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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Into the Abyss
    Into the Abyss is a true-crime drama, to be sure, but in Herzog's hands it becomes something much more: an inquiry into fundamental moral, philosophical, and religious issues, and an examination of humankind's capacity for violence - individual and institutional.
  2. Up and Down
    A bruising, dark comedy.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Happy Feet Two
    Although it's set on the same frozen continent, Happy Feet Two is worlds away from its predecessor.
  4. Riding Giants
    For those dazed and dazzled by surf anarchists Noll and Clark, Hamilton comes off as the sport's technocrat, but he boldly goes where no surfer has gone before.
  5. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    A thinker and an educator, Zinn has led a life of commitment and compassion, and the film offers a loving tribute.
  6. De Palma
    It's great to hear a director talking candidly about the actors he's worked with, dishing out good, juicy stuff.
  7. The Warrior
    What begins as Lafcadia's journey into the heart of darkness ends as his pilgrimage into the light. Stunning.
  8. Ushpizin
    Does what the best movies can do: take viewers to what might be unfamiliar places, into a culture with unique customs and traditions, and show, through drama and comedy, how the fundamental truths of the human experience need no translation.
  9. Crash
    Crash fools around with chronology in a Tarantinoesque way that brings its story full circle. You could argue that as events, and people, merge, Haggis' spiky screenplay (cowritten with Bobby Moresco) gets to be, quite simply, too much.
  10. The Guest
    The filmmakers don't bother hammering home a backstory or explaining why David is crazy. They just throw us in the deep end and dazzle us with a series of violent encounters that ends with a deadly chase in a surreal fun house maze of mirrors.
  11. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    Mongol is great cinema, great fun.
  12. The Class
    French movies are not so neatly resolved. In fact, the point of many French movies, such as this provocative one from director Laurent Cantet, is that some problems don't have satisfying solutions - or resolutions.
  13. The War Tapes
    Must-see stuff.
  14. Turtles Can Fly
    Offers a sometimes lyrical, sometimes gut-turning portrait of war seen through the eyes of children.
  15. Into Great Silence
    This beautiful, unfolding film is an antidote to the high-velocity, maximum-volume world most of us find ourselves immersed in, offering a glimpse into a rigorously spiritual alternative. Its calmness, its reflection, is full of allure.
  16. Jackpot
    Filled with bleak, beautiful Hopperesque tableaus and strange characters whose lives intersect.
  17. The Matrix
    With its mix of Lewis Carroll and William Gibson; Japanese anime and Chinese chopsocky; mythological allusions, and machine-made illusion, offers a couple of hours of escapist fun.
  18. Iron Man
    Until a final conflict that more resembles a monster-truck jam than a superhero showdown, Iron Man is solid gold.
  19. Hereafter
    Eastwood and Morgan's movie, with its epic natural disasters (and a terrifying, man-made one) is optimistic. Hokey, even. But it's beautiful, too.
  20. Hero
    Its stars - especially the photogenic Leung and Cheung, fresh from Wong Kar Wai's jazzy romance In the Mood for Love - are wonderfully charismatic. And wonderfully athletic.
  21. Thumbsucker
    Quiet, quirky gem.
  22. In America
    Wondrously emotional film, one that sneakily dismantles your defenses and purges grief you didn't realize you had.
  23. The Hurt Locker
    Fused with paranoia and almost unbearable suspense, The Hurt Locker is powerful stuff.
  24. The Gleaners & I
    At once guileless and profound.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  25. The Proposition
    The Proposition, a beautiful, bloody meditation on justice, family, and the trap of retribution, is in every respect an artful addition to the canon of six-shooter morality tales.
  26. Bandits
    If you enjoy visuals with substance as well as flash, look no further than this exuberant movie.
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  27. Man on the Train
    In the end, what the movie is about: time and life, and what we do with them, and what we regret that we didn't do.
  28. I Am Love
    It is not to everyone's taste. But if you like the lush film operas of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, or Luchino Visconti, this one's for you.
  29. World Trade Center
    The script by Andrea Berloff is stunning in its simplicity and aching details.
  30. Red Cliff
    This is magnificent filmmaking, and a magnificent film.
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