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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. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    At its best at its most absurd.
  2. Kinsey
    Intelligently written and directed with a pleasing frankness by Bill Condon and well played by Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and a strong supporting cast, the film skillfully uses the forms of old Hollywood to tell a story that would have given heart failure to Harry Cohn and his fellow tycoons.
  3. Finding Neverland
    Gently seductive, genuinely tender and often moving without being maudlin.
  4. Way Off Broadway
    Well paced and affectionately observant, Way Off Broadway is a good example of a low-low-budget first film in which the filmmaker got everything just right.
  5. Overnight
    Though Overnight seems to be cautioning us about the excesses of filmmaker ego, it isn't always consistent.
  6. The Polar Express
    It's hard not to wish this film were more of a piece and less like loud music at the wrong party.
  7. Callas Forever
    The result is not only one of Zeffirelli's sumptuous productions but also a film that celebrates the sacredness of artistic integrity that to Zeffirelli Callas embodied fully.
  8. Fade to Black
    It's clear early on, however, that this is standard concert-film fare geared to the faithful.
  9. Brother to Brother
    The film is studded with nifty supporting portrayals, with Burns and Ford (in his film debut) especially notable. But it's the rich presence and easy authority of Robinson that brings both a gravitas and a blithe spirit to Brother to Brother.
  10. Intoxicating
    A tiresome addiction drama.
  11. Cachorro
    Moves deftly from a wry and affectionate father-son bonding comedy to wrenching drama.
  12. Alfie
    In the original, extended, unrepentant bad behavior results in bad consequences for the protagonist. In the remake, it gets the character some life lessons and a personal growth spurt.
  13. The Incredibles
    Bird has created the unprecedented film that is not just a grand feature-length cartoon but a grand feature, period, a piece of animation that's involving across a spectrum of comedy, action, even drama.
  14. Scumrock
    As fast and energetic as it is funny.
  15. Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
    Very strong stuff, and Sistach has inspired such young actors as Ayala and Gutiérrez to give sustained and harrowing portrayals.
  16. A Silent Love
    Its charms sneak up on you because of the nuanced performances of Burton, Bauche and particularly Salazar.
  17. Voices of Iraq
    By turns heartbreaking, amusing and disturbing, the film features people from different regions, economic classes and religions, recounting stories that are sometimes bleak, sometimes encouraging, but always compelling.
  18. Enduring Love
    Enduring Love is an intellectual investigation of love from three equally frustrating perspectives - the physical, the spiritual and that mixture of emotion, psychology and interpretation we call art - couched loosely in a cool stalker thriller.
  19. Birth
    What the intelligently spooky Birth does best is disturb us.
  20. Saw
    Saw is so full of twists it ends up getting snarled. For all of his flashy engineering and inventive torture scenarios, the Jigsaw Killer comes across as an amateur. Hannibal Lecter would have him for lunch.
  21. Ray
    Ray may be too by the numbers, but with Jamie Foxx out front, this is one film that knows how to make it all add up.
  22. 800 Bullets
    It thinks it's cute, but it's as charming as an old drunk going on about how he knew Eastwood back in the day.
  23. Sideways
    Exactly written, directed with a surgeon's precision and transcendently acted, Sideways brings emotional reality to a consistently amusing character comedy, making it something to be cherished like the delicate Santa Ynez Valley wines that are the story's vivid backdrop.
  24. Stella Street
    Once the filmmakers have got the celebrities settled into Stella Street, they have a hard time figuring out what to do with them. Stella Street is the road best not taken.
  25. Fish Without a Bicycle
    Feels like an acting exercise stretched to feature length.
  26. Happy Hour
    LaPaglia, Feeney and Stoltz soldier bravely through an uninspired, airless script.
  27. Undertow
    The result is a movie that doesn't add up to the sum of its parts, yet some of those parts connect deeply anyway.
  28. The Manson Family
    The less-than-persuasive result is like mediocre leftover psychedelic '60s underground cinema.
  29. Lightning in a Bottle
    One terrific concert film.
  30. Postmen in the Mountains
    Undeniably a heart-tugger, but it is also a stirring affirmation of the rewards of a job well done.
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