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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. Reel Paradise
    A documentary that uses Pierson's self-congratulatory mission to explore a deeper story about cultural clashes and the complex dynamics of the modern American family.
  2. Transporter 2
    Statham isn't the best thing in Transporter 2; he's essentially the only thing.
  3. Cote d'Azur
    A romper that doesn't shy away from sexual frankness or Mediterranean laissez faire.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proof
    Paltrow is pretty commanding, even if Madden pushes things toward airlessness by keeping the camera so tight.
  5. Music from the Inside Out
    Is it a great film? Not quite. It flits from idea to idea too promiscuously and relies too much on the visually deadening use of people talking on camera. But among the dull passages there are moving stories, and a very loving sympathy for the people it profiles.
  6. Corpse Bride
    For all its charm, we can't quite figure out for whom the film is intended: Talking maggots and decaying bodies do not a kiddie movie make.
  7. Thumbsucker
    A gently stirring symphony about emotional transition filled with lovely musical passages and softly nuanced performances.
  8. Flightplan
    Until those final moments, Flightplan succeeds admirably, both as a sophisticated psychological thriller and as an example of, if not great art, then superb craftsmanship.
  9. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    It has its own subversive power, as it elevates one family's struggle for working-class survival and valorizes a woman of simple faith and inner strength.
  10. The War Within
    A portrait of a mild-mannered zealot, one that seeps under the skin and unsettles the nerves.
  11. Innocent Voices
    What's so powerful about Mandoki's film, which he co-scripted with Torres, is the complex, ever-surprising course that Chava takes toward manhood.
  12. Prime
    Sure, this romance, starring Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg, follows a familiar boy-meets-girl scenario, but Younger turns the routine into combustible fun.
  13. The Weather Man
    Shines the light on a special kind of heroism -- the guts to face up to yourself and make changes. What makes this so emotionally compelling is the way Dave scrambles from this deep vale of cluelessness to something approaching moral maturity.
  14. Paradise Now
    Paradise may not change anyone's ideology, but it should convince some that, but for some deeply divisive views of religious morality, people are pretty much the same on either side of the holy fence.
  15. Derailed
    It's fast, slick, stupid, violent fun and, despite the cynically high body count, without serious intention in this world.
  16. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    This handmade feel gives Zathura an appealing, childlike sense of wonder, an element too often forgotten in movies with many times the budget and technological resources.
  17. The Syrian Bride
    On one hand, the movie is guilty of schematic arrangement...But at the same time, Israeli producer-director-writer Eran Riklis and Palestinian co-writer Suha Arraf use the device to reveal touching human complexity.
  18. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    It's all expectable, it's all enjoyable: British theatrical professionalism at the highest pitch.
  19. Transamerica
    If Tucker's road map often feels a little too confining and the screwball comedy too contrived, he can take credit for introducing viewers to a character they have almost certainly never met before.
  20. The Descent
    Marshall keeps the film lean and focused. He does have a nice taste for horror imagery.
  21. Mrs Henderson Presents
    Humor and warmth abound in Mrs. Henderson Presents.
  22. The Producers
    It's too long to be great and it's too square to be great and it's too loud to be great and it finds homosexual effeminacy too funny to ever be called great, but I can't imagine anyone coming out sadder than they went in.
  23. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Fun With Dick and Jane has lived up to its title: It's fun, and that's fine.
  24. Hostel
    There's a reason why one goes to see cinematic gorefests like Hostel: to partake vicariously of the bloodfest, to get hopped up on the sickness of it all, the utter degradation, the fall of Western Civilization, yadda yadda yadda, and oh yeah, to hoot at the flying fingers, the guts, the blood, the bare breasts.
  25. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    The movie doesn't so much end as reach a stopping point and limp hurriedly off-screen, like a bad stand-up chased out by boo birds. But God, is it funny.
  26. Following Sean
    You won't be disappointed, and you will be deeply, quietly moved.
  27. Roving Mars
    A briskly moving, deeply engaging 40-minute documentary.
  28. Something New
    Lathan, who was such a live wire as the aspiring basketballer in 2000's "Love & Basketball," gives this movie an alert, glamorous presence.
  29. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    With surprisingly good production values and sly, underhanded wit, Willmott never tips his hand, steadily guiding the satire to a genuinely stunning, back-to-reality conclusion.
  30. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    Bekmambetov handles these narrative bumps with ease, infusing even the hoariest -- and goriest -- of horror movie cliches with equal parts macabre fascination and jaunty humor. The film lives up to its hype with a style, swagger and substance that will appeal not just to the fanboys (and girls) but to their uninitiated friends as well.
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