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For 17,777 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,133 out of 17777
  2. Mixed: 7,008 out of 17777
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17777
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  1. The Great Role
    Predictable yet charming, The Grand Role is a crowd-pleasing dramatic comedy about love, friendship, role-playing and Jewish pride.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brothers
    The second collaboration between helmer Susanne Bier and scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen once again shows what skilled artists can do with a story that might have ended up filled with cliches.
  3. A Hole in One
    This oddball tale of a small-town gangster's troubled girlfriend hovers uncertainly on the edge of an absurdist universe.
  4. Up for Grabs
    A sly curve ball of a documentary best described as a sports-themed "Rashomon" with an O. Henry twist.
  5. Writer of O
    Hodgepodge of archival, re-enactment and staged fictive elements.
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    More smile-inducing than laugh-aloud funny.
  7. xXx: State of the Union
    You'd half expect the Xbox logo to pop up on the credit roll for XXX: State of the Union, since what's on view is closer to a videogame than a movie. While that will be music to the ears of young gamers, it's noise to anyone hoping for a coherent action movie.
  8. 3-Iron
    A rarefied love story, conducted with no dialogue between the principals.
  9. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Strikingly crafted but rather empty drama.
  10. Death of a Dynasty
    The execution is so amateurish and the script so witless the filmmakers appear to be having a far better time than the audience.
  11. Funny Ha Ha
    A beautifully observant and wholly unpretentious film with roots more in Cassavetes than Sundance-style showbiz.
  12. The Holy Girl
    A mystifying film that holds the audience in suspense over where it's going and what it might mean for almost its entire running time.
  13. Ladies in Lavender.
    Full of delightful moments that throw into high relief the actors' craft.
  14. The Tunnel
    A cracking slice of old-fashioned, widescreen entertainment.
  15. Stalin's Wife
    Results are solid, if stylistically unspectacular.
  16. Another Road Home
    Fascinating.
  17. Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat
    Too underground in feel.
  18. The Interpreter
    Coolly absorbing without being pulse-quickening.
  19. A Lot Like Love
    In essence, British director Nigel Cole has brought a breezy arthouse sensibility to this tale of fated love.
  20. King's Ransom
    An innocuous abduction of viewers' time, if nothing else, King's Ransom is an appealingly cast but terminally bland farce.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Double Dare
    Viewers are left feeling that it's still a male-dominated profession, but that determined women like these might just effect some small change.
  22. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    By turns amazing, amusing and appalling.
  23. The Game of Their Lives
    Picturesque pic, however, lacks even a penalty kick's worth of tension and is paradoxically inert for a movie about guys running up and down the pitch for the glory of the U.S.
  24. Madison
    Inspirational but uninspired sports movie.
  25. The Man Who Copied
    Intermittently amusing.
  26. One Missed Call
    Combines scares and chuckles with good production values.
  27. Erosion
    Shady mood-piece profits greatly from enigmatic performance by Emmanuel Xeureb.
  28. Dead & Breakfast
    Offers plenty of splat with its slapstick. But this strenuous zombie yukfest is no more sophisticated than its nail-on-head title -- making it a joke no smarter than the movies it riffs on.
  29. Save the Green Planet!
    Though certainly not to everyone's tastes, this looney-tunes pic about a deranged serial killer who thinks he's helping Earth by killing off supposed aliens works on a variety of levels, from gruesome slapstick comedy through social critique to genuinely chilling Grand Guignol.
  30. The Amityville Horror
    Begins slavishly faithful to its low-key 1970s predecessor then sledgehammers auds with a numbing succession of shock edits and over-the-top horror effects.
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