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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 5.4 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. 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.
  2. Fighting for Life
    If Fighting for Life is propaganda, it's the best kind, largely avoiding editorialization and instead focusing on simple human drama.
  3. Girls Rock!
    We may not get to their innermost feelings, which would have taken this documentary to a deeper, maybe darker level, but the movie's purpose is celebratory. As such, it's a satisfying experience.
  4. Blindsight
    Spiritually aware documentary.
  5. City of Men
    So much emotional traffic streams through this City of Men that it's easy to miss a narrative turnoff. You won't get lost, but your sense of direction might be profoundly changed.
  6. Chicago 10
    Morgen plunges viewers completely into the anarchic, exhilarating, finally ambiguous world of 1968 America; his final stroke of genius is his choice of music, which includes a breathtaking use of Eminem's "Mosh."
  7. The Other Boleyn Girl
    Even by its own standards, the movie becomes increasingly macabre and ludicrous as Anne's machinations get the better of her, and everyone, including the audience, is left feeling shattered, shaken and vaguely unclean for having participated in all this.
  8. Penelope
    Anyone willing to tolerate the tortured premise of the story will be paid off handsomely by several winning performances and a moral that makes most of the absurdity worthwhile.
  9. Semi-Pro
    Andre Benjamin, Woody Harrelson, Maura Tierney and David Koechner -- all talented -- seem amazingly zombie-like here. And Jackie Earle Haley, as a stoner fan of the Tropics, is more disconcerting than funny.
  10. Chop Shop
    The director has created a not-to-miss gem for the discriminating viewer.
  11. Charlie Bartlett
    The movie feels forced, cliched and derivative.
  12. The Signal
    In a movie about perception, misperception and the ramifications of misunderstanding, it's a bit ironic that the directors can't get out of one another's way.
  13. Be Kind Rewind
    The films of Michel Gondry aren't for everyone, but viewers who vibe to his playful, cerebral, wildly imaginative sensibility might get a kick out of Be Kind Rewind.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Counterfeiters
    Though swiftly paced, The Counterfeiters convincingly examines the complex nature of humanity under inhuman conditions
  15. Vantage Point
    Although it was held back by the studio for about a year, someone apparently came to the inevitable conclusion that no amount of ripening time was going to help this gimmicky and ultimately harebrained movie.
  16. The Duchess of Langeais
    With its sophisticated psychology, its brilliant story structure and its riveting performances, The Duchess of Langeais feels very new, even if everything about it is old.
  17. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
    What The Year My Parents Went on Vacation seems to be about, in the end, is big-time sport as the opiate of the masses.
  18. Definitely, Maybe
    Definitely an overlong exercise in the concept of kismet, and maybe it's just what you want, in lieu of chocolates.
  19. Jumper
    It's difficult to know whom to root for.
  20. The Spiderwick Chronicles
    For the uninitiated? Man, it's a bummer.
  21. Step Up 2: The Streets
    Let's wait for a movie where they do get it all right: story, acting and dancing. It'll happen, just not this time.
  22. The Band's Visit
    Smart, subtle, deceptively simple little.
  23. Fool's Gold
    Any more than two writers on a movie usually spells trouble. On the other hand, that two of the three scribes responsible for Fool's Gold have previously specialized in horror makes perfect sense.
  24. The Hottie & the Nottie
    Like Nate, we are mere Notties. And we are supposed to feel oh-so privileged for getting to watch Paris through the glass.
  25. In Bruges
    Those who know McDonagh's work know a vein of darkness will run deeply through the comedy. It has seldom been darker. Or funnier. He has made a hit-man movie in which you don't know what will happen and can't wait to find out. Every movie should be so cliched.
  26. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    A very engaging trip along the cutting edge of America's funny bone.
  27. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    A talented comedian, Lawrence has leaned all too easily on formula for his successful films. Imagine if he would test his flair against original and fresh premises, instead of the tried and trite. Why, he'd discover what it's like to take pride, not just profit.
  28. Caramel
    Smarter and more poignant than the average chick flick.
  29. Over Her Dead Body
    In her imperfectly beautiful way, Bell suggests Carole Lombard. As a comedian, Bell is enough of a distraction that you can forgive all the inanities around her. And there are many.
  30. The Witnesses
    A timely reminder of AIDS; we've largely forgotten we're in the midst of a crisis. But the movie isn't all cautionary, or at all preachy.
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