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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. Jennifer's Body
    The movie deserves -- and is likely to win -- a devoted cult following, despite its flaws.
  2. Paris
    There are enough intersecting characters from different classes and backgrounds in Paris to evoke the city as a complex, healthy organism, whose parts are all connected. If it is too lighthearted to show the actual political and economic machinery behind it, its celebration of how well that machinery works produces a pleasant afterglow.
  3. The Burning Plain
    Like his scripts for “21 Grams” and “Babel,” this one makes heavy use of happenstance and temporal displacement, and like them, too, it depends on ideas about human behavior that can only be called preposterous.
  4. Disgrace
    Mr. Malkovich is one of the few actors capable of conveying genuine intellectual depth.
  5. Fatal Promises
    It lacks focus and adds little to the awareness of the subject that even a casual follower of the news has already acquired.
  6. Fuel
    If you can resist the urge to run for the exit, you may leave the theater feeling a lot more hopeful than when you went in.
  7. If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans
    It’s like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger’s unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium.
  8. Harmony and Me
    Despite the film’s sketchy aesthetic and barely animate lead, its tone is carefully contrived: I’ll wager no one in your circle is as dryly funny or spontaneously surreal as Harmony’s nonsupport group.
  9. Bright Star
    Ms. Campion, with her restless camera movements and off-center close-ups, films history in the present tense, and her wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense of the word.
  10. 35 Shots of Rum
    In its modest scope and mellow tone, 35 Shots of Rum resembles Olivier Assayas’s "Summer Hours," another recent film by a French director who has sometimes trafficked in provocation and extremity. Both movies embed extraordinary thematic richness within a simple, almost anecdotal narrative framework, and both achieve a rare eloquence about the state of the world by means of tact and reticence.
  11. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    On the spectrum from heroic patriot to craven traitor, this detailed, clearly told and persuasive film, directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, is firmly on the side of heroic.
  12. I Can Do Bad All by Myself
    Mr. Perry has his moviemaking machine running smoothly, which is to say somewhat predictably.
  13. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    Despite excellent stunt work and a too-brief appearance by Orlando Jones as an unflappable cop, the movie -- unlike Mr. Douglas’s hairdo -- never rises above mediocrity.
  14. Not Forgotten
    A lurid yet plodding thriller, bobs to the surface in theaters, most likely to the chagrin of the now very hot Simon Baker.
  15. No Impact Man: The Documentary
    I can’t, in the end (all appearances to the contrary), judge Mr. Beavan or this film too severely. Making an impact is easy. Making a difference is hard.
  16. Sorority Row
    An interminable mess of a film that juggles more characters and undeveloped subplots than it can handle and even manages to bungle the setup.
  17. Donne-moi la main
    Some viewers may enjoy Give Me Your Hand simply as an excuse to gaze at the Carril brothers.
  18. The Other Man
    Muddled little dud of a melodrama.
  19. White on Rice
    Bland and only occasionally funny.
  20. Gogol Bordello Non-Stop
    Choppy, high-energy documentary.
  21. The Painter Sam Francis
    It’s a well-meaning mishmash that wouldn’t pass muster as an episode of “American Masters.”
  22. Skiptracers
    Mr. Mendheim wants Skiptracers to be more than jokey. When the shaggy-dog tales flag, he cranks up the soulful country-rock. But the score, much of it by Langhorne Slim & the War Eagles, can’t change the "Dukes of Hazzard" mood. If Mr. Mendheim wanted heart, he should have provided it the old-fashioned way: in his storytelling.
  23. Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
    The movie develops, as far as it does, through repeated visual motifs, jokes and symbols.
  24. 9
    Every effort to expand the range of feature-length animation beyond the confines of cautious family fare is to be welcomed, and budding techno and fantasy geeks are likely to be intrigued and enthralled.
  25. Crude
    Ahead of us lie many more documentaries similar in tone and spirit to this one. We can hope that at least a few of them are as intelligently and artfully made.
  26. Walt & El Grupo
    What’s really missing here is a story of artistic regeneration: by the time we encounter a dazzling excerpt from the studio’s post-trip film, “Aquarela do Brasil,” we are only reminded of what might have been.
  27. Gamer
    A futuristic vomitorium of bosoms and bullets.
  28. All About Steve
    The concept of an intelligent woman is apparently so exotic to Ms. Bullock and her director, Phil Traill, that they frantically kook the character up, as if female smarts were a kind of disability. This being a contemporary big-studio release, I suppose it is.
  29. Black Dynamite
    As a five-minute clip on YouTube, this spoof might be a small masterpiece. As a feature film, it’s both too much and not nearly enough.
  30. Extract
    What’s most striking about Extract, beyond the scarcity of jokes and absence of actual filmmaking, is its deep well of sourness, which at times borders on misanthropy.
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