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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. Sukiyaki Western Django
    More often there is a frantic, compulsive quality to the action. Fanboy intoxication with the idea of formal ingenuity too often stands in for the thing itself.
  2. College
    Strains to sell itself as one crazy ride (raging parties! hot lesbian sex! bare breasts!), and chances are it won't disappoint those looking solely for unadulterated raunch.
  3. Disaster Movie
    Does little more than congratulate its audience on recognizing the source of its riffs. "High School Musical" -- ha ha ha!
  4. My Mexican Shivah
    Any comedy that can combine death, abortion, Jewish ritual and a mariachi band without curdling into complete lunacy deserves a modicum of respect. In the case of My Mexican Shivah, more would be pushing it.
  5. Year of the Fish
    Packs more sadness than the familiar fairy tale but offers its own fantastical delights. Ye Xian's party dress, made of teardrops, suits her -- and her story -- perfectly.
  6. Traitor
    A somber, absorbing and only moderately preposterous new thriller.
  7. Death Race
    The movie is legitimately greasy, authentically nasty, with a good old-fashioned sense of laying waste to everything in sight -- including the shallow philosophizing and computer-generated fakery that have overrun the summer blockbuster.
  8. The House Bunny
    This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb.
  9. The Longshots
    What makes this one different? Absolutely nothing. (Sure, it's based on a true story, but I mean come on, whatever.)
  10. Hamlet 2
    It all adds up to the kind of bad family entertainment likely to raise only a few eyebrows.
  11. Trouble the Water
    They have created an ingeniously fluid narrative structure that, when combined with Ms. Roberts’s visuals, news material and their own original 16-millimeter film footage, ebbs and flows like great drama.
  12. I.O.U.S.A.
    Equal parts enlightening and alarming.
  13. Momma's Man
    Mr. Jacobs has succeeded at one of the most difficult tasks given a director, which is to make a character come alive through the filmmaking, not exposition.
  14. The Rocker
    Most disappointingly, the music is tepid, mediocre pop pastiche.
  15. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    As a mechanical thrill ride, The Clone Wars has an uncluttered look and furious pace that make it more or less as satisfying as its wildly overdesigned predecessors.
  16. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Although Vicky Cristina trips along winningly, carried by the beauty of its locations and stars -- and all the gauzy romanticism those enchanted places and people imply -- it reverberates with implacable melancholy, a sense of loss.
  17. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    One of the most undermotivated plots in many a moon, the zero-wit, zero-gravity misadventures of Nat, I.Q. and Scooter are embarked on merely because they're bored on their garbage dump.
  18. Mirrors
    A minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja.
  19. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
    Harks back to the drive-in classics of yesteryear with unapologetic nostalgia and undisguised affection.
  20. Henry Poole Is Here
    The film's spiritual deck is stacked. In the mawkish tradition of movies like "Simon Birch," "Wide Awake," "August Rush" and "Hearts in Atlantis," Henry Poole Is Here is insufferable hokum that takes itself very, very seriously.
  21. The Girl Cut in Two
    An erotically charged, beautifully directed story of a woman preyed upon by different men and her own warring desires.
  22. Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    How was this careless, self-destructive human rhythm machine able to outlast almost all her peers? Maybe the vitality of the jazz she made kept her alive. She was one tough lady.
  23. Bachna Ae Haseeno
    An amiable romantic comedy.
  24. Tropic Thunder
    A flashy, nasty, on-and-off funny and assaultive sendup of the film industry.
  25. Elegy
    The problem with Elegy has nothing to do with faithfulness and everything to do with interpretation. The film is an overly polite take on a spiky, claustrophobic, insistently impolite novel.
  26. Beautiful Losers
    Though Mr. Rose can't be blamed for waxing nostalgic, he can't much expect us to care about so fawning and self-serving a document.
  27. Hell Ride
    It's depressingly self-conscious and turgid, and a cast that includes Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Eric Balfour can't drag Hell Ride out of the mire.
  28. Red
    Once Avery's mission assumes a Freudian dimension, the allegory loses its moral force and changes from a meditation on justice, power and inequality into a gory melodrama.
  29. What We Do Is Secret
    The movie offers too little of Crash's justly revered lyricism and too much of his self-mutilation and manufactured chaos.
  30. Last Stop for Paul
    An overall sense that the movie was infinitely more fun to make than it is to watch.
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