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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. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    If there's anything more tiresome in film today than hip irony, it is forced irony, and here comes a boatload with Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
  2. Dolls
    Rife with beautiful imagery and loads of symbolism, though none of the stories is particularly compelling on its own.
  3. A Tale of Two Sisters
    the director works way too hard to cover his tracks, and the resolution is a disappointment - if you get it at all.
  4. Blade: Trinity
    I don't know if it was intentional, but Drake seems to come out of the same sandy hole in which our troops found the cowering Saddam Hussein.
  5. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Touching and saddening.
  6. Closer
    Despite four very strong performances, Closer is hard emotional work to sit through. It's impossible to empathize with either the viciously insecure Larry or the unscrupulous, childlike Dan.
  7. House of Flying Daggers
    The most gorgeous movie of the year. This smashing martial-arts romance from Chinese director Zhang Yimou is stunning in other ways, too, like the eroticism that ripples just beneath the surface.
  8. After Midnight
    Ferrario deft use of old silent-movie footage - especially Buster Keaton - makes After Midnight enchanting.
  9. Conspiracy of Silence
    Deery's points are well-taken, but they would have been a lot better made if he hadn't taken so many easy shots at the church by demonizing its local authorities.
  10. The Deserted Station
    Gentle and understated (if somewhat creepy).
  11. 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.
  12. The Green Butchers
    Should have been either darker or funnier. Or both.
  13. The Aryan Couple
    A few genuinely tense scenes are not enough to overcome a thin script, weak direction and an unceasingly high-strung score.
  14. A Very Long Engagement
    There are many ways to say that war is hell, but few filmmakers have said it with as much imagination, humor, intrigue and humanity as Jean-Pierre Jeunet in A Very Long Engagement.
  15. Easy
    The movie ends on exactly the right note, but it hits a lot of bad ones on the way.
  16. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Uses social and historical perspective to explain what happened then and, perhaps inadvertently, what's happening now.
  17. Straight-Jacket
    Day's primary mistake is an occasional attempt to get serious. With a deft comic touch and a topic that's still timely, he doesn't need to play it straight.
  18. Alexander
    Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence. In a scene in which Alexander is roaring at his troops to rouse them to battle, he sounds like Mighty Mouse pretending to be Superman.
  19. Christmas with the Kranks
    When is a holiday stocking more like a smelly gym sock? When it's the malodorous Christmas With the Kranks, a so-called comedy stuffed with bigotry, intolerance and bullying.
  20. Notre musique
    Notre Musique is a cry against war and man's inherent needs for tribalism and violence, a position that wouldn't start a good argument in a college cafeteria.
  21. National Treasure
    If the Founding Fathers had known National Treasure would be the result of their efforts to forge a new nation, they might have reached for the Wite-Out.
  22. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    It won't cure the ills of the world, but it doesn't need to. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is adorable in its own spongy way.
  23. Bad Education
    In this cross between film noir and melodrama, there's lust, need, camp and betrayal.
  24. Fear and Trembling
    A marvelous cross between "Secretary" and "Lost in Translation."
  25. Ya lyublyu tebya
    Quirky, character-driven comedy.
  26. After the Sunset
    You'd have to go back to Blake Edwards' "10" and Bo Derek to find a mainstream movie that spends more time gawking at a star's body - or a more cooperative and alluring subject.
  27. Seed of Chucky
    Horror fans will be appalled by the frivolity of the beheadings, amputations and blunt-force trauma. But when Tilly, complaining about all the good roles going to Julia Roberts, says she could have played Erin Brockovich and done it without the Wonderbra, you know you're into something almost inspired.
  28. Finding Neverland
    Delightful and moving - although fanciful.
  29. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Takes the worst and most annoying elements of the first film and treats them like grand assets.
  30. 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.
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