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For 6,818 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,006 out of 6818
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6818
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6818
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  1. Alfie
    Law's slick, pretty-boy reincarnation is less icy and insensitive than Caine's wide-boy original, so we still have all the painfully confused "What's it all about?" soul-searching.
  2. The Incredibles
    Looks like 2004 has given birth to a new superhero franchise after all.
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  3. Ali G Indahouse
    Relentlessly juvenile, it will offend moralists while making fans laugh out loud. It's only when demands of storytelling intrude that the film can't keep it up.
  4. Ray
    Falling on the meaty, potential role of a lifetime like a ravenous lion, erstwhile comedian Jamie Foxx, so good in "Collateral," is just wonderful as the eponymous star.
  5. Saw
    As good an all-out, non-camp horror movie as we’ve had lately.
  6. Birth
    Imagine if Stanley Kubrick had made Ghost and you're some way to this classily restrained oddity, but its morbid preoccupations and ambiguity might prove too cuckoo for most.
  7. Enduring Love
    Some great acting and visuals make up for this thriller’s frostiness.
  8. Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
    This tale of Mexican poverty refuses to lapse into sensation or melodrama.
  9. Sideways
    Brilliantly observed characters are becoming second nature to Payne and Taylor, and the performances here are uniformly terrific. This is wonderful, original stuff.
  10. The Grudge
    A lean, atmospheric and acutely creepy little horror pic - nothing more, nothing less.
  11. Surviving Christmas
    As it is, an unbearably irritating, shouty, gurning Affleck takes the anaemic script and injects it with strychnine.
  12. The Machinist
    It's a result so painfully logical it would make Lynch's hair stand on end.
  13. Undertow
    While the quirky structure could be taken as a bold move, the story still feels frustratingly incomplete, rendering the preceding hour or so a tantalising glimpse at what could have been.
  14. Team America: World Police
    It makes for a patchy comedy that's stronger as a genre-mocker than a political satire.
  15. Being Julia
    It's a shame the suggested theme of identity remains undeveloped, but there are enough laughs and splashes of nostalgic glamour to excuse that.
  16. Moolaadé
    Poetic, provocative and unstoppably powerful. But, depressingly, it probably won't change a thing.
  17. The Scandal
    Very 'talky', but the three lead females are excellent, as are the costumes and sets.
  18. Vera Drake
    Painful for many reasons, but highly recommended.
  19. Friday Night Lights
    The best sports movie for years, as it's not about sport at all. Forget fears of jingoistic grandstanding, this is an un-American all-American tale that deserves attention.
  20. Around the Bend
    One of those films that seems like it was made mainly for film festivals - and it has the awards to show for it.
  21. Primer
    It's a puzzle as much as a plot, but when it's in focus (which it isn't for long stretches) it's remarkable brain-food.
  22. Stage Beauty
    A film that, despite being about theatre itself, is remarkably cinematic and entirely unafraid to revel in the English language.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Hillside Strangler
    Irresponsible, exploitative trash.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Taxi
    It's loud, it's stupid, yet against all the odds, enjoyable.
  25. Tarnation
    For all the courage and ingenuity of this extraordinary film, it's clear that Caouette has actually resolved few issues and that his life is still very much a work in progress.
  26. Ladder 49
    Dull.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shark Tale
    Although the vocal performances often amuse and delight, the overall design is charmless.
  28. I Heart Huckabees
    A fresh, funny little romp.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Dig!
    A vibrant and vivid documentary masterwork, DiG! will have you celebrating independent filmmaking while lamenting the state of independent music-making.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    First Daughter
    Holmes’ wholesome charm keeps the movie afloat, but only just.
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