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For 3,956 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Closer
    Closer is marred by some drippy music courtesy of Damien Rice and a small-surprise ending that feels like gimmicky irony. But the film's core idea is compelling.
  2. A Very Long Engagement
    When this long movie is over, all you want to do is clap and weep and watch it all over again immediately.
  3. Alexander
    As one of the few movies around not pushing state-of-the-art animation or Jude Law, Alexander is a damn good date movie.
  4. Bad Education
    May be at once too gimmicky and too sincere. But it still exerts an uncanny power: Like the best of Almodóvar’s work, it throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul.
  5. Kinsey
    It's a new Neeson as Dr. Alfred Kinsey, all spiky-haired and harried, and he's enormously appealing in the role.
  6. The Incredibles
    The sleek beauty, crafty wit, family warmth, and impeccable slapstick suffusing The Incredibles immediately vaults it to a new, higher level of entertainment.
  7. Ray
    Sure, it’s the Jamie Foxx breakout role. But the movie around it is so systematically “inspirational” that it comes perilously close to sabotaging the breakout.
  8. Sideways
    Sweetest, funniest, most humane movie I've seen all year.
  9. Being Julia
    Suggests a cross between "Sunset Boulevard" and "All About Eve." The suggestion, alas, doesn't go very far, but Bening's performance approaches the pantheon.
  10. P.S.
    Maudlin.
  11. Vera Drake
    One of the letdowns of Vera Drake is that once Vera is arrested, we lose her voice.
  12. Stage Beauty
    Crudup, whose features have the appropriate delicacy, plays Ned with complete conviction; it’s difficult to imagine anyone else succeeding as well.
  13. Tarnation
    By all odds, Tarnation should have been an unwatchable, masochistic morass, but Caouette's love for the broken Renee--which is the true subject of the film--is awe-inspiring.
  14. I Heart Huckabees
    The philosophic notions in I Love Huckabees are ultimately not much more than window dressing for some fancy slapstick.
  15. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    It underscores, with ample footage from his rallying speeches and his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just how important it was for the antiwar movement to be represented by someone like Kerry.
  16. The Motorcycle Diaries
    The film is a deeply felt and beautifully acted hagiography.
  17. A Dirty Shame
    Despite its exuberant perversities, Waters’s take on erotomania is almost quaint.
  18. Head in the Clouds
    The film is a stodgy snooze, and Theron, who is about as expressive here as a porcelain doll, lacks all believability--she's followed her best performance (in Monster) with her worst.
  19. Silver City
    Using Dickie Pilager as a stand-in for George W. Bush seems too coy a tactic for these scabrous times. For better or worse, we want the real--or at least, the "real"-deal.
  20. Criminal
    Taut and straightforward and a little grungy, which is how these movies ought to be.
  21. When Will I Be Loved
    In much the same way that Godard used heroines like Anna Karina or Bardot, Toback showcases Campbell's face as a placard of unknowability--a quality he recognizes as inherently feminine. The (inadvertent) question we are left with is, How much is there to know about her anyway?
  22. Vanity Fair
    The effect is a bit like watching "Gone With the Wind" with a dumpling substituting for Scarlett O’Hara.
  23. Hero
    So deliriously chockablock with high-flying, color-coordinated fight scenes that non-aficionados may find it all a bit bewildering--a gorgeous abstraction. It sure is gorgeous, though, and it has a dream cast
  24. Bush's Brain
    I’m not sure that depicting Rove as a demonic Wizard of Oz does much more than stir righteous indignation among the already indignant. A more pertinent and challenging mission would have been to show just how the public can be gulled by Rove's dirty tricks in the same ways again and again.
  25. Bright Leaves
    While making his new film, he (McElwee) imagines that his boy is looking back at his screen image from some distant point in the future, when McElwee himself is gone. No child of a moviemaker could ask for a more beautiful bequest.
  26. Almost Peaceful
    The film was adapted from a 1993 novel by Robert Bober, who drew on his own childhood experiences, and as it unwinds, one begins to appreciate Deville's desire to see things work out well for these people.
  27. Bright Young Things
    Fry's saving grace is his love of actors. The younger and less familiar performers are more than adequate, but it's the older guard that shines. Broadbent is marvelously rummy.
  28. Red Lights
    Red Lights is the most ambiguously compelling romance around.
  29. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    A sense of unease, of incompleteness, is, I think, the appropriate response to this movie. Instead of trying to fill in the blanks, Curran and Gross leave things open and ambiguous. Just like life.
  30. Collateral
    Most of the time we are with Cruise and Foxx, and their interplay is never less than galvanizing.
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