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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. Restrepo
    Even after experiencing the film, what they've gone through - and how they deal with it - deliberately remains a mystery.
  2. The Iron Giant
    It's an antidote to complacency. The question is, whom is it trying to wake up?
  3. Passing Strange
    The beginning is awkwardly earnest, but the play matures considerably while retaining its youthful energy and enthusiasm
  4. Meek's Cutoff
    In this visually and emotionally severe landscape, Reichardt has created the sort of film that will inspire grad students to write passionate thesis papers - and casual moviegoers to feel as lost as her would-be settlers.
  5. Fruitvale Station
    One of the most extraordinary films you’ll see this year.
  6. Rachel Getting Married
    A film that is both deceptively modest and deeply resonant.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Sound and Fury
    The real revelation of Sound and Fury is how it introduces hearing people to a culture they insist on ignoring.
  10. Since Otar Left
    This sensitive drama will appeal to anyone who has strained against the confines of family - or basked happily in its comforts.
  11. The Handmaiden
    The nearly three-hour runtime, though, may be one of the film's biggest hurdles. But the time seems necessary for a story that adds more layers the further we're taken down the rabbit hole.
  12. Slumdog Millionaire
    It's a stunner.
  13. A Christmas Tale
    Though overly self-conscious, this "Tale" is nonetheless wry, observant and frequently heartbreaking. It's also bound to make you feel better about your own holiday plans.
  14. Paranoid Park
    The story's fractured structure - and Christopher Doyle's dreamlike cinematography - make for a striking mood piece.
  15. Out of Sight
    When boy meets girl in Steven Soderbergh's jaunty, sexy Out of Sight, it happens with a bang.
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  16. In the Shadow of the Moon
    And oh, what stories these heroes have to tell - and what incredible sights they brought back with them.
  17. Secret Sunshine
    Director Lee Chang-dong's soulful, affecting film is as quiet as a tomb and has a disturbing, critical underside that's hard to shake off.
  18. Children of Men
    Cuarón relies on his ample visual style, and he has indeed created a film you cannot tear your eyes away from.
  19. American Movie
    Smith's gleeful, touching documentary records the agony and the ecstasy of realizing your dream, and intangible ways that such dreams help keep people alive.
  20. The Man Without a Past
    A solid delight, the sort of cinematic concoction you might expect from a time-warp collaboration between Preston Sturges and Jim Jarmusch.
  21. Moonrise Kingdom
    Though not as impactful as Anderson's strongest works - including its adolescent cousin, "Rushmore" - "Kingdom" unfolds with an asymmetrical lyricism of its own.
  22. Calle 54
    Some of the artists appear ecstatically transported as they play. Others are just having one hell of a good time. Believe me, it's contagious.
  23. Lantana
    In addition to the strong script, the ensemble performances are topnotch, with no one hogging the limelight.
  24. 49 Up
    One of the best things about Michael Apted's uniquely ambitious and continuing documentary series on the lives of a group of British schoolchildren is that you don't have to have seen the last one to enjoy the next.
  25. American Beauty
    A tart, funny and tremendously sobering movie about the deepest recesses of personal unhappiness.
  26. No Man's Land
    Writer-director Danis Tanovic, a Bosnian who spent years documenting his homeland's turmoil, makes a bold feature-film debut with this funny, sobering message movie.
  27. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    The sunny, funny, toe-tapping Lagaan is the answer to those who ask why they don't make movies like they used to: They do, but in India.
  28. Far From Heaven
    May be the year's most derivative film, but it's also the most original.
  29. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the best film therapy one can recommend.
  30. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    Kubrick leaves himself wide open to ridicule from the minute he picks up Dr. Floyd’s space investigation of the mysterious monolith...The setting is a technical marvel, but advertising plugs make it a super-commercial and destroy its impact.
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