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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. Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
    Goes beyond interesting, though, to moderately annoying.
  2. SubUrbia
    Linklater, who introduced the blithe, but bemused slacker subculture to America in 1991, gets bogged down not only in Bogosian's for-stage structure, but especially his middle-aged perspective.
  3. Voices in Wartime
    Its pedagogical tone perfectly suits it for viewing in classrooms.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Another Road Home
    Earnest if emotionally unsatisfying documentary.
  5. 39 Pounds of Love
    Truly touching moments such as a surprise meeting between Ami and his estranged brother, Oscar, show us this movie didn't need any sentimental help.
  6. Drawing Restraint 9
    Sad to say, the new Matthew Barney opus, Drawing Restraint 9, made in collaboration with his main squeeze, Bjork, doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the "Cremaster" series.
  7. Stolen
    In the end, we're treated to an overture of possibilities rather than a satisfying film.
  8. Peaceful Warrior
    All this stuff is probably right. It's just that the director, Victor Salva, underscores his points with thunderous obviousness and manipulates us through ham-handed plot gambits.
  9. The Great Warming
    How about a well-sustained argument for saving the planet instead of this round-robin approach? And where are those holdouts of humanity who believe humans shoulder no blame for carbon dioxide buildup? Let's hear from them, too, and draw our own conclusions.
  10. Arthur and the Invisibles
    None of the characters are compelling, despite the star-studded vocal cast behind them, including Madonna, Robert De Niro, Snoop Dogg and Jimmy Fallon. Our attitude toward them is casual interest, not anxious concern.
  11. In the Pit
    What Rulfo needs, unfortunately, is what too many trendy directors forsake: some social context, some succinct voice-overs and some talking heads to put the serious issues (urban poverty, urban stress, environmental degradation, corruption) into perspective.
  12. Diggers
    Never quite breaks out of its talky inertia.
  13. Something to Cheer About
    This is a modest documentary, actually made in 2002 but only now gaining national release, which celebrates Attucks and that particular team, but most important Coach Crowe, by all accounts a remarkable man.
  14. The Treatment
    The Treatment gets this year's Rip van Winkle award.
  15. Provoked: A True Story
    Unfortunately, Provoked possesses the tiny production values and schmaltzy music of a prime-time special, despite its ensemble of terrific actors.
  16. In Paris
    Dans Paris will delight aficionados familiar with its myriad references, and there's no denying the appeal of Duris and Garrel. But once the source of the boys' primal wound is revealed, the whole enterprise comes to feel as mechanical as the Bon Marche window display that serves as one of the film's plot points.
  17. Holly
    An emotional thriller that is by turns contrived and impassioned.
  18. CJ7
    Its use of minor expletives and a depressing chapter late in the movie will not satisfy parents seeking something sweet and lively for their children; nor will it charm art house audiences up for a smart adult fairy tale.
  19. Planet B-Boy
    For all the energy and personality of its subjects, Planet B-Boy tends to drag, especially toward the competition finals.
  20. Smart People
    It's impossible to tell whether the film's ending is happy because it's happy or because it's ending.
  21. Irina Palm
    It is, however, a baby boomer's treat to see Faithfull, romancer of Mick Jagger back in the day and a pop siren in her own right, show her qualities as an actor. One is hopeful she'll find her way to other, better projects.
  22. Finding Amanda
    A slight, modestly funny comedy.
  23. What We Do Is Secret
    You are left with the feeling that either Grossman hasn't done justice to the Germs or the justice they deserved was to spend eternity as a historical footnote.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Brothers at War
    There are much better Iraq documentaries than this one, but Brothers at War distinguishes itself by peering out over the emotional chasm between soldiers and their families.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shall We Kiss?
    It is as if the director had studied the comedies of Eric Rohmer and Woody Allen from top to bottom and come away with all the wrong lessons.
  26. Big Fan
    Siegel's depiction of the film's supporting characters too often borders on caricature. By the movie's strained, overheated climax, it's clear that Siegel, in his directing debut, is less interested in his protagonist as a character capable of transformation than as a human petri dish of futility and pathology.
  27. Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    Much of it plays like an unintentional mash-up of the numerous wrong-side-of-the-law sagas that preceded it.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon
    Less weird than "Spellbound" and less fun than your average episode of "America's Top Model," Ten9Eight shoots for the moon, but scans like the background noise at a philanthropic retreat.
  29. Blood Done Sign My Name
    Despite its earnestness and valuable lessons, however, "Blood" feels a little like preaching to the choir.
  30. The Last Song
    Hews closely enough to the Sparks pattern of romance and bathos that tears will flow as copiously in the audience as they do on screen.
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