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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Ghosts of Cité Soleil
    Dives into the brutal heart of a place most people would avoid at all cost.
  2. Birthday Girl
    It's a slight, old-fashioned B movie, the last thing you would expect from an actress coming off a breakout year, but it has a charm and freshness we don't see much these days.
    • New York Daily News
  3. Dudley Do-Right
    Mostly pitched at a new crop of children who will detect the movie's mildly sarcastic, audience-winking tone with no problem.
  4. Quills
    The things you can look forward to, however, are the humor, intellectual musing, emotional tumult, superb acting and challenging adult questions.
  5. This Is England
    Turgoose, in his first film role, is entirely convincing as the strong-willed but naïve Shaun, and Graham is a genuine fright as the feral prototype of the violent skinhead culture on the horizon.
  6. Anywhere But Here
    An actress' dream.
  7. The Blue Angel
    This is melodrama with broad theatrical flourishes, but Dietrich's sensuality is still a natural wonder, and with a new print, the Film Forum run offers a rare opportunity to see it big-screen-size.
  8. Tape
    An entertaining, post-modern mulling of the nature of truth, and whether truth is ever so fixed that it can be captured on tape.
  9. Dinner Rush
    As tension mounts through the evening, Giraldi cleverly sweeps in and out of conversations -- and brings it all together in a climax that is as hard to see coming as it is to resist.
    • New York Daily News
  10. The Cockettes
    The Cockettes epitomized a brief confluence of new possibilities, not so much in theater as in personal style, lending them a certain historical value that greatly exceeds their contribution to theater.
    • New York Daily News
  11. Mini's First Time
    This is a pitch-black sendup of a classic femme fatale, a teenage version of the husband-killers in "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," without the saving grace of passion.
  12. Sputnik Mania
    The archival footage here is great, and the cosmos-conquering craziness will satisfy space-race nuts.
  13. Promises
    The filmmakers caught the kids arguing their cases like adversaries on "Judge Judy," sticking to phrases they've memorized or absorbed only too well.
  14. Beautiful People
    Behind the inspired wackiness is a story about how our warlike nature needs some changing before we can all live in relative harmony.
  15. Joe the King
    The movie isn't a day in the park, but it manages to close on an existentially uplifting note.
  16. Les convoyeurs attendent
    Poignant, eccentric comedy.
  17. U2 3D
    You have never seen a concert film like U2 3D, and it may change your expectations for the rest of your rocking years.
  18. Red Dragon
    I quibble over a film that has none of the artistic pretensions of "The Silence of the Lambs." This is more of a greatest-hits Hannibal movie, with a thunderingly portentous soundtrack, lots of mugging and autopsy detail, and a bang-up double ending.
  19. Crimson Gold
    Another excellent example of how Iranian cinema uses deceptively simple techniques to decode devastating truths about human nature.
  20. Lovely & Amazing
    By turns cheerful, funny and melancholy, and at all times honest, Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing stands out in the current run of ensemble women's films.
    • New York Daily News
  21. Waking the Dead
    It's a romantic weepie.
  22. O
    This is a serious and well-acted drama, not a jokey ripoff, whose relevance (however distant) to Columbine is a plus.
  23. Solaris
    A darkly brilliant sci-fi movie about emotions so deep, the story could be taking place within the chambers of the heart instead of an arid space station. At the same time, it is a coldly theoretical piece that could leave viewers unengaged.
  24. In America
    If you're looking for a bit of an uplift, you could do worse among the gloom of so many holiday dramas.
  25. Power Trip
    To Devlin's great credit, he keeps us rapt throughout.
  26. Lilo & Stitch
    The whole movie is a blast, thanks to a whip-smart script clearly written for kids and grownups alike.
    • New York Daily News
  27. Such a Long Journey
    Seth, who played Nehru in the Oscar-winning "Gandhi," gives a subtly layered performance as a complex, tormented and very decent man in crisis.
  28. Swingers
    It's a "First Wives Club" for single guys, giving voice to a whole range of authentic, if not always responsible, attitudes and emotions.
  29. Bukowski: Born into This
    He's not someone you may wish you'd known, but he's a fascinating street character.
  30. Rain
    Movies about the dawning of female sexuality and its links to mother-daughter competition are tough to pull off, but Rain is a splendid example of how to get it right.
    • New York Daily News
  31. North Country
    North Country may be a simplistic account of a hard-won battle, but it will have audiences cheering.
  32. Free Radicals
    Deftly intercutting between several tenuously-connected lives, Barbara Albert's astringent drama is transformed by bright flashes of compassion.
  33. Dead Man's Shoes
    This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread.
  34. Lost in La Mancha
    Lost in La Mancha basically catches "Don Quixote" in free fall…It's our loss nonetheless. Gilliam is one of the great film fantasists of our age, and one expects he would have done Cervantes proud.
  35. Aberdeen
    A journey that goes from prosaic to existential. Director Hans Petter Moland's raw drama of father-daughter reconciliation features an excellent cast.
