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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. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    There's really nothing more here than you can find watching dreadful political advertisements and dreadful political talk shows.
  2. Sex Is Comedy
    By Breillat's usually dire standards, this is practically a laff riot, and if you want to see her funniest, most accessible movie, this is the one to watch.
  3. P.S.
    Somehow, wondrous acting holds things together.
  4. The Final Cut
    Cut-and-dried sci-fi thriller.
  5. Moolaadé
    Moolaade, in short, is a movie to rock the soul.
  6. Being Julia
    May lack originality but makes up for it in sheer bravado and really nice clothes
  7. Saints and Soldiers
    Despite all the life-threatening situations, warrior deaths and heroic feats, it's hard to get behind characters who feel like lazy archetypes.
  8. Shall We Dance
    Occasionally charming but ultimately forgettable bit of fox-trot fluff.
  9. Team America: World Police
    This is all terrifically nasty and shocking stuff.
  10. In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
    This is for the pre-converted, certainly not the left, or even those who consider themselves detached observers.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vera Drake
    Sweet, strange and ultimately heartbreaking.
  12. Around the Bend
    So programmatic, so dogged in hitting the right steps at the right time that it completely lacks spontaneity.
  13. Vodka Lemon
    A thematically bleak yet subtly comic film.
  14. Go Further
    A warmly spirited travel diary of a movie.
  15. Stage Beauty
    In the end, Stage Beauty is in over its mediocre head.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Friday Night Lights
    Give credit to Berg for keeping Bissinger's all-too-true ending intact. It's a doozy.
  17. Primer
    As Primer progresses, it just gets murkier and the experience of it more drudgelike.
  18. Raise Your Voice
    The movie is going to be fine for PG-ready audiences, assuming they don't have a problem with extremely predictable story turns.
  19. Tarnation
    You may not want to hang with the haunted Caouettes, but the movie is so compelling, it doesn't give you a choice.
  20. Taxi
    Goes nowhere fast.
  21. Tying the Knot
    Jim de Seve's cogent pro-gay-marriage argument appeals equally to emotion and reason.
  22. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    A lucid, emotionally affecting portrait not just of one man but of his times.
  23. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    At its best, Woman Thou Art Loosed conveys the unfathomable meaning behind those words.
  24. Dig!
    Ultimately undermined by the fact that the two rock bands Timoner chose to focus on -- the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols -- simply don't matter as much as she thinks they do.
  25. Shark Tale
    This movie just doesn't match its predecessors.
  26. I Heart Huckabees
    It's uncompromisingly bad, single-mindedly off-target.
  27. Ladder 49
    The firefighting equivalent of an Army recruitment commercial.
  28. Incantato
    It's a warm bath experience, soap-sudsed with sentimentality, improbability and other storytelling misdemeanors.
  29. The Yes Men
    A few minutes of inspired lunacy aside, The Yes Men is largely a case of the same old preachers preaching to the same old choir.
  30. Burn! (re-release)
    Pontecorvo's pointed 1969 drama of the politics of war feels surprisingly timely.
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