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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 2.1 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. Notorious
    Notorious makes the death of Biggie Smalls look like a tragic mistake, instead of the outgrowth of a culture devoted to selling the fantasy of who's the biggest man.
  2. Fados
    Fados connects today's leading interpreters with legendary fadistas of the past. And it's the last title to be released under the banner of the venerable New Yorker Films.
  3. Alien Trespass
    The characters in Alien Trespass (directed by X-Files producing alum R.W. Goodwin) are specimens of Sputnik-era determination, led by a gung-ho Eric McCormack.
  4. Fast & Furious
    It offers an attractive getaway route from self-importance, snark, and chatty comedies about male bonding. Here, stick shifts do the talking.
  5. American Violet
    An artlessly powerful performance by newcomer Nicole Behaire anchors American Violet.
  6. Rudo y Cursi
    The intimate movie hums with a back-in-the-hood vibe that gets the two stars playing contentedly, and delightfully, for the love of local filmmaking.
  7. O'Horten
    Jack Nicholson's dyspeptic retiree in "About Schmidt" would no doubt identify with O'Horten's entertaining pain.
  8. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    Scott gets into the zip and rush of urban energy with an enthusiasm bordering on hilarity.
  9. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    Battle of the Smithsonian has plenty of life. But it's Adams who gives it zing.
  10. The End of the Line
    Spells out the problem in clear, urgent, prosaic terms.
  11. Chéri
    Pfeiffer transcends any hint of cliché ''cougar'' voraciousness.
  12. Surveillance
    A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple "Rashomon."
  13. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    The story is timeless; this could have taken place when Doyle graduated in '76 -- or any year, really, since the effects of high school linger throughout adult life and nerds are forever.
  14. Paper Heart
    The movie's hide-and-seek attitude toward truth mirrors the intricacies of one lover getting to know another -- an arresting notion of the heart that's much more than paper-deep.
  15. Crude
    It's a David-and-Goliath tale, full of anger and disturbing accusation, but it's also inspiring.
  16. The Horse Boy
    Turns into a lyrical and stirring meditation on the mystery of autism.
  17. More Than a Game
    It's the die-hard camaraderie that undergirded this squad and lifted it to the top.
  18. Good Hair
    Rock gives Good Hair a rousing message: Where African-Americans in the '60s adopted a ''natural'' look, they now feel free to coif their heads any way they want. That's cultural power.
  19. The House of the Devil
    There's wit but never a wink in this smartly shot production, which pays homage to the 1980s without fetishizing the era.
  20. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
    His pluck and chutzpah shine through.
  21. The Exploding Girl
    Gray has an artful, understated way of conveying what's going ?on inside, often simply by focusing his camera on Kazan.
  22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Does a great job of being in two places at once: In the head and gangly bodies of kids, and in the hearts of those of us who have survived grades 6-8.
  23. Greenberg
    Baumbach's movies are addictive dispatches from a genteel jungle of white privilege, where highly educated people behave badly. I can't take my eyes off the exotic wildlife.
  24. The Eclipse
    What holds The Eclipse together is Hinds' sorrowful and moving performance as a man haunted in more ways than one.
  25. Waking Sleeping Beauty
    The joy of cartoons meets the agony of office politics in this fascinating, inside- Hollywood-baseball documentary.
  26. The Brothers
    Passionate and saucy comedy.
  27. End of the Century
    A documentary that digs deep inside this most revolutionary and tortured of punk quartets, it's hard not to feel that the Ramones, who never had a hit record, were the greatest band in 50 years to be stonewalled out of success.
  28. The Château
    If anyone steals the movie, though, it's Sylvie Testud, who never lets on whether the sexy French country maid she's playing is mournfully obtuse or embodies the wisdom of the ages.
  29. Painted Fire
    Art history majors may write in with corrections. Meanwhile, I'm declaring that the masterly, big-canvas biographical drama Chi-hwa-seon: Painted Fire is about the Jackson Pollock of 19th-century Korea.
  30. The Cider House Rules
    Lasse Hallström calms Irving's typically busy 1985 best-seller with a balm of the Swedish director's typically soothing lyricism.
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