  36. Troy
    A "Ben-Hur"-size epic with beefcake, beauty, outsize heroes, flashy duels and epic battles. There are breathtaking vistas, taut political intrigues, dangerous romantic liaisons and one of the greatest wardrobes ever assembled for a costume drama.
  37. Sabrina
    The cinematic equivalent of comfort food it soothed when you were younger and, in its familiarity, it soothes again.
    • New York Daily News
  38. The Break-Up
    Newly minted celebrity couple Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston don't have many opportunities to demonstrate their romantic chemistry in Peyton Reed's funny, heart-wrenching The Break-Up, but they still give what may be the best performances of their careers.
  39. All My Loved Ones
    Despite a somewhat unpolished look and a few slips into cliche, the film makes up in sincerity what it lacks in sophistication.
  40. Bully
    That the actors can work under such scrutiny is amazing, and they are superb. The standout is Brad Renfro as Marty, the kid most under the thumb of the neighborhood bully.
  41. Adaptation.
    Streep is perfect, as per usual, but the showy orchid role goes to Cage in an Oscar-worthy tour de force. He pours his body into Charlie's slumped frame of mind and creates a character churning with endearing contradictions -- the unforgettable nebbish.
  42. Riding Giants
    A breathtaking visual history of big wave surfing. This is vicarious daredevilry at its best.
  43. Last Days
    It's like a walking tour inside the head of a deeply troubled, deeply talented young man, where most of the systems have already shut down.
  44. Ushpizin
    Gentle and affecting, it offers an introduction to a mostly unfamiliar world while touching on issues recognizable to all.
  45. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    For those who've become increasingly conscious of the connections between strangers sharing a city, it's a challenge that's hard to resist.
  46. Duck Season
    It's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood.
  47. The King Is Alive
    It's an excellent fusion of subject and style.
    • New York Daily News
  48. Sweet and Lowdown
    Penn hasn't attempted much comedy since "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," but he's masterful here.
  49. Blood Simple
    Clever as it is, Blood Simple is derivative and self-consciously stylized.
  50. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    Certainly has the look and feel of a masterpiece, but it's missing the emotional core that most moviegoers need.
  51. The Boys of Baraka
    The results are amazing, though bittersweet, and demonstrate how complicated and expensive it is (though not impossible) to break the cycle of poverty, crime and lack of education.
  52. Invincible
    So yes, you'll roll your eyes when the coach defies Papale's naysayers by insisting that "he has heart." But if there's a single surprise on this familiar field, it's that the movie does, too.
  53. Curse of the Golden Flower
    Chinese director Zhang Yimou has made some of the most beautiful movies of the last 20 years, and with his latest, Curse of the Golden Flower, he has also made one of the most deliciously nutty.
  54. Year of the Dog
    While some may be put off by Peggy's wild-eyed mania, and the film's broadly comic tone, Shannon makes this lost spirit strikingly sympathetic.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Why Did I Get Married?
    The problems are real; the solutions are ... well, really entertaining. Perry mixes heartfelt drama with bold-stroke, insult-slinging comedy.
  56. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    An eye-pleasing French action-slasher film that is cheerfully unencumbered by the usual conventions of stuffy costume drama.
    • New York Daily News
  57. Red Eye
    The movie is fun, fun, fun.
  58. Djomeh
    Yektapanah's stripped-down methods --remote setting, a cast of locals, the sparest of scripts -- are used so effectively, it quickly becomes clear that he's most concerned with the similarities rather than the differences between people.
  59. Road Trip
    The jokes, fast and furious enough to satisfy both teens and intrepid parents, are far funnier than they are raunchy.
  60. Bowling for Columbine
    Moore brilliantly unmasks the inanity of the arguments used in the debate over gun control in America. He then undermines himself by leaping into the blame game without supporting his central thesis, that the media is what makes teens like the ones at Columbine turn around and shoot up their schools.
  61. Late August, Early September
    The film, written and directed with an intimate, hand-held camera by Assayas, is notable for the details how love that is ended sometimes flares up in little brush fires, only to be banked down again; how lovers awkwardly balance the push and pull of new relationships; how things neither start nor end with any punctuality or precision. [07 Jul 1999, p.38]
    • New York Daily News
  62. Carrie
    Were there Richter scales for measuring the degree of terror induced by movies of this kind, De Palma's "Carrie" would register only 2.2 in terms of actual shock value, but it would score well on the laugh meter. This satiric examination of the American high schooler turns out to be scathingly funny.
  63. Tony Takitani
    The result is a quietly simple fable that hits you hardest after it's over.
  64. Thumbsucker
    It's Pucci - who's already won a couple of acting prizes on the festival circuit, including Sundance - who steals the film with a wonderful performance blending the awkward innocence, vulnerability and pain of being a teen.
  65. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Sophie Scholl is the subject of a feature film that has earned an Oscar nomination for a Germany she would have loved to live in.
  66. The Proposition
    Despite all the violence that ensues, The Proposition is a psychological Western more in the mold of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" than the John Ford films its stark cinematography resembles. It's about a good man, Stanley, who does bad things, and a bad man, Charlie, fighting his conscience.
