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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. The Libertine
    It's a bit too muddy, dismal-looking and smoky to beguile us, too fixated on filth and too dreary-looking to really shock us.
  2. Syriana
    Politically, Syriana is a card-carrying liberal, more in tune with Le Carre and Greene than with Clancy.
  3. Yours, Mine and Ours
    Even as slapstick, it's a major snoozefest.
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter just keeps growing up. So do the Potter movies, in size, in ambition and in visual splendor - and with increasingly stunning results.
  5. Walk the Line
    It doesn't matter much that Phoenix and Witherspoon sound more like Phoenix and Witherspoon than Cash and Carter. The chemistry is there. The actors walk their own line, successfully.
  6. Breakfast on Pluto
    Some road pictures take you somewhere. Breakfast on Pluto, from its archly poetic title on down, promises a lulu. Yes, well. Promises, promises.
  7. Gilles' Wife
    The ending is a stunner. Like those '30 classics it suggests, Gilles' Wife seduces us with true cinematic magic: rich characters, great acting and that rapturous old French blend of realism and theatricality.
  8. The Syrian Bride
    Like the whole of this easygoing plea for a better future, it's sweet.
  9. Derailed
    It's a cheap thrill, with twists that later seem evident and foreshadowing that often seems obvious, with a B-movie look and vibe reminiscent of the much tighter "Jagged Edge."
  10. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    It's a tick better than the movie version of "Jumanji," if that's any help. If you liked the book, you'll find the film of "Zathura" faithful in most respects, though not so much amplified as padded.
  11. Pride & Prejudice
    At the end, director Wright wraps the whole thing up with a fairy-tale coda more Shakespearean than Austen-tine. Yet it all works.
  12. Bee Season
    Gere and Binoche are both terribly miscast--one far too charismatic, the other far too dowdy, which is something for Juliette Binoche. And the spelling bees? Dull. Dreary.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ellie Parker
    Welcome to the world of Ellie Parker, a faux-documentary and big, fat raspberry dedicated to L.A.'s underclass.
  14. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Pairing monumental insensitivity with a bright-eyed delivery, Silverman is the current valedictorian of the nothing-is-sacred school of comedy, a modern-day Lenny Bruce spared her forefather's legal woes by time, breasts and porcelain skin.
  15. Duane Hopwood
    Thanks to the actors and the way the movie lets them loose, it's often funny or moving at all the right moments.
  16. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    Sheridan's ensemble ensures that "Get Rich," the film, comes to life around the edges, if not at its center.
  17. Jarhead
    Inner dialogue is a hard sell on screen.
  18. Brooklyn Lobster
    The kind of smart, realistic indie family drama the movies should give us more often, just as they should more often offer performances as full-blooded and rich as Aiello's and Curtin's here.
  19. The Dying Gaul
    The Dying Gaul stays interesting even when it asks more and more--too much, probably--of the audience's disbelief suspension.
  20. Christmas in the Clouds
    I won't pretend there aren't moments of sweetness here--there are, aplenty. But the promise of true emotion goes bust with bad acting, cheap writing and false sentiment.
  21. Chicken Little
    For all the whiz-bang visuals, however, "Little" could use a little consistency in tone.
  22. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Largely male gay sex, with nary a lesbian in sight, or in mind.
  23. The Legend of Zorro
    Well, it's pretty bad, a long way from the dash and satisfactions of the earlier picture.
  24. Prime
    I found nothing likable or funny about either of these characters, who both deserve a pie in the face. (One of them even gets it.)
  25. Saw II
    It's not a film, it's an excuse to show victims bleeding at the mouth, or getting shot in the eye, or plucking out their own eyeballs. Most gruesome of all, the sequel oozes dialogue that is best described as "functional."
  26. The Weather Man
    In The Weather Man, Nicolas Cage, a great oddball movie star who sometimes takes enormous risks, has a good, risky part again.
  27. Paradise Now
    It's an intricate, sometimes implausible ideological thriller that might be better as a smaller-scaled, less% preachy psychological drama. Still, "Paradise" catches and keeps your attention because of its daring subject, real-life backdrops and the intensity of its actors.
  28. The Passenger (re-release)
    Still packs a wallop. It's also a movie with no easy passage to its dark heart.
  29. Three... Extremes
    A bloody strange movie--and a surprise. Who would have thought that you could put together an anthology of "extreme" Asian horror featurettes by three cutting-edge Asian directors where the most tasteful, restrained contribution was the one by Japanese mad dog moviemaker Takashi Miike?
  30. Ballets Russes
    May not be the greatest dance documentary ever made, but it could well be the most accessible and touching.
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