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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. Thank You for Smoking
    As a satire on Tobacco Inc.'s outrageous ability to market carbon monoxide as the elixir of life, this movie should be packing more nicotine.
  2. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    The film's unforgettable stars are the beauty academy's students, women who have survived tribal warfare, Soviet invasion, Muslim tyranny, American bombs, patriarchal families and even Western good intentions with extraordinary grace and fortitude.
  3. Lonesome Jim
    The script is adroit: It doesn't force the humor, and it steadily keeps track of Jim's growing maturity.
  4. Wassup Rockers
    What might have been a fascinating, intimate portrait turns into something much less compelling when Clark tries to impose a sex-and-action-packed narrative on the proceedings.
  5. Three Times
    The first section of Three Times is fabulous; the second is fascinating if remote; and the third a jangly, modernist mess.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Giuliani Time
    It drags a bit and suffers from not enough Rudy.
  7. A Prairie Home Companion
    A Prairie Home Companion tries to embrace the spirit of that longtime radio series but suffocates the very qualities that make the original show so special in the first place.
  8. La Moustache
    An enigma inside a conundrum inside an escargot shell, the French puzzler La Moustache will delight some people even as it annoys others.
  9. The War Tapes
    Make no mistake: The War Tapes is not an overtly political film. It appears to grind no partisan ax nor score either red or blue points. Whether viewers support the war or not -- or find themselves somewhere in the mushy middle -- this documentary won't fit comfortably into the pigeonholes of their preconceptions.
  10. Waist Deep
    No, it's not a great movie. It is, however, an interesting one.
  11. Strangers with Candy
    Of all ironies, "Strangers" occasionally takes a step in the direction of the after-school specials it's trying to twit; you'll catch it trying to make you feel warm and fuzzy about Jerri.
  12. My Country, My Country
    The movie attempts to paint too large a canvas.
  13. Pulse
    American director Jim Sonzero has taken the same campus setting and plot and added some rationale by "science-fictioning" it.
  14. Invincible
    There's too much slow-mo and too many music cues, but there's a low-key buzz to Wahlberg's scenes with Greg Kinnear.
  15. Hollywoodland
    And though brilliantly acted, it's not. For some reason, the director and the writer (Paul Bernbaum) have chosen an exceedingly awkward path into the materials. They break the narrative into two strands and play them off each other in cheap and easy ways for insubstantial effect.
  16. Al Franken: God Spoke
    Sketchy but often entertaining.
  17. Confetti
    Say this for Confetti: It's a crowd-pleaser. If, that is, the crowd is composed of people who have never seen a movie by Christopher Guest or a TV show starring Ricky Gervais.
  18. All the King's Men
    All the King's Men hasn't been directed so much as over-directed, although the result, when you make an effort to filter out all the film school pyrotechnics, is an honorable run at Robert Penn Warren's classic novel.
  19. Fearless
    It's handsome, well-populated and offers beautiful scenery and settings. But "House of Flying Daggers" it ain't; maybe "House of Fallen Arches"?
  20. Jesus Camp
    Often funny (just listen to Becky fulminate against Harry Potter), but it's also a scary.
  21. Renaissance
    Volckman and Miance are undoubtedly superb draftsmen; what they need is a writer of comparable skill.
  22. Open Season
    With a slick visual style similar to "Monster House", Open Season trots out tropes that recent animated classics have done with more wit and smarts.
  23. Running with Scissors
    This dame is as sick as a sick dog on a hot day, if still always perversely amusing, and the story is constructed as a survivor's ordeal, not a colorful picaresque.
  24. Cocaine Cowboys
    Cocaine is the most aggressively edited film in years: It pounds, it churns, it spurts, it spray-paints.
  25. Candy
    Cornish provides a counterbalance for Ledger's authoritative presence, turning what could have been just another heroin movie into a flawed but engrossing parable on love and sacrifice.
  26. Fast Food Nation
    Works far better as journalism than as drama. One weakness is that poor Linklater has to keep bringing in guest explainers, who lay out one policy or another but have nothing whatsoever to do with the story.
  27. Breaking and Entering
    For all its contrivances, Breaking and Entering has its finger on the pulse of contemporary London life and possesses its share of fleeting delights, chief among them the sublime Robin Wright Penn as Law's live-in girlfriend.
  28. Freedom Writers
    It offers a sort of Chinese food poignancy, the kind that may seem satisfying at the time but ultimately leaves us hungering for more, for something authentic.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Flying Scotsman
    Miller is key to the film's success, with his earnest, sweet-faced looks and evident dark side. He plays Obree with just the right understated intensity, a believable competitor who fights back fiercely with his wits and a few tight-lipped words.
  30. Stomp the Yard
    Short is a professional choreographer, and his dancing seems unstuck in time. How he can break his movements down to such small elements, keep them so precise and in such rigorous rhythm, yet keep the whole thing on track and moving forward with Nureyev's beauty and discipline is something to see.
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