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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. The Holy Girl
    The Holy Girl may occasionally frustrate your desire for clarity and order, but in the end it will reward your patience, and you leave the theater in a state of quiet awe.
  2. Ladies in Lavender.
    The cinematic equivalent of a visit from a cherished but increasingly dithery maiden aunt.
  3. The Tunnel
    The film convincingly portrays the devastating, life-altering hardships and restrictions that the residents of the divided Berlin endured.
  4. Stalin's Wife
    A dense biographical collage.
  5. Another Road Home
    Moving and ultimately hopeful, Another Road Home makes no effort to soften or simplify its prickly themes.
  6. Wild Safari 3D
    The cinematic safari's simple pleasures are best experienced with the littlest ticket-holders, who get an edifying thrill ride and a computer-assisted sense of a wider world.
  7. Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat
    The offending videotape is never seen, but the entire film is built around its absence. Periodically, the film returns to a written police account of the video, which scrolls up the screen, documenting the animal's suffering blow by blow to the sound of ominous music.
  8. The Interpreter
    Conventionally described as a political thriller, but The Interpreter is as apolitical as it is unthrilling.
  9. A Lot Like Love
    Isn't half bad and every so often is pretty good, filled with real sentiment, worked-through performances and a story textured enough to sometimes feel a lot like life.
  10. King's Ransom
    Incoherent mess of a film.
  11. Double Dare
    Thin but pleasantly diverting documentary
  12. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    A tight, fascinating chronicle of arrogance and greed.
  13. Madison
    Wants to be both heartwarming and quirky but is sometimes just cutesy instead.
  14. The Man Who Copied
    The movie never recovers from its jarring turn into a rushed, unconvincing caper movie with a blasé, Robin Hood attitude.
  15. One Missed Call
    Where "Ringu" derived its power from the simplicity of its premise and the purity of its execution, One Missed Call staggers under the weight of its director's taste for baroque excess.
  16. Night of Henna
    Broadly acted, clumsily written and directed with crude sincerity, it is a well-meaning feminist morality play unlikely to be of much interest outside the community in which it takes place.
  17. Dead & Breakfast
    Not a shred of suspense enlivens the proceedings, and the movie's idea of humor is having a man slip and slide on a floor covered in blood.
  18. Save the Green Planet!
    At once a sick comedy, a bile-raising thriller and a genre pastiche, Save the Green Planet is a welter of conflicting tones, dissonant moods and warring intentions.
  19. The Amityville Horror
    Low-key creepy rather than outright scary, the new Amityville marks a modest improvement over the original, partly because, from acting to bloody effects, it is better executed.
  20. House of D
    The burden of the story, which is maudlin and entirely unbelievable, weighs down even the more credible performances.
  21. It's All Gone Pete Tong
    The British comic turned actor (Paul Kaye) appears in almost every scene and he carries that weight admirably. He manages the very neat trick of keeping you interested in a character who doesn't merit our affection but earns it nonetheless.
  22. Torremolinos 73
    Such a joyous celebration of sex and filmmaking that viewers will forgive its director for taking time out to enjoy a little of both.
  23. The Girl from Monday
    Evokes a mood of tenderness. Beyond that, it is a weightless, sentimental and intellectually lazy effort from an independent filmmaker whose movies seem increasingly insubstantial.
  24. Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
    Giorgio Perlasca, who has been compared to Oskar Schindler, deserves better than this Italian television film.
  25. Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control
    Dan Harnden's screenplay keeps things relatively interesting, despite the very thin plot.
  26. Palindromes
    The human landscape of Palindromes is a vista of grotesqueness, dishonesty and creepiness. These are qualities Mr. Solondz has explored before, but this time he fails to make them interesting, partly because he lets himself and the audience off the hook.
  27. State Property 2
    It is not saying much to point out that the sequel is better than its predecessor (directed by Abdul Malik Abbott), which was crude and amateurish in every way.
  28. 15: The Movie
    The law of averages demands that every once in a while a movie must come along starring young nonprofessional actors who aren't very good. That's unfortunately the case in 15.
  29. Raging Dove
    Bruising but illuminating documentary.
  30. Sahara
    As Sahara careens between swashbuckling silliness and semi-serious comment, it builds up reserves of energy and good will that pay off when it bursts into its final sprint, a rootin'-tootin' 21-gun finale as satisfying as it is preposterous.
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