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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 4.9 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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  1. Highway Courtesans
    Ultimately, the film feels unfocused and attenuated, despite its brief running time.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Lives of Others
    A tense and tightly plotted fictional thriller is based on real tactics used by the Stasi -- East Germany's secret police force -- to spy on and interrogate their own citizens.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Turistas
    The cast is unusually good for this sort of film, which only makes the poor execution more regrettable.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Two Weeks
    Sally Field's flawless performance as a mother whose imminent death reunites her four grown children elevates a fairly formulaic melodrama in the made-for-Lifetime mode into something considerably more memorable.
  5. Living the Dream
    While the film isn't entirely amateurish -- shots are cut together and the cinematography is professional if not precisely stylish -- the story feels as though large pieces are missing and the characters behave so inconsistently that there's zero incentive to care about their tribulations.
  6. The Fountain
    An intoxicatingly beautiful but painfully simplistic fable about love and death.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Deck the Halls
    Filled with forced yuletide cheer and mixed messages about the true meaning of Christmas, this loud and obnoxious holiday comedy boasts a fine cast and little else.
  8. Deja Vu
    An utterly preposterous but entertaining sci-fi action brain-bender.
  9. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    Ultimately, Tenacious D is a sight gag -- two unprepossessing, chunky dudes rocking out like wiry guitar gods -- supplemented by spot-on digs at the macho bombast and Dungeons & Dragons silliness that drives heavy-metal mania.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Backstage
    The line separating "fan" from "fanatic" has never seemed as thin or as permeable as it does in this harrowing, and at times surprisingly humorous, case study from actress-turned-director Emmanuelle Bercot.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Opal Dream
    The film's sweetness derives primarily from the relationship between Ashmol and his unusual sister, and draws much of its richness from the unfamiliar and fascinating world of opal prospecting.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Sun Kissed
    Sex and psychosis mix in this nice looking, Super-8 psychodrama from Patrick McGuinn, the son of former-Byrd Roger McGuinn.
    • 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.
  14. Casino Royale
    As M, Dench knows she has a tiger by the tail and isn't fazed in the slightest. Reservations aside, the film marks the beginning of a new phase in James Bond's history, and it promises to be a gripping one.
  15. Happy Feet
    Funny moments can be found throughout, but it's mostly silly and scattered.
  16. Let's Go to Prison
    The sad thing is that Arnett, Shepard and McBride quickly establish a loose, easy camaraderie that's a real pleasure to watch. The shame is that they're working with such unrewarding material.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Candy
    Neil Armfield's film hits hard because it sensitively shows how life on drugs can never be about anything else, and how the real horror of addiction is not what users do to themselves, but what they do to each other out of loneliness and despair.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Fast Food Nation
    Presenting facts in a wrapper of fiction only muddies the waters, and many of the film's subtler points are likely to slip by viewers who haven't first read Schlosser's book. Other salient points are shoehorned into the dialogue, rendering key scenes preachy, heavy-handed and dramatically inert.
  19. For Your Consideration
    Levy and Guest train a glaring spotlight on the self-absorption, vanity, delusions and histrionics of the movie community, but clearly love them even at their silliest.
  20. The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
    Seething with suggestions of perverse pleasures and inchoate horror, this dark fairy tale won't win the Pennsylvania-born, London-based Quay brothers any new fans -- it plays to the converted, and the converted know who they are.
  21. Bobby
    Though Estevez's achievement doesn't quite live up to his ambitions -- the climax of Altman's "Nashville" (1975) evokes the same brutal loss of innocence to more shattering effect -- it still contains enough powerful moments to balance the weaker sections.
  22. The Aura
    Bielinsky's "Nine Queens" was a complex romp through the machinations of high-stakes con artists, but this intricately plotted mystery ventures into darker psychological territory and never misses a step.
  23. Flannel Pajamas
    Strong performances and sharp dialogue distinguish Jeff Lipsky's melancholy second feature, which charts the two-year course of a "perfect" relationship whose flaws are evident from the outset.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Dance Party, USA
    Dramatically simple but emotionally complex.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?
    The mystery is marvelous.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A Good Year
    Broad, hackneyed and stultifyingly predictable.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Harsh Times
    With his ersatz-gangsta swagger, the once-again buff Bale gives it his all -- he's got to be the most committed actor in Hollywood -- but the real surprise here is Rodriguez, who has all the talent and charisma of a major star.
  28. The Return
    London-born director Asif Kapadia's second feature, following 2001's critically acclaimed "The Warrior," is a slow, low-key supernatural thriller whose story is too slender to justify its feature-length running time.
  29. Stranger Than Fiction
    Foster finds the common ground on which his eclectic cast can meet (no small feat when they range from brassy Queen Latifah to "Arrested Development"'s deadpan Tony Hale) and keeps the story's sweetness from devolving into saccharine kitsch.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Iraq in Fragments
    Tragically, the title of James Longley's beautifully shot 90-minute documentary refers to not only the state in which he found the Iraq during the two years he spent there shooting over 300 hours of footage, but the structure the violent factionalism that divides Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds imposes on his film.
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