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For 16,535 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 2.2 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: 8,705 out of 16535
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16535
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16535
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  1. Head-On
    Impeccably made, uncompromising in its implacable vision of the deranging power of love, sex and controlled substances, this savage and staggering film knows how to take our breath away.
  2. Monsieur N.
    An elegant, sophisticated mystery.
  3. Watermarks
    Wonderful, heartwarming.
  4. Assault on Precinct 13
    Smart, satisfying action entertainment that is also a perceptive work of considerable artistry.
  5. Machuca
    One of those special films that broadens and deepens as it goes on.
  6. Coach Carter
    So, while the movie at times warmed my own middle-class, private school-educated cockles to a toasty complacency, there's an undercurrent of friendly fascism running through it like a nasty draft.
  7. Elektra
    No fun at all.
  8. Racing Stripes
    No "Babe" but should delight youngsters, although parents likely will find it is sentimental in the extreme, with a plot that telegraphs every development.
  9. The Chorus
    A runaway hit in France last year and the country's official Oscar entry, is a well-nigh irresistible film celebrating the redemptive power of music.
  10. Appleseed
    Dazzling visually but is flattened by corny dialogue better suited to the 1936 "Flash Gordon" serial, a needlessly hard to follow plot and heavy-handed exposition clotted with pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
  11. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    If the film offers any lesson, it is that nirvana is not easily attainable, so there really are no shortcuts.
  12. White Noise
    The movie straitjackets Keaton into a humorless, table-pounding role.
  13. Sky Blue
    Like a lot of other Asian sci-fi anime: a stunningly imagined world of the future populated with one-dimensional characters caught up in a trite plot.
  14. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Among other things, the characters in A Love Song for Bobby Long really know how to turn a phrase, in itself a pleasure so rare it all but demands any flaws be forgiven.
  15. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    It's a deeply affecting performance, and it drives this quietly powerful, unrelenting film.
  16. The Merchant of Venice
    What Radford above all accomplishes in his filming of The Merchant of Venice is to suggest that, in essence, it is that most modern of entertainments: a dark - indeed, very dark - comedy.
  17. In Good Company
    Genial, generous-spirited and unmistakably entertaining.
  18. Fat Albert
    Despite the tired premise, Kenan Thompson -- is actually very persuasive as Fat Albert.
  19. Darkness
    Some movies should never come to light, either, and Darkness, bearing a 2002 copyright, might well have been better left on the shelf.
  20. The Woodsman
    The film's core, anchored by a fine ensemble cast and a controlled, focused performance by Bacon, is completely solid.
  21. The Keys to the House
    Though it is a work of fiction, we have the sense every minute that we are watching something real, something with the unmistakable taste of life.
  22. In the Realms of the Unreal
    Filmmaker Jessica Yu, in In the Realms of the Unreal, outlines Darger's lonely life and interviews Lerner's elegant, sympathetic widow Kiyoko and other Darger neighbors -- highlighted by enchanting animation of some of Darger's exquisite scrolls.
  23. The Phantom of the Opera
    The real problem with "Phantom" is the problem with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals in general. It's a slow-moving orgy of lowbrow grandiosity that's as tedious as it is overblown and pretentious.
  24. Meet the Fockers
    One of those relatively rare comedies that's at once puerile, charming and very funny throughout.
  25. Hotel Rwanda
    The story it tells is such a wrenching one it cannot help but move us, especially when the performance of a lifetime by Don Cheadle is added to the mix.
  26. Imaginary Heroes
    It would have been nice if Harris, who casts a sardonic yet compassionate eye on the Travis family, had set his sights a little higher than the typical chronicle of a dysfunctional suburban family.
  27. Beyond the Sea
    Hindered by its own theatricality, Beyond the Sea feels at once hermetic, defensive and corny.
  28. Flight of the Phoenix
    An excellent job of retaining key elements of the original plot but have created a whole new set of characters that gives the film an entirely contemporary feel.
  29. The Sea Inside
    Bardem's performance is a marvel of restraint and control, both physical and emotional.
  30. Spanglish
    Frustrating though it can be, Spanglish still proves to be as resilient as its characters.
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