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For 7,798 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 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Duplicity
    Duplicity doesn't have depth -- but it does have Julia Roberts, in full Hollywood movie-star mode.
  2. Away from Her
    Munro's stark lily needed none of this gilding.
  3. 300
    Look, but don't be touched: There is much to see but little to remember in this telling of a battle we are meant never to forget.
  4. V for Vendetta
    As a fix of pop iconography, V for Vendetta is eyeball grabbing, even if it lacks the relentless videogame bravura that sold the Matrix films. As a movie, however, it's merely okay, with a pivotal dramatic weakness: Evey, for all the attentions of her revolutionary Svengali, remains, in essence, a bystander, and Portman, her head shaved, plays her like Joan of Arc as a tremulous Girl Scout.
  5. Coco Before Chanel
    Tautou is a fascinating, unsmiling, petite presence with a severe brow and an androgynous appeal, so much so that I wish Alessandro Nivola (Junebug) were a more robust beau as Arthur ''Boy'' Capel, the love of Chanel's life.
  6. Downfall
    If I respect Downfall more than I was enthralled by it, that's because its portayal stops short of revelation. Once you witness Hitler's denial, the film has little more to say about him.
  7. Face
    Face becomes a study of the immigrant embrace of freedom in America - a bridge built over time and generations.
  8. Hostage
    My new theory is that Willis' own aesthetic soul is more old-world than he knows, and that he works best with directors who either are (Luc Besson) or might as well be (M. Night Shyamalan) European.
  9. The Upside of Anger
    The Upside of Anger is overly therapized, yet Costner and Allen show you what it means not just to play a role but to inhabit it.
  10. Mail Order Wife
    It took gifted hucksters to make this movie, a funny and spirited - what to call it?
  11. Off the Map
    This is a character study more than a forward-moving drama, plopped down with exquisite photographic care in a beautiful New Mexico desert, and starring good actors who make a feast of their flavorful roles.
  12. Fifty-Fifty
    Working from a script cowritten with accomplished Siberian filmmaker Sergey Bodrov, the director creates a taut picture of a place, and a liberating moment of choice.
  13. Major Dundee (re-release)
    If you want to see the missing link between John Wayne's squint and Clint Eastwood's sneer, look no further than Charlton Heston in Major Dundee.
  14. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    At selected moments the Pee Wee's Playhouse-scaled visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura in this long-awaited movie adaptation of Douglas Adams' goofy-wise cult classic are in perfect celestial harmony with the existential tomfoolery of Adams' peerless (and peerlessly Monty Python-British) creation.
  15. xXx: State of the Union
    This is a B movie rooted in gut-level stirrings of power and retaliation.
  16. 3-Iron
    3-Iron is like a Raymond Carver story that slowly, inexorably takes on the dimensions of a ghostly fairy tale.
  17. Death of a Dynasty
    An amiably raucous, scorched-earth mockumentary.
  18. Mad Hot Ballroom
    A testament to the discipline, humor, and life of kids who swing.
  19. Tell Them Who You Are
    Beneath its exploration of fatherly distance, this is really a portrait of why cranks make better artists than earnest nice guys.
  20. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
    If you want a whiff of how unironic the 1970s were, consider bowling, a sport that on any given weekend was broadcast (usually on ABC) with the hushed solemnity of a moon launch.
  21. Rock School
    I'd be lying if I didn't admit that Rock School, Don Argott's amusing and spirited documentary, would seem a heck of a lot niftier if its fire hadn't already been stolen by "School of Rock."
  22. Apres Vous (After You)
    Suicidal depression has rarely looked so amusing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pure
    Pure belongs to Eden, a remarkably strong child actor, and Deadwood's Molly Parker, broken and affecting as his sweaty, gear-crazy mum.
  24. The Great Water
    An anguished Macedonian drama.
  25. Herbie Fully Loaded
    For those newbies, this update, starring peppery Disney re-do queen Lindsay Lohan as wannabe car racer Maggie Peyton, is as serviceable an introduction as any to the notion of a sentient set of wheels.
  26. Tropical Malady
    It took me two viewings to enjoy the landscape of Weerasethakul's mysterious jungle -- so very thick, steamy, and foreign -- without wishing for clearer trail markers.
  27. The Beautiful Country
    Inside the Norwegian director's glove of empathy is a fist of unappeasable anger.
  28. Saraband
    Anyone expecting a tender sunset elegy, however, has wandered into the wrong film. Saraband, despite a few wistful moments, is a poison pill of a reunion.
  29. Chronicles
    The moral murk of Crónicas would be more effective if the story weren't so contrived, yet the movie is worth seeing for Leguizamo's sinewy urgency, Alcázar's desperate cleverness as the killer, and the squalid, frantic atmosphere of Latin American hunger.
  30. Last Days
    There is a method to its madness, since the madness here is really Cobain's. Last Days mythologizes his suicide as a haunting act of fulfillment: the consummation of a life that had already ceased to be.
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