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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Holy Smoke
    Winslet and Keitel are brilliant as cult member & deprogrammer.
  2. Tupac: Resurrection
    Mostly, it's a story of violence, and it's superbly told.
  3. Friday Night Lights
    Rousing, action-packed.
  4. Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
    The result is a feast for the senses.
  5. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
    Eye-opening political documentary focuses on "the strange world of violence and fear, fantasy and deception, in which we now live."
  6. Taboo
    Impressionistic and open to interpretation, which is a kind way of saying that there's no way to figure out the ending.
    • New York Daily News
  7. Deep Water
    This fine documentary mixes archival footage, interviews with the sailor's family and sponsors, and - most amazingly - excerpts from the film and audiotape diary kept by Crowhurst.
  8. Divan
    Warm and engaging.
  9. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    A good-natured, gag-filled sequel.
  10. Undisputed
    Offers nothing new to the long tradition of boxing films. But Hill's reverence for the classic form and the stone-cold performances of Rhames and Snipes propel the whole thing forward with a prefight buildup that's more fun -- and probably more honest -- than the awkward attempts at macho showmanship we get from real fighters these days.
  11. Music from the Inside Out
    With a soundtrack that ranges from classical to jazz to bluegrass, this is not only an obvious choice for ­music lovers, but required viewing for anyone interested in the mysteries of creative inspiration.
  12. Through the Fire
    Superb, ultimately exhilarating account of Coney Island basketball phenom Sebastian Telfair's senior year at Lincoln High.
  13. Sir! No Sir!
    This is powerful stuff, offering us not only a new look at the past, but to the unavoidably relevant insights into the present.
  14. Band of Outsiders
    The strangely mesmerizing dance contest in "Pulp Fiction" was born of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 New Wave classic Band of Outsiders.
  15. Day Night Day Night
    Offers a chillingly effective look at the ease with which a suicide bomber could wreak havoc on U.S. soil - specifically in Times Square.
  16. Drillbit Taylor
    Even if this movie doesn't quite hit the highs of its predecessor, it's nice to know that there are still filmmakers ready to respect the eternal struggles of freaks and geeks.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    D.E.B.S.
    Cute, campy and as proudly insubstantial as its heroines' micro-miniskirts, D.E.B.S. deftly fulfills its Jane Bond fantasies without so much as breaking a nail.
  18. Domestic Violence
    Wiseman's film is revealing. But it is also a silent rebuke to a society that tries to hide this pervasive problem behind a smug vision of itself.
  19. Charlie Wilson's War
    Of all the Middle East-theme movies this season, Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War is the least political and most entertaining. That doesn't mean it's great, just that it's unimportant.
  20. Out of Time
    The tension of Matt having to work alongside his wife without being able to trust her provides the movie's real electricity, sexual and otherwise.
  21. The Greatest Game Ever Played
    LaBeouf ("Holes") has a scrubbed, ego-free innocence that is perfect for his working-class hero.
  22. Up at the Villa
    All of Haas' movies have an air of weirdness and dread, and this one is no exception. But it's romantic as well.
  23. Wonder Boys
    Among the movie's oddball treats are Robert Downey Jr. as Grady's flamboyant editor and Rip Torn as a pedantic author and sermonizer known only as Q.
  24. Lady Chatterley
    It captures the animal attraction we call lust and carefully tracks its evolution to true love. For all its faults, this beautifully shot, sexually graphic film is a gem.
  25. Death at a Funeral
    It takes a while for Frank Oz's ensemble black comedy Death at a Funeral to hit its deliriously nutty stride. But when it does, the laughs don't stop until the movie, like the subject of its family get-together, has taken its last breath.
  26. The Claim
    Its sprawling canvas is mere backdrop for the most intimate of character studies -- a portrait of a man who chose material wealth and found emotional ruin.
  27. Read My Lips
    A gritty thriller on the theme of the con man conned. It works as well as it does thanks to a captivating lead performance by Emmanuelle Devos and the superb direction of Jacques Audiard.
  28. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    The best way to look at this installment, however, is as musical theater of the absurd. The song-and-dance set pieces are brilliant, including a rap-style "It's a Hard Knock Life" in a prison.
  29. How I Killed My Father
    The acting is superb, with emotions roiling beneath rigid exteriors.
  30. Confidence
    As pulp entertainment, Confidence is great fun and Foley's first good movie since the very different "Glengarry Glen Ross."
  31. Enchanted
    While Enchanted wittily updates traditional tales, it is, in the end, as carefully calculated in its appeal as any movie ever was.
  32. The Tao of Steve
    Outside of the leads, the acting is uneven, but The Tao of Steve has an unquenchable playful spirit.
  33. The Faculty
    This alien high school sci-fi tale has clever wit, clever FX.
