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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. American Hardcore
    Stands as a valuable chronicle of a brief and snarling musical movement.
  2. The Science of Sleep
    Never intends to be deeper than a magician's hat, and its wonderfully low-tech stop-motion technique is not only a nod to Czech animator Jan Svankmajer but a tacit rebuke to computer-graphics-heavy fantasies such as "The Chronicles of Narnia" or the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
  3. Renaissance
    Volckman and Miance are undoubtedly superb draftsmen; what they need is a writer of comparable skill.
  4. Old Joy
    It feels so real it hurts, and it's the perfect antidote to all those movies where all sorts of stuff blows up.
  5. The Black Dahlia
    Here's the lowdown, the q.t., the true gen: The Black Dahlia is a big nowhere.
  6. Everyone's Hero
    The movie is a feast of miscalculations. It turns out that neither a bat nor a ball make for an enchanting child's companion, lacking as they do the ability to move or express emotion.
  7. Gridiron Gang
    Instead of a crackling good movie in which "The Longest Yard" meets, say, "The Bad News Bears," director Phil Joanou instead decided to make Gridiron Gang a lugubrious tutorial on the importance of being a winner.
  8. The Last Kiss
    Danner's performance, as she rages against the dying of the romantic light, all but steals the movie from Braff.
  9. 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.
  10. The Ground Truth
    Mostly a string of talking-head interviews, but those talking heads -- more than 16 men and women -- are compelling.
  11. Haven
    The movie is small but sensational. I don't know what writer-director Frank E. Flowers might lose by trying to take his career international, but he has real talent.
  12. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    At a time when the country is engaged in fresh debates about the fragile relationship between privacy and national security, this particular chapter seems worth revisiting.
  13. Keeping Mum
    A British black comedy, saves its best for last -- and God bless Maggie Smith for, well, being Maggie Smith -- but that requires sitting through a frustrating, uneven hour of sluggish preamble.
  14. Al Franken: God Spoke
    Sketchy but often entertaining.
  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. The Protector
    Lives up to Tarantino's imprimatur, both in its cheesy grind house aesthetic and its occasional forays into brilliant, bravura filmmaking.
  17. The Covenant
    Director Renny Harlin, whose colon-studded credits include "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" and "Exorcist: The Beginning," knows the deal here: Pay homoerotic homage to youth and beauty, crank up the heavy metal on the soundtrack, and spare no effort to backlight the omnipresent rain.
  18. Le petit lieutenant
    Le Petit Lieutenant shows how good French movies can be when they stay French and don't try to go international.
  19. Crank
    Crank" is "D.O.A" on methamphetamines.
  20. Crossover
    Just a few more tweaks and Crossover could have been something special -- a truly terrible movie to savor for the ages. But nooo, this street ball movie -- has to settle for middle-of-the-road badness.
  21. The Wicker Man
    In an era of careful cost accountancy and focus-group testing, it's remarkable that a movie as truly, deeply, madly foolish as The Wicker Man escaped the asylum. But we must be grateful for the endless guffaws and gasps and outright stunned silences it unleashes on lucky audiences.
  22. Mutual Appreciation
    The three leads deliver funny, convincing performances in a film that wears both youthful callowness and intellectual sophistication lightly. Mutual Appreciation is the kind of movie whose dialogue mostly hews to the rhythms of "like, you know, whatever" but then occasionally throws in a word such as "puissance." And, like, it totally works.
  23. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    It's a masterful little film, and, thanks to Zhang's seasoned hands, it's subtly heartfelt but never manipulative.
  24. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Remarkably entertaining.
  25. Beerfest
    What's funny to Broken Lizard? Let's try: What's not funny? The answers are, everything and nothing. They'll do anything for a laugh, no matter how puerile, silly or offensive.
  26. Idlewild
    For all its shortcomings, Idlewild also has something that few films can pull off: Moments of such pure cinematic fabulousness, breathtaking dance sequences and idiosyncratic 3-D animation flourishes that we are more than willing to forgive it for all its sins.
  27. How to Eat Fried Worms
    Good message, mediocre movie.
  28. 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.
  29. The Quiet
    Creepy, creepy, creepy -- and not in a good way.
  30. Queens
    Pereira goes in for lots of time shifts and split screens, piling on the contrivances like so many costume baubles when a single string of pearls would do.
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