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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. The Dead Girl
    Moncrieff pushes a view of women as victims that might create its own pornography of masochism if it didn't touch so many authentic shattered nerve endings.
  2. Factory Girl
    As Factory Girl more than acknowledges, Edie Sedgwick's downward spiral was ultimately her own doing. Yet even as the film captures the silk-screen outline of her rise and fall, it never quite colors in who she was.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Arthur and the Invisibles
    "The Professional's" Luc Besson has made a fair share of artfully bad movies. Arthur and the Invisibles -- half-live-action, half-CG kid's adventure -- is (by a hair) more bad-bad, like "The Fifth Element," than good-bad, like "The Big Blue."
  4. Notes on a Scandal
    It's a poison bonbon tastier than just about anything else out there.
  5. Children of Men
    It's a work of art that deserves a space cleared for its angry, nervous beauty.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Black Christmas
    Twice as many accidental laughs as scares.
  7. The Good Shepherd
    Here, he's (Damon) the ultimate enigma machine, a man willing to erase himself for his country. Does that make him a hero? The Good Shepherd is too closemouthed to let on.
  8. Night at the Museum
    What a dull, nice movie, wrenched from a wild premise and battered into docility.
  9. We Are Marshall
    We Are Marshall has little of the bone-crunchingsincerity of the recent pigskin rouser "Invincible." This one is more like Unconvincing.
  10. Venus
    Venus has a swank pedigree, but in this case that doesn't mean it's much more than a quaint machine to elicit tears and awards.
  11. Curse of the Golden Flower
    Curse of the Golden Flower is a watchable soap opera, but its marching-band martial-arts scenes are little more than weakly staged retreads of the ones in Zhang's "Hero."
  12. Letters from Iwo Jima
    Clint Eastwood's profound, magisterial, and gripping companion piece to his ambitious meditation on wartime image and reality, "Flags of Our Fathers."
  13. The Painted Veil
    The always surprising Watts creates a woman at once contemporary and retro. And Norton, as a producer as well as star, concedes enough space for Schreiber and the effortlessly fascinating Jones to earn their own spotlights.
  14. Rocky Balboa
    There is much to poke at in Rocky Balboa, yet the movie, with its amusingly updated ''Gonna Fly Now'' montage and its very niftily staged climactic bout, summons just enough incredulous wit about just how often Rocky has been around this particular block to let Sylvester Stallone earn his nostalgia.
  15. Dreamgirls
    Dreamgirls is the rare movie musical with real rapture in it.
  16. The Good German
    The leisure-time viewer will say, ''Hey, this is sort of like "Casablanca," so why play it again?''
  17. Breaking and Entering
    However admirably Minghella urges a break from complacency and an entry into a state of local/global compassion, his characters are position holders rather than people.
  18. Charlotte's Web
    What hooks you from the start is Dakota Fanning's unfussy passion as Fern.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Eragon
    Though the movie, which was adapted from a book written by Christopher Paolini when he was a teenager, aims high by ripping off the classics (even down to Eragon’s murdered uncle), what it most recalls are the cheesy lost sword-and-sorcery epics from the '80s, awful movies in the vein of "Yor: The Hunter From the Future" and "The Blade Master."
  20. The Pursuit of Happyness
    It's a beautiful and understated performance, one that hums with a richer, quieter music than Smith has mustered before.
  21. Home of the Brave
    Evenness of political keel, combined with a generic filmmaking style, is an artistic weapon way too puny for a successful assault on so tough, bruising, and crucial a subject.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Secret Life of Words
    Can a single scene save a movie? An hour and 20 minutes into The Secret Life of Words, Sarah Polley delivers a halting, evocative 10-minute monologue that finally unlocks the mystery behind her guarded character.
  23. Apocalypto
    There's so much dark material jammed into this complicated, conflicted, challenging, and charismatic man's (Gibson) own noggin that sometimes he knows not, I think, what he's done. Here, behold, Mel Gibson has made the weirdest, most violent movie of the year.
  24. Blood Diamond
    There is every reason to learn about the link between jewels and death, by all means, but no reason to try to disguise a term paper as entertainment.
  25. The Holiday
    The dialogue has a perky synthetic sheen, and with the exception of Diaz, Meyers brings out the best in her actors.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Unaccompanied Minors
    Feig does wring out a few fleeting fun/heartfelt moments from the minors, and the movie's Christmas treacle is smoother than "Santa Clause 3's." But anyone old enough to go see this without a parent or guardian will have seen it all before.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Off the Black
    Sucking at the top of many a can, and greedily slurping the sides of an overflowing bottle, Nolte gives a master class in how to drink a beer on screen. The rest of his work here is sad, understated, and worth seeking out.
  28. Screamers
    The film offers true insight into the patterns of war crimes, even if the songs sound disquietingly close to a call to violence.
  29. Family Law
    Well acted.
  30. Inland Empire
    Inland Empire is so locked up in David Lynch's brain that it never burrows its way into ours.
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