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For 7,599 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 1.5 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Exceptionally clever, hilariously gloomy and bitingly subversive.
  2. Million Dollar Baby
    Achieves a mellowness and melancholy that recalls the jazzy dissonance of director (and here, composer) Eastwood's best work: "The Outlaw Josey Wales," "Bird," "Unforgiven" and "Mystic River."
  3. Ocean's Twelve
    Likable as it is, suffers from that modern big-movie vice: overkill.
  4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    A comedy that seems to have most everything going for it but the ability to make us laugh.
  5. Dolls
    A work both rigorously stylized and deeply personal. Devotees of Kitano and Japanese cinema will admire Dolls.
  6. A Talking Picture
    It's a great film that, sadly, may be ignored by all but the most dedicated, knowledgable filmgoers.
  7. A Tale of Two Sisters
    It's a stunningly creepy specimen of Asian horror.
  8. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    This film carries us so touchingly into their world, it would take a heart of stone, finally, to ignore them.
  9. Blade: Trinity
    Thankfully, Reynolds (bearded, looking a bit like Jason Lee) adds some scrappiness and humor to a series that might otherwise have collapsed under self-parody.
  10. Closer
    Few directors are more adept at playing with all this anguish and exhilaration than Mike Nichols.
  11. House of Flying Daggers
    It's as thrilling and lushly beautiful a movie as has been released all year, matched only by Zhang's epic "Hero." And I think this film is the more powerful.
  12. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    One of the best films ever about that game, one of the most exciting, instructive and sheerly entertaining of all chess films.
  13. The Green Butchers
    Macabre, oddly gripping.
  14. I Am David
    The beautifully shot but dramatically strained I Am David falls prey to the defect of all poor road movies: In gluing together unbelievable but convenient episodes with sugary sentimentality, it loses most of its credibility.
  15. A Very Long Engagement
    It's a magical film which manages to transport and rivet us in the same highly-imaginitive, breezily playful way "Amelie" did.
  16. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    A compelling piece of press criticism as it probes the media as terror's conduit of choice, spreading message and validating violence in the 1970s and today.
  17. Straight-Jacket
    A talented craftsman of dark raillery, Day and his fixation on Hollywood melodrama are indulged to delicious effect in his sophomore effort.
  18. Alexander
    Vast, riveting, madly audacious movie biography.
  19. Christmas with the Kranks
    Phony, disingenuous family entertainment, suffocated by its green bean casserole approach to Middle America, spineless cardboard characters and paper-thin plot "twists."
  20. Notre musique
    Though it's a sad, somber, deeply questioning work, it's done with a light, loving spirit.
  21. Paper Clips
    There's something both moving and crass in how directors Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab film these tiny paper fasteners.
  22. National Treasure
    Overall the film is alluringly over-the-top without being overcooked.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    If your kid has SpongeBob SquarePants underwear, it's a good bet she or he will relish The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
  24. Fear and Trembling
    With the exception of Amelie's voiceover narration in French, Fear and Trembling is entirely in Japanese. And the Japanese cast is superb.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ya lyublyu tebya
    There might have been something in this stew if the screenwriter and directors had stayed in the moment, but to actually explore the tough stuff they bring up might have made this movie less cool and breezy.
  26. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Sometimes cinema's highest achievements become clear only in retrospect. Days of Being Wild--now clearly revealed as one of the peaks of Hong Kong filmmaking and a masterwork of contemporary cinema giant Wong.
  27. Bad Education
    If only Bad Education engaged the heart as much as the head, Almodovar's fractured tale might have risen above its alienating noir conventions.
  28. Finding Neverland
    It's an intellectual family film for literate parents and children, immensely pleasing if not perfect, perhaps a smidgen too brightly evasive and determinedly charming.
  29. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    The trouble with Bridget redux is also simple: Thai jail.
  30. Kinsey
    This hip, highly partisan biography of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey is a surprisingly entertaining movie about the perils of studying sexual behavior in a sexually uptight culture--our own.
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