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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Funny Ha Ha
    A smartly observed, unpretentious, and unconventional comedy of manners -- or more properly, it's a comedy of mannerisms.
  2. The Holy Girl
    A collection of beautifully acted encounters, conversations, symbols, and vignettes woven into an evocative and unforgettably surreal garment.
  3. Kings & Queen
    The film is a tower of literary and cinematic references, tangential yet somehow essential characters, and one fantastic performance after another. It's a simple movie yet is anything but.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The real deal, an often awkward but nonetheless terrifically compelling high-stakes human drama.
  5. The Fearless Freaks
    An uncommonly intimate portrait, in large part because the filmmaker, Bradley Beesley, is a longtime neighbor, friend, and collaborator.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cinderella Man
    A broad, foursquare piece of populist filmmaking that happens to be tremendously moving.
  7. Deep Blue
    A riveting and sobering way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Remarkably, ''Me and You" doesn't shock so much as soothe.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rize
    There's a delicate balance here between expression and belligerence.
  10. Memories of Murder
    What's most remarkable about it is the way Bong builds real suspense and plays the chilling moments straight while leaving himself room for nonsense and horseplay. He seems completely at ease with the marriage of the silly with the serious. Only time can reveal whether he's a master filmmaker, but this, at least, is a masterful performance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    The film confirms director Audiard as a master of visual mood, in this case one of barely expressed emotional panic.
  12. The World
    The director is becoming a master of blending the political and the personal with eloquence and deceptive lightness.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saraband
    Builds slowly and naturally to an unbearable personal crisis.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Days
    In its unstated cynicism, beauty, and self-pity, Last Days fits the myth of Cobain like a torn pair of jeans.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Aristocrats
    The Aristocrats -- the movie, not the joke -- is a working demonstration of the pleasures of the profane.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Duma
    An exquisitely filmed, emotionally transfixing epic about a white South African boy's journey to return his pet cheetah to the wild.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Grizzly Man
    Timothy Treadwell was killed, along with his girlfriend, by a rogue bear in October 2003.
  18. Keane
    If Keane is a downer, it's a stupendously well-conceived one.
  19. Corpse Bride
    Burton, who directed the film with animator Mike Johnson, has rarely been in brisker, friskier form.
  20. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    Anderson is the rare filmmaker who doesn't want to use the actress as an instrument or to exploit her independent-movie cachet. She has freed Moore to be what she hasn't been with many directors: credibly human.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Squid and the Whale
    This is one cinematic novella that stays with you for quite a while.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Good Night, and Good Luck.
    A puzzle: a hermetically sealed period piece so intensely relevant to our current state of affairs that it takes your breath away.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Even more than "Chicken Run," Were-Rabbit is a tiny plasticine masterpiece.
  24. North Country
    It infuriated me. It broke my heart. It convinced me that Caro, who's from New Zealand, is a strong, clear-voiced filmmaker
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    New York Doll
    You're left with the bewilderment and joy on Kane's face as he plays the old songs, and the sense of ghosts just behind his back.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    The movie's masterstroke is to avoid interviewing the usual anti-globalist suspects and let solid, hard-working middle Americans speak.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Goblet of Fire is the entry in which Rowling finally took off the gloves.
  28. Walk the Line
    The film sends you home moved and in a tuneful mood.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Tommy Lee Jones makes his feature directing debut here, and the film is as weathered, subtle, and sympathetic as the actor's own face.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Munich
    The director can work wonders within his celluloid universe, but when the time comes to hand us back to reality, he stumbles. With this movie, that hurts.
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