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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. Lumumba
    Gives a white-knuckled, you-are-there account of a politician's dilemma, one whose repercussions are still felt in Africa.
    • New York Daily News
  2. Triad Election
    Plenty of films owe a debt to "The Godfather," but it's rare to see inspiration used as successfully as it is here.
  3. Urbania
    Smart, psychologically complex film is an offbeat and effective tale.
  4. Fever Heat [re-release]
    Looks a lot like 1950s American gangster films -- particularly, John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" -- but it's decidedly French in its sexual candor and moral laissez-faire.
  5. Space Cowboys
    The joy of Space Cowboys is in spending quality time with some favorite old actors who obviously enjoy working together.
  6. Bolivia
    Turns the dangerous monotony of poverty and unemployment into something nearly hypnotic.
  7. 13 Going on 30
    An unexpected pleasure, a buoyant comedy that will make you feel young again.
  8. Mad Love
    The sexy, psycho Mad Love is like a Spanish "The Story of Adele H.," in which a woman loves once and only once, to the point of self-destruction, in the days before Prozac.
  9. Thomas in Love
    You'd think it would be boring to stare at Thomas's computer screen so intently for 97 minutes, but the movie is eerily riveting.
    • New York Daily News
  10. Sisters in Law
    Because the film focuses entirely on the women's work, we learn too little about their personal histories. How did they even rise to such prominence in what appears to be an extremely patriarchal society?
  11. A Prairie Home Companion
    People unfamiliar with either man may think Altman is mocking Keillor and his 32-year-old radio program here. But, it is pure affection, and the movie is as much up-tempo, irresistible fun to watch as the show is to hear.
  12. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    The result is a funny, tender, satisfying blend of fiction and cinema vérité.
  13. Spring Forward
    There's no question that the film's primary intent is to showcase its stars, but thanks to their perfectly attuned performances, it feels more real than self-conscious.
    • New York Daily News
  14. Remember Me, My Love
    Laura Morante gives a fiery, layered performance as the frustrated matriarch struggling to keep her clan together.
  15. Incantato
    Neri Marcore gives a beautifully understated performance.
  16. After Midnight
    Ferrario deft use of old silent-movie footage - especially Buster Keaton - makes After Midnight enchanting.
  17. The Last King of Scotland
    The story is fanciful, with grotesquely improbable twists involving the fictional Garrigan (James McAvoy) and one of the dictator's three wives (Kerry Washington). But as Amin, Forest Whitaker's command of the screen is so thorough, so frightening, so ripe with malice that you won't move in your seat for fear of catching his eye.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Land of the Dead
    Land is pure entertainment and superbly well done. It is not as scary as it is gross, and its grossness is so outrageously graphic (hint: don't seat yourself next to a zombie at your next barbecue) that it is laugh-out-loud funny.
  19. Facing the Music
    An urgent, stirring story made all the more inspiring by the very ordinary nature of its subjects.
  20. The Real Dirt on Farmer John
    Despite the movie's intimate nature, Siegel deftly broadens his view to observe the culture and conditions of contemporary American farming. Don't be surprised if, by the finish, you wind up fantasizing about your own rural homestead.
  21. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Dropping in amusing anecdotes and tender memories, a deeply reflective Young revisits - and often reinterprets - both his recent and classic work.
  22. Inside Man
    It's got style and charisma to spare, with all the characters acting from fiery reserves of self-interest, including Christopher Plummer as a bank president with a secret in his safe-deposit box.
  23. Biggie and Tupac
    Broomfield conducts riveting interviews with a former LAPD officer, Biggie's fiercely protective mother and assorted hangers-on, but the actual thrust of his evidence seems almost irrelevant.
  24. Sound and Fury
    The real revelation of Sound and Fury is how it introduces hearing people to a culture they insist on ignoring.
  25. Little Miss Sunshine
    A charmer, a comedy with drama -- or vice versa.
  26. Nurse Betty
    A black comedy that features Renee Zellweger as the most adorable psychiatric-trauma victim ever.
  27. Girl on the Bridge
    Hand-held cameras give their surface showbiz relationship a sense of immediacy that, like love itself, has more than a hint of danger.
  28. Divided We Fall
    Parts of the movie play like French farce, but ultimately Hrebejk uses very simple cadences to unveil, movingly, the big picture.
  29. 51 Birch Street
    The intimate history of Doug Block's parents becomes fodder for a broader look at family secrets in this complex documentary.
  30. Keeping the Faith
    A mostly accomplished first film, with precise comic timing and some hilarious moments.
  31. The Matrix
    A dazzlingly original visual adventure.
