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For 16,534 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: 8,704 out of 16534
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16534
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16534
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  1. The Aviator
    Tainted or not, Hughes' life was a remarkable one, and, flawed or not, Scorsese's film version deserves the same accolade.
  2. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    What the movie lacks, alarmingly, is a shriveled black heart, or a big, red tell-tale one pulsing beneath the floorboards -- anything, really, that might infuse it with the sense of true dread that keeps kids coming back for second, third and 11th helpings of the willies.
  3. Million Dollar Baby
    Perhaps the director's most touching, most elegiac work yet, Million Dollar Baby is a film that does both the expected and the unexpected, that has the nerve and the will to be as pitiless as it is sentimental.
  4. A Talking Picture
    An honest title for a film that is almost entirely conversation. Yet its rich contemplative tone proves deceptive, for its director, Portugal's preeminent filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, at 96, still knows how to pack a wallop.
  5. Dolls
    The movie's pace is appropriate to its mood, which is crisp, melancholy and gently cruel.
  6. Ocean's Twelve
    Isn't good and isn't bad, it just isn't. A lethargic would-be entertainment as well as a dispiriting vanity project, it is such a misfire that it makes it hard to remember what was special about its predecessor.
  7. A Tale of Two Sisters
    A triumph of stylish, darkly absurdist horror that even manages to strike a chord of Shakespearean tragedy - and evokes a sense of wonder anew at all the terrible things people do to themselves and each other.
  8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    An exquisitely evocative movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower.
  9. Freeze Frame
    While the clammy character is difficult to warm up to, Evans' riveting performance gradually and uncomfortably allows us to empathize.
  10. Bandido
    A bust. As murky as its release print, it is a stale, incoherent spy caper.
  11. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Seven years in the making, it demands to be experienced not just because of the good it does but because of how unexpectedly good, even buoyant, it makes you feel.
  12. Blade: Trinity
    Has the great sleek, dark look of its predecessors and, most important, it has Snipes.
  13. House of Flying Daggers
    House of Flying Daggers finds the great Chinese director at his most romantic in this thrilling martial arts epic that involves a conflict between love and duty carried out to its fullest expression.
  14. After Midnight
    It has a droll sensibility but is marred by dirge-like pacing and is seriously under-lighted -- so much so that it's all but impossible to get a good look at its principal setting.
  15. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    The highly partisan Game Over ably illustrates the often-silly psychological gamesmanship that accompanies world-class chess and nearly catalogs enough circumstantial evidence against IBM to convict.
  16. The Green Butchers
    Mikkelsen and Kaas are up to the demands of their roles, revealing impressive range and skill.
  17. The Aryan Couple
    This handsome film is a splendid, stirring feat of the imagination.
  18. Closer
    Despite involved acting and Nichols' impeccable professionalism as a director, the end result is, to quote one of the characters, "a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully."
  19. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Plays out smaller and less climactic than the way anyone old enough to recall will remember.
  20. Purple Butterfly
    As atmospheric and moody as a film noir, the stylish, sometimes perplexing Purple Butterfly is a remarkable period piece, evoking the bustling, dense and increasingly dangerous Shanghai of the '30s
  21. Easy
    Moreau is this film's irreplaceable epicenter. With her radiant smile and unquenchable spirit, she carries this film on her shoulders, and makes it all look, well, easy.
  22. A Very Long Engagement
    A resolutely odd, occasionally absurd movie, but it's as charming and stylish as one could expect from this pair - if you like that sort of thing.
  23. Ae Fond Kiss...
    All of Loach's formidable strengths, which include a sense of humor, come together in the wrenching A Fond Kiss.
  24. Straight-Jacket
    Whatever pleasures it holds, Straight-Jacket is highly uneven.
  25. Paper Clips
    Paper Clips arrives with an authentically persuasive message of hope.
  26. Notre musique
    A film of flowing, redemptive beauty and poetry, at once immediate yet classic in its simplicity of form.
  27. Christmas with the Kranks
    A flat parable about the virtues of homespun conformity and the perils of defying family tradition.
  28. Alexander
    If, as the Virgil quote that starts the film claims, fortune favors the bold, Alexander has not been nearly bold enough.
  29. Fear and Trembling
    A dark comedy that reveals the stultifying rigidity of Japanese office life - which the film persuasively suggests endures to this day.
  30. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Director Wong is at his best in this rerelease of the 1991 film.
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