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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. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    Hickenlooper does a nice job blending Bingenheimer's flashy past with his somewhat pathetic present, creating a genuinely compelling study in diminishing returns.
  2. The Descent
    This is one of the scariest movies featuring female heroines since the "Alien" series, and what makes it uniquely scary is where these women are -- in tunnels two miles under ground -- when they realize they are not alone.
  3. The Interpreter
    An intelligent, old-fashioned nail-biter.
  4. Stephanie Daley
    This is first-rate stuff.
  5. Little Otik
    Must be the smartest -- and most disturbing -- movie about parenthood in ages.
    • New York Daily News
  6. Brothers
    Tapping into the basest fears of war while subverting all expectations, director Susanne Bier deftly reads between the headlines.
  7. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    A small movie that plays like a Western epic.
  8. The Astronaut Farmer
    It's hard not to like a movie so determined to make you feel the love of a family, to make you feel that every dream can become a reality and that every mortgage - no matter how close to foreclosure - can be rescued by the sudden death of a family member and his inheritance.
  9. Oswald's Ghost
    Though we had just heard the name Lee Harvey Oswald, I believed he had done it alone. I still do, even more so after watching Robert Stone's meticulously researched, seemingly unbiased summary of the killing and the major conspiracy theories.
  10. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    The film's greatest strength is its inadvertent timeliness. Parallels between LBJ's Vietnam policy and George W. Bush's Iraq policy go off in your head like flares.
  11. The Girl Next Door
    Once in a very long while, a truly memorable romantic teen comedy comes along. The Girl Next Door is one.
  12. Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
    Showing the movie would be a great way to open a debate. I would love to hear its charges answered as clearly as they're stated.
  13. The Taste of Others
    A charming little valentine to the mysteries of attraction.
  14. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    It's a must for those who like thrills laced with a sense of humor.
  15. An Unreasonable Man
    Naive or wicked, idealist or egomaniac: Nothing in Ralph Nader's character is agreed upon by everyone in this fascinating biography - with one exception. And the title says it all.
  16. The Seagull's Laughter
    It's no easy trick to invite viewers into an utterly bleak setting populated by the dissatisfied and small-minded. But a droll script and generally deft direction make the Icelandic chill surprisingly inviting.
  17. March of the Penguins
    When it comes to cute, this baby is off the charts.
  18. Innocence
    A visually lush and eerily enigmatic parable of female sexuality, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's ominous fairy tale raises questions you'll be wondering about for days.
  19. The Syrian Bride
    The result is both tragic and darkly comic - in this complex environment, blame and sorrow are locked in a partnership of absurdity.
  20. The Devil Wears Prada
    Though there is enough haute couture on display for a season of "Sex and the City" envy, it has definite off-the-rack appeal to regular moviegoers. In fact, it may be the one film this year where you'll see Manolo Blahniks and Doc Martens on women sitting in the same row.
  21. End of the Century
    A thorough, gutsy and appropriately scuzzy-looking documentary.
  22. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    Ya-Ya Sisterhood is so divine. It offers a world where friendship is forever, the half-empty glass is refilled and the men are perfect.
    • New York Daily News
  23. Paris, je t'aime
    Bittersweet, funny, sad and invariably romantic.
  24. Shanghai Knights
    The unlikely cowboys play off each other's strengths like the best doubles team in tennis. The exquisiteness of this match is that Chan and Wilson are both reactive comedy actors.
  25. Steal a Pencil for Me
    If Michele Ohayon's absorbing documentary didn't provide the proof, you'd never believe the story she tells about Holocaust survivors Jack Polak and Ina Soep.
  26. The Hammer
    The Hammer benefits from Carolla's low-energy, low-impact style. He doesn't so much deliver quips as let them dribble out the side of his mouth.
  27. Let's Get Frank
    There's nothing new here, but Frank provides a genial reminder that politics doesn't always have to take the low road.
  28. Three... Extremes
    Blood, grotesquerie and humor mix equally in the first two, but the full combo makes a savory witches' brew for Asian-cinema cultists (or Halloween lovers in need of a gore fix).
  29. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
    With Chomsky as its star, this documentary cannot go far wrong, even though filmmaker John Junkerman intersperses Chomsky footage with some really bad Japanese pop music.
  30. Chuck & Buck
    A reverse male-bonding tale unlike anything you've ever seen. And it's not the easiest good movie to sit through.
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