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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Here, Noyce lets his camera, the geography and the youngsters tell this exceptionally powerful story.
  2. The Century of the Self
    It will make you laugh, and feel like crying.
  3. Whale Rider
    Pai is resourceful and in harmony with the natural world in a way that will charm and enthrall young viewers.
  4. Sunset Story
    It's a poignant, realistic depiction of the ­elderly, far from the typical view of them as quaint and useless.
  5. Minority Report
    By turns silly and amazing, a mishmash of Kubrickian devices accompanied by a steady Spielbergian drip of sentimentality.
    • New York Daily News
  6. The Simpsons Movie
    A very funny, solidly entertaining movie that, despite its unshakable obsesion with undergarments, is as sweet as a Kwik-E-Mart Squishee.
  7. Set Me Free
    A slice of life that adds up to exactly the sum of its parts, no more, no less.
  8. Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
    It is an excruciating experience. But then, it would have to be. We're watching the distilled essence of war.
  9. Riding Giants
    A breathtaking visual history of big wave surfing. This is vicarious daredevilry at its best.
  10. Room 237
    What Room 237 is really about is how movies inspire passion. Which is a great thing, even if it comes out in wack-job ways.
  11. 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.
  12. Irma Vep
    Irma Vep is a glorious mishmash, like the medium it celebrates.
    • New York Daily News
  13. Call Me Kuchu
    The very best — and, alas, the very worst — of human nature is captured in this heartbreaking and inspiring documentary.
  14. In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Kudlácek's primary focus, however, is on Deren's work, which means we don't learn enough about her complex, fascinating personality. On the other hand, she's offering a too-rare opportunity to see substantial portions of Deren's seminal films.
  15. Berberian Sound Studio
    Fans of Dario Argento and Mario Bava will appreciate the references. Even for newcomers, there are minor chords to enjoy. If only there were less screaming.
  16. Tokyo Sonata
    Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is better known for horror films; this is a movie where the horror is internalized, and hideously truthful.
  17. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    More fun than a company picnic - and a lot more fun than the classic 18th century novel that inspired it - Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story is the first good comedy of 2006.
  18. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    The biggest little movie of the year - and one of the best ever about the news media.
  19. Human Resources
    The result is an undeniable and effective authenticity.
  20. 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.
  21. Clouds of Sils Maria
    This is the film that fulfills whatever promise Kristen Stewart has shown for more than a decade.
  22. Coraline
    An extraordinary achievement that nevertheless falls short of its full potential, Coraline is absolutely worth seeing, for older children and adults alike. But the connection will be entirely through your eyes; if you want it to touch your heart, you'll have to go to the book on which it's based.
  23. The Uncondemned
    The film will stay with its audience long after the closing credits — and inspire a deep hope that a film of its kind never has to be made again.
  24. Goodbye First Love
    Some of this wallowing goes on too long, risking our alienation from characters who are difficult to like. What saves the film is the fact that they are always easy to recognize, both as self-centered teenagers and tentatively maturing young adults.
  25. Little Miss Sunshine
    A charmer, a comedy with drama -- or vice versa.
  26. Sweetgrass
    The filmmakers' motivation couldn't be clearer: They needed to capture a way of life that may soon exist only on film and in memory.
  27. The Last of the Unjust
    Though it’s more testimonial exhibit than movie, “Unjust” remains a crucial document.
  28. West of Memphis
    Certainly, the West Memphis 3 deserve more chances to detail how the justice system went nightmarishly awry. But take this as ultimately more personal journal than investigation.
  29. Last Resort
    A slice of life in the most profound sense.
  30. 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.
  31. Senna
    His years of success aren't as gripping as Kapadia, and Senna's legend, would have us believe. He had no demons besides fame, and no hurdles besides a recklessness that went with the territory.
  32. The Piano Teacher
    Haneke has made a masterly, disturbing movie.
    • New York Daily News
  33. Monsters, Inc.
    Rarely does an animated character merge as perfectly with the persona of the actor providing his voice as the star of Monsters, Inc. does with John Goodman.
    • New York Daily News
  34. Beyond the Hills
    The deliberate pace Mungiu employs in this incredible work is so engrossing and quietly heartbreaking that its philosophical ending may come as a shock.
  35. The Sessions
    It's strange to call a film with so much nudity and simulated sex "old-fashioned," but The Sessions nicely bridges that gulf.
  36. March of the Penguins
    When it comes to cute, this baby is off the charts.
  37. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
    Meticulously researched documentary.
  38. Two Family House
    A gentle, soulful comedy about everyday dreams and what it takes to make them come true.
