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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. Love and Diane
    Amazing... There are only a finite number of filmmakers with the devotion, patience and ability to tease out these stories.
  2. A Song for Martin
    Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl give superb performances as the couple, a once-vigorous conductor and his orchestra's concertmistress. But soon ... well, you know the drill.
  3. My Date with Drew
    There are times, to be sure, when Herzlinger's antics threaten to swing from cute to cloying. But the few missteps are gently redeemed by an unexpectedly charming finish.
  4. Saving Grace
    Has that same air of silly innocence, a rarity in today's movies.
  5. How to Eat Fried Worms
    Here's hoping its old-fashioned sensibility appeals to contemporary kids, because we could certainly use more movies as smart and sweet as this one.
  6. Knafayim Shvurot
    Bergman and his gifted cast do an excellent job portraying the wounded, but still vital, connections that help these people heal even as they fervently believe it's time to give up.
  7. Maria Full of Grace
    Accomplishes two great things on what was undoubtedly a minuscule budget. It breathes life into a small story that has larger ramifications. It also shows that America, as represented by Jackson Heights, is still the promised land for people about whom movies are rarely made.
  8. Open Range
    A flawed but highly entertaining B Western blown up to John Ford scale.
  9. Stranger Than Fiction
    It has a nifty premise and outstanding performances from Ferrell, as the protagonist-in-progress, and Emma Thompson, as his blocked creator.
  10. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    This is a crazy, gorgeous, disturbing, darkly comic horror story about an early-18th-century Frenchman born in a Paris fish market without any odor of his own but with a sense of smell that would make a pack of bloodhounds wail with envy.
  11. The Little Vampire
    Strikes a nice balance between smart and sweet.
  12. Chalk
    If Chalk had been made by Christopher Guest - an obvious influence - it would get the attention it deserves. Packed with sly jokes, hilarious performances and sad truths, the movie will probably become a cult classic among educators.
  13. Torremolinos 73
    The result is a highly amusing folly, rendered with a surprisingly gentle affection.
  14. Soft Fruit
    A slog to get through, but Jeanie Drynan's nuanced performance as the enduring matriarch makes it all worthwhile.
  15. Life and Debt
    This is a sophisticated and unsettling documentary marred only by a voice-over taken from the writings of Jamaica Kincaid.
  16. The Painted Veil
    The Painted Veil may begin too slowly, but it also ends too soon.
  17. The Fall of Fujimori
    Fujimori comes off as amiable and in full denial, recalling the positive headlines of his presidency - and there were many - while laying the scandals off on Montesinos.
  18. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    Does something no other Jesse James movie has done: It tells the truth.
  19. Insomnia
    Pacino is masterful as the sharp-witted, seen-it-all detective.
    • New York Daily News
  20. The Other Side of the Street
    Bernstein blunts the inherent tension by zipping everything along at the pace of a snail with a sore foot. Still, Montenegro does wonders in her long silences, and makes her love scene with the eager 72-year-old Cortez look like a hookup at Club Med.
  21. Our Song
    That it all seems improvised on the spot (it was not) is testament to the power of a film that trusts its characters, its actors and its ultimate goal.
    • New York Daily News
  22. The Deep End
    Delicious, intelligent thriller.
  23. The Groomsmen
    The Groomsmen captures a single, specific moment, when responsibilities await but adulthood is still unwelcome. If their predicament strikes a chord, you may want to join Burns' boys for their final hurrah.
  24. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    Reilly can play nuts, too, and in a lower gear that reins Ferrell in. They're a great team.
  25. Days of Glory
    Conventional, but intensely passionate, war movie.
  26. Sling Blade
    Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed and stars in this compassionate, occasionally funny, character-driven movie about a mentally unstable man who takes the best interests of children very seriously.
  27. Chaos
    Despite a brief, unnecessary foray into melodrama -- stands alone as compelling entertainment.
  28. Benjamin Smoke
    It feels as though we're on a journey with Benjamin, who proves to be a wryly funny, passionate and complex traveling companion.
    • New York Daily News
  29. Bowfinger
    One of the reasons the move is so funny is that it is only a few degrees away from real life.
  30. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    The heavy subject is tempered with gentle humor.
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