    • New York Daily News
  34. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    A gentle comic stew of monster movies, adding dashes of Bugs Bunny irreverence and British gentility.
  35. Demonlover
    Sharp, erotic performances are the mainstay of Olivier Assayas' unnerving Demonlover, a visually stylish movie that equates and fuses high-stakes corporate negotiations with the video-game mentality.
  36. The Heartbreak Kid
    Though the sitcom humor of this is much broader and funnier than in May's film, it is also the part most faithful in spirit to the original.
  37. Walk the Line
    What Walk the Line does well, it does really well. Mangold was ­wisely gen­erous with the amount of musical performance he included in the film, and the later scenes - showing Cash and Carter as partners - are so well shot and edited, they defy you to sit still.
  38. Why We Fight
    Whether we've reached the critical mass of "misplaced power" is the gist of the current national debate, and Why We Fight is a useful tool in that argument.
  39. Angela's Ashes
    The question is not whether the movie exactly duplicates the experience of the book, but whether the movie stands on its own. Angela's Ashes clearly does.
  40. The Craft
    With its sense of what can be accomplished on a small budget, The Craft suggests the classic B-horrors of the '40s particularly The Cat People and The Seventh Victim.
  41. Sweet Sixteen
    Compston, with Loach's uncanny guidance, gives a performance of such natural power you'd think you were watching a drama-class prodigy like James Dean rather than a moonlighting high-schooler.
  42. The Alamo
    Alamo buffs will be delighted, and everyone else will be treated to something that feels like Old Hollywood crossed with new sensibilities.
  43. Intimate Stories
    As stripped down as its title, this gentle Argentinian road movie makes much out of very little.
  44. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    Dynamite perfectly describes this riveting documentary.
  45. I'm Going Home
    With this moving, contemplative portrait of an artist who has suddenly become an old man, de Oliveira refuses to patronize either his hero or his audience.
  46. Marooned in Iraq
    It's part grim Beckett-like drama, part joyous picaresque, and all quite mesmerizing.
  47. Children of Love
    A powerful drama that turns a common event -- the rending of a family -- into an intimate, personal affair.
  48. Dogville
    Surprises, repulses and provokes. It's also brilliant and infuriating, wise and naïve, outrageous yet unforgettable.
  49. The Clearing
    Redford has rarely done this kind of intimate drama, effectively a two-character play on the mountain, and he's very convincing. As is Dafoe.
  50. Red Lights
    The movie's clever ambiguity allows a number of interpretations. Perhaps it is all a dream, a parable, or a combination of wishful thinking and reality.
  51. The Circle
    How dangerous it is to be a woman in Iran, especially one going against the wishes of her menfolk, is brought home time after time in these related vignettes.
  52. Heaven
    Too bad Heaven creeps into town when it deserved more fanfare. Consider it buried treasure, a thriller for the art- house crowd.
  53. Dr T and the Women
    One of the curmudgeonly director's sweetest films, and features one of Richard Gere's most affecting performances.
  54. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Only the most hardhearted would fail to be swayed by Messner's surprising strength, and -- dare I say it -- irresistible charm.
  55. Make It Funky!
    A suddenly vital biography, Make It Funky, pays apt homage to the unique gifts New ­Orleans has given its country over the last century. Watching it ought to inspire anyone to return the favor.
  56. Paragraph 175
    Explores the comparatively enlightened Berlin culture that had allowed homosexuality to flourish in intellectual and social circles before the Nazis forcibly changed the national mind-set.
  57. Suzhou River
    This Asian-flavored Hitchcock is a complicated tale with no easy answers.
  58. Saint of 9/11
    Overly reverent but still immensely touching.
  59. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Aside from conspiracy theories, Kasparov's undoing inspires a fascinating discourse on genius, competition, humanity and the ghost in the machine.
  60. Fearless
    Li's performance is stronger here than it has been in previous films.
  61. Transformers
    A classic Michael Bay mega-movie. Interested in plot and character development? Move along. You're blocking the view.
  62. Mean Girls
    Likable Lohan doesn't exude the vulnerability that would give the movie true heart, and Fey, head writer for "Saturday Night Live," crafts better punch lines than plots.
  63. Layer Cake
    Laced with flashbacks and stylistic tics, but it never loses its forward momentum, and to the last shot, it avoids predictability.
  64. Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    The documentary fascinates not only because of its subject matter but because the three people - whose backgrounds are individually developed - are so likable.
  65. Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
    Spellbinding.
  66. Super Troopers
    There's a thin line between smart-stupid and just plain stupid, and Super Troopers walks it with ease.
    • New York Daily News
  67. American Gun
    While this is not exactly a hopeful movie, it's a polished exercise in the kind of social commentary that can wake people up.
