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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 1.7 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. Brick
    A Big Sleep with underage bozos, a Maltese Falcon where the stuff that dreams are made of rests in the lockers of a well-worn high school, Brick is a remarkable oddity, audacious and engaging.
  2. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    The offhand wit and casual self-revelation of Johnston's best words draw you deeper into the mysteries of his character. Feuerzeig is a music-lover to his bones.
  3. Inside Man
    It twists in on itself mercilessly, rarely pausing to let the viewers catch up, but that's OK. A movie like this depends on staying at least a step ahead of its audience, and this one surely does.
  4. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    Queen Latifah, the star of Barbershop 2 and Beauty Shop, and thus our reigning monarch of big-screen beauty stylists, should fund and narrate a sequel. Because The Beauty Academy of Kabul is good enough to make you want to know how they do.
  5. L'Enfant (The Child)
    Thanks to a combination of fluid camerawork and careful pacing, the Belgian writer-directors have produced a compelling narrative that sounds, if not a cautionary note, a worried one.
  6. Find Me Guilty
    Find Me Guilty flat-lines early.
  7. She's the Man
    The surefire laugh-getter centers on using a tampon to stop a nosebleed. Watching this movie, I had to hope it could stop brain-drain.
  8. V for Vendetta
    The Wachowski Brothers once again they prove themselves our reigning masters of murk.
  9. Thank You for Smoking
    In some ways, Thank You for Smoking does not bemoan smoking as much as it bemoans people's willingness to be duped by smooth-tongued orators.
  10. Don't Come Knocking
    It rarely strikes the right tone and ultimately falls short of what one would expect from a collaboration between director Wim Wenders and writer Sam Shepard.
  11. Failure to Launch
    There's comfort in seeing actors we know doing what we've come to expect them to do. But more important, the film surrounds them with supporting characters who are less familiar to us, who act in ways we don't expect.
  12. Ask the Dust
    Ask the Dust is more than an amorous period piece. It's a strongly bitter, strongly sweet poem in prose and motion.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Duck Season
    Almost everything that happens - and almost everything happens within Flama's apartment - is food for dry humor and very recognizable humanity.
  14. 16 Blocks
    As good as Willis is, he's no match for Mos Def.
  15. Aquamarine
    Refreshingly, the movie never wavers in the importance it places on friendship over just about anything else.
  16. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    Some of the movie's sunniest moments arrive as Chappelle ambles through Ohio. He's an observational comic with a drawling syntax that's almost as sly as Mark Twain's.
  17. Running Scared
    The result is an out-of-control, lost-in-the-funhouse experience.
  18. Eight Below
    The determinedly cynical needn't bother, but just about everyone else should love Eight Below.
  19. Freedomland
    Unfortunately, the waste of artistic possibilities dwarfs the human wreckage - and the human salvage - in Freedomland.
  20. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    If you have a sneaky taste for the monstrous and a hearty appetite for the outlandish, the pulpy yet engaging Night Watch should leave you merrily sated.
  21. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    It's an authentic, harrowing tale of heroism.
  22. Curious George
    Some adults may find the film unbearably simplistic, or its pace burdensomely slow. But it would be a shame if movie audiences have become so hyper-adrenalized that they can't appreciate a charmer like Curious George.
  23. Final Destination 3
    Signs of fatigue are all over the film itself.
  24. Firewall
    It's the wrestling match between the banker and the bad guy that fuels the audience's adrenaline.
  25. The Pink Panther
    Even the cartoon Pink Panther in the credits seems off - at once too glitzy and too fey, more Peter Allen than Pink Panther.
  26. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    The result is a performance film that conjures a vision of American life as moving, funny and rueful as John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln.
  27. The Fallen Idol (re-release)
    A masterpiece of psychological suspense.
  28. Something New
    It does offer that most pleasant and valuable of viewing experiences: A message movie in which story and character come first.
  29. Tamara
    Gory overkill.
  30. Bubble
    Bubble is the moviemaking equivalent of the worst narrative journalism. Every bit of "human interest" is so painstakingly planted, so determined to be applauded for its observation and sensitivity, it ends up seeming as slick and bogus as the worst Hollywood blockbuster.
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