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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. Notre musique
    Though it's a sad, somber, deeply questioning work, it's done with a light, loving spirit.
  2. Paper Clips
    There's something both moving and crass in how directors Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab film these tiny paper fasteners.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    The trouble with Bridget redux is also simple: Thai jail.
  11. 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.
  12. Little Lili
    Miller's quiet artistry is at its peak, and though "Lili" is not as subtle, profound or moving a work as Chekhov's play, it's an intelligent, first-rate piece of cinema.
  13. After the Sunset
    Sizzles for a half-hour, then fizzles.
  14. Noel
    So dark and dirge-like are its first 85 minutes that a few uplifting minutes at the end can't dissipate the somber cloud Noel summons.
  15. The Polar Express
    This movie, which aspires to be a Christmas movie classic on the "It's a Wonderful Life" level, is overwhelming, enjoyable and impressive, without being really entrancing.
  16. Overnight
    Overnight's only narrative hole is an inability to pinpoint why Miramax stonewalled him.
  17. Alfie
    What a bright, entertaining, cleverly updated and utterly satisfying comedy the new Alfie turns out to be.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cachorro
    The audience gets all of the love, with none of the guilt. It's enough to give you faith in family dramas again.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Callas Forever
    Sometimes it's best to let sleeping divas lie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Brother to Brother
    Ambitious but clumsy, it's a movie to appreciate rather than to be engaged by.
  21. Fade to Black
    Whether a legend was born (or retired) that night at the Garden remains to be seen, but even on film, it was one killer show.
  22. The Incredibles
    Delivers the perfect union - a vivid, sublime parody and valentine to the superhero genre.
  23. Ray
    A fit tribute to an entertainer who, no matter what hate or hardship threw in his way or how many mistakes he made, we can't stop loving.
  24. Birth
    For awhile, the stately symphonic score, urbane setting and understated dress make Birth feel powerful--until it feels empty, lacking what Glazer so furiously exhibited in his equally stylized freshman endeavor: heart.
  25. Enduring Love
    A gripping, very intelligent British thriller. Slowly, inexorably, it ties you in knots.
  26. Saw
    Wan's tense, grisly cinematic morsel won't go down easy. But once it hits bottom, Saw is oddly satisfying, though the gag reflex never entirely goes away.
  27. Sideways
    A boisterous, brilliant, heart-warming comedy--strikes me as just about perfect.
  28. Surviving Christmas
    As light, fluffy, cockle-warming holiday entertainment, this thing is pretty sweet.
  29. Lightning in a Bottle
    A movie which, like all the best blues, makes good times out of bad times, makes smiles out of hurt, makes tears taste like honey.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Machinist
    A moody psychological thriller with a stunning performance by Christian Bale at its core.
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