  32. Buck and the Preacher
    Poitier relieves the melodrama, thankfully, by livening up the picture with his sense of humor. [29 Apr 1972, p.187]
    • New York Daily News
  33. Live-In Maid
    Weary and overworked to her very bones, Dora nevertheless has a heart of gold and a spine of steel. The movie does, too.
  34. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Letting any other actor run wild like this could have been a disaster, but Depp's peculiar buccaneer is an instant classic of actorly charisma.
  35. Transamerica
    This drama offers a chuckle at every turn.
  36. Millions
    This is a family movie in the best sense; it plays to children without talking down and to their parents without pandering. Mostly, it's just good fun.
  37. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Other than a tortured apology from Bill Clinton for having misunderstood the gravity of the situation, there isn't a peep of remorse heard from the normally sanctimonious West. And Dellaire's final bit of self-abuse is to blame himself for his failure to shame the world to action.
  38. Innocent Voices
    The many riveting moments will stay with you for days, and Padilla is well up to the task of carrying this intense story on his tiny shoulders.
  39. Tuck Everlasting
    Carefully walks the fine line between paying homage to a classic and entertaining a modern audience.
  40. Interview
    The first of three planned remakes of Dutch films by the late Theo van Gogh, Steve Buscemi's Interview takes the most unnatural act in human intercourse - the celebrity interview - and makes an explosively funny two-character psychodrama out of it.
  41. The Mother
    Turns out to be a thoughtful, beautifully acted story about feeling alive before it's too late to feel anything.
  42. Hero
    As gorgeous and contemplative as it is, Hero is a genre picture and needs to deliver the action goods. To that end, there are plenty of clever, lovingly choreographed sequences.
  43. Saraband
    This is as bitter and despairing an exploration of the human spirit as any of Bergman's films, and it is just as vibrantly written and directed.
  44. Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
    Clearly intended as a reminder that one person can move - or, at least, save - mountains.
  45. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    It's a fanciful tale, but the message is sweet - that the higher arts speak a universal language that transcends politics and ignorance.
  46. Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
    Any opportunity to see Pete Seeger perform, even at age 85, is worth taking - and Seeger is front, center and full-throated in Jim Brown's concert film.
  47. Water
    As a sign of how stubborn some irrational religious traditions can be, Hindu protesters forced Mehta to close down her Indian location and finish the film in neighboring Sri Lanka.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ikiru
    Akira Kurosawa's talent for analysis, interpretation and projection is again apparent in "To Live." [30 Jan 1960, p.22]
    • New York Daily News
  49. One
    Once in a while, a little reality can be a welcome antidote to our increasingly outsized film fantasies.
  50. Blackboards
    Director Samira Makhmalbaf made this raw and effective parable with the recognizable help of her father, legendary director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
  51. Keeping Up with the Steins
    Mazel tov to Scott Marshall for creating an endearing portrayal of familial lunacy that ought to charm as many Smiths as it will Steins.
  52. Fracture
    The kind of thriller we've seen a thousand times before. Fortunately, nobody told leads, Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins, both of whom devoutly believe they're in another, better movie.
  53. The Matrix Reloaded
    The philosophy is even less plausible. But the action -- oh, the action! There's nothing else out there like it.
  54. Still Life
    There is no turning back; the biggest project in China since the Great Wall and the Grand Canal has claimed its human cost and now must prove its own worth. -
  55. Calendar Girls
    This is good clean fun, with or without the soap, and one of the most spirited entries of the season.
  56. The Score
    As a film, The Score may not add up to much, but take it apart and it's something to see.
  57. Blood Work
    Connelly's better-than-routine potboiler has a high-concept premise built for the movies, and it's the first of the former L.A. Times reporter's 11 crime novels to make the journey from bookshelf to big screen.
  58. Darwin's Nightmare
    Sauper captures a world in which life and death are treated with equal practicality - and disregard. His camera is unflinching; your gaze may not be quite so steady.
  59. The Whole Nine Yards
    It provides the first genuine laughs I've had at the movies in this young year.
  60. Paranoid Park
    The story's fractured structure - and Christopher Doyle's dreamlike cinematography - make for a striking mood piece.
  61. State of Fear
    Pamela Yates' unblinking chronicle of recent Peruvian history paints a devastating picture of a people nearly destroyed by their own leaders.
  62. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    The fourth documentary screed this summer to have grown out of the left's frustration with the nation's turn to the right. Keep 'em coming, I say.
  63. Kamikaze Girls
    A charmingly loony tale of two young loners who form an unlikely bond, this droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame.
  64. The Good Girl
    In Aniston's previous film roles, the "Friends" star has made little impression, but under the direction of the gifted young Arteta, she's certainly grown to fill the big screen here, and looks ready to leap from TV to film.
