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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 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. Battle in Seattle
    His (Townsend) staging has a tumult, a multi-POV immediacy that brings to mind Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday."
  2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    So much goes down on Nick and Norah's one enchanted evening that the best advice is to enjoy the ride -- the actual ride -- around this vibrant new New York.
  3. Happy-Go-Lucky
    The London universe Leigh creates (employing his trademark improv techniques to unite his ensemble, many of whom make their film debuts) isn't so much a reality as a hope, and an invitation to find joy and grace in everyday moments.
  4. JCVD
    A reality-twisting cousin to "Being John Malkovich" -- showcases a Van Damme who's sly like a fox about his own image.
  5. Milk
    A fascinating film -- more docudrama than biopic.
  6. Bolt
    Bolt breaks no great new stylistic ground -- and yet it's a sturdy beaut.
  7. Wendy and Lucy
    Wendy and Lucy is like "Lassie Come Home" directed by Antonioni. What's piercing about it, and also disturbing, is that Reichardt views the renunciation of society with something close to righteous purity -- as a lefty romantic dream.
  8. Marley & Me
    Wilson has a scene near the end with Marley that's the most wrenchingly tender acting of his career.
  9. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Breathless and petite yet powerfully in-your-face, Fisher combines dizzy femininity and no-nonsense verve in the manner of a classic screwball heroine. She's like Carole Lombard reborn as a tiny angel-faced dynamo.
  10. Katyn
    The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda musters the power of classical filmmaking and personal emotional investment to dramatize a stunning atrocity long covered up.
  11. Tokyo Sonata
    Known for distinctive horror movies like "Cure" and "Pulse," inventive Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds just the right melancholy tone to suit a new and all too familiar kind of horror: economic downsizing.
  12. The Great Buck Howard
    The Great Buck Howard is in love with kitsch, the backwaters of showbiz, and true magic. It's a wee charmer that left me enchanted.
  13. Frost/Nixon
    Surges with an energy and visual verve that improve the play and enhance the themes of dramatist Peter Morgan's script.
  14. American Swing
    Plato's Retreat was a buffet of bodies, and the film catches the moment America could think that was tasty.
  15. Observe and Report
    The superb character actor Celia Weston (In the Bedroom) is truly breathtaking as Ronnie's boozer mom.
  16. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    Film music by Nino Rota provides a Fellini overlay.
  17. Earth
    This super-duper deluxe nature documentary clearly aims to recruit young viewers as conservationists.
  18. Il Divo
    You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely enjoy the fantastical, Fellini-fied, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il Divo.
  19. Outrage
    The movie excoriates the hypocrisy of self-hating gay lawmakers (several of whom it outs), yet it also explores the burden of the public closet.
  20. $9.99
    Using the droll, wise stories of Etgar Keret as her guide, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal concocts an artful film that expresses deep thoughts, lightly.
  21. Lorna's Silence
    A stunning study of one desperate woman's conscience.
  22. Amreeka
    Amreeka is strategically inviting and carefully mild even when making unsubtle points about Palestinian suffering and American insensitivity.
  23. Splice
    A cheeky, great-looking, thoughtfully loopy creature feature about the lure and dangers of cutting-edge gene splicing.
  24. (Untitled)
    The whole cast is museum quality, and the ''music'' performances are pitch-perfect in their dissonance.
  25. Defamation
    This brave documentary takes on the topic of anti-Semitism in a relentlessly probing and original way.
  26. Red Riding Trilogy
    Each episode (originally made for British TV) works by itself, but there's a real payoff in following all three. (Nothing matches The "Wire," but this holds its own.)
  27. How to Train Your Dragon
    Rouses you in conventional ways, but it's also the rare animated film that uses 3-D for its breathtaking spatial and emotional possibilities.
  28. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Gorgeously shot tableaux of random adolescent brutality are interrupted by flashes of computer garble and chat-room talk, backed by ''Lily's'' music, with its blend of Debussy-like arpeggios and Enya-like sighing.
  29. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Does the movie, with its sock-puppet intros and narration by RuPaul Charles, mock Tammy Faye, sanctify her, or turn her into a flamboyant image of distressed womanly martyrdom -- the Judy Garland of televangelism? All of the above.
  30. Die Another Day
    The savviest and most exciting Bond adventure in years, and that's because there's actually something at stake in it.
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