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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 2.1 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. Surf's Up
    An animated family movie about penguins -- in the wake of "March of the Happy Feet," they're the Angelina Jolie of animals, both cute and admired everywhere. Plus, it's about surfing.
  2. La Vie en Rose
    Hurtling and impassioned, driven by some of the greatest popular music ever recorded, this wildly overripe and unkempt biopic is a true experience.
  3. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    An irresistibly vibrant concert-tour documentary.
  4. Sicko
    The Cuban escapade, designed to provoke, backfires when he loses focus by including Cuban firefighters in an homage to 9/11 first responders.
  5. Vitus
    Vitus, a fizzy domestic fairy tale from Switzerland, gives you a lift, as it revels in the oddball joy of genius as kid power.
  6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    The flourishes don't answer the question most on Potterites' minds -- who lives, who dies? -- but they briefly stupefy.
  7. My Best Friend
    An unlikely comedy charmer.
  8. Sunshine
    Another thinking-person's thriller from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, also co-pilots on "28 Days Later."
  9. The Simpsons Movie
    The best thing about this long-awaited feature-length project, a classic Simpsonian interplay of family psychology, social commentary, and brainy visual and verbal jokes tossed off at rat-a-tat speed, is how relaxed it manages to be.
  10. The Ten
    Devious and inspired enough to juice you past any weak spots. Thou shalt be amused.
  11. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    There's no denying its grip: It is lurid, fascinating, sickening, and eye-opening.
  12. Shoot 'Em Up
    Its pulpy violent excess will tip over...into slightly more excessive excess. That's its silly, scuzzball joy.
  13. The Hunting Party
    What makes The Hunting Party an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture.
  14. King of California
    It's as if the star (Douglas) finally gets to integrate all his onscreen personas, all at once.
  15. The Darjeeling Limited
    This is familiar psychological as well as stylistic territory for Anderson after "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums." But there's a startling new maturity in Darjeeling, a compassion for the larger world that busts the confines of the filmmaker's miniaturist instincts.
  16. Control
    Control goes past the clichés of punk rock-god gloom to offer a snapshot of alienation that's shockingly humane.
  17. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    The whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way.
  18. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    It's galvanizing to see it played out through the furious contradiction of Carter's personality. He is pious, stubborn, compassionate, testy, moral, unreasonable, and wise.
  19. Terror's Advocate
    The title Terror's Advocate is both a statement of fact and a worrisome understatement in a documentary as slippery as its subject.
  20. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    Captures the Joe Strummer who, in the late 1970s, just about firebombed the rock establishment with his fury.
  21. Lynch
    As skewed, prismatic, and free of fluff as the man himself.
  22. Beowulf
    Beowulf is a solemnly gorgeous, at times borderline stolid piece of Tolkien-with-a-joystick mythology.
  23. Enchanted
    Enchanted is festooned with extravagant set pieces -- there's a great number in praise of romantic gestures, and a ballroom scene to make even grown-up girls swoon.
  24. The Mist
    There's a grim modern parable to be read into the dangerous effects of the gospel-preaching local crazy lady Mrs. Carmody (brilliantly played by a hellfire Marcia Gay Harden) on a congregation of the fearful.
  25. Sharkwater
    This beautiful and urgent eco-doc takes a bite out of the shark mythology made indelible by "Jaws."
  26. Charlie Wilson's War
    It's all about a likable scoundrel who discovers what it means to act out of conviction. The film's underlying twist, though, is tartly ironic.
  27. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    The movie is so finely minced a mixture of Sondheim's original melodrama and Burton's signature spicing that it's difficult to think of any other filmmaker so naturally suited for the job.
  28. Cloverfield
    Cloverfield, a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment disguised, under its deadpan-neutral title, as a dumb Gen-YouTube monster movie, makes the convincingly chilling argument that the world will end -- or, at least, Manhattan will crumble -- with a bang and a whimper.
  29. How She Move
    Rutina Wesley glowers with just the right touch of sweetness as a brainy student (and stellar after-school stepper).
  30. The Witnesses
    What the characters in The Witnesses -- and we, the audience -- pay testimony to in André Téchiné's urgent, compassionate, and ultimately optimistic French drama are the toll the epidemic has rung, and the responsibility of the living to choose life.
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