  65. The Corporation
    An informative, amusing and unnerving overview of the history and consequences of corporations.
  66. Tumbleweeds
    What keeps these mother-daughter tumbleweeds from drifting right out of consciousness is the unique rapport between the actresses.
  67. Barenaked in America
    Ought to suit fans just fine.
  68. Them
    If you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them.
  69. 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
    The film serves him well, replaying a few surviving recordings that make clear what a beautifully melodious voice he had and what a talent went wasted.
  70. The Fighting Temptations
    A raucous gospel comedy that's as broad as co-star Beyonce Knowles' vowels and chockablock with foot-stomping, up-with-the-choir music that will have even atheists praising the Lord.
  71. The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story
    Never shies away from either the beauty or the cruelty of the hunt.
  72. The Tigger Movie
    That there was no squirming among the kids at my screening may be the best recommendation of all.
  73. The Bubble
    Fox stumbles a little at the end, which is unnecessarily exaggerated. He should have trusted his own talent - it's the attention to minor details that makes his work so memorable.
  74. Swimming Pool
    Whether the movie leaves you confused or angry, you will be stimulated to long discussion afterward. How often does that happen these days?
  75. The Crucible
    Ryder is particularly impressive in her destructive passion. [27 Nov 1996, p.39]
    • New York Daily News
  76. Word Wars
    Amusing and slightly alarming documentary.
  77. Transformers: The Last Knight
    It’s been reported that this “Transformers” sequel had a $217 million budget. The special effects — especially in IMAX 3-D — on the screen make you believe it.
  78. Girlfight
    Uplifting and moving in a traditional Hollywood way, while also seeming as raw and unfiltered as cinema vérité.
  79. La Ciénaga
    A fascinating, damning picture of bourgeois boredom that manages to be both epic and intimate at the same time.
  80. Everyone's Hero
    Whoever wanders into the theater should leave a winner.
  81. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Vardalos is a breath of fresh air. After all the little nipped and tucked bunnies we've been seeing onscreen for so long, we forget what real women look like.
    • New York Daily News
  82. The Lookout
    Though The Lookout is eventually a genre film, with a tense, bang-up ending, it is also a thoughtful study of a young man trying to make sense of a world that he is having to learn all over again.
  83. City of God
    For those who didn't get enough violence from Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York," welcome to City of God.
  84. Lola
    Jacques Demy showed up with the lightest touch with his 1960 Lola, a movie that has been called a musical without music.
  85. Moog
    Moog mostly has the amiable, 70-ish inventor recounting his story, from his teen years as an electronics whiz in the Bronx to his development of a smaller, cheaper synthesizer.
  86. The Yes Men
    A sobering documentary done in a whimsical style.
  87. Lucky Number Slevin
    Lucky Number Slevin would be too clever for its own good if it weren't so ... darn clever. This violent flick is not in the same league as "The Sting," which has my vote for the cleverest winding road toward a happy ending in screenwriting history, but it contains nearly as deft a con job as that 1973 film.
  88. Time Out
    A well-crafted indictment of the dark side of the modern work ethic.
    • New York Daily News
  89. Avenue Montaigne
    Rarely has Paris seemed more enchanting than in Danièle Thompson's optimistic ode to Gallic romance.
  90. Under the City's Skin
    Watching Tuba's proud girls disappear into anonymous clouds of chadors says more than any political diatribe could, and Bani-Etemad is wise enough to know it.
  91. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Here, Noyce lets his camera, the geography and the youngsters tell this exceptionally powerful story.
  92. Blue Gate Crossing
    A lovely little coming-of-age story, this Taiwanese romance was directed by Chih-Yen Yee with a skillful subtlety enhanced by his young cast.
  93. The Prince of Egypt
    Apt to scare kids. [18 December 1998, p.72]
    • New York Daily News
  94. 102 Dalmatians
    The floating, flailing, flying puppies in the inspired opening credits of 102 Dalmatians set the tone for an adorable sequel to the live-action version of the famously spotted cartoon.
  95. Separate Lies
    A neat, twisty little domestic drama about smart people, foolish choices.
  96. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
    Consistently compelling and required viewing for anyone remotely interested in pop culture.
  97. The Host
    Bong's primary point is dead-on: Battling bureaucracy, from dishonest government leaders to indifferent civil servants, is the biggest horror of all.
  98. Stealing the Fire
    Enlightening and rather unsettling documentary.
  99. Derrida
    The sort of film one should probably see either a half-dozen times or not at all. It's a complex, highly ambitious documentary that aptly reflects its subject, contemporary French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
  100. Faat Kiné
    Both politically intricate and genuinely hilarious, Faat-Kine is a story grounded in dichotomies.
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