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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Killing of John Lennon
    It's a "Taxi Driver"-inspired odyssey into violence and insanity that runs close to two hours -- a long time to be riding shotgun with a madman.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Henry Fool
    Ryan has a wonderful way with Hartley's often difficult dialogue, and is engaging even when the rest of the film is not
  3. Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
    Katzir's documentary is as much a labor of love as Spaisman's theater, and it's often rough around the edges.
  4. Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
    Mukherjee's charm keeps the child-like Geeta from being thoroughly annoying, and the musical numbers are pleasant, if not particularly memorable.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Transporter 3
    Though this third installment is not quite as nuts as the second film, it's nevertheless firmly set in the same ridiculous mold.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Kill the Poor
    If you know there's so such place as Avenue E in the East Village, or if you've ever taken a bath in your kitchen, this one's for you.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The History Boys
    Now seen for the first time in close-up, these "boys" are well past adolescence, which makes Bennett's sympathy for poor Hector a bit easier to take.
  8. Resurrecting the Champ
    Lurie's film never fully reconciles the story about newsroom ethics with the sentimental drama about bad dads and bereft sons.
  9. The Ant Bully
    The screenplay is blessedly free of mediocre songs and light on flashy pop-culture in-jokes.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Max Payne
    For a movie of its type, Max Payne is a little short on excitement and heavy on pathos.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Substance of Fire
    Daniel Sullivan's earnest adaptation of Jon Robin Baitz's play is worth seeing for Ron Rifkin's performance alone.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch
    Catania and Ignacio's film works best on the level of straightforward biography told through the reminiscences of friends, family, members of Busch's Lost-in-Limbo theatrical troupe and, best of all, Busch himself.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A Good Year
    Broad, hackneyed and stultifyingly predictable.
  14. Goal! The Dream Begins
    A big success in Europe, the film has already spawned two sequels, the first of which is due to be released in the fall.
  15. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    There's a terrific movie buried in Woody Allen's tale of two American girls broadening their horizons in Barcelona, and every once in a while tantalizing glimpses penetrate the twee narration and mannered performances.
  16. Automatons
    The acting is flat, and the scientist's ideological speeches too bluntly designed to mirror post-9/11 rhetoric. But there's a dreamy fascination to the iconic images of machines fighting a perpetual war for the human creators they'll inevitably outlast.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    White Nights
    The major problem with White Nights is that it tries to be so many things at once that it fails to be much of anything other than a vehicle to watch two of the best dancers around strut and tap their stuff.
  18. Look
    Surprisingly compelling, if not up to dealing with the larger political issues it raises.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Defiance
    A Holocaust film that's light on sentimentality but high on human drama, Defiance tells one of those remarkable survival stories that's so incredible it must be true.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Adam & Steve
    It hits more often than it misses, and the best parts are always the simplest, in which the stars wing it with nothing to go on but their natural chemistry.
  21. Dynamite Warrior
    Wongpim pays tribute to classic Italian Westerns in his face-hugging close-ups, but his film is more silly than existentially anarchic, and its exotic quirkiness wears thin quickly.
  22. Diminished Capacity
    A risky, not entirely successful comedy about mental disability, based on the novel by Sherwood Kiraly.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Jumanji
    Regrettably, however, the weird elegance of Chris Van Allsburg's much-praised picture book has been all but lost in translation.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    No Reservations
    It's handsomely shot by Stuart Dryburgh and nicely acted, and if it tastes a bit bland, you'll soon forget that, along with just about everything else about it.
  25. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    Could as easily be called "Spurlock: Cultural Learnings Of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of America."
  26. Idlewild
    Barber's screenplay is mired in cliches that got old in 1935.
  27. Red Doors
    Packs five films' worth of drama, crises and revelations into one, and often lapses into sitcom triteness.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    A Family Thing
    Its assets are considerable: affecting performances (especially Irma P. Hall as blind Aunt T.) and sharp writing.
  29. Everything's Cool
    The film gets off to a slow start and runs long, but Gold and Helfand effectively stake out their own piece of a large and complicated issue.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Strangers with Candy
    When it comes right down to it, there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who despised Comedy Central's notorious series Strangers with Candy as the rudest, crudest and most offensive show ever to appear on television, and those who loved it for those very reasons.
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