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For 1,652 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Frost/Nixon
Lowest review score: 0 Waist Deep
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,085 out of 1652
  2. Mixed: 279 out of 1652
  3. Negative: 288 out of 1652
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  1. Baran
    The director lingers over images, watching builders at work or Baran at her chores; the camera often seems to daydream, like Lateef. No grand climax caps the film, but the small incidents have a cumulative effect.
  2. Restrepo
    It gives such a down-to-Earth view of the joys, terrors, boredom, anxieties and camaraderie in a war zone.
  3. Get on the Bus
    It'll hearten anyone who believed Lee had insights and merely needed to find the right vehicle to express them. Bus is that vehicle. [18 Oct 1996, p.1E]
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  4. Gangs of New York
    Each major character is complex, none more so than Bill. He's almost Shakespearean in scope.
  5. Dirty Pretty Things
    Director Stephen Frears...drops down to the underclass in "DPT," examining the ways in which educated illegals fight off despair, poverty and extradition.
  6. The House I Live In
    I've heard that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. By that standard, the U.S. "War on Drugs" seems crazy indeed in The House I Live In.
  7. Talk to Me
    No matter what character Don Cheadle has played in his 23-year career, he's always seemed to be holding something back...Until Talk to Me.
  8. The Cabin in the Woods
    The film's main virtue, a large virtue indeed, is that it does not give anything away before its shockingly apt time.
  9. Spellbound
    The terrific Spellbound really isn't about the ability to tear words apart letter by letter. It's about nerve-wracking competitiveness.
  10. Kandahar
    Kandahar found itself in real-life controversy last December, when one of its actors was accused of murder.
  11. The Bourne Identity
    One of those rare thrillers where the cops aren't fools, villains don't turn stupid at crucial moments, and career assassins seldom miss targets.
  12. Nobody Knows
    You won't forget Nobody Knows, the quietly harrowing tale of four abandoned Japanese children.
  13. Stuart Little
    Charming Stuart Little improves on original tale.
  14. Horton Hears a Who!
    Finally! For the first time, Hollywood has made a whimsical, witty, feature-length version of Dr. Seuss that's neither overblown nor smutty nor emotionally hollow.
  15. Caché (Hidden)
    Haneke peels back the layers of Georges Laurent as slowly and dispassionately as a scientist dissecting a diseased mouse. The ending arrives with the power and inevitability of Greek drama.
  16. Inception
    Nolan’s tale is not only a trip through mental labyrinths but a reminder that memories may cripple us, unless we learn to let them go.
  17. Jarhead
    It's a unique vision of war from the point of view of a Marine who never pulled a trigger against a foe.
  18. Doctor Strange
    You know you’re in a top-drawer Marvel Comics adaptation when even the Stan Lee cameo is clever.
  19. Max
    Menno Meyjes' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil.
  20. I'm Not There.
    A lot of chaotic fun.
  21. Moonlight
    It may cast a spell on anyone who has known loneliness, exclusion, feelings of inferiority or a desire to be encased in a hard shell to protect a soft interior.
  22. Premium Rush
    The simple, utterly satisfying Premium Rush delivers just what the title promises.
  23. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Perhaps Zeitlin isn't really making an issue of class distinctions. Maybe he's just suggesting that we don't know these people very well, and our lives would be richer if we did.
  24. Spy Kids
    The film's full of in-jokes, from the Spanish-language billboards to the name of Banderas' character.
  25. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    The saga regains its grandeur with a complicated but easy-to-follow story. The characters are as satisfying as the effects.
  26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    This film has two of Fincher's happiest trademarks: It's full of information and stretches over a remarkably long time (165 minutes), yet it's neither confusing nor overextended.
  27. Moneyball
    It's tense, strangely funny in a lot of spots and – if you grew up loving old-fashioned, seat-of-the-pants baseball, as I did – the most depressing movie of the year.
  28. Another Year
    You may not realize the imprint it has left until its last season comes to a close.
  29. For Colored Girls
    The writer-director waited until he had the clout, budget and prestige to attract a top-flight cast, then turned Colored Girls into a movie with a little less darkness but plenty of heart and guts.
  30. The Messenger
    The best war movies don't preach against war: They remind us of the costs for soldiers and families and ask us to consider whether those costs are worth paying. The Messenger does that without firing a bullet or putting us on a battlefield.
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