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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. Vera Drake
    Among its many excellences, Vera Drake functions superbly as a pure thriller; the last half is reminiscent in structure and detail of Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man."
  2. Friday Night Lights
    There isn't a bad performance here, but besides Thornton, Luke stands out.
  3. Around the Bend
    A well-intentioned, ill-conceived blip of a movie that just happens to star two of the most esteemed actors of our time--Michael Caine and Christopher Walken.
  4. Stage Beauty
    A rich, shining valentine to the British theater and the eternal joys of Shakespeare,
  5. Raise Your Voice
    Worst of all, though, is the movie's moral maneuvering.
  6. Tarnation
    Watching Jonathan Caouette's amazing autobiographical documentary Tarnation is like descending into a pop-music, underground-movie hell and heaven, the shattered and shattering landscape of a living body and mind.
  7. Taxi
    Riddled with comic potholes.
  8. Ladder 49
    Instead of cashing in on barely healed wounds, Ladder 49 could have taken a different cue from pornography and gone the way of "Boogie Nights," a fascinating, difficult and honest glimpse into another storied profession.
  9. Shark Tale
    Boasts a really spectacular cast to voice those reasonably funny jokes.
  10. I Heart Huckabees
    As one might imagine, with such a neato premise and lofty goal, the plot's a little messy. So points docked for execution.
  11. Dig!
    Anton, because after watching your tantrums, abuse and addiction in DIG! I went straight to the record store to buy your music. And that's something.
  12. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    It's not a hasty, knocked-together promo job--though it is clearly pro-Kerry.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Therese's story would work better as a marionette show than on the big screen. The camera is best at picking up subtleties, and there are simply none here.
  14. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Jakes' characters are points to be made, flesh and blood cautionary tales that don't particularly feel human. His dialogue, even in the mouths of Michelle and her troubled mother, sounds as if it comes straight from the pulpit.
  15. Infernal Affairs
    It's hard to breathe in Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs, a relentlessly taut Hong Kong cop thriller that, unlike many of its cinematic peers, doesn't burn off tension in choreographed action sequences.
  16. First Daughter
    It's a glossy, well-mounted, slickly done but almost stuporously predictable affair, both formula-bound and utterly illogical.
  17. The Forgotten
    The stylish and imaginative imagery in director Joseph Ruben's film, not to mention the parapsychological twists and mysteries, evoke the work of director M. Night Shyamalan.
  18. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Salles' movie isn't fiery or didactic. It doesn't rage or storm. Salles romanticizes the youthful Ernesto.
  19. The Last Shot
    Flockhart, as an actress desperate to show the world her talent but lethally unsure if she has any, embodies the obsessively driven personality it must take to make it, or to try to make it, in pictures. She's the personification of what The Last Shot could have been.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Anatomy of Hell
    Although several of her (Breillat's) previous films were intriguing and provocative, this one seems styled more as raw material for satire on "Mad TV" or "Saturday Night Live."
  21. A Dirty Shame
    John Waters is back with this awfully bawdy, never sexy, rarely funny, actually boring, one-note sex comedy.
  22. The Yes Men
    These are some terrifically funny and gutsy guys who want to draw attention to what they see as the natural limit of WTO policy.
  23. Shaun of the Dead
    A gleefully gory, pitch-perfect parody of George Romero's zombie films. But this isn't a movie about other movies. Shaun of the Dead stands on its own.
  24. Wimbledon
    It's a harmless enough movie, and quite a good-looking one; Bettany and Dunst are an attractive enough couple, even if Lizzie has been written as a selfish little snip and he as a whining man-child.
  25. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Conran has got himself a looker, with Paltrow in soft focus, the whole world larger than life and a title that, said in the proper low-pitched voice, conveys the tone of the film: exuberant, idiosyncratic and timeless.
  26. Head in the Clouds
    Townsend seemed to me ill-matched as a romantic hero: way too moony-eyed and mushy to cope with the likes of the towering Theron and torchy Cruz.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cowboys & Angels
    Here we witness a healthy friendship between a gay and straight male that doesn't call for stilted changes in personality or sexual orientation.
  28. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
    A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell. A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric.
    • 6 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    For the most part, The Gold Diggers is not even chuckle-producing. At best, it might warm a cockle or two or provoke a bit of a smile.
  30. Mr 3000
    Commits the cardinal sin of not being quite as funny as its star.
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