  39. 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
  40. Oasis
    Director Lee Chang-Dong has boldly crafted a challenge rarely found on film. But if you choose to meet it, you'll be rewarded with one of the most original, indelible romances in recent memory.
  41. 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
  42. Annihilation
    Your mileage may vary — along with patience. Despite all the talk of the Shimmer, Annihilation sputters.
  43. City of God
    For those who didn't get enough violence from Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York," welcome to City of God.
  44. Pariah
    Oduye, especially, is utterly absorbing. Even in those few moments when the movie follows a slightly more straightforward line than it needs, she is always engagingly, beautifully real.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pride
    Among the actors, potential Oscar nominee Nighy is deeply affecting, but everyone in this rousing movie impresses.
  46. 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.
  47. Eureka
    Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.
  48. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    If you're looking for an incisive portrait of self-generated stardom, you won't do better than this.
  49. Chunhyangdyun
    A feast for the eyes. But not, alas, for the ears.
  50. Baran
    Yet another deceptively simple, supremely moving film from Iran.
    • New York Daily News
  51. High Fidelity
    When director Stephen Frears worked with (Jack Black), he must have yelled "Let 'er rip!" instead of "Action!"
  52. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    Not a particularly exceptional movie in form, but as a thorough record it is extraordinary.
  53. Coriolanus
    Here, in his best performance since "Spider," Fiennes plays the snarling, entitled general Caius Martius Coriolanus, whose bloody brow and bald head are stained with what's left of his soldiers.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Grand Hotel
    Each and every performer in the screened Grand Hotel does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence.
    • New York Daily News
  55. A Most Violent Year
    Chandor (“All is Lost”) has made a movie that quietly but ferociously immerses us in a time and place, with atmosphere done in minimal yet evocative strokes.
  56. I Am Love
    Though it's Swinton who grounds the film, Guadagnino is really telling the story of an entire family and their unquestioned way of life.
  57. Gone Girl
    Fincher is a fearless filmmaker who understands his audience’s intelligence (not to mention their cinematic blood lust). By the end of Gone Girl, we feel like we’ve lived through about four movies, not just one. Good luck letting go of any of them.
  58. Wagner's Dream
    The finished "Ring" cycle, a combination of "myth, science and legend" made to order as Wagner imagined it, was unique to every viewer's eye. The making of it will be spellbinding to everyone.
  59. Kinsey
    The face-to-face interviews laced throughout the movie are fascinating and often laugh-out-loud funny. Ask people to talk dirty and you don't know what they'll say.
  60. Gabrielle
    Chereau keeps us locked inside their suffocatingly unhappy home, making for an intensely theatrical chamber piece.
  61. 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.
  62. War Photographer
    Nachtwey's pictures tell a tale of grief and suffering, and Frei's you-are-there approach gives those photos startling immediacy.
  63. Sexy Beast
    Noir has never been this bright.
  64. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
    Rafferty keeps the structure so blandly standard, the title is nearly the most intriguing element of the whole film.
  65. Midnight Cowboy
    Whew! It’s shocking - a horror film but extremely well done by producer Jerome Hellman and John Schlesinger, the British director who uncannily captures the feeling for tragedy in this locale, the forced gaiety of some who have sunk to the lower depths of despair and sympathy for the two disillusioned protagonists.
  66. Dear White People
    Comparisons to Spike Lee’s movies are unavoidable, particularly with a setting that recalls Lee’s “School Daze” and a conclusion that echoes “Do the Right Thing.” But Dear White People is a film of the moment, and an essential one at that.
  67. Broken Flowers
    This is Murray's subtlest performance, and one of his best.
  68. Loving
    It's a tough, understated part to play, and Edgerton does a terrific job.
  69. Silence
    Silence is a slowly unfolding, deeply thoughtful film about questioning yourself. About questioning authority. About taking stock of where you've failed as a human being, and wondering how you can make amends — to yourself, to others, and to God.
  70. I've Loved You So Long
    Scott Thomas breathes more emotion into Juliette's affectless, haunted demeanor than most actors do with pages of dialogue.
  71. The Crash Reel
    What complicates and deepens Crash Reel, though, is that Walker doesn’t simply wag her finger like Mom telling you not to run with scissors.
  72. Moving Midway
    Cheshire refuses to look away, no matter how complicated things get. In fact, it's the tangled, tortured roots that most inspire him, turning this deeply personal film into a potent meditation on our nation's past.
