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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. Run Lola Run
    It doesn’t add up to much, which is part of the point as well as the fun, but what makes the film noteworthy is its pure pop adrenaline.
  2. The Winslow Boy
    What's left is "Masterpiece Theatre," a very clean, straightforward adaptation of a beautifully constructed play, faithful to a dead man's classical virtues -- harmony, proportion, balance -- if not to the director's own, more iconoclastic ones.
  3. Erin Brockovich
    A sexy, hugely enjoyable romp, hedged with lyrical grace notes and intimate detail.
  4. Vampire Hunter D
    Kawajiri's doom-laden action epic is a heady brew indeed.
  5. Laila's Birthday
    Laila’s Birthday is beautifully shot and overlaid with a spare, lyrical score that lends rueful emphasis to Masharawi’s exasperated fidelity to a chronically malfunctioning city.
  6. The Front Runner
    It makes for an intriguing combination of tones and rhythms — urgency running up against paralysis — that speaks to the twisted dynamism of our political process, then and now.
  7. Sicko
    The movie is a great piece of populist outrage and a dangerously good comedy about a looming American tragedy.
  8. Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
    This powerfully rough slice of neo-realism, hitched to soapy melodrama, puts a heartbreakingly human face on the widespread problem of sexual assault in Mexico.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Holy Girl
    It's a style at once ravishing and mysterious, austere and intimate, carrying with it the suggestion that even cinema may be powerless to invade the most clandestine antechambers of human behavior.
  10. The President's Last Bang
    This meticulously well-made picture is disarmingly funny at times - not least during the ballet of bloody absurdity that is the assassination itself - but also subdued and straight-faced, with one eye planted on 1979 and the other on the violent student demonstrations looming in the distance.
  11. Been Rich All My Life
    Utterly captivating.
  12. Italian for Beginners
    With its ludicrous parallels and brisk, funny script (pardon my provincialism, but it sounds all the funnier in Danish), Italian for Beginners is full of larky charm while drawing its emotional vitality from urban loneliness.
  13. Horton Hears a Who!
    Warm, playful and inventive, this tale of an elephant with a spirit as generous as his waistline comes juiced with the genially goofy animation of the folks who brought us "Ice Age" (and, less memorably, "Robots") coupled with a respectful doffing of the cap to Geisel’s exuberantly wacky visual style.
  14. Wendigo
    The film's best and scariest moments come when Miles is confronted with scenes that he translates into proof of the Wendigo's power.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    Morris is a more talented filmmaker than he is an interviewer. Mean-while, McNamara is a subject so complex and so rich in nuance that he requires no cinematic embellishment.
  16. Enduring Love
    British director, Roger Michell, strikes an assured balance between intense mood piece and Gothic chiller.
  17. Bad Company
    Deft, funny and intelligently scary.
  18. Intimacy
    Although much has and will be made of the film's sexual explicitness -- and, yes, it is a bit -- this less-than-perfect but deeply felt film is finally most daring for its hard-core insistence on our need for connection.
  19. Soul Food
    But if you go in knowing this, the payoff is considerable - the film delivers on its feel-good promise.
  20. Gilles' Wife
    All but a silent movie, Frédéric Fonteyne’s strikingly atmospheric film - adapted by Philippe Blasband and Marion Hänsel from a 1937 novel - relies on the extraordinarily mobile face of Emmanuelle Devos to express the pain of a woman who has no language for her inner turmoil.
  21. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with Jesus.
  22. Chuck & Buck
    Had this idea been pursued to its conclusion instead of the pat, wishfully ready-for-TV ending we're fed, the movie would be a standout.
  23. Restaurant
    A sharp, upbeat, well-wrought meditation on love and race that kicks the new year in movies off to a terrific start.
  24. Ride with the Devil
    The film is beautifully shot and filled with fine performances.
  25. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    At its best, Behind the Mask offers some, um, cutting insights about mass-media blood lust and the cult of the serial killer, and in Baesel, who is by turns charming, manic and thoroughly scary, it has a gifted young actor who clearly relishes a role he can sink his pitchfork into.
  26. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    One of the best part 3's ever made, and Rodriguez's knack for concocting the most imaginatively deranged children's entertainments since "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" remains unassailed.
  27. The Ninth Day
    A morally complex and emotionally satisfying drama about the vagaries of Catholic response to the Third Reich.
  28. The Basket
    Well-acted, briskly paced and prettily photographed, the film is a mild-mannered family story with a caring heart, and that's ultimately enough to make its 104 minutes worthwhile.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Criminal
    The cast is brilliant, not least of all Reilly -- vaguely despicable, smooth as an oil slick and altogether mesmerizing in the most impressive screen performance he's yet given.
  30. Condo Painting
    A superb, instructive portrait of an artist at work.
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