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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. Hotel Rwanda
    A strange history lesson that leaves us more overlectured than properly overwhelmed.
  2. Imaginary Heroes
    Nothing in Imaginary Heroes rings true, least of all a plot that lightly combines domestic abuse, adulterous pregnancy, teen bisexuality, job abandonment, and a possible case of Mysterious Movie Disease. These are not ordinary people. Or real ones.
  3. Beyond the Sea
    Weirdly moving.
  4. Flight of the Phoenix
    Refreshingly, it's actually about action, albeit arbitrary action, and how it defines us and keeps us alive.
  5. The Sea Inside
    The classy production, with its aesthetic graces, is especially convincing about the charisma of the man, a performance specialty of the great Bardem.
  6. Spanglish
    This is a deeply unpleasant movie masquerading as a heartfelt social commentary on life in these United States.
  7. The Aviator
    Scorsese, I think, is so invested in making The Aviator upbeat and rousing that the movie never quite reveals, the way that "Kinsey" or "Ray" or "A Beautiful Mind" or even a good E! True Hollywood Story do, how its hero's vision and his grand torments could be flip sides of the same temperament.
  8. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Isn't nearly as cheerily unpleasant as it ought to be.
  9. Million Dollar Baby
    A movie of tough excitement and surprise, even grace.
  10. Dolls
    As an exception to the norm, Kitano doesn't appear this time, confining himself merely to writing, directing, and editing.
  11. Ocean's Twelve
    What's on screen is lazy, second-rate, phoned-in -- a heist in which it's the audience whose pockets have been picked.
  12. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    As someone who has warmed up to Anderson's work only gradually, I'd call this a step back for him, but I also can't help but wonder: Will he ever take that crucial step forward and stop saying, Isn't it ironic?
  13. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Designed to be "inspirational," yet it shortchanges the complex reality of the lives it makes such a show of saving.
  14. Blade: Trinity
    Blunt-witted, visually pedestrian, and overly long, with too many scenes of Blade and his cohorts standing around in darkened corridors, waiting for their enemies to show up. The action, however, is as throat-grabbing as you want it to be.
  15. House of Flying Daggers
    An outrageously gorgeous spectacle of balletic aggression. At the same time, it offers something we rarely encounter in a whirling martial-arts extravaganza: a romantic passion that's woven into the very fabric of the action.
  16. Conspiracy of Silence
    Want Jesuitical fineness of argument? Look elsewhere. This one merely answers the prayers of those looking for an argument.
  17. The Deserted Station
    Slow going, but I mean it as no insult when I say that it bored me, in the end, to tears.
  18. I Am David
    The movie meets the requirements of the "Life Is Beautiful" school; those loyal to the tougher, more stringent Osama academy of realism need not apply.
  19. Closer
    The last thing Marber's quartet of modern miserables needs is to be admired; they are the very worst of average people, but on screen they have become the very best of the baddest.
  20. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    A gripping documentary that uses voluminous period evidence — unedited news footage, tape recordings of SLA leader Cinque's rants — to brilliantly reconstruct the entire freak event.
  21. Purple Butterfly
    Too often, Purple Butterfly is as impenetrable as Zhang's placid, obdurate beauty.
  22. A Very Long Engagement
    This is a movie that considers graphic violence with a refined taste for the sensuous: Guts spill, blood spurts, corpses stink, but there is a handsome, absurdist humanity to the way Jeunet (who wrote the script with Guillaume Laurant) maps out the crossroads of human carnage and human caring.
  23. Notre musique
    Notre Musique is Godard's post-9/11 statement, a meditation on how war emerges from the eternal, and hypocritical, duality of human perception -- the sense that it's always ''the other'' who dies.
  24. Christmas with the Kranks
    In its hostile sitcom way, Christmas With the Kranks is a paranoid comic nightmare of conformity gone mad.
  25. Alexander
    An exhausted epic, one that Stone has directed with an almost startling lack of personality or vision.
  26. National Treasure
    The character of a scruffy computer nerd, played with might-as-well-enjoy-myself charm by little-known actor Justin Bartha, steals the picture from glossier players.
  27. Bad Education
    It's a film noir that grows more potent as its secrets are revealed.
  28. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The best moments in his first movie outing are those that feel most TV-like, just another day in the eternally optimistic undersea society.
  29. Bright Future
    The most spellbinding aspect of Bright Future is that the surrealism sustains its own squiddish logic, concluding with one of the most breathtaking film finales of the year.
  30. Little Lili
    Because the talk never gets beyond statement making, and because the characters emit none of Chekhov's radiantly lived-in soulfulness, there's plenty of time to appreciate the sun-kissed landscape.
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