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For 16,524 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. White Noise
    The movie straitjackets Keaton into a humorless, table-pounding role.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    It's a deeply affecting performance, and it drives this quietly powerful, unrelenting film.
  7. 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.
  8. In Good Company
    Genial, generous-spirited and unmistakably entertaining.
  9. Fat Albert
    Despite the tired premise, Kenan Thompson -- is actually very persuasive as Fat Albert.
  10. Darkness
    Some movies should never come to light, either, and Darkness, bearing a 2002 copyright, might well have been better left on the shelf.
  11. The Woodsman
    The film's core, anchored by a fine ensemble cast and a controlled, focused performance by Bacon, is completely solid.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Meet the Fockers
    One of those relatively rare comedies that's at once puerile, charming and very funny throughout.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Beyond the Sea
    Hindered by its own theatricality, Beyond the Sea feels at once hermetic, defensive and corny.
  19. 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.
  20. The Sea Inside
    Bardem's performance is a marvel of restraint and control, both physical and emotional.
  21. Spanglish
    Frustrating though it can be, Spanglish still proves to be as resilient as its characters.
  22. The Aviator
    Tainted or not, Hughes' life was a remarkable one, and, flawed or not, Scorsese's film version deserves the same accolade.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Dolls
    The movie's pace is appropriate to its mood, which is crisp, melancholy and gently cruel.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    An exquisitely evocative movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower.
  30. Freeze Frame
    While the clammy character is difficult to warm up to, Evans' riveting performance gradually and uncomfortably allows us to empathize.
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