  73. Flags of Our Fathers
    Eastwood's sepia-toned combat scenes are as graphic, if not quite as jolting, as those in "Ryan." And without a Tom Hanks-size star in the cast, "Flags" is not likely to do "Ryan's" blockbuster business. But "Flags," a true story directed by someone with far more faith in the audience's ability to empathize, is the better movie.
  74. Bright Leaves
    This might have come off as both self-indulgent and preachy if McElwee weren't so persuasively earnest. "Bright Leaves" becomes both a mystery and memoir in progress and though the filmmaker does not find the truth he is looking for, it was clearly a quest worth undertaking.
  75. Reprise
    Joachim Trier's energetic, inventive debut takes such a novel approach to well-worn themes that it makes most movies look downright lazy.
  76. The Winslow Boy
    Hell has not yet frozen over, but here's something equally unexpected: David Mamet has made a G-rated movie for adults.
    • New York Daily News
  77. What Time Is It Over There?
    This movie is not of a style that will speak to general audiences. It is nearly wordless, spare to a fare-thee-well.
    • New York Daily News
  78. Look at Me
    This audience-pleaser is smart and acerbic. Jaoui has an uncanny ear - as director, co-writer and part of the inspired ensemble cast - for human foibles, self-deception, celebrity worship and female body issues.
  79. Drive
    For all the movement in Drive, the quiet, deathly still moments are the ones that count.
  80. The Fighter
    By far the most rousing, expertly cast movie this year, David O. Russell's movie takes a roundabout way of telling its true story.
  81. Jodorowsky's Dune
    Given the evidence compiled here by director Frank Pavich, there’s reason to believe Jodorowsky’s “Dune” was more influential for never actually existing. It wound up being inhaled, like some ethereal alien spice, by a generation of moviemakers.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Five Obstructions
    A sensational oddity. It sheds light on the creative process, on filmmaking and on the durability of friendship and professional respect despite the odds.
  83. Iron Monkey
    The requisite set piece, which will remind you of the treetop sequence in "Crouching Tiger," involves a fight atop a forest of burning poles, exactly the kind of thing you want in a movie like this.
  84. Godzilla
    The monster's mashing of Tokyo looks as Ed Wood-like as ever, but the film's humanity gives it depth.
  85. The Visitor
    Both director and cast exhibit the dedication of those who truly believe in the message at hand. But with so much earnestness onscreen, the message occasionally gets in the way of the movie itself.
  86. Green Room
    For those who enjoy the goriest of thrillers, there is plenty of red running through Green Room.
  87. Iron Man
    The result is the first comic-book movie in a while that actually feels like a classic comic book: fast, furious and flip. Forget about superheroes with love problems and tortured souls.
  88. Control Room
    If her (Noujaim's) movie teaches us anything, it's that no reality remains unspun.
  89. Only Lovers Left Alive
    This is a movie about the transcendent bond between partners who can communicate without speaking a word, so it’s only fitting that the gorgeous cinematography perfectly captures the movie’s emotional depths.
  90. In a World...
    It’s hard to imagine the lives behind the voices that are part of the movies. But In a World ..., the debut feature from actress-turned-writer-director Lake Bell, not only gives the people who do movie voice-overs a closeup, it savvily and wittily uses what we hear as a metaphor for what we are.
  91. Selma
    The battle it documents is both a cornerstone of the past and a reflection of ongoing struggles. DuVernay infuses Selma with that dichotomy, never forgetting how Selma, the place, was a pledge to march ahead.
  92. Underground
    Delirious in its excess, but never less than ferociously intelligent and operatically emotional, Underground represents one of those rare, exhilarating moments when an outsize artistic vision is fueled by an apparently unlimited budget. Not to be missed.
  93. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is awe-inspiring.
  94. Trolösa
    Hits so hard because it feels so real.
    • New York Daily News
  95. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Harris brings into focus a nearly forgotten success story, filling in another blank in the ultimate mosaic of the 20th century's greatest tragedy.
  96. Praise
    Unrelentingly, admirably committed to its own grimness.
  97. Affliction
    Schrader and Nolte are both at the height of their expressive powers in a film that, in its concentration and sobriety, leaves a lasting impression.
  98. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    At one point, Junge complains that her memories are banal, and they are -- But when sounds of war penetrate the bunker and the end is near, the details become high drama.
    • New York Daily News
  99. Life of Pi
    Though the film's setup trudges and its closing is too pat, that hour or so on the raft is something special, and few would dive into the story's soul as Lee does.
  100. Let Me In
    Director Matt Reeves (who also made the much rawer "Cloverfield") so deeply understands the nature of childhood terror that Let Me In burns with a white-hot clarity.
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