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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. North Country
    North Country may be a simplistic account of a hard-won battle, but it will have audiences cheering.
  2. Free Radicals
    Deftly intercutting between several tenuously-connected lives, Barbara Albert's astringent drama is transformed by bright flashes of compassion.
  3. Dead Man's Shoes
    This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread.
  4. Lost in La Mancha
    Lost in La Mancha basically catches "Don Quixote" in free fall…It's our loss nonetheless. Gilliam is one of the great film fantasists of our age, and one expects he would have done Cervantes proud.
  5. Aberdeen
    A journey that goes from prosaic to existential. Director Hans Petter Moland's raw drama of father-daughter reconciliation features an excellent cast.
  6. Troy
    A "Ben-Hur"-size epic with beefcake, beauty, outsize heroes, flashy duels and epic battles. There are breathtaking vistas, taut political intrigues, dangerous romantic liaisons and one of the greatest wardrobes ever assembled for a costume drama.
  7. Sabrina
    The cinematic equivalent of comfort food it soothed when you were younger and, in its familiarity, it soothes again.
    • New York Daily News
  8. The Break-Up
    Newly minted celebrity couple Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston don't have many opportunities to demonstrate their romantic chemistry in Peyton Reed's funny, heart-wrenching The Break-Up, but they still give what may be the best performances of their careers.
  9. All My Loved Ones
    Despite a somewhat unpolished look and a few slips into cliche, the film makes up in sincerity what it lacks in sophistication.
  10. Bully
    That the actors can work under such scrutiny is amazing, and they are superb. The standout is Brad Renfro as Marty, the kid most under the thumb of the neighborhood bully.
  11. Adaptation.
    Streep is perfect, as per usual, but the showy orchid role goes to Cage in an Oscar-worthy tour de force. He pours his body into Charlie's slumped frame of mind and creates a character churning with endearing contradictions -- the unforgettable nebbish.
  12. Riding Giants
    A breathtaking visual history of big wave surfing. This is vicarious daredevilry at its best.
  13. Last Days
    It's like a walking tour inside the head of a deeply troubled, deeply talented young man, where most of the systems have already shut down.
  14. Ushpizin
    Gentle and affecting, it offers an introduction to a mostly unfamiliar world while touching on issues recognizable to all.
  15. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    For those who've become increasingly conscious of the connections between strangers sharing a city, it's a challenge that's hard to resist.
  16. Duck Season
    It's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood.
  17. The King Is Alive
    It's an excellent fusion of subject and style.
    • New York Daily News
  18. Sweet and Lowdown
    Penn hasn't attempted much comedy since "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," but he's masterful here.
  19. Blood Simple
    Clever as it is, Blood Simple is derivative and self-consciously stylized.
  20. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    Certainly has the look and feel of a masterpiece, but it's missing the emotional core that most moviegoers need.
  21. The Boys of Baraka
    The results are amazing, though bittersweet, and demonstrate how complicated and expensive it is (though not impossible) to break the cycle of poverty, crime and lack of education.
  22. Invincible
    So yes, you'll roll your eyes when the coach defies Papale's naysayers by insisting that "he has heart." But if there's a single surprise on this familiar field, it's that the movie does, too.
  23. Curse of the Golden Flower
    Chinese director Zhang Yimou has made some of the most beautiful movies of the last 20 years, and with his latest, Curse of the Golden Flower, he has also made one of the most deliciously nutty.
  24. Year of the Dog
    While some may be put off by Peggy's wild-eyed mania, and the film's broadly comic tone, Shannon makes this lost spirit strikingly sympathetic.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Why Did I Get Married?
    The problems are real; the solutions are ... well, really entertaining. Perry mixes heartfelt drama with bold-stroke, insult-slinging comedy.
  26. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    An eye-pleasing French action-slasher film that is cheerfully unencumbered by the usual conventions of stuffy costume drama.
    • New York Daily News
  27. Red Eye
    The movie is fun, fun, fun.
  28. Djomeh
    Yektapanah's stripped-down methods --remote setting, a cast of locals, the sparest of scripts -- are used so effectively, it quickly becomes clear that he's most concerned with the similarities rather than the differences between people.
  29. Road Trip
    The jokes, fast and furious enough to satisfy both teens and intrepid parents, are far funnier than they are raunchy.
  30. Bowling for Columbine
    Moore brilliantly unmasks the inanity of the arguments used in the debate over gun control in America. He then undermines himself by leaping into the blame game without supporting his central thesis, that the media is what makes teens like the ones at Columbine turn around and shoot up their schools.
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