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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. Bright Future
    Bright is pretty to look at, but it's a slow-moving, meandering work that isn't as complex or mysterious as it appears.
  2. Little Lili
    Miller takes Chekhov's themes and checks them off, but he never gets under his egocentric characters' thin skins.
  3. Who Killed Bambi?
    A long and uneventful snooze.
  4. Noel
    A plodding, contrived Christmas tale that wastes the talents of his well-known cast.
  5. The Polar Express
    It's a sensation - both a milestone in computer-animation and a likely Christmas classic.
  6. Overnight
    It turned out that he (Duffy) had an ego like a giant ChiaPet. With a little money sprinkled over it, it grew out of control.
  7. Alfie
    Charles Shyer's update is a pointlessly tame romp.
  8. Callas Forever
    This fictional "what if" scenario is a bit campy and stagey, like a session of Opera 101. But it has one great thing in its favor: Ardant.
  9. Brother to Brother
    Evan succeeds in drawing a parallel about the lack of racial and sexual tolerance in both eras, but Perry's inner turmoil is nowhere near as interesting as the lively flashbacks.
  10. Fade to Black
    A loving tribute to one of the most important figures in hip hop. From Jay-Z to himself.
  11. The Incredibles
    Clever, buoyant and surprisingly human.
  12. A Silent Love
    Strong, subtle performances elevate A Silent Love, a slow-moving drama about an unlikely love triangle from first-time director Federico Hidalgo.
  13. Farmingville
    Offers only the smallest glimmer of hope that the two sides can work things out through ingenuity and compromise.
  14. Ray
    Every once in a while, a performance pops out of a Hollywood movie that is so brilliant and unique to the matching of actor to role that it's impossible to imagine anyone else achieving it.
  15. Saw
    A gore movie with no teeth.
  16. Birth
    It's corny, plodding, implausible and - on occasion - seriously creepy. At the same time, it contains a couple of this movie year's most sublime sequences, and features one of Nicole Kidman's bravest and best performances.
  17. Enduring Love
    Movie love is usually so idealized it ennobles behavior that ordinarily would be considered stalking. Enduring Love deliberately smudges the line between what is bizarre and what is simply human nature.
  18. 800 Bullets
    Take away the violence, ribald humor and salty language, and 800 Bullets is actually a touching tale about family, love and honor.
  19. Voices of Iraq
    The latest - and really last-minute - documentary hoping to affect the presidential election is a deceptively partisan view of the Iraq War.
  20. It's All About Love
    Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.
  21. Malevolence
    The acting and dialogue is as silly as the potato sack the killer wears on his head.
  22. Home of the Brave
    Does a meticulous job of summarizing these notorious events, but it is the stories of Liuzzo's five children that gives it fresh emotional power.
  23. Sideways
    The best comedy of 2004. In fact, it's so far the best movie of the year.
  24. The Grudge
    Like a good horror movie, the images, jolts and artistically directed disorientation will keep your stomach clenched...Like a bad one, it doesn't make a lick of sense.
  25. Surviving Christmas
    Ben Affleck's goose is cooked with Surviving Christmas, a movie that makes "Gigli" look like one of the crowning moments in his career.
  26. 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.
  27. The Machinist
    Bale gives a near-great performance as a man with all the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and the film weaves an ingenious psychological web.
  28. Stella Street
    Some of the jokes will elude Americans while the movie's hip quotient gradually fades away.
  29. Undertow
    Undertow becomes unbearably imitative and predictable. It's a kids-in-peril B horror movie in the guise of an art film.
  30. Fish Without a Bicycle
    Jenna Mattison gives a charming performance.
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