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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Look at Me
    Smart, absorbing movie.
  2. The Interpreter
    As a straight-ahead thriller, the movie is enjoyable and stirring much of the time.
  3. Eating Out
    A sweet and funny take on the crossed-wire romantic couplings of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
  4. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    It's French. It's sexy. It's got a killer soundtrack.
  5. The Amityville Horror
    I got exactly what I expected: Scared and tickled, within an inch of my life.
  6. Palindromes
    The experience isn't for everyone. But it amounts to intellectual penicillin for our sequel-driven, franchise-heavy entertainment culture.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's All Gone Pete Tong
    Like "This Is Spinal Tap," It's All Gone Pete Tong should have a long afterlife as a midnight-movie special.
  8. Torremolinos 73
    Starting out as a wacky little comedy about a mousy Spanish couple who become unwitting porn stars, Torremolinos 73 suddenly morphs, during the third act, into a far more sober and tender story about the lengths to which a man will go to give his wife what she wants.
  9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    This is a movie about improbability, randomness and absurdity. It almost goes without saying, you can't get in a panic about having everything.
  10. 3-Iron
    It's actually quite satisfying, in a weird, magical-realism sort of way that manages to disturb and confound as much as it appeases the romantic.
  11. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    One of those rich girl/bad boy things that defy understanding and leave you on the outside. Fascinated, but on the outside.
  12. Funny Ha Ha
    Dollenmayer has managed to transform a sad sack into an indie screen goddess.
  13. Ladies in Lavender.
    A poignant portrait of one woman who has loved and lost, and another who never had a love to lose.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    Insightful and endearing documentary.
  15. Cinderella Man
    With all that going for it, one must ask, why didn't they just tell it completely straight? In other words, why did they feel so compelled to create an utterly bogus Max Baer for the virtuous Jim to fight in the movie's admittedly compelling climactic, championship bout?
  16. Rock School
    The scenes of Green lavishing affection on his charges under the closing credits go a long way to rounding out this entertaining portrait of a volatile but effective educator.
  17. Apres Vous (After You)
    There isn't much to the movie, and you can see where it's going from kilometers away. But [Daniel] Auteuil gives the silliness a surprising heft.
  18. 5x2
    You can make a good movie about a bad marriage, as countless directors, the latest being Ozon, have discovered.
  19. King of the Corner
    A warm, unexpectedly moving portrait of a man on the verge of what could either be a dreadful or delightful second chapter.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rize
    Worth seeing both for its visual beauty and its insight into a little-known form
  21. War of the Worlds
    As is his wont, Spielberg can't resist stuffing the ending of the movie with a bit too much cheese and baloney. Despite those quibbles, War of the Worlds is taut, gripping and surprisingly dark filmmaking.
  22. Fantastic Four
    A funky, fun film version of the famous Marvel superhero concoction, one of the earliest of the revisionist wave of supes and in some ways the most lovable or at least the most knowable.
  23. Happy Endings
    The acting in this ensemble is of such a high order that the movie simply takes you in and makes you feel these lives as real.
  24. Hustle & Flow
    It's more of an urban fairy tale, a surprisingly charming story that -- in certain sections -- almost crystallizes into the sweetness of a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musical.
  25. Bad News Bears
    You don't watch Bad News Bears for the action out on the diamond. You hang out with that hangdog coach so you can catch every slurry, sour-mouthed retort coming out of his mouth.
  26. Must Love Dogs
    These two generate real, slow-burning rapport, so that you're still pulling for them even during a gratingly preposterous climax.
  27. The Skeleton Key
    The appeal of The Skeleton Key lies not in its plot but in its attention to detail, and the way director Iain Softley (still on probation for "K-PAX," but nevertheless the guy who did "Backbeat") luxuriates in the deeply textured sights and sounds of Louisiana.
  28. The Great Raid
    While one might have wished for a better movie, and a few smarter decisions regarding the screenplay, generally it's a riveting, even inspirational account of an American feat of arms about which few know but about which many more should.
  29. Red Eye
    That's not to say it's great; it's not. Maybe it's not to say it's good, because it's only sort of good. It is to say, however, that it's nifty.
  30. Clean
    It's the moral journey of Nolte's character that is the real story in Clean, but Assayas instead focuses on the manipulative habits of an addict, resulting in a mannered study of narcissism and self-pity.
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