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For 20,335 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: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. November
    In the same way that a crossword puzzle tickles the mind without asking to be taken as literature, November plays games for the sake of game-playing. It also has a pretentious streak.
  2. Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen
    In the main, Mr. Palm sticks to the usual biopic formula: a chronological account of a heroic individual told through talking heads, still photographs and film clips. Mr. Palm's principal deviation from this formula is that some of the interviews take place in moving cars.
  3. Oyster Farmer
    This darkly humorous, sometimes even raunchy film mostly eludes a typical cutesy, feel-good formula.
  4. The Skeleton Key
    One of the most enjoyably inane movies of the season, this faux Southern Gothic offers an embarrassment of geek pleasures.
  5. The Baxter
    In the end, The Baxter is a Baxter of a movie: well meaning and mildly likable, but unlikely to sweep you off your feet.
  6. Formula 17
    More interested in romance than sex, Formula 17 swoons with youthful innocence.
  7. Transporter 2
    Purely shallow but never dull, the film wisely pushes the limits of absurdity to the extreme, making it easier to submit to its sheer camp.
  8. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Though specializing in confrontational, caustic and often raunchy humor, Ms. Cho has a relaxed and playful stage presence.
  9. HellBent
    Because more time is dedicated to crafting authentic, sympathetic characters than the average horror movie, it's easier to overlook the film's often-corny dialogue and so-so special effects.
  10. The Future of Food
    Quietly inflammatory film.
  11. Cry_Wolf
    First-time screenwriters Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman prove more adept at staging mind games than creating chills and thrills for the audience.
  12. Just Like Heaven
    It's not heaven, exactly, but after the purgatory of the late summer movie season, it may be close enough.
  13. Separate Lies
    The movie is so busy constructing its labyrinthine plot that it often forgets to plumb the souls of its characters.
  14. Dorian Blues
    With some gentle humor that will delight the "Napoleon Dynamite" set, Dorian Blues lights a natural little footpath between two ways of living.
  15. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    The film is an unabashed promotion for space exploration.
  16. Going Shopping
    Going Shopping, like Mr. Jaglom's other movies, has enough smart, knowing touches and enough easy spontaneity among its well-chosen actors to make you wish it added up to more than what it turns out to be: a flighty, motor-mouthed cinematic divertissement.
  17. Little Manhattan
    Small-scale, perfectly acted family film.
  18. The War Within
    The War Within succeeds only as a thriller with some wartime overtones, rather than as a character study that thrills.
  19. Once Upon a Time in the West (re-release)
    The biggest, longest, most expensive Leone Western to date, and, in many ways, the most absurd... Granting the fact that it is quite bad, Once Upon the Time in the West is almost always interesting, wobbling, as it does, between being an epic lampoon and a serious hommage to the men who created the dreams of Leone's childhood. (Review of Original Release)
  20. Never Been Thawed
    Propelled by astute, straight-faced performances, it succeeds in stirring up some maniacal laughs.
  21. Zombie Honeymoon
    Leisurely paced and never truly engaging or frightening (beyond the fear commitment-phobes may experience), this low-budget film, shot on high-definition video, looks cheap, but makes up for it in part with solid performances (especially Ms. Coogan's) and capable direction by Dave Gebroe, whose script is infused with some wickedly funny lines.
  22. North Country
    That the film works as well as it does, delivering a tough first hour only to disintegrate like a wet newspaper, testifies to the skill of the filmmakers as well as to the constraints brought on them by an industry that insists on slapping a pretty bow on even the foulest truth.
  23. The President's Last Bang
    Tight, sober and strangely comical.
  24. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Follows a formula, but the formula, when applied with skill and intelligence, as it is here, is pretty much foolproof.
  25. White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
    Although too compressed by half, the film manages to recreate what, at one point, the hectoring narrator will call an "archaeology of repression."
  26. The Roost
    The Roost proceeds with such youthful enthusiasm that its rawness is more charming than annoying.
  27. Prime
    All of this makes the movie pleasant, but not very memorable - a pale mirror image of "Shopgirl," which touches on some similar themes.
  28. The Weather Man
    Neither the screenplay nor the direction has the requisite depth to turn the banality of one unremarkable life into the stuff of Chekhov, much less of Mr. Payne.
  29. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Ms. Silverman is a skilled performer, and Jesus Is Magic is occasionally very funny, but don't be fooled: naughty as she may seem, she's playing it safe.
  30. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    The unabashedly sentimental film is a juicy morsel for the great British actress Dame Joan Plowright, who endows Mrs. Palfrey with stoic charm and decency.
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