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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. Hollywoodland
    Ben Affleck has packed on the pounds, slipped on some tights and given this exasperating film far more than it gives in return.
  2. The Protector
    The Protector supersizes the formula of "Ong Bak."
  3. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
    A febrile blend of facts, liberal outrage and emotional manipulation (like his colleague Michael Moore, Mr. Greenwald knows the visual power of a grieving mother), Iraq for Sale has an us-versus-them sensibility that’s extremely effective.
  4. The Covenant
    That's the one with a car that explodes and gets put back together by magic, right? Yeah, that’s pretty much the coolest part.
  5. I Trust You to Kill Me
    Inconsequential documentary.
  6. SherryBaby
    What distinguishes the film from its many peers is the quality of Ms. Collyer’s writing -- which rarely reaches for obvious, melodramatic beats -- and the precision of Ms. Gyllenhaal’s performance. She treats the character neither as a case study nor as an opportunity to show off her range, but rather as a completely ordinary and therefore arrestingly complicated person.
  7. Le petit lieutenant
    Le Petit Lieutenant embraces the spectrum of human drama and comedy, and like a lot of French films it is keenly involved with the everyday pulse of work.
  8. Man Push Cart
    Filmed in less than three weeks, Man Push Cart is an exemplary work of independent filmmaking carried out on a shoestring. Mr. Razvi’s convincing performance is a muted portrait of desolation bordering on despair.
  9. Red Doors
    This agreeable, lightweight movie, written and directed by Georgia Lee, turns the malaises of a suburban family into bittersweet farce that teeters between cheeky humor and surface pathos.
  10. Rolling Family
    Rolling Family is not a movie of ideas but an emotional and tactile experience of economy-class travel. In surveying a large swath of the Argentine landscape, it could be a companion piece to "The Motorcycle Diaries."
  11. Vajra Sky Over Tibet
    Limited almost exclusively to tourist attractions, this documentary glimpse at the sights and sounds of occupied Tibet amounts to a rhetorically inflated vacation video.
  12. Saint of 9/11
    The movie's steadily elegiac tone precludes it from creating a more lively, idiosyncratic portrait of a man who, by many accounts, was a wonderful raconteur whose gift of gab was complemented by a rollicking sense of humor.
  13. Crank
    For a movie premised on unrelenting action, Crank proves fatally turgid.
  14. Crossover
    A decent example of Sidekick Cinema: a movie to glance up at from time to time while you download ring tones or text-message your friends.
  15. The Wicker Man
    A movie like this can survive an absurd premise but not incompetent execution. And Mr. LaBute, never much of an artist with the camera, proves almost comically inept as a horror-movie technician...It's neither haunting nor amusing; just boring.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lassie
    Lassie balances cruelty and tenderness, pathos and humor without ever losing sight of its youngest audience member.
  17. Looking for Kitty
    This is a modest film on various levels, in terms of budget, length, cast size and technical craft. Though passable at best, the digital camerawork does aptly convey the bleakness of the city’s sidewalks and streets during winter.
  18. Mutual Appreciation
    It's the sort of unassuming discovery that could get lost in a crowd or suffer from too much big love, and while it won't save or change your life, it may make your heart swell. Its aim is modest and true.
  19. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    A little uncanny (has it been digitally manipulated?) and a whole lot clichéd, the tableau speaks of melancholy graced by a pale sliver of hope. You'd roll your eyes if they weren't so dazzled.
  20. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Feisty, intellectually engaging.
  21. Bubot Niyar
    A modest film, less interested in advocacy or analysis than in sympathy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Cantor's Tale
    The movie is most engaging when following Mr. Mendelson around his old neighborhood, Borough Park, which, we learn, is simply teeming with bakers whose singing is on a par with their knishes.
  23. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
    The movie is an entirely absorbing, occasionally revelatory portrait of a brilliant talent driven to greatness by an inner chorus of demons and angels.
  24. Beerfest
    The five comedians known collectively as Broken Lizard have created a frat-house staple for the ages.
  25. Idlewild
    The joint doesn't jump in the musical Idlewild; it just twitches and stumbles. As much a missed opportunity as a terrible tease.
  26. How to Eat Fried Worms
    Nicely directed, the film version proves refreshingly free of the customary blights that affect most modern children's movies, notably adult condescension. But, man, is it mean.
  27. Invincible
    Invincible counters its predictably inspirational trajectory with close attention to historical detail and blue-collar hardship.
  28. The Quiet
    Neither ambitious enough to take seriously nor sleazy enough to enjoy, The Quiet flirts with the trappings of exploitation cinema without going all the way.
  29. Queens
    The most remarkable thing about Queens, a silly but generous Spanish farce from the writer and director Manuel Gómez Pereira, is its unadulterated worship of middle-aged women.
  30. Surviving Eden
    Although the early scenes hold out some promise...the movie quickly runs out of ideas.
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