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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. Nancy Drew
    Manages to navigate the era of cellphones and Mean Girls with retro nostalgia and wholesomeness, making it a rare girl-powered outing for tweens in an otherwise guy-centric summer.
  2. Eagle vs Shark
    The movie isn't funny in any big way so much as recognizable in its patterns of dysfunction, delusion and futility. But you believe in it, because you believe in the small but decent lives of its characters, a rare experience for a hot weekend in June.
  3. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    Viewers are urged to grab an aisle seat, the better to dance when the music moves them -- as it surely will.
  4. A Mighty Heart
    A taut, meticulously crafted police procedural.
  5. Live Free or Die Hard
    At a time when the action genre has come to be dominated by sleek, matte surfaces and set-'em-and-forget-'em computerized effects, Live Free or Die Hard seeks to remind viewers of the simple, nostalgic pleasures of watching stuff get blown up and bad guys get smoked.
  6. Transformers
    It's a wonderfully playful experience.
  7. My Best Friend
    Leconte is always a deliriously clever director; his "Ridicule" and his "The Girl on the Bridge" stand out as vivid films on subjects no one in America would even consider. Possibly he's trying too hard here to be liked, just like Francois. But as long as he's merciless, he's great fun.
  8. Talk to Me
    Talk to Me, with two great actors, tells that story, and it makes you feel not only the joy people experienced in the wash of Greene's raucous, truth-saying humor, but also his wisdom and calm. And many mourned his death at 55 in 1984.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hairspray
    When Hairspray is twisting and shouting and swiveling its hips, you can even dare to believe a great society is waiting in the wings.
  10. Arctic Tale
    As charming as it is instructive.
  11. La faute à Fidel!
    The result is a movie of deceptive lightness and powerful sweep. And what makes it truly work is the presence of Kervel, a first-time actor whose Anna is disarmingly self-assured and sweet. Without her, nothing else matters.
  12. The Devil Came on Horseback
    Incisive and possibly a bit melodramatic as it lays out the reasons and the results of the violent campaign and marshals indignation on behalf of the victims while crying out for Western engagement.
  13. 2 Days in Paris
    There is enough "hit" material to make this fun. Delpy is such an infectiously appealing personality, she almost wills this movie to work.
  14. Rocket Science
    Jeffrey Blitz's smart, deceptively lighthearted movie gives audiences an endearing nerd-messiah to revisit that angst for all of us and -- maybe, just maybe -- he'll end up in love and ahead.
  15. Rush Hour 3
    At the risk of eternal damnation on the Internet, I admit to laughing at -- even feeling momentarily touched by -- Rush Hour 3.
  16. Stardust
    Stardust has it all: sweetness, magic, lusty wenches, evil witches, tankards of mead, a gay pirate.
  17. Deep Water
    The movie leaves us with greater things to contemplate than a mere tragedy of errors.
  18. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    Do you Bean? If you do Bean, rejoice. Bean is back. If you don't Bean, here's a chance to start. Bean now, or forever hold your peace.
  19. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    The subject is huge and worthy, and the film makes a noble effort to embrace some of its complexity.
  20. The Brave One
    It's hard to hate, because as a rabble-rouser it is superbly effective, driven forward by two powerhouse actors.
  21. The Jane Austen Book Club
    Everyone is given their due and dignity in this funny, sexy, humanist film that, if it is a chick flick, gives the genre a good name.
  22. For the Bible Tells Me So
    A brisk, entertaining and even moving exploration of the sometimes frayed intersection where Christianity meets homosexuality.
  23. The Darjeeling Limited
    The Darjeeling Limited"has its charms, chief of which is watching three terrific actors evince with unforced ease the rewards and resentments of brotherhood.
  24. 30 Days of Night
    Directed by David Slade ("Hard Candy"), the action scenes are artful and terrifying; these killers move so quickly and decisively, there seems to be no hope for humanity.
  25. Gone Baby Gone
    The movie is taut, fast, achingly authentic and terribly melancholy.
  26. Terror's Advocate
    The result is a panorama of European radicalism. Depending on your politics, you may think "long live the revolution" or "curse the day the CIA ended its assassination program."
  27. We Own the Night
    Phoenix is an arresting presence on screen, but don't expect any "Departed"-esque fast talk from Wahlberg, who is oddly inert in a role that should crackle with brotherly ambivalence.
  28. Darfur Now
    See Darfur Now, and you won't read the daily news the same way again.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    P2
    If in the end P2 contains few surprises, it's still a nice piece of polished escapism.
  30. King Corn
    It should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald's or your very own refrigerator.
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