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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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  1. Eyes Wide Open
    Its scrupulous, humane sympathy gives this small, sorrowful film a glow of insight and a pulse of genuine, openhearted curiosity.
  2. Ajami
    One of the pleasures of Ajami, a tough and in many ways unsparing movie, is its deep immersion in the beats and melodies of everyday life in Jaffa and beyond.
  3. Edge of Darkness
    Edge of Darkness is reasonably well executed, but its competence reeks of fatigue. Another dead kid. Another angry dad. Another day at the office.
  4. When in Rome
    There are dull stabs at verbal wit that leave you baffled, bored or slightly grossed out.
  5. Saint John of Las Vegas
    This disjointed, desperately whimsical film is simply not funny: not for a minute.
  6. For My Father
    Well-intentioned but philosophically timid, For My Father wants to meditate on the moral reshuffling that can accompany imminent death. But the director, Dror Zahavi, is ill served by a screenplay (by Ido Dror and Jonatan Dror) too attracted to coincidence and too repelled by the existential brink.
  7. Off and Running
    The role played by her camera in exacerbating Avery’s natural, adolescent self-absorption continues to nag; in the end, I was less concerned for the wildly indulged Avery -- whose own narration reveals a charismatic and extremely fortunate young woman -- than for the hearts breaking around her.
  8. North Face
    Transfixing in the way that well-told life-and-death adventure tales inevitably are. It is the film’s more mundane elements -- an awkward, under-nourished love story and half-baked politics -- that are problematic.
  9. Still Bill
    Much of the biographical documentary Still Bill pleasant and even moving.
  10. Legion
    The leaden dialogue and flat-footed storytelling hobble a talented cast.
  11. Extraordinary Measures
    The storytelling and the visual style are rarely more than workmanlike, and the big scenes arrive punctually and are played with minimal nuance.
  12. The Girl on the Train
    The film can be described as a character study or a fictionalized slice of terribly real life. Mostly, though, it is an inquiry into the mysteries of other people.
  13. Soundtrack for a Revolution
    It’s the kind of film that will have audiences clapping and singing along. And why not? The images and stories may be familiar, but it’s history worth retelling.
  14. Creation
    What we see on screen is a lumbering, flat-footed fancy-dress melodrama.
  15. To Save a Life
    The film would be a mere nuisance if not for its shameless exploitation of school shootings to advance its agenda.
  16. Tooth Fairy
    Watching the first half-hour of Tooth Fairy is like reaching into a grab bag of novelties, as the movie unveils its tricks... After that, the wit more or less evaporates, replaced by bloated sentimentality and clumsy plot exposition.
  17. The Paranoids
    Just like its main character, this smart, slyly witty movie with few laughs undersells itself.
  18. Room and a Half
    Despite its moments of pathos and its expressions of homesickness, A Room and a Half, is an uplifting comedy. Like Fellini’s screen reminiscences, it is suffused with a hearty appreciation of the world’s absurdity, along with a hungry appreciation of its beauty.
  19. Pop Star on Ice
    One part hagiography and two parts psychotherapy. Together they showcase a talent both formidable and erratic, its bright and shining peaks sliding inexplicably into valleys of disaster.
  20. House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic
    Trafficking in irresponsible inferences and unsupported conclusions, the filmmaker Brent Leung offers himself as suave docent through a globe-trotting pseudo-investigation that should raise the hackles of anyone with even a glancing knowledge of the basic rules of reasoning.
  21. The Book of Eli
    The movie keeps you watching and generally engaged.
  22. Fish Tank
    The contradictions of adolescence have rarely been conveyed with such authenticity and force.
  23. The Spy Next Door
    The outtakes are not all that great but still better than anything else in the movie.
  24. 44 Inch Chest
    Think of 44 Inch Chest as a piece of chamber music and you can compensate for the thinness of its story and the lack of visual distinction.
  25. Daybreakers
    The narrative may flag, but the doomsday atmosphere and George Liddle’s production design remain vivid until the final, blood-splattered reel.
  26. Youth in Revolt
    Sweet and slight and often charming coming-of-age tale.
  27. Leap Year
    What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction -- so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense.
  28. Waiting for Armageddon
    Respectfully and without dramatization (the ideas are electric enough), the directors observe a cross section of articulate evangelicals and accompany a Christian group on a revealing trip to Israel.
  29. Wonderful World
    The major miscalculation in Wonderful World is the presence of a dream figure, known as the Man (Philip Baker Hall)...he throws this delicate, intelligent film, which at its best suggests a muted hybrid of “The Visitor” and “It’s a Wonderful Life,” off balance.
  30. In Search of Memory
    It is an engrossing portrait all the same, a generous introduction to someone worth knowing, who knows an awful lot.
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