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For 16,522 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,697 out of 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. Murderous Maids
    Denis and Testud, in a wondrous collaboration of a gifted director and equally gifted actress, succeed in making Christine a tragic figure.
  2. Painted Fire
    Im recounts the painter's life in bold strokes rather than with the literalist's painstaking detail, and in the process tells us more about the mysteries of genius than a bushel full of quotidian fact.
  3. The School of Flesh
    A handsome work of authoritative yet understated style, responsive to mood, subtleties and nuance in exploring its especially well-drawn and intelligent lovers.
  4. Liam
    There is something about Stephen Frears' complex, heartbreaking, beautifully made Liam that seems to speak eloquently, painfully to the dilemmas we are facing today, to the terrible price dark times can extort from us all.
  5. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    This animated retelling of the familiar Old Testament story is playful, high-spirited and unmistakably amusing. It's nice to see that a sense of humor and a sense of values don't inevitably have to cancel each other out.
  6. Cotton Mary
    Not only is it Merchant's best directorial effort to date but also is among the finest films the Merchant Ivory company has ever made.
  7. The Luzhin Defence
    Carefully made, involving and old-fashioned, the superior work it's inspired gives it an impact that lingers even when the endgame is over.
  8. Down from the Mountain
    For fans of this kind of roots music, it was an event you would have given anything to attend. Down From the Mountain lets you do that and gives you terrific seats in the bargain.
  9. La Ciénaga
    Martel's sharp observations of the foibles of human nature are expressed perfectly in the telling images of cinematographer Hugo Colace and tight editing of Santiago Ricci.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Better Living Through Circuitry
    Circuitry plugs into the underground world of raves. The scene, complete with drugs and its own culture, is blissfully examined in a documentary that speaks the language of its youthful generation.
  11. Scratch
    Highly entertaining and encouraging documentary.
  12. Lovely & Amazing
    Like the best of personal, independent cinema -- it is both marvelously observed and completely individual. There is no film like this film, and that is something you don't hear every day.
  13. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    A diabolically clever psychological suspense movie.
  14. The Minus Man
    Eerie, quietly compelling... a fresh and mesmerizing experience...such an unsettling experience you find yourself still taking it all in well after the lights have gone up.
  15. Sound and Fury
    Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury, as illuminating and comprehensive as it is heart-wrenching, is an example of what the documentary can accomplish at its most vital and engaging.
  16. Under the Sand
    Requires careful attention at its abrupt finish. Close concentration on the final shots yields a meaning not possible should a viewer's attention wander or turn away a few moments too soon.
  17. 42: Forty Two Up
    Time is truly on Apted's side because the passing of time not surprisingly brings a richer, deeper perspective with each new segment.
  18. The Cherry Orchard
    An exquisite performance by Charlotte Rampling, whose work as Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, the matriarch of the great estate the cherry orchard sits on, is the film's dazzling centerpiece.
  19. Winter Sleepers
    Offers a riveting depiction of the classic collision of fate and character, with geography in this instance playing a crucial role.
  20. Judy Berlin
    A comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection.
  21. The Brothers McMullen
    While other films struggle for their effects, Brothers simply lives and breathes, thoroughly likable from beginning to end.
  22. Santitos
    Has the same kind of humor, charm and sensuality that made "Like Water for Chocolate" the most popular foreign-language film until "Life Is Beautiful" came along.
  23. La Nouvelle Ève
    A beautiful film that flows with a luminous ease and assurance.
  24. The Opportunists
    A small gem.
  25. Made
    Favreau, who wrote "Swingers," has now directed and written the hilarious Made, which re-teams him with Vaughn. The two play off each other so well that they recall fond memories of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
  26. A Matter of Taste
    An elegant study of devious mind games and emotional perversion, it makes the strangest of psychological dynamics plausible and involving.
  27. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    A warm and feisty documentary that is as much inquiry as it is tribute.
  28. The Last September
    A luminous, piercing film from the Elizabeth Bowen novel, richly evokes a world of privilege on the verge of disintegration.
  29. Notorious C.H.O.
    Cho's weapons are a wildly imaginative sense of humor and the courage to be absolutely uninhibited.
  30. Onegin
    A pleasure in all ways.
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