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For 6,419 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,500 out of 6419
  2. Mixed: 3,444 out of 6419
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6419
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  1. Blood Done Sign My Name
    You can’t deny the inspirational qualities of the story or Parker’s screen presence, any more than you could accuse the film of subtlety or of masking its conspicuous pro-Christian agenda.
  2. The Ghost Writer
    Polanski has made a genre piece with a verve and vitality that’s in sadly short supply.
  3. The Good Guy
    Such passé testosterone worship might have been passable if the filmmaking weren’t so amateurish--every emotional exchange is accompanied by insipid, high-volume pop songs--and the film’s self-satisfied chest-thumping didn’t extend to its creator as well.
  4. Happy Tears
    This film will make you cry tears. They won’t be happy ones.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Last New Yorker
    Offers not just a rare portrait of urban septuagenarians, but one without a hint of dewy-eyed nostalgia.
  6. Phyllis and Harold
    Kleine forgoes good-old-days nostalgia in an effort to examine a generation that braved the new America sans a rule book. But it’s the central mystery of Cindy’s own life--did Phyllis ever love Harold?--that turns this sociological examination into something profoundly personal.
  7. Lourdes
    Sly and suggestive, Lourdes is a cosmic black comedy that bumps up against the metaphysical.
  8. The Wolfman
    Speed can be a virtue, but there’s something extremely off-putting about the way The Wolfman, Universal’s latest horror classic redux, races through its opening scenes.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Mirthless, episodic fantasy saga.
  10. Valentine's Day
    The surprising thing here is how smoothly this over-iced cake goes down.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    October Country
    Jersey Shore may be the hyped example of trashy onscreen “reality,” but this portrait of an upstate working-poor family forsakes guilty-pleasure exploitation and simply wows you in every other way.
  12. Videocracy
    Stunning, eerily atmospheric.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tano da morire
    Roberta Torre’s debut takes true incidents from the Mafia wars that plagued Palermo in the late ’80s and kicks them into a deliriously gaudy farce.
  14. American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
    His own worst enemy, Finkelstein has both trouble and tragic writ large on his brow.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dear John
    "Chocolat" director Lasse Hallström’s tastefully old-fashioned melodrama has exactly one objective: yanking gallons of cathartic tears out of your face by any means necessary.
  16. District 13: Ultimatum
    Somewhat underwhelming sequel.
  17. From Paris with Love
    John Travolta breaks the braggadocio meter in the latest tightly wound actioner from "Taken’s" Pierre Morel.
  18. Frozen
    Better to defrost "Alive" or "The Edge" from the video icebox.
  19. Terribly Happy
    The film is vigorous exercise for those who prefer their mysteries knowing and knotty.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eyes Wide Open
    Call it "Brokeback Talmud"--not just for its taboo-busting depiction of a gay affair between Orthodox Israelis, but because it adopts Ang Lee’s slow-burn seriousness almost to a fault.
  21. Promised Lands
    Sontag’s true talent was for the printed word; behind the camera, her limitations come more harshly to light. Upon Promised Land’s release, she recounted her experiences in Vogue--an all-too-appropriate forum since her film is mostly chic posturing.
  22. Ajami
    Ajami is Israel’s submission to the Oscars, and like the gritty "City of God" before it, it takes harrowing, tricky circumstances and illuminates them with Scorsesian snap.
  23. Edge of Darkness
    There’s no room for such soul-searching uncertainty with Gibson. After a few rapidly ticked-off minutes of gloom, the mission is clear: Get the sons of bitches, and make ’em pay.
  24. When in Rome
    Keep your coin far away from this toxic fountain of crap.
  25. North Face
    All the retroactively enlightened symbolism gets monotonous, and reaches an absurd apex with the introduction of a party-line newspaperman played by that scowling emblem of Teutonic depravity, Ulrich Tukur.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Off and Running
    Initially succeeds at accounting for the formation of this unlikely family unit, but as the subject’s life starts to unravel, cut-rate cable TV techniques (trifling montages, an overactive string score) deaden the full impact of her crisis.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Saint John of Las Vegas
    Though the credits include an impressive roster of names, this low-stakes poker hand feels like an undiscovered relic from the early ’90s, and that’s not a good thing.
  28. Falling Awake
    Playing smarter and smoother than the plot, Cisneros uncorks an antimacho performance that deviates from type. His unconventional hero is worthy of a more original treatment.
  29. Word Is Out
    Strangely enough, our knowledge of what’s to come makes Word Is Out that much more affecting, because it shows that there were—and are—pockets of peace amid the brutality of an ongoing civil-rights struggle.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For My Father
    Too on-the-nose to resonate past the end credits, this slickly produced film still deserves praise for being progressive-minded, as Tarek isn’t a hateful man but a product of his circumstances who is only trying to help his family. It’s frustrating to see such a humane movie suffer from oversimplification.
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