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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 2.2 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. North Country
    Might have been richer, tougher, more honestly liberal if it had revealed a few more shades of gray among the men.
  2. Loggerheads
    Kirkman is shrewd enough to coax a wistful performance out of pretty boy Kip Pardue.
  3. Nine Lives
    What could have been a parlor game becomes a surprisingly rich sketchbook, boosted by the work of fine actors.
  4. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    Good Night, and Good Luck has a small-scale time-capsule fascination, yet its hermeticism is really a form of moral caution -- a way of keeping the issues neat, the liberal idealism untainted.
  5. In Her Shoes
    Could it be that the director of "L.A. Confidential," "Wonder Boys," and "8 Mile" has been defeated by characters on a first-name basis with brisket, by women who, in Susannah Grant's screenplay, represent avatars of joyless workaholism and joyless sexaholism?
  6. Two for the Money
    Sports betting is a great subject for a movie, but Two for the Money is short on the number-crunching nitty-gritty.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Waiting...
    With its sweet stupidity and shoddy production values, Waiting... knowingly evokes bad '80s R-rated comedies, but the differences are telling.
  8. The Squid and the Whale
    In hovering, The Squid and the Whale becomes its own realistic display of family entropy, as cautionary as it is educational.
  9. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Bestows generous blessings on all that's good in Englishness, in moviedom, and, of course, in cheese.
  10. Capote
    Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Greatest Game Ever Played
    An inert family golf movie.
  12. Into the Blue
    Walker is supposed to be lured by the buried treasure, but the actor, wearing Brad Pitt's bristle cut, is like Pitt with his sexy appetite sucked out.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. MirrorMask
    This dazzling reverie of a kids-and-adults movie, an unusual collaboration between lord-of-the-cult multimedia artist Dave McKean and king-of-the-comics Neil Gaiman (The Sandman), has something to astonish everyone.
  16. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    Anderson's adaptation is heavy on production numbers in which jingles come to life and light on conveying any real feelings of Eisenhower-era darkness the prizewinner herself might have felt during her decades of marriage to an abusive, drunken man.
  17. The War Within
    The War Within plays effectively off our voyeurism, yet it has such a cloistered, American-eyed view of the nightmare of terrorism that I kept searching for the profound explanation beneath its piecemeal ones.
  18. Forty Shades of Blue
    Director Ira Sachs moves to the rhythms of his native Memphis, teasing emotional resonance out of geography.
  19. A History of Violence
    David Cronenberg's brilliant movie -- without a doubt one of the very best of the year.
  20. Flightplan
    Since Foster plays warming-up-for-a-straitjacket panic with a clenched intensity rare to behold in a Hollywood actress, I, for one, was rooting for the radical -- that is, nuthouse -- option.
  21. Roll Bounce
    Bow Wow plays the skate-dance hero in a way that's never too cool to hide what an avid achiever the kid is, and he and his buddies converse in a fiendishly alert middle-class trash talk that keeps Roll Bounce jumping.
  22. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    Aims for the junior stargazer in a release coinciding with NASA's new moon-by-2018 initiative. The movie is unmistakably a pitch, and an honorable one.
  23. Oliver Twist
    Yet precisely because this is by Roman Polanski, it's irresistible to read his sorrowful and seemingly classical take, from a filmmaker known as much for the schisms in his personal history as for the lurches in his work, as something much more personal and poignant.
  24. Everything Is Illuminated
    For one of those obstreperously original books that are themselves impossible to translate, Everything Is Illuminated is impressively well lit.
  25. Proof
    In Proof, Paltrow plays yet another young woman who is being gnawed at by termites of instability, only this time out, her performance, rather than startling, is merely competent: earnest and overly familiar.
  26. Cry_Wolf
    Cry_Wolf is underscored with idiot adolescent excitement (and gets extra absurdist points for casting Jon Bon Jovi as an educator).
  27. Just Like Heaven
    That Just Like Heaven succeeds at all - at least for teenage girls with limited interest in the drafting of living wills - is due entirely to Witherspoon's can-do charisma.
  28. Lord of War
    The result is a dead pile of information in search of a movie.
  29. Corpse Bride
    As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has to be reckoned some sort of marvel.
  30. Thumbsucker
    Pucci proves to be one of the most charismatic male ingenues since Johnny Depp.
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