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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 1.8 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. Heading South
    Heading South is a hydra-headed love story, as dangerous as it is heated and complex.
  2. Spirited Away
    A visual masterpiece about a scared little girl's breathtaking journey of self-discovery. All of the fun is getting there.
  3. 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.
  4. Shattered Glass
    A moral, not a moralistic, movie. It's also a bracing aesthetic achievement, creating a fictional version of a factual case that illuminates as it entertains.
  5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    "His eye is incredibly sharp and amazing, in regard to visceral cinema," says Uma Thurman, who has worked with Tarantino on both Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. "He's a great storyteller. He's very seductive as a filmmaker."
  6. American Teen
    The documentary American Teen is the most realistic movie you will see all summer.
  7. Army of Shadows
    A masterpiece.
  8. Shut Up & Sing
    The Dixie Chicks may never regain their prolonged eminence on the country charts. However, the art and entertainment value of this movie (and of their latest album) is off the charts in the best way.
  9. Killer of Sheep
    Killer of Sheep is a miracle movie because it's receiving its first theatrical release 30 years after it was made and because, as a movie, it's miraculous.
  10. All or Nothing
    An exhilarating movie about sadness and renewal.
  11. The Sea Inside
    The Sea Inside brings us outside and inside ourselves, and takes us to brave new aesthetic depths.
  12. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    The movie grows richer as it goes along and contrasting pieces click together.
  13. Howl's Moving Castle
    Howl's Moving Castle is one animated epic that has it all: poetic intensity, potent storytelling, vivid and surprising characters, and intoxicating powers of visual imagination.
  14. Rachel Getting Married
    Hathaway carries you on an emotional whirligig that can be horrifying and funny, hopeful and devastating.
  15. Venus
    Venus is a magnificent tribute to actors by filmmakers who know they are the essential human material of theater and the screen.
  16. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    The Prisoner of Azkaban is to Harry Potter what that other No. 3, "Goldfinger," was to James Bond: the movie that takes the invention and gamesmanship of the series to a whole new giddy peak.
  17. Dark Days
    Black and white has never looked more stark.
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  18. Lantana
    Voluptuous dance about love, pain and the whole damn thing.
  19. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    A chilling reminder of the precipice the world stands on nowadays, from a man who looked over the edge more than once.
  20. March of the Penguins
    The movie pays tribute to sexual equality and to each gender's agility and strength of character.
  21. Junebug
    One happy surprise after another, even when the content is bittersweet or sad.
  22. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    A glorious medieval war movie. It's about war as the ultimate pitch of conflict that tries men's souls, and women's, too.
  23. The Battle of Algiers
    The movie is a marvel - bold, lucid and succinct (even at 123 minutes). It's also harrowing and moving in its depiction of noncombatant men, women and children caught between terrorism and counter-terrorism.
  24. Trouble the Water
    Enraging and inspiring. It boasts the miraculous quality of finding a letter in a bottle and discovering that its authors are alive.
  25. The Queen
    Mirren brings intellect, humor and romance to the role of Elizabeth II.
  26. The Innocents
    Thanks to Kerr's eloquent tremor of a performance, when the heroine witnesses apparitions, they're immediately credible to the audience. [29 May 2009, p.1C]
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  27. American Movie
    A revealing, intimate, quirky and generous portrait of nothing less than the American Dream.
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  28. Festival Express
    The real attraction is watching all these guys and gals on the train, so young, so dedicated to their music, so unconcerned about almost everything else.
  29. Thirteen Days
    A terrifically engrossing war film in which not a single shot is fired, a movie about shaping events rather than being shaped by them.
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  30. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    The title captures this film's harrowing qualities, but not its energy, its limpid beauty or its spiritual grace.
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