardust
    Michelle Pfeiffer is Lamia, as deliciously evil a witch as the movies have ever invented.
  12. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    The kids at my screening loved it. Besides, at its heart, Mr. Atkinson’s movie, a huge hit overseas, speaks in an international language.
  13. Ladrón que roba a ladrón
    An effervescent comedy coasting on the charisma of its stars.
  14. Sunflower
    Like Douglas Sirk without the throw pillows, Sunflower is a shamelessly old-fashioned melodrama performed with such sincerity that resistance is futile.
  15. 3:10 to Yuma
    More likely to be recalled as a moderately satisfying entertainment than remembered as a classic.
  16. The Bubble
    Mr. Fox may be a romantic, but he understands that love is rarely all you need.
  17. Ira & Abby
    Though playing at times like an extended sitcom, Ira & Abby radiates a breathless charm, due in no small part to Ms. Westfeldt’s sharp dialogue and engagingly unmannered performance.
  18. The Last Winter
    Something wicked this way comes in the nifty horror film The Last Winter, crawling through the hallways and howling into the dread night.
  19. The Jane Austen Book Club
    Such a well-acted, literate adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler’s 2004 best seller that your impulse is to forgive it for being the formulaic, feel-good chick flick that it is.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    Laid back and affectionate, “Cheese” is the movie version of a dear friend you could spend all day with.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Game Plan
    The movie is so likable that it glides over its many plot holes... The film’s direction, by Andy Fickman, is raucous but never crass, and the affable Mr. Johnson is committed to every moment.
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  22. The Kingdom
    The result is a slick, brutishly effective genre movie: “Syriana” for dummies. Which is not entirely a put-down.
  23. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    As the latest tribute -- Jim Brown’s loving documentary, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song -- makes clear, he’s still busy, still angry, still hopeful, still singing.
  24. Lake of Fire
    One lesson of Lake of Fire is the galvanizing power of the visual image. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes pictures are not enough.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For the Bible Tells Me So
    There is no denying that the film, however inelegant, fills a need. The inevitable DVD should be packaged in a plain cardboard sleeve, so that viewers can carry it in their pockets and, if confronted by a homophobe, hand it over and say, “Watch this, then get back to me.”
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Out of the Blue
    The director confronts horror without wallowing in it, a strategy befitting a film that’s not about how people die, but how they live.
  27. Dan in Real Life
    Dan in Real Life is neither wildly farcical nor mockingly cruel, but rather, for the most part, winningly gentle and observant.
  28. Canvas
    A movie that rings emotionally true, despite structural contrivances and dim, washed-out color.
  29. Why Did I Get Married?
    More than anything, a Tyler Perry movie is an interactive experience, and Why Did I Get Married? is no exception. At the screening I attended, it was often difficult to hear the dialogue between bouts of enthusiastic applause and shouts of “You go, girl!”
  30. American Gangster
    Greatness hovers just outside American Gangster, knocking, angling to be let in.
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