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For 7,613 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Bug
    Ashley Judd as Agnes White, and a relative newcomer, the remarkable Michael Shannon, as Peter Evans. They're both spellbinding.
  2. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    The most visually spectacular, action-packed and surreal of the adventures of Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).
  3. Angel-A
    So stunningly shot and visualized--and scored so hauntingly well by Anja Garbarek, the daughter of saxophonist/composer Jan Garbarek--that it works even if you don't pay attention to the story. Maybe it works better that way.
  4. Golden Door
    Called "Nuovomondo" in its native Italy, it's bittersweet, neither as comic and sentimental as Charlie Chaplin's 1917 great silent comedy "The Immigrant," nor as cynical and epic as Elia Kazan's 1963 "America, America," but close to both.
  5. Paprika
    We've gotten perhaps too used to the computerized wizardry of our own cartoon features; Kon, like Miyazaki shows us some older ways that can still transfix us.
  6. Steel City
    One of the most hopeful movies I've seen recently--not just for its humane, realistic story line, but in its very being.
  7. The Boss of It All
    Bone-dry but completely assured, both in its visual strategy and its wry deconstruction of the workplace comedy genre.
  8. Severance
    I prefer my horror with a chaser of wit, and Severance, a modest but very lively British import, serves it up in harsh but high style.
  9. Shrek the Third
    I doubt even rabid fans of the first two will consider Shrek the Third a worthy addition to the franchise.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    In Search of Mozart
    What emerges is a far more accurate, complete and endearingly human portrait of Mozart than any documentary has ever painted.
  11. Fay Grim
    Strikes me as something of an elaborate mistake, a wasted opportunity and a script Hartley should have discarded. But I liked it anyway.
  12. Flanders
    Except for the tractors, and the tanks in the later desert battle sequences, Flanders could be taking place centuries ago. Or centuries from now.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Private Property
    Lafosse's frustrating, yet beautifully elegiac coda emphasizes the point that his production and storytelling style have been making throughout: Private Property is about processes, not conclusions.
  14. Hollywood Dreams
    Frederick is the key to the movie and she's definitely an impressive new talent, someone who can really hold the screen and who delivers something striking or memorable in every scene.
  15. Memories of Tomorrow
    By the time Watanabe encounters a holy senile fool in the forest, the film has foregone contemporary urban “King Lear” territory for something a lot closer to the Lifetime Channel.
  16. Once
    It's a very small piece, working in a deceptively casual storytelling style. But it's my favorite music film since "Stop Making Sense," and it's more emotionally satisfying than any of the Broadway-to-Hollywood adaptations made in the last 20 years.
  17. The Ex
    If you want a relationship comedy that feels like last year's stuff, doesn't go far enough in any direction and is made watchable only by an overqualified ensemble, there's The Ex.
  18. 28 Weeks Later
    Swift, vicious and grimly imaginative, the zombie film 28 Weeks Later exceeds its predecessor, "28 Days Later," in every way.
  19. Georgia Rule
    Maybe Georgia Rule should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer. But not for us.
  20. The Hip Hop Project
    The film works best when it pays specific attention to how hard it is to write a rhyme worth hearing.
  21. Provoked: A True Story
    Most of the ingredients for a strong, tough film are there, and they have been sadly botched by a few key collaborators.
  22. The Salon
    The main problem with the movie is the by now shopworn nature of its setting. Been there, snipped it. Though dating from venerable material, The Salon turns out to be one haircut too many.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    Much of this strikingly human, rapidly paced and laudably well-rounded film is fascinating.
  24. Chalk
    The problem with the movie is that all this improvisational verisimilitude never finds its way into fully developed stories.
  25. Brand Upon the Brain!
    The film is a singular achievement.
  26. Lucky You
    A relaxed-looking expert piece that immerses us in another world. At the end, Hanson has a bonus. He and his producers hired Bob Dylan for the Oscar-winning "Things Have Changed" in "Wonder Boys," and Hanson brings Dylan back here, for a folky, bluesy number called "Huck's Tune."
  27. Away from Her
    One of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us.
  28. Spider-Man 3
    You want big wows with this sort of entertainment, and the wows here are medium.
  29. Civic Duty
    A clammy little number that might've been funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
  30. The Treatment
    Janssen is an intense screen presence. Too often she's stuck playing humorless towering antagonists. Here, happily, she's allowed to be a real person.
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