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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Sunshine
    While inevitably oversimplified, is never less than engrossing.
  2. Rain
    As it moves from the drizzly to the overly stormy, Rain freights a young girl's self-destructive eagerness to lose her virginity with so much danger and even horror that it's as if the events were trying to make up for the film's previous lack of drama.
  3. Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    The events may be accurate, but Mesrine is so episodic that it's slightly maddening to watch.
  4. Get On Up
    Get On Up too often plays it safe when it needs to be dangerous.
  5. I Like Killing Flies
    The result is an unabashedly home-cooked homage to New York eccentricity.
  6. Donnie Darko
    Kelly, the 26-year-old writer-director of this excitingly original indie vision, shares more artistically with Wes Anderson or Paul Thomas Anderson than he does with Spielberg or John Hughes, but the point is, he's out on his own here. He swings big -- with flair.
  7. The Great Buster: A Celebration
    In The Great Buster, Bogdanovich has provided a brilliantly enthralling primer.
  8. Shazam!
    Shazam! is basically two movies in one. One with Levi and his wiseass foster brother (a fresh Jack Dylan Grazer), the other with Strong and all his snarling, computer-generated gobbledygook. And they both have the other in a headlock, wrestling for the soul of the story. I loved one, yawned through the other.
  9. Our Brand Is Crisis
    A fascinating glimpse at the perils of ''exporting'' democracy.
  10. Games of Love and Chance
    The vérité fascinates, even if the artifice is obvious.
  11. Mrs Henderson Presents
    This makes for a friendly romp, and also a dull one.
  12. The Room Next Door
    Even with its preoccupation with death, The Room Next Door is not a dour film. In fact, it’s rather optimistic, celebrating the beauties of life and meaningful connection in the face of death with a thoughtful, pensive tone.
  13. Light Sleeper
    Schrader seems to have found his way. In Light Sleeper, he attains a new, fluid emotionalism. The movie is a small but absorbing mood piece, a canny insider’s view of the life of a Manhattan drug dealer.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Swan Princess
    With its modern sensibility and a visual look beautifully steeped in tradition, The Swan Princess takes a well-deserved place in the circle of animation.
  15. Prisoners
    The thriller that's exciting, cathartic, and powerfully disturbing. Prisoners is that type of movie. It's rooted in 40 years of Hollywood revenge films, yet it also breaks audacious new ground.
  16. Year of the Dog
    I mean no impertinence when I say that as a portrait of love and grief, writer-director Mike White's exceptional film Year of the Dog deserves the same admiration accorded Joan Didion's exceptional memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking."
  17. Batman Begins
    A confidently original, engrossing interpretation.
  18. Earth Days
    A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.
  19. The Tao of Steve
    It's a tiny, sunny character study about a fat guy who's an unlikely chick magnet. And as such it's a pip.
  20. Hamlet
    Almereyda excises big chunks of plot to shape his vision, but retains Shakespeare's language and pays such rigorous attention to meaning and subtext that what's missing isn't missed.
  21. Quills
    Quills bleaches the danger -- and fascination -- out of De Sade, turning him into a kind of mad saint of ''Masterpiece Theatre'' porn.
  22. Amélie
    The charming movie, already an international success, seduces.
  23. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?
    Horton's attempt to authenticate the painting in the face of a hostile art establishment becomes a study in forensics, taste, money, and class warfare.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge
    Overflowing with Lester’s trademark irreverence and slapstick, these films still retain a vivid and bawdy period flavor.
  25. Standard Operating Procedure
    Morris, using a welter of photographs (many of which we haven't seen), constructs a day-to-day sense of how Abu Ghraib descended into a medieval hell.
  26. Star Trek: First Contact
    By the time Worf (Michael Dorn), knocking off a slimy attacker, growls a Schwarzeneggerish ''Assimilate this!'' we've already done so, with pleasure.
  27. I Love You, Man
    By far the best Judd Apatow comedy that Judd Apatow had nothing at all to do with.
  28. Where's My Roy Cohn?
    Donald Trump was less kind, essentially abandoning him after his then still-secret diagnosis. Tyrnauer smartly doesn’t overplay the symbolism of their relationship, or work too hard to connect the dots; it’s all there to take or leave in the film’s shrewd, illuminating exploration of a man whose influence, for better or worse, may have far outdone even his wildest dreams.
  29. Ushpizin
    The unusual intimacy and authenticity can't be faked: The cast is peppered with nonprofessionals, most notably Michal Bat Sheva Rand.
  30. The Walk
    The 17-minute wire-walking sequence is the most majestic simulation of a real event since the ship sinking in Titanic—a dazzling triumph of photorealistic digital effects, which exhibits Zemeckis’ mastery of both CGI and pace.
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