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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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    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Reservations
    The emotional details of Kate, Nick and Zoe’s journey are surprising, honest and life-size, and the film’s determination to present their predicament sympathetically, without appealing to retrograde ideals of femininity and motherhood, makes it notable, and in some ways unique.
  2. The Simpsons Movie
    The Simpsons Movie, in the end, is as good as an average episode of "The Simpsons." In other words, I’d be willing to watch it only -- excuse me while I crunch some numbers here -- 20 or 30 more times.
  3. This Is England
    A modest, near-flawless gem, This Is England is the fifth feature by the young British director Shane Meadows, doing his best work since he first hit the festival scene in the mid-1990s with his hilarious, raw-hewn shorts “Small Time.”
  4. Who's Your Caddy?
    There’s probably more wit and pointed social commentary in the average four-minute OutKast song than in the entirety of Who’s Your Caddy?
  5. Arctic Tale
    The movie’s stunning underwater photography (fearlessly captured by Mr. Ravetch) effectively dilutes the saccharine tone.
  6. The Devil Came on Horseback
    Brutal, urgent, devastating -- the documentary The Devil Came on Horseback demands to be seen as soon as possible and by as many viewers as possible.
  7. The Sugar Curtain
    A pensive valentine to literacy programs and childhood idealism left in the ashes of broken families and an economically bifurcated society.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cashback
    Cashback suggests a “Malcolm in the Middle” episode directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The hero’s pained, hilarious childhood flashbacks deserve a much better movie.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Goya's Ghosts
    An unwieldy mix of political satire and lavish period soap opera.
  10. Hairspray
    The overall mood of Hairspray is so joyful, so full of unforced enthusiasm, that only the most ferocious cynic could resist it.
  11. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    Sporadically funny, casually sexist, blithely racist and about as visually sophisticated as a parking-garage surveillance video.
  12. Sunshine
    A first-rate, seemingly sweat-free entertainer, Mr. Boyle always sells the goods smoothly, along with the chills, the laughs and, somewhat less often, the tears. He’s wickedly good at making you jump and squirm in your seat, which he does often in Sunshine, but he tends to avoid tapping into deep wells of emotion.
  13. Live-In Maid
    Modest in scope, but it feels complete, fully inhabited, in a way that more overtly ambitious movies rarely do.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hula Girls
    You’ve seen this film many times. It always works.
  15. Interview
    Vaporous and chilled to freezing, Interview lacks a single honest moment, but it does have plenty of diverting ones.
  16. My Best Friend
    A comforting, sentimental tale of a kind that would be insufferably maudlin if made in Hollywood and unbearably affectless if it showed up at Sundance. Somehow it’s easier to take in French.
  17. Talk to Me
    The result is a movie that offers uplift without phoniness, history without undue didacticism and a fair number of funny, dirty jokes.
  18. Tekkonkinkreet
    Demands to be seen, if only for its beauty.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time
    Mr. Kim flips between soapy melodrama and dry, self-aware comedy. The effect is thrilling and disorienting, like walking on a trampoline.
  20. Captivity
    The movie has been thoroughly eclipsed by "Captivity" the marketing.
  21. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    A sleek, swift and exciting adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s longest novel to date.
  22. Drama/Mex
    Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what.
  23. Dynamite Warrior
    Chalerm Wongpim keeps it all moving along at such a clip that you’re more likely to leave the theater smiling than yawning.
  24. Joshua
    Poised self-consciously between art and entertainment, Joshua offers imaginative staging and some superb performances.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Method
    The sum total of this gamesmanship is a suspenseful, funny film that touches on a corporation’s responsibility to society, the price of ambition, the persistence of workplace sexism, the destructive competition between women, and why it’s a good idea to take an extra shirt to your next interview.
  26. Introducing the Dwights
    A funny-sad, icky-sweet comedy of family dysfunction.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rescue Dawn
    For the most part, Rescue Dawn is a marvel: a satisfying genre picture that challenges the viewer’s expectations.
  28. Transformers
    A movie of epically assaultive noise and nonsense.
  29. License to Wed
    The only thing that kept me watching License to Wed until the end (apart from being paid to do so) was the faith, perhaps misplaced, that I will not see a worse movie this year.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Fifth Empire
    Mr. Oliveira’s script talks itself hoarse, but his images sing.
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