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For 3,956 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,217 out of 3956
  2. Mixed: 1,376 out of 3956
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3956
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  1. Sleuth
    I think the movie works best if you know the original and have a taste for goofy revisionism.
  2. Terror's Advocate
    A brilliant study in the link between moral corruption and narcissism.
  3. We Own the Night
    Gray knows how to sell the idea of unalterable destiny with a car chase: That’s the mark of a real action director.
  4. The Good Night
    Jake Paltrow's comedy takes familiar male-angst material and turns it into a painful--but fun--string of jokes.
  5. Michael Clayton
    Clooney is as good as he has ever been.
  6. Lake of Fire
    Lake of Fire centers on abortion, but Kaye understands that while dead fetuses are the hook, the agenda covers the whole life cycle.
  7. The Darjeeling Limited
    Hit and miss, but its tone of lyric melancholy is remarkably sustained.
  8. The Kingdom
    Sensationally directed by Peter Berg, it’s a combination forensics detective movie (car bomb blows up secure American compound in Saudi Arabia--who dunnit and how can we stop him from doing it again?) and red-meat waste-the-terrorists action picture.
  9. Lust, Caution
    After seeing "Brokeback Mountain," with its sanctified couplings against a backdrop of purple mountain majesties, some of us felt that Ang Lee owed us a dirty movie with more bodily fluids. Lust, Caution is that movie--for maybe 10 of its 158 minutes. The rest of the film is absorbing, though.
  10. The Last Winter
    Like his "Wendigo," the film has a lot of mumbo jumbo about ancient spirits revived and angered by human disrespect--the old Indian-graveyard paradigm, as clunky as ever. But the context is overpoweringly eerie.
  11. Into the Wild
    With all the narration and fits of slow motion, the movie seems like the work of a nervous chain-smoker. It lacks concentration--and with it, the potential for rapture.
  12. Eastern Promises
    It’s engrossing, and Mueller-Stahl’s mix of Old World chivalry and murderousness is scarier than Jason and Freddy combined.
  13. In the Valley of Elah
    As a narrative, it’s clunky. As a whodunit, it’s third-rate. As the drama of a closed-off man’s awakening, it’s predictable. But Haggis has got hold of a fiercely urgent subject: the moral devastation of American soldiers serving in (and coming home from) Iraq. At its heart are deeper mysteries--and a tragedy that reaches far beyond anything onscreen.
  14. The Brave One
    Foster’s feminist victimization complex seems to be looping around to meet Nixon and Agnew. Next she’ll be hunting Commies for the FBI.
  15. 3:10 to Yuma
    As Ben Wade, gang leader and murderer, he gives an ironic performance, but Crowe’s irony is more intense than other actors’ obsession. He turns the idea of having so few emotions--of being beyond caring--into a bloody joke. He upstages everyone with his laughing eyes.
  16. In the Shadow of the Moon
    I came out giddy, feeling lighter--by about five-sixths--than I did when I went in.
  17. Exiled
    If you’ve never seen a Johnnie To crime picture, Exiled is a simple, stylish, and utterly delightful introduction.
  18. The Nanny Diaries
    As you watch the nannies mistreated and the children left to cry themselves to sleep, the only surprise is that there are no surprises. It’s zombie-land.
  19. Death at a Funeral
    It goes soft, but even a gelded traditional farce is more potent than most of our slob comedies.
  20. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    Kohn’s gripping Manda Bala is the opposite of a high-school science doc. It’s a free-form portrait of a place--Brazil--with scary running motifs: kidnapping, mutilation, plastic surgery, bulletproofing, and frog farming.
  21. Superbad
    Might be the most provocative teen sex comedy ever made; it is certainly one of the most convulsively funny.
  22. The 11th Hour
    It isn’t much of a movie (unless your aesthetic was formed in high-school science class), but it will be hugely informative to aliens who land on this planet in a thousand years and wonder why there’s no welcoming committee.
  23. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Very entertaining (and doesn’t overstay its welcome) but it’s a little depressing to contemplate.
  24. 2 Days in Paris
    The movie should be seen with a large, responsive audience--the better to live with it in the moment instead of worrying about where it’s going.
  25. Stardust
    It’s puffed up in obvious ways but disarmingly puckish in others. As that capering pirate, De Niro is god-awful--yet his gung-ho spirit wins him Brownie points.
  26. Becoming Jane
    A bearable period chick flick with a self-congratulatory “realistic” conceit.
  27. The Bourne Ultimatum
    It’s not just vérité--it’s battlefield vérité; it triggers your fight-or-flight instincts.
  28. The Camden 28
    The Camden 28 is slapdash: more talking heads, reunion footage with the mother reading from her own testimony, newscasts of the day. But the editing supplies some urgency, and the subjects remain radiant yet down-to-earth--too good-humored to be beatific.
  29. No End in Sight
    A meticulous, thoroughly engrossing lesson in how not to win friends (or wars) and influence people (or potential terrorists).
  30. The Simpsons Movie
    It’s intermittently very funny. But it doesn’t make the existential leap to the big screen, and it doesn’t have the density of gags or the lunatic free-association of the best episodes.
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