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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. Notes on a Scandal
    It's a poison bonbon tastier than just about anything else out there.
  2. An Unreasonable Man
    Nader became famous as a "consumer advocate," but as the thrilling first hour of An Unreasonable Man makes clear, that humdrum bureaucratic term didn't do justice to his courage, his vision.
  3. Bamako
    The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighborly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.
  4. Grindhouse
    Grindhouse, like "Ed Wood" and "Boogie Nights," celebrates how certain low-grade entertainment, viewed in hindsight, looks different now than it did then, since we can see the ''innocence'' of its creation -- the handmade quality of it -- in a world not yet ruled by corporate technology.
  5. Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
    A love poem to the New York City of the '50s and '60s, when Smith, the visionary of camp (Andy Warhol stole from him), more or less invented performance art.
  6. Waitress
    A wee romantic charmer, a delectable Dixie screwball romp that never loses its spry sense of discovery.
  7. Ten Canoes
    A marvel of warm collaboration and shared jokes about husbands and wives, shot both in dreamscape color and pristine black and white.
  8. Manufactured Landscapes
    Jennifer Baichwal's gorgeous documentary Manufactured Landscapes amplifies the powerful work of Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian artist who specializes in large-scale photographs of terrain transformed by civilization into rivers and tides of industrial ugliness.
  9. Lady Chatterley
    There's an adult life force in every frame of this luxuriously paced work, even in the sight of rain and a lady's stocking.
  10. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A funny and madly arresting new documentary.
  11. In the Shadow of the Moon
    In the Shadow of the Moon finds new resonance in the moment when America redefined progress -- but also when it heeded the siren song of a world so desolate it reminded you what a paradise ours truly is.
  12. In the Valley of Elah
    It's the first Hollywood Iraq movie to remind me of a Vietnam film like Coming Home, and it does more than disturb. It scalds, moves, and heals.
  13. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    The nervy style of this newfangled Western, with its eerie, insinuating score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is so effective that long after Pitt and Affleck have left the screen, emotional disturbance lingers like gun smoke.
  14. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    Between clips of the concerts Seeger staged as hootenanny hosannas, the film chronicles how the blacklisted star stuck true to his beliefs -- which were more patriotic than those of his accusers.
  15. Michael Clayton
    It's better than good; it's such a crackling and mature and accomplished movie that it just about restores your faith.
  16. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Mesmerizing.
  17. I'm Not There.
    I'm Not There lets you hear it again, more majestically than ever.
  18. Oswald's Ghost
    In Oswald's Ghost, his vast chronicle of the JFK assassination and its cultural aftermath, Stone uses little-seen footage to assemble the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with a fascinating present-tense density.
  19. Elegy
    There's a poetic irony to the idea that it took a female filmmaker to finally do justice to Philip Roth on screen.
  20. Snow Angels
    David Gordon Green's captivating winter-chill tragedy, is a tale that encompasses murder, divorce, adultery, alcohol abuse, mental breakdown, and the disappearance of a small child. In other words, it's downbeat enough to make the recent Oscar-nominated films look like party games.
  21. Up the Yangtze
    Filmmaker Yung Chang finds a sad and beautiful way to glimpse the big picture of dislocation through an exquisitely poised small study.
  22. Battle for Haditha
    Searing, powerful, and morally entangled.
  23. Encounters at the End of the World
    The stunning images aren't enough for Herzog, though. He wants us to see how these quirky researchers, in their lust to explore, are acting out a drive as primitive as nature: the need to break away from the world in order to find it.
  24. My Winnipeg
    Both the definition of ''my'' and the definition of ''Winnipeg'' become profoundly fluid in this exquisite ''docu-fantasia'' (Maddin's term), an entrancing riffle through the olde curiosity shoppe of the filmmaker's psyche.
  25. Tropic Thunder
    It's raunchy, outspoken -- and also a smart and agile dissection of art, fame, and the chutzpah of big-budget productions.
  26. Trouble the Water
    Essential, unique viewing.
  27. I.O.U.S.A.
    If they handed out an Academy Award for Most Gripping Graphs and Charts, this film would take it.
  28. A Christmas Tale
    The movie is enchanting.
  29. Of Time and the City
    ''Documentary'' is too impersonal a word and ''visual poem'' is too mushy a phrase to describe Of Time and the City, a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies.
  30. Every Little Step
    A movie as layered and enthralling as its subject.
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