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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. Darfur Now
    What Darfur Now offers is a collective vision of actions, small and large, taken on many fronts, to end the crisis. The movie is a quiet, methodical call to action.
  2. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    The film is much more than a biography of the Clash’s guitarist and lead singer: It’s history, criticism, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud.
  3. Martian Child
    100 percent goo.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sharkwater
    Mr. Stewart dilutes the movie’s urgency by framing the subject within a “personal journey” format and selling himself as a hunky, sensitive martyr.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Shoemaker
    A triptych of short films set on and immediately after 9/11, A Broken Sole is based on a stage production by its screenwriter and co-producer, Susan Charlotte. One hopes the material played onstage, because it dies on screen.
  6. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Curiously exhilarating. Some of this comes from the simple thrill of witnessing something, or rather everything, done well.
  7. Bella
    If Bella (the title doesn’t make sense until the last scene) is a mediocre cup of mush, the response to it suggests how desperate some people are for an urban fairy tale with a happy ending, no matter how ludicrous.
  8. 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.
  9. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    Man From Plains isn’t about engagement; it’s about disengagement from Mr. Carter’s critics and his more provocative beliefs. It’s also about legacy building.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Music Within
    A bad movie with a good heart.
  11. Rails & Ties
    Everything looks professional if undistinguished.
  12. Saw IV
    Saw IV is bloody proof that Jigsaw may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry.
  13. Slipstream
    For an actor like Mr. Hopkins, disappearing into another character, especially a historical figure, must be a far more unsettling deconstruction of reality than for the casual moviegoer observing the transformation. That is a notion Slipstream might have explored more fruitfully, had it focused its wandering attention span, kept its camera steadier and figured out what it wanted to say.
  14. Lynch
    It’s precisely the worshipful feel of Lynch -- including scenes in which the camera points up at Mr. Lynch from what seems to be the floor, as if it were a faithful dog -- that makes the movie so sweet and so appealing. It’s like watching a schoolgirl crush unfold, through a glass darkly.
  15. Mr. Untouchable
    There is some acknowledgment of the terrible effects of the drug trade on residents of Harlem and other poor New York neighborhoods, but for the most part Mr. Untouchable clings to the standard hip-hop mythology of the pusher as entrepreneur, rebel, celebrity and folk hero.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    30 Days of Night
    The performers have little to do besides spill and drink blood in this tedious, inconsequential B picture. The sun doesn’t rise nearly fast enough.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Comebacks
    The movie’s low aspirations are depressing because its best gags are agreeably demented.
  18. Gone Baby Gone
    One of the graces of Gone Baby Gone is its sensitivity to real struggle, to the lived-in spaces and worn-out consciences that can come when despair turns into nihilism.
    • 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.
  20. Rendition
    A well-meaning, honorable movie. Which is not to say that it is a very good one.
  21. Reservation Road
    This is one of those sadistic exercises that puts its characters through the wringer without saying anything true or meaningful.
  22. Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    The film is sunk by a pervasive stasis, the byproduct not of mood but of the filmmakers’ amateurish abilities. If there’s one thing Nick and Disney know, it’s that youthful entertainment needs to keep moving.
  23. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Although neither Ms. Berry nor Mr. Del Toro can be faulted in their scenery-chewing moments, these star turns make you uncomfortably aware that they are Oscar-conscious auditions for the Big Prize. Their naked ambition subtly contaminates a movie that, despite its fine acting, has the emotional impact of a general anesthetic.
  24. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    Has an offbeat, absurdist charm that turns a potentially creepy conceit into an odd, touching adventure.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Meeting Resistance
    Many interviewees concede that the resistance is both disorganized and decentralized, and imply that some of the fighters are ethnic partisans jockeying for a slice of what will remain should the United States pull out.
  26. O Jerusalem
    Whether on a Middle Eastern battlefield or the streets of New York, characters converse in stilted, expository mouthfuls that smother emotion.
  27. Canvas
    A movie that rings emotionally true, despite structural contrivances and dim, washed-out color.
  28. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    It’s intentionally playful and an inadvertent giggle, an overripe melodrama that’s by turns a bodice-ripper, a cloak-and-dagger thriller and a serious-minded historical drama with dubious contemporary overtones.
  29. Lars and the Real Girl
    It’s part comedy, part tragedy and 100 percent pure calculation, designed to wring fat tears and coax big laughs and leave us drying our damp, smiling faces as we savor the touching vision of American magnanimity. It holds a flattering mirror up to us that erases every distortion.
  30. Sleuth
    The result is that what was once insignificant is now insufferable.
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