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For 4,492 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 'Round Midnight
Lowest review score: 0 Couples Retreat
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,780 out of 4492
  2. Mixed: 1,361 out of 4492
  3. Negative: 351 out of 4492
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  1. The Sea Inside
    Bardem is brilliant.
  2. Imaginary Heroes
    Superbly acted.
  3. Million Dollar Baby
    It's an ideal match, and Eastwood deserves accolades as both director and star of this powerfully made picture.
  4. Santa Smokes
    Forgettable fun.
  5. Ocean's Twelve
    Isn't just a double whammy, it's a whammy squared - a goofy, stylish heist movie that'll steal moviegoers from other pictures.
  6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    The director of "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums" scores his most funny-sad movie to date.
  7. A Talking Picture
    As a nonagenarian, de Oliveira is the world's oldest working filmmaker, and still one of the best. This is a lovely, lively, timely treat for the eyes and mind.
  8. A Tale of Two Sisters
    Quite restrained for what's basically a horror movie, and very well acted.
  9. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    A stirring documentary, and would be more so if it focused more on social problems than on Briski's own work.
  10. Closer
    It's too emotionally honest and psychologically dense for its own good. It's a movie that demands more than one viewing to absorb all its ideas and feelings.
  11. House of Flying Daggers
    It's great, fantastical fun.
  12. Conspiracy of Silence
    The story meanders, but the subject is timely and important.
  13. The Deserted Station
    Intimate and engaging.
  14. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Gripping, suspenseful, and spiced with fascinating information about the long history of chess between human and mechanical opponents.
  15. A Very Long Engagement
    Longer than necessary, that is, for the story it has to tell. This flaw aside, the drama is well crafted and sometimes touching, with especially forceful opening scenes.
  16. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    A must-see account that casts a harshly illuminating light on a key period of recent American history.
  17. Alexander
    It's astounding that the ingenious creator of "JFK" and "Wall Street" could make an epic on war and empire that's so utterly simplistic and unreflective.
  18. Christmas with the Kranks
    Its main message is that everyone should believe and behave in exactly the same way. Groupthink wins again!
  19. Notre musique
    Visually sublime and intellectually dense, this is one of the extremely rare movies that prove cinema can be as complex and profound as the very greatest art works in any form.
  20. Bob, Verushka & the Pursuit of Happiness
    Tries to be a new "Something Wild"; ends up being tamer than tame.
  21. National Treasure
    Too bad the clever bits are swamped by no-brainer gunfights, rescues, and chases galore.
  22. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The delights of the movie lie in its zany characters, its goofy settings, and above all its surrealistic visual style.
  23. Bad Education
    Spain's most important living filmmaker isn't at his very best in this complicated tale, but it raises still-timely questions well worth pondering.
  24. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    It's inexplicable that Wong's early masterpiece has been virtually absent from American screens since he completed it in 1991.
  25. After the Sunset
    This indirect rehash of "To Catch a Thief" trades Hitchcockian shrewdness for the slickest kinds of Hollywood glitz, gloss, and vulgarity.
  26. Finding Neverland
    Forster keeps the picture as a whole in perfect tune with Depp's approach.
  27. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    The movie catches occasional fire when Bridget suddenly says what's really on her mind. The rest is silliness.
  28. Kinsey
    The movie's style is fairly staid, but it's hard to imagine how Neeson could be better, and the subject is handled with taste and tact.
  29. Little Lili
    Splendidly acted and directed.
  30. Noel
    Santa Claus's bag couldn't hold as many clichés as the screenplay dishes out.
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