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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. Dorian Blues
    With some gentle humor that will delight the "Napoleon Dynamite" set, Dorian Blues lights a natural little footpath between two ways of living.
  2. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    The film is an unabashed promotion for space exploration.
  3. Occupation: Dreamland
    Occupation: Dreamland presents a compelling study of composure and decency in the midst of overwhelming pointlessness.
  4. Oliver Twist
    With tact and enthusiasm, Mr. Polanski grabs hold of a great book and rediscovers its true and enduring vitality.
  5. Into the Fire
    Even if it ends on a hopeful note, this is a feel-bad movie that leaves a bitter aftertaste.
  6. Loudmouth Soup
    For all its experimental intentions, Loudmouth Soup feels familiar: a claustrophobic Hollywood satire that's short on kinesis and long on conversation.
  7. Novo
    Sleek, attractive and ultimately vapid.
  8. Everything Is Illuminated
    Taken on its own, without comparison with its literary source, the movie, Mr. Schreiber's first as writer and director, is thin and soft, whimsical when it should be darkly funny and poignant when it should be devastating.
  9. Proof
    It's funny how movies about smart people often play so dumb.
  10. HellBent
    Because more time is dedicated to crafting authentic, sympathetic characters than the average horror movie, it's easier to overlook the film's often-corny dialogue and so-so special effects.
  11. Cry_Wolf
    First-time screenwriters Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman prove more adept at staging mind games than creating chills and thrills for the audience.
  12. Just Like Heaven
    It's not heaven, exactly, but after the purgatory of the late summer movie season, it may be close enough.
  13. Lord of War
    Like everything else in this film, Mr. Cage's performance is watchable if never credible because his director never resolves the disconnect between this star's function (to entertain) and that of his character (to repel).
  14. Corpse Bride
    There is something heartening about Mr. Burton's love for bones and rot here, if only because it suggests, despite some recent evidence, that he is not yet ready to abandon his own dark kingdom.
  15. Thumbsucker
    Mr. Pucci, emerging slowly from behind a stray lock of brown hair, plays Justin's ambiguous transformation with deft understatement. And Mike Mills, who wrote and directed, keeps the film from slipping either into melodrama or facile satire, the two traps into which this genre is most apt to fall.
  16. The Thing About My Folks
    Despite the grumpy, flatulent behavior the script demands of him, Mr. Falk rises above the treacly shenanigans.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stupid Boy
    An intriguing examination of alienation and dysfunction, tonally haunting rather than melodramatic.
  18. One Bright Shining Moment
    Still, as the documentary plods past the two-hour mark, much of Mr. McGovern's legend seems dependent on Nixon's faults, and even the Democrat's political supporters, with hindsight's many gifts, can't infuse his persona with any more dynamism.
  19. G
    A somewhat faithful but not very graceful retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's elegant Jazz Age tragedy "The Great Gatsby."
  20. Venom
    Venom certainly can't be called a good movie, but within its genre it's perfectly palatable.
  21. Separate Lies
    The movie is so busy constructing its labyrinthine plot that it often forgets to plumb the souls of its characters.
  22. Hard Goodbyes: My Father
    Considering the delicate and weighty subject matter, the film's tone is surprisingly light, sometimes even humorous, which helps to balance the harsh sentiments that death inevitably brings.
  23. Human Error
    The film's many voids are not meaningfully filled by all the monsters and assembly-line workers that crop up.
  24. Finding Eleazar
    If Mr. Shicoff ultimately comes across as a short-tempered, egotistical prima donna, the upshot of all the fuss is worth it: his Viennese performance is transcendent.
  25. I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
    Interspersing shots from the original film - many of which are justly famous for their power and complexity - with interviews, Mr. Ferraz has produced a welcome piece of historical explication.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Piggie
    With its exasperating camerawork, murky lighting - at least two scenes are near indecipherable - and interminable shots of Fannie gazing slack-jawed at the world, Piggie is a disappointing debut.
  27. The Future of Food
    Quietly inflammatory film.
  28. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    A beautiful and devastating meditation on war, history and loss.
  29. Chain
    For all its bleakness, the movie, filmed in nearly a dozen states and in half a dozen countries, is not without a certain beauty. There is comfort to be found in blandness and homogeneity.
  30. Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers
    The resulting film is a record of indefatigably focused activity that began with the simple goal of rescue but evolved into a therapeutic tool for resolution and acceptance.
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