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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. Tropical Malady
    This challenging, inventive movie from Thailand is not for everyone.
  2. The Dish
    For all its folksy jocularity, the movie inspires a sense of global patriotism. In the big picture, every little dish counts.
  3. Nine Lives
    A couple of the stories don't quite accomplish what Rodrigo intends, but most are poignant, disturbing, and superbly acted.
  4. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
    Meticulously researched documentary.
  5. The Price of Sugar
    The film is unabashedly supportive of Father Hartley, presenting him as a stubborn saint, and depicts the wealthy owners as soulless villains. Presumably they have a different story to tell, but we wouldn't know: When the camera's on, none can be found.
    • New York Daily News
  6. Gone Baby Gone
    The film's standout performance belongs to Ed Harris, who plays a Boston detective with decades of experience and an equal amount of built-up resentment toward people who would harm children.
  7. Hellboy
    Hellboy may be a big, noisy goof of a comic-book action film, but love is in the dank, dark, subterranean air as the bulky red-hued palooka tries to win the heart of the pyrokinetic beauty Liz Sherman.
  8. Lightning in a Bottle
    Fuqua's passion for the music comes through in the clear, unobtrusive style of the film, which mixes generous footage of the event's performances with interviews and archival footage, all adding up to a luscious historical snapshot of one America's original art forms.
  9. Travelers and Magicians
    Shangri-La is in your own backyard.
  10. Three Times
    A lyrical, subtle, chaste and nearly wordless romance.
  11. The English Patient
    A smashing success on its own terms, though as a transcendent love story it lacks the firm foundation in human reality that characterizes Lars Von Trier's superior "Breaking the Waves."
  12. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    Take us on an indelible tour through the highest and lowest points of the human experience.
  13. Men of Honor
    One of the more uplifting films of the season.
  14. Paradise Now
    At the stunning conclusion, you feel as if the weight of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has come down on your head.
  15. I Dreamed of Africa
    Despite the movie's dramatic weaknesses, I was spellbound by the images.
  16. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    A perversely enjoyable entry in that new genre, the biopic of the tawdry TV personality.
  17. Nina's Tragedies
    Israeli director Savi Gabizon has created a nuanced coming-of-age portrait that ought to strike a chord with ­audiences ­everywhere.
  18. Enigma
    A smart, old-fashioned spy thriller in which the weapon of choice is brainpower.
    • New York Daily News
  19. 2 Days in Paris
    Delpy wrote the dialogue that gives the film its forward thrust, and "2 Days" is a wonderful first feature.
  20. Superstar in a Housedress
    It's hard to believe Andy Warhol's Factory created enough characters to keep us interested 40 years later, but as it turns out, drag diva Jackie Curtis still has a few more minutes of fame left.
  21. Collateral
    The whole movie is something of a joke, a feature-length prank that mixes stark violence and shock humor in the mold of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction." Though it is a far less ambitious entertainment than Tarantino's masterpiece, it has its moments.
  22. Almost Peaceful
    These are people who are just waking up to life again. It may appear to be the ultimate non-action ­movie, but in the context of these lives, it is the highest kind of ­drama.
  23. Raise Your Voice
    What is unusual and exciting about the movie is the assemblage of raw talent in the cast.
  24. 16 Years of Alcohol
    But the film has a poetic pulse, its ups and downs accompanied by some smartly chosen pop songs, a seductive original score and McKidd's husky voice-over narration.
  25. The Road to Guantanamo
    The movie, shot digitally, begins as a not very compelling or particularly convincing road movie, and turns into a riveting prison drama.
  26. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    It doesn't get much more romantic than this.
  27. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    Jasmila Zbanic's poignant drama reminds us that the aftershocks of war linger for generations.
  28. The Great Debaters
    The three young actors are good, but the movie is held together from beginning to end by another riveting performance from Washington. Few actors can dominate a film with their diction as well as Washington, and the role of the erudite, passionate Mel Tolson gives him plenty of opportunity.
  29. This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    Among the many skills required by a documentary maker is the ability to make reticent people blossom. Michael Almereyda has done that in This So-Called Disaster with several of the film industry's most notorious iconoclasts.
  30. Unlikely Heroes
    Some stories are more compellingly told than others, but all, like Trank's film, are deserving of attention.
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