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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. L.I.E.
    Dano is a real find in this daunting role about a teenager's identity crisis. The subject of the movie is dicey but ultimately deeply rewarding.
  2. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The love and attention Oshii poured into animating Batou's pet basset hound proves that the human instinct dominates even in a movie dependent on technology.
  3. Shakespeare in Love
    Inordinately clever, sprightly romantic comedy.
  4. Pollock
    Harris convincingly creates one "Pollock" after another over the course of the movie.
  5. Grindhouse
    Critics are already comparing the two movies and largely agreeing that Tarantino?s story about a psychopathic stuntman who targets women for highway carnage is the best. I disagree.
  6. The Upside of Anger
    In making such an appealing movie about characters who are usually swept under the Hollywood rug, Binder does us all a service.
  7. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    For Hobbitués and adventure fans of all other ages, it's the year's best thrill ride -- maybe the best film.
    • New York Daily News
  8. Murderball
    When it comes to sports movies, there's nothing like the real thing, and there's never been anything quite as real as the documentary Murderball.
  9. The Day I Became a Woman
    This powerful, compact trilogy speaks volumes about women in Iran.
  10. Children Underground
    First-time filmmaker Edet Belzberg may be the first person to assign any value to the lives of the homeless Romanian youngsters featured in her harrowing documentary.
    • New York Daily News
  11. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
    A droll gem that celebrates movie love with feeling and deadpan humor.
  12. Enemy at the Gates
    The sniper's life is a lonely one, full of shallow breathing and delayed gratification. Solitary as it is, Jude Law manages to get a little action in the bunkers of wartime Stalingrad in the ambitious but sometimes inadvertently silly Enemy at the Gates.
  13. Shoot 'Em Up
    This is likely the fastest-moving intentionally funny action movie ever made. It's as if the 21 Bond movies and four "Die Hards" had been distilled to remove their body fat (that is, character development, buildup, rest stops, etc.) and left us with only the killing and the punch lines.
  14. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Fascinating, amusing and ultimately disturbing.
  15. Mad Hot Ballroom
    This winning documentary about fifth-graders who learn ballroom dancing is one of those movies that make the world a brighter place.
  16. Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Each man winds up owing the other -- and the enormity of the sacrifices they make on one another's behalf are quite moving and have not been duplicated in the movies since.
  17. Clouds of Sils Maria
    This is the film that fulfills whatever promise Kristen Stewart has shown for more than a decade.
  18. The Straight Story
    If there is any justice in the world, Farnsworth will be remembered at Oscar time.
  19. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    The darkest, most thrilling entry yet in the movie franchise.
  20. The Dreamers
    As tawdry as this may seem, Bertolucci is not trying to one-up himself. He was 27 when the student riots occurred and very much a participant in a revolution that was both complex in its implications and naive in much of the behavior. He has caught that perfectly
  21. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Based on the true story of the first emperor of unified China, could be downsized and told as an American Western.
  22. It's a Wonderful Life
    The film is too sprawling in extent, too noisy as to background music and voices and much too obvious in the application of its social significance notes. But while it isn’t the best picture to come out of Hollywood this year, nor is it Capra’s masterpiece, it tells a good story and its conclusion has a heart-warming effect on the audience.
  23. Ballets Russes
    Goldfine discover so many fascinating themes within their seemingly narrow subject that anyone with the slightest interest in history or human nature will find it absorbing.
  24. World Trade Center
    It's as harrowing as moviegoing gets.
  25. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    The strength of McKay's film is not in identifying a cultural period, but in giving voice to so many great theater people. Their passion is infectious, their stories are priceless and their humor is boundless.
  26. One True Thing
    A beautifully rich performance by Meryl Streep, [18 September 1998, p. 57]
    • New York Daily News
  27. Die Another Day
    As strong on action as it is weak on the interpersonal stuff. If Bond can get a new car for each episode, how about some new pickup lines?
  28. Before Sunset
    The naturalistic dialogue is a masterful bit of writing, credited to Linklater and his "Sunrise" co-writer Kim Krizan, as well as to the two stars.
  29. Love & Basketball
    Makes hoops look like the sexiest game in town.
  30. Beau Travail
    "Chocolat" was just a warmup for the stunning display of the male form against National Geographic settings in her new Beau Travail.
    • New York Daily News
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