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For 20,323 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: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. 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.
  3. Ratatouille
    A nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film. It provides the kind of deep, transporting pleasure, at once simple and sophisticated, that movies at their best have always promised.
  4. Sicko
    Sicko is the least controversial and most broadly appealing of Mr. Moore’s movies. (It is also, perhaps improbably, the funniest and the most tightly edited.) The argument it inspires will mainly be about the nature of the cure, and it is here that Mr. Moore’s contribution will be most provocative and also, therefore, most useful.
  5. Evening
    Doesn’t seem as if it would translate easily to the big screen. It hasn't.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    One to Another
    The notion that French cinema consists mainly of pretentious soft-core pornography is an ignorant cliché, but One to Another does little to disprove it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vitus
    The triumphant musical cues and comic double takes encourage us to cheer Vitus's high jinks as if he were Ferris Bueller's ivory-tickling kid brother.
  8. Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
    Mixes method and madness to chart the evolution of a counterculture phenomenon.
  9. Falling
    It’s a theme as familiar as life. The five women, all perfectly cast and almost perfectly played.
  10. Live Free or Die Hard
    Bruce Willis is ready to earn our love again by performing the same lovably violent, meathead tricks as before.
  11. Ghosts of Cité Soleil
    In spite of occasional gestures in the direction of political or sociological context -- interviews with anti-Aristide activists, news images of battles beyond Cité Soleil -- Mr. Leth is not, in the end, much concerned with offering an analysis of the Haitian situation. Like Lele, he'd rather have a party with the thugs.
  12. In Between Days
    Sensitive, modest, thrillingly self-assured first feature by So Yong Kim, was one of the standouts of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival -- exactly the kind of thoughtful, independent work one hopes to find there and too rarely does.
  13. Over the GW
    A disturbing look at reprogramming that masquerades as rehabilitation. Having been forced to drink the Kool-Aid, Mr. Gaglia has produced a work that's as much an act of emesis as of filmmaking.
  14. 1408
    The movie is most effective in its early scenes of prickly menace, and while the Dolphin is no Overlook (the haunted hotel in "The Shining"), its old-world creepiness is exactly right.
  15. Evan Almighty
    A movie far less interesting than its premise. It is also slightly less interesting than its hugely popular predecessor, "Bruce Almighty."
  16. A Mighty Heart
    Effectively fashioned, as jolting as it is polished, as well as a surprising, insistently political work of commercial art.
  17. Black Sheep
    Once you have seen a sheep munching on a bloody human leg, you may think twice about your next leg of lamb. On the other hand maybe you'll be inspired to seek vengeance. To provoke one of these responses -- vegetarianism or a defiant meat eating -- may be the point of this odd, amusing film.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Broken English
    A well-acted, smartly directed film that’s depressing because it could have amounted to so much more. It departs from the studio-financed romantic-comedy template in just one, unfortunately fatal respect: it makes a point of pride out of rejecting cliché, then swoons into its embrace.
  19. Lady Chatterley
    This Lady Chatterley, winner of five César awards in France, feels bracingly fresh, vital and modern.
  20. You Kill Me
    Straight-up ridiculous, but it's also consistently funny and nicely played by a well-complemented cast that finds its collective groove and never misses a beat.
  21. Klimt
    The shortened version is lovely to look at, but the stilted dialogue and crude overdubbing in scenes where English is not spoken often make it an impenetrable hodgepodge.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Longing
    Intrigues because it presents an outwardly decent man falling equally in love with two women but eschews simplistic judgments.
  23. Manufactured Landscapes
    Absorbing if unsettling documentary.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Palms
    The term "sports film" doesn't do justice to the director Szabolcs Hajdu's movie White Palms, a punishing, beautiful drama.
  25. DOA: Dead or Alive
    Free of blood, bruises and visible trauma, DOA revels in its fakery. And though the film presents more exuberant female flesh than hiring day at Hooters, it's strictly for titillation.
  26. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    This existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful "Fantastic Four."
  27. Nancy Drew
    As it is, Nancy Drew stands as an example of how to take a foolproof, time-tested formula -- a young detective using smarts and determination to solve a case -- and mess it up with superficial cleverness and pandering hackwork. How this happened is hardly a mystery; botched adaptations are as common as BlackBerries in Hollywood. But it is nonetheless something of a crime.
  28. Eagle vs Shark
    Intermittently charming, sometimes tiresome celebration of quirkiness.
  29. Fido
    It won't make you bleed, just howl.
  30. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    As a music document and as a labor of unabashed love, the nonfiction feature Gypsy Caravan could hardly be better; as a movie, it could stand some improvement.
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