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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. The Grace Lee Project
    A funny and insightful exploration into identity issues we all can recognize.
  2. Off the Black
    As good as Nolte is, the relatively unknown Morgan matches him scene for scene. And he's not the only impressive newcomer. Remarkably, this confident indie is the first feature from writer-director Ponsoldt, who shuns any slickness to embrace the rough edges of his low-budget, bare-bones story.
  3. Shanghai Ghetto
    This is a vital history lesson that many of us have missed but few are likely to forget.
  4. The Lady and the Duke
    The result is a galvanizing mix of intellectual discourse and guillotined heads.
    • New York Daily News
  5. Man on the Moon
    Carrey gives an otherworldly, possessed performance as Kaufman.
  6. Rocket Science
    A quirky comedy-drama that gets the bulk of its humor from the well-placed non sequitur. It never seems to be going where you think it is, and that includes its oddly endearing dialogue.
  7. Galaxy Quest
    No masterpiece, but in a season dominated by films as heavy -- and about as time-consuming -- as brain surgery, a little brain candy is sweet.
  8. The Statement
    There's a sensational, highly original performance by Swinton.
  9. Petits frères
    Crushingly realistic.
  10. Last Dance
    The real highlight is watching the dancers as they progress from their first, tentative improvisations to the final, complex performance.
  11. Meet the Parents
    What makes it work so well is superb chemistry and a light touch. The spray-painted cat scene doesn't hurt, either.
  12. Zoolander
    The humor is simple but far from dumb. The dueling "walk-off" between rival male mannequins is inspired, as are the sly juxtapositions of the male model's faux physicality with such real-world demands as coal mining.
  13. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    This kind of parody is hard to sustain for an hour and a half, and "Walk Hard" does gets wearying at times. But the humor is so outrageous, the original music so much fun and Reilly so good - both while hamming it up in the role and in singing the songs - that it's irresistible.
  14. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
    If ever a movie could convince the masses to don communal shoes, this is the one.
  15. Howl's Moving Castle
    A richly inventive, slightly eerie animated movie from Japan.
  16. Impostor
    It's a pleasure to watch a thinking-man's actor like Sinise adapt so easily to this challenge; he even keeps his dignity when forced to participate in the inevitable martial arts-inflected showdown.
  17. Wordplay
    In this documentary, I learn there are people who can solve a Monday New York Times puzzle in less than three minutes - without looking words up! I don't necessarily want to know these people, but they put on a good show at the annual crossword championship in Stamford, Ct., which is the centerpiece of this affectionate, smartly-done promo for puzzling.
  18. Ice Age
    Its story, characters, dialogue, humor and voice performances are first-rate.
    • New York Daily News
  19. Criminal
    The movie is fast and fun. Best of all are the actors, who likewise seem to know they've lucked into a rare good gig.
  20. Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    It's the next best thing to being front and center.
  21. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
    Once in a Lifetime performs a belated autopsy on the Cosmos and the North American Soccer League and basically concludes that they died of impatience.
  22. Horton Hears a Who!
    Listen closely: It's the sound of a million Who fans cheering.
  23. All the Pretty Horses
    Thornton, directing his first film since the minimalist "Sling Blade" (1996), has a much better grip on the material when he's focused on the scruffy desert landscape and the adventures of the two Texans.
  24. The Hunting of the President
    I'm not sure the filmmakers - one, Harry Thomason, is a long-time Friend of Bill - have connected enough dots to prove a "vast" conspiracy. But that many people devoted much of their lives and resources to destroying Clinton is indisputable.
  25. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    In keeping with the unrefined spirit of the '70s, the movie is deliberately haphazard and proudly retains all its mistakes, including narrator Sean Penn going up on his lines.
    • New York Daily News
  26. Dead or Alive
    Takashi is a master of the jagged quick cut and the shocker finish, and his head-spinning story is pumped up with almost more bravado than a single screen can handle.
  27. Tycoon: A New Russian
    With more than a passing nod to the Hollywood mob movie, Pavel Lounguine ("Luna Park") crafts this superb post-Soviet "Godfather" movie loosely based on the exploits of bad boy billionaire Boris Berezovsky.
  28. Tadpole
    Armed with a witty script, Winick and the actors so confidently ply the Oedipal waters that the comedy seems sweetly chaste.
  29. Pieces of April
    As pat as some of its conclusions may seem, this low-budget effort has charm, fine acting and one of the few realistic screen depictions of the awkward dynamics of a family trying to circle its wagons.
  30. Hitch
    Smith turns it on with co-star Eva Mendes in a manner that will have George Clooney taking notes.
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