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For 7,798 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 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    Enlightenment is good, Dai acknowledges. But the movie's more provocative assertion is the notion that ignorance was also a kind of bliss.
  2. The Skeleton Key
    For anyone zombified by creaky thriller clichés, Skeleton is a fine little shot in the head.
  3. Darwin's Nightmare
    Darwin's Nightmare points an all-purpose finger at globalization, yet the movie, as raw and vivid as it is, meanders terribly and - bigger problem - never hints at how the disasters it shows us are rooted in Africa's colonial past.
  4. Duma
    Ballard connects you to the beauteous inner calm of the wild, even if audiences today are looking for a lot less calm.
  5. Clean
    Not your average divorce gift: Clean's writer-director Olivier Assayas created the role of recovering rock-world druggie Emily Wang for his ex-wife, art-house/action-pic royalty Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love).
  6. Games of Love and Chance
    The vérité fascinates, even if the artifice is obvious.
  7. Cote d'Azur
    The performances are mediocre. The heart is big. The weather is swell.
  8. Corpse Bride
    As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has to be reckoned some sort of marvel.
  9. Serenity
    Jaw set but never stiff, he (Fillion) gets both the Whedon wit and the Whedon grandiloquence between cheek and gum, and gives the whole enterprise the heft of a real saga.
  10. Going Shopping
    Going Shopping is sharp and funny about all the things that shopping can mean to the women who live to do it, and even to those who don't.
  11. North Country
    Might have been richer, tougher, more honestly liberal if it had revealed a few more shades of gray among the men.
  12. New York Doll
    This makes for a modestly touching journey, but New York Doll, in its wafer-thin way, is an oxymoron: a hagiographic tribute to a rocker with more passion than talent.
  13. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    The movie, for all its half-baked visual marvels, remains remarkably faithful to Lewis' story, and the innocence of his passion begins to shine through. It's there, most spectacularly, in Aslan, the lion-king messiah.
  14. The Family Stone
    Parker has a great time being the anti–Carrie Bradshaw while Keaton-as-matriarch is a particular joy -- funny, beautiful, elegant, touching, and at ease with a familiar, get-out-your-hankies holiday subplot.
  15. The Matador
    The cinematography is consistently hipster handsome, the script is bracing in its lewdness, and Brosnan adds no unnecessary weight to Noble's meaninglessness.
  16. The Ringer
    The surprise of The Ringer is that the movie is pretty damn funny.
  17. Casanova
    And if real eroticism is missing - this is a Disney movie, with bosoms heaving more in a gentle parody of heaving than in full desire - the great discovery of this Casanova is Hallström's recovered capacity for play.
  18. Hostel
    It's obligatory for a horror film to feature exploitative sex as an appetizer, but Roth, even as he fulfills the sleaze imperative, does something shrewder: He mocks his heroes, presenting them as cold-eyed horndog jerks who fail to see that they've wandered into an entire country of exploitation.
  19. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Sophie Scholl has a certain quiet dignity that wins its audience popularity honestly.
  20. Madea's Family Reunion
    Let's not sell Tyler Perry short. As the vinegar-witted Madea, he's a drag performer of testy charm, but in his overlit patchwork way he's also making the most primal women's pictures since Joan Crawford flexed her shoulder pads.
  21. The Shaggy Dog
    The star (Allen), unleashed, is so energetic in his approximation of a bearded collie -- his nose sniffing the air, his whole being (which toggles between human and canine form) overcome by the need to fetch any stick thrown -- that his slobbery charm carries the picture.
  22. Don't Come Knocking
    Shepard's charisma has always reached back to an earlier time, so it's easy to accept him as a kind of pre-counterculture hero - Eastwood without the sneer - who aged into the era of tabloid scandal.
  23. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    The documentary takes on its own engaging shape - one of edgy editorial and political ambivalence.
  24. L'Enfant (The Child)
    It makes sense that L'Enfant has been hailed as a masterpiece, since a masterpiece is what it's trying, in every unvarnished frame, to be. If you wandered unknowingly into the film, however, you would see this: a stark, fascinating, and naggingly detached character study.
  25. Friends with Money
    There is also a manufactured symmetry, an every-gal's-got-issues roundness, an HBO sitcomitude to the movie that undercuts its own observational intelligence.
  26. I Am a Sex Addict
    Zahedi is ruefully funny and savage in his self-exposure.
  27. Somersault
    The character can be a dolt, but Cornish is a marvel, exuding a reckless hunger and prowling with a sexuality of potent directness.
  28. Stick It
    A deliriously, defiantly unfocused headrush, Stick It is primarily an exercise in exercise.
  29. Three Times
    Do Hou's films deserve to be seen? Absolutely, if only to end the myth that they're too perfect for this world.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Saving Shiloh
    Saving Shiloh is like one of those wholesome, old-fashioned films that you used to watch with your third-grade classmates during visits to the library.
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