  67. The Transporter
    Kinetic, meaningless and fun.
  68. Blades of Glory
    The casting of Ferrell and Heder turns out to be inspired. The direction, by a pair of NYU grads who've only made TV commercials and two short films, is pitch-perfect. And - miraculously - the skating sequences are passably realistic.
  69. Jindabyne
    Dublin-born Byrne and native New Yorker Linney...are both exceptional at depicting characters about to burst from inner turmoil, and Linney, in particular, is heartbreaking.
  70. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    It won't cure the ills of the world, but it doesn't need to. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is adorable in its own spongy way.
  71. Me & Isaac Newton
    Hey, kids! Skip the job fairs and go directly to a screening of Me & Isaac Newton.
  72. A Matter of Taste
    A neat little almost-thriller, this witty French diversion manages to mess with your head with little apparent effort.
    • New York Daily News
  73. Iraq in Fragments
    Visually arresting and deeply disheartening, James Longley's impressionistic documentary explores the pain of a shattered country by homing in on a few tiny shards.
  74. The Life of Reilly
    If you think of Reilly as little more than a camp icon, you've got a lot to learn.
  75. Bandits
    For sheer escapist fun, the proudly ridiculous Bandits fills the bill.
  76. The Savages
    The Savages is a TV movie made for the big screen - and it needs the larger venue to accommodate the huge performances of its stars, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney.
  77. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    Allen and Short seem to be having so much fun that their enthusiasm is entirely contagious. Let the season begin.
  78. Delirious
    In the end, I don't know that Delirious has all that much to say about the fame game, but you'll laugh nonetheless.
  79. Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub
    With its carefully-chosen soundtrack, funky animation, and enthusiastic interviews, Dean Budnick's affectionate documentary pays apt tribute to Wetlands, a local landmark that closed in 2001.
  80. The Santa Clause 2
    Won't replace anyone's annual viewing of "It's a Wonderful Life." But your family could find a worse way to take a holiday break.
  81. We Were Soldiers
    We Were Soldiers works. The action is well-staged and realistic. And Gibson is a commanding presence in a role that has more shadings and stature than his usual action heroes.
    • New York Daily News
  82. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    It's too long, unnecessarily complicated and often silly, but Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still the purest popcorn entertainment of the summer.
  83. Turtles Can Fly
    There's no refuge in this uncomfortably realistic movie, and that is its strength.
  84. Grizzly Man
    Though some see Treadwell as an idealistic martyr who made the ultimate sacrifice for his passion, others vilify him as an arrogant fool who courted his own end.
  85. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    It's clear that Kor's goal is to keep people talking, and thinking, about impossibly difficult subjects. And there's no debating her success in that regard.
  86. Beyond the Gates
    Hurt and Dancy are terrific in these roles, but the power of the movie is in the tension created by Caton-Jones on the same sites where this historical event unfolded.
  87. Tying the Knot
    Besides the personal stories, de Sève deftly puts the issue in historical and political perspective through an overview of the evolution of marriage, plus a slew of talking heads representing both sides of the battle.
  88. The Hidden Blade
    Both epic and intimate, this impassioned samurai drama is for anyone who's ever watched a movie and muttered, "They just don't make 'em like they used to."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Them!
    The threatened catastrophe, as destructive as any H-bomb, is handled with enough realism and tension to be plenty scary. [04 Jul 1954, p.20]
    • New York Daily News
  90. Snakes on a Plane
    Hilariously funny, full of fang-popping scares, and guaranteed to increase travel by train.
  91. Closing Escrow
    If you can watch it without weeping over your own predicament, you'll see some serious talent bursting out.
  92. Peau d'homme coeur de bête
    A crushingly dark vision of male rage and female vulnerability, Hélène Angel's accomplished first feature hits you like an anvil -- after it's all over.
  93. ATL
    Fresh and unexpected. It feels like a real window on the lives of disenfranchised youths - these are in South Atlanta - as they make their way in a society that doesn't cut them any breaks.
  94. Devils on the Doorstep
    Jiang's razor-sharp conclusions are less about the Japanese army or the Chinese government than about simple human nature.
  95. Safe Conduct
    A remarkable and moving account of a part of the French experience that needs more remembering and less forgetting.
  96. Pierrepoint
    This is a riveting story about a man who for years moonlighted as an anonymous hangman while holding a day job as a wholesale grocery delivery man.
  97. Starsky & Hutch
    The new buddy comedy movie that assumes the names of the series' characters and features the same hot-to-trot, tomato-red and shocking-white 1974 Ford Gran Torino is more fun than a Heidi Fleiss open house.
  98. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    It's killer, dude! [17 October 1997, p. 52]
    • New York Daily News
  99. Hotel Rwanda
    In condensing Rusesabagina's story, George has undoubtedly overstated the specific dramatic moments; the movie has more cliff-hangers than the "Indiana Jones" series.
  100. Me You Them
    The most extraordinary thing about Me You Them is that no one behaves as though anything remotely out of the ordinary is going on.
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