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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. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Dropping in amusing anecdotes and tender memories, a deeply reflective Young revisits - and often reinterprets - both his recent and classic work.
  2. Inside Man
    It's got style and charisma to spare, with all the characters acting from fiery reserves of self-interest, including Christopher Plummer as a bank president with a secret in his safe-deposit box.
  3. Biggie and Tupac
    Broomfield conducts riveting interviews with a former LAPD officer, Biggie's fiercely protective mother and assorted hangers-on, but the actual thrust of his evidence seems almost irrelevant.
  4. Sound and Fury
    The real revelation of Sound and Fury is how it introduces hearing people to a culture they insist on ignoring.
  5. Little Miss Sunshine
    A charmer, a comedy with drama -- or vice versa.
  6. Nurse Betty
    A black comedy that features Renee Zellweger as the most adorable psychiatric-trauma victim ever.
  7. Girl on the Bridge
    Hand-held cameras give their surface showbiz relationship a sense of immediacy that, like love itself, has more than a hint of danger.
  8. Divided We Fall
    Parts of the movie play like French farce, but ultimately Hrebejk uses very simple cadences to unveil, movingly, the big picture.
  9. 51 Birch Street
    The intimate history of Doug Block's parents becomes fodder for a broader look at family secrets in this complex documentary.
  10. Keeping the Faith
    A mostly accomplished first film, with precise comic timing and some hilarious moments.
  11. The Matrix
    A dazzlingly original visual adventure.
  12. Buck and the Preacher
    Poitier relieves the melodrama, thankfully, by livening up the picture with his sense of humor. [29 Apr 1972, p.187]
    • New York Daily News
  13. Live-In Maid
    Weary and overworked to her very bones, Dora nevertheless has a heart of gold and a spine of steel. The movie does, too.
  14. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Letting any other actor run wild like this could have been a disaster, but Depp's peculiar buccaneer is an instant classic of actorly charisma.
  15. Transamerica
    This drama offers a chuckle at every turn.
  16. Millions
    This is a family movie in the best sense; it plays to children without talking down and to their parents without pandering. Mostly, it's just good fun.
  17. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Other than a tortured apology from Bill Clinton for having misunderstood the gravity of the situation, there isn't a peep of remorse heard from the normally sanctimonious West. And Dellaire's final bit of self-abuse is to blame himself for his failure to shame the world to action.
  18. Innocent Voices
    The many riveting moments will stay with you for days, and Padilla is well up to the task of carrying this intense story on his tiny shoulders.
  19. Tuck Everlasting
    Carefully walks the fine line between paying homage to a classic and entertaining a modern audience.
  20. Interview
    The first of three planned remakes of Dutch films by the late Theo van Gogh, Steve Buscemi's Interview takes the most unnatural act in human intercourse - the celebrity interview - and makes an explosively funny two-character psychodrama out of it.
  21. The Mother
    Turns out to be a thoughtful, beautifully acted story about feeling alive before it's too late to feel anything.
  22. Hero
    As gorgeous and contemplative as it is, Hero is a genre picture and needs to deliver the action goods. To that end, there are plenty of clever, lovingly choreographed sequences.
  23. Saraband
    This is as bitter and despairing an exploration of the human spirit as any of Bergman's films, and it is just as vibrantly written and directed.
  24. Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
    Clearly intended as a reminder that one person can move - or, at least, save - mountains.
  25. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    It's a fanciful tale, but the message is sweet - that the higher arts speak a universal language that transcends politics and ignorance.
  26. Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
    Any opportunity to see Pete Seeger perform, even at age 85, is worth taking - and Seeger is front, center and full-throated in Jim Brown's concert film.
  27. Water
    As a sign of how stubborn some irrational religious traditions can be, Hindu protesters forced Mehta to close down her Indian location and finish the film in neighboring Sri Lanka.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ikiru
    Akira Kurosawa's talent for analysis, interpretation and projection is again apparent in "To Live." [30 Jan 1960, p.22]
    • New York Daily News
  29. One
    Once in a while, a little reality can be a welcome antidote to our increasingly outsized film fantasies.
  30. Blackboards
    Director Samira Makhmalbaf made this raw and effective parable with the recognizable help of her father, legendary director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
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