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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Freaky Friday
    Offers plenty of honest, good-natured laughs in the process. That's something young and old can appreciate equally.
  2. Gunner Palace
    Although the acclaimed documentary Gunner Palace contains some electrifying vignettes of the Iraq war, its jaggedly elliptical and hopped-up style lands it in a limbo between ragged and slick.
  3. Curse of the Golden Flower
    In Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou tries to top the breathtaking poetic spectacle of his masterpiece, "House of Flying Daggers," and instead plummets into self-parody.
  4. Shall We Kiss?
    A sensational date movie.
  5. Elephant
    The film itself is an exercise in frustration.
  6. The Science of Sleep
    You have to identify pretty strongly with suffering artistes to find anything to root for in The Science of Sleep.
  7. Doubt
    The problem with Doubt is its dramatic certainty.
  8. The Hoax
    Thanks to Hallstrom's slaphappy artistry and a sparkling ensemble, Hoax is a hoot.
  9. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    Who Killed the Electric Car? makes you feel that no good idea, let alone good deed, goes unpunished. Only the exuberance of the moviemaking keeps your spirits high.
  10. Audition
    The images here are graphic and disturbing. But Miike somehow manages to stop just short of disgusting.
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  11. I Am Divine
    This is a movie that's really about how much fun Glenn Milstead had being Divine, and how he — perhaps unexpectedly — found so many fans willing to go along for the ride. That's an American success story worth celebrating.
  12. 21 Grams
    Luckily, Penn, Watts and Leo carry more weight than that; they keep this movie's two hours and five minutes from seeming like lost time.
  13. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Absorbing, artfully executed.
  14. Pieces of April
    The highest compliment I can pay Pieces of April is that it brings to mind a Paul Simon lyric: "the mother and child reunion is only a motion away."
  15. Bad Santa
    Gloriously funky in the good old meaning of the term. Its vulgarity may be offensive, but it's also pungent and real, and it fuels some ferocious humor.
  16. It Might Get Loud
    You'll never see a more tactile expression of the intimacy between artists and their instruments than in Davis Guggenheim's elating It Might Get Loud.
  17. District B13
    For better and worse, the entire film goes by like a theme-park cyclone ride. It makes as much sense as it needs to when you're on it. All it leaves in its wake is a residue of vertigo and speed.
  18. Fearless
    Much of the film's virtue lies in its straight-ahead narrative and uncomplicated morality. That and the undeniable charisma and virtuosity of its star.
  19. I.O.U.S.A.
    Although the movie is unabashedly alarming, it's also intelligent fun.
  20. Thumbsucker
    Pucci pulls off Justin's transformation without resorting to histrionics; it's like a radio-station signal finally coming in clearly.
  21. Inglourious Basterds
    The only hope for Inglourious Basterds is that audiences will embrace it the way the Broadway crowd did "Springtime for Hitler": because it's so bad they think it's good.
  22. Babel
    Comes across as more willfully clever than profound, leaving us to applaud the message while pondering why the messenger had to strain so hard to get it across.
  23. Undercover Brother
    It has a premise that never stops percolating.
    • Baltimore Sun
  24. Girlhood
    In an era of exploding documentary innovation, Girlhood simply follows unfamiliar characters down familiar paths. It's not a negligible experience, but it's not an eye-opener, either.
  25. Revolutionary Road
    Revolutionary Road isn't just a failed literary adaptation. It's a failure of the worst kind: It doesn't even make you want to read Richard Yates' deservedly legendary book.
  26. Live Free or Die Hard
    The film's action doesn't disappoint; if anything, it ups the adrenaline ante considerably.
  27. Cinderella Man
    There's no irony within the film, but there's a whopping irony surrounding it. Just as Star Wars has finally ended, Rocky seems to be starting all over again.
  28. The Cooler
    What's frustrating is that the movie should be so much better, or at least more entertaining. With Baldwin, Macy and Bello, director Kramer is holding three of a kind.
  29. Duplicity
    It's an odd duck: a labor-intensive piece of light entertainment.
  30. The Painted Veil
    No one has caught the pride, remorse and pain of an unloved and possibly unlovable husband better than Edward Norton in The Painted Veil.
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