  68. Wah-Wah
    Thanks to Grant's script and direction, the exotic Swaziland location (a film first) and an engaging cast, this smartly crafted drama radiates a gently comic pulse.
  69. Backstage
    Director Emmanuelle Bercot's film offers a fascinating account of how a vulnerable star might mistake fan worship for something real.
  70. Close to Home
    Filmmakers Vardit Bilu and Dalia Hagar don't seem as interested in taking sides as they do in exploring universal themes.
  71. Down with Love
    Doesn't so much crackle as pop. It has enough double entendres to fill a D-cup, but it has a premise that would have burned a hole in the screen in 1962, when its story is set.
  72. Rize
    Exhilarating.
  73. Clean
    When these two powerhouse performers come together, a rather predictable tale ignites with surprising force.
  74. Himalaya
    The plot is woven from minutely observed details that beautifully evoke a rarely seen world.
  75. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    The segments are introduced with little clichés or homilies, like "Ignorance Is Bliss," but the fierce intelligence of the script reminds us that sometimes a cliché is the only way to express the ineffable.
    • New York Daily News
  76. Pootie Tang
    Pretty thin feature-film subject. But the silliness is so contagious that it doesn't matter.
  77. Get Bruce
    Offering often-hysterical testimony to Vilanch's talent.
  78. The Others
    The suspense is as tingly as jalapenos on the tongue.
  79. Heights
    Heights is stage-bound throughout, and the secrets it would like to keep are very predictable. But its heart is in the right place, and the performances are first-rate.
  80. I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
    A fascinating capsule of an era long past.
  81. The Son's Room
    A stately and deeply affecting look at the human condition, told in something like a series of snapshots.
    • New York Daily News
  82. Tsotsi
    Tense, fiercely optimistic movie.
  83. 13 Tzameti
    The resulting jolts add up to one unforgettably surreal nightmare. Just be sure your heart can handle any surprises headed your way.
  84. Seraphim Falls
    This is an entertaining Western with some earnest ideas about forgiveness, redemption and the loss of innocents.
  85. Intolerable Cruelty
    If Intolerable Cruelty isn't a convincing love story, it's a hugely entertaining one, with comic relief -- in the form of Cedric the Entertainer as a voyeuristic private eye and Tom Aldredge as a decaying law-firm boss issuing directives while hooked up to life-support -- piled on top of the comedy.
  86. Zheng hun qi shi
    Although rife with comic possibilities, The Personals develops into a somber tale of personal identity.
  87. Diggers
    What separates Diggers from its kin - notably the Ed Burns movies - is the testosterone balance of its masculine script and Dieckmann's sensitive direction. Maybe we need more buddy movies by women.
  88. Nanking
    It is the devastating testimony from survivors themselves that leaves the most indelible impression.
  89. Tokyo Godfathers
    Though he's working with an unavoidably sentimental story, Kon embraces the dark underside of his characters' lives, giving this animated film a satisfyingly three-dimensional feel.
  90. Saved!
    As an answer to the spreading cultural virus of evangelical conformity, Brian Dannelly's teen farce Saved! is about three teeth short of a full bite. But it leaves an indelible impression.
  91. Girls Can't Swim
    Sensitive and thoughtful coming-of-age story.
    • New York Daily News
  92. Romántico
    It will be a long time before you forget the deep pain etched into the weary face of Carmelo Muñiz, the mariachi singer at the center of Mark Becker's immensely moving documentary.
  93. Monster
    Any which way you describe this uncompromising movie, it will never sound palatable. Still, it features one of the most spectacular physical transformations by an actress hungry for a meaty role. I haven't used the term "tour de force" in all of 2003, but now it is time.
  94. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    There are some clunky, juvenile jokes and an excess of shots to that special place on men that make us double over and weep. But there are some very funny, very hip jokes as well.
  95. Slither
    Slither is neither repetitive nor reverent. It is a dark and hilarious spoof of those movies, one in which both the characters and the audience seem to be in on the jokes.
  96. Come Early Morning
    Both Adams and Judd have been let down by Hollywood. Here they have the freedom to express their uniquely Southern takes on music, faith, family and femininity. This intensely personal film may not bring either of them widespread acclaim, but it's a small triumph nonetheless.
  97. Hostel: Part II
    While the sequel isn't as unrelentingly gory as the original, there are still rivers of blood.
  98. Two Brothers
    Annaud is a filmmaker who often works with a bare minimum of dialogue. Yet his storytelling is so strong and emotional that words are barely necessary.
  99. Agnes Browne
    A standout feature of the movie is its representation of female friendship.
  100. Bad Santa
    "Ghost World" director Terry Zwigoff, working with a depraved script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, has fashioned the sickest -- and funniest -- black comedy in years.
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