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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. Brooklyn's Finest
    The title Brooklyn's Finest is drowning in irony, of course, but Fuqua's moves are less obvious: His film is classical and gritty, his violence makes you want to duck and run.
  2. Nina's Tragedies
    Engagingly odd and full of sad, funny moments.
  3. Flash of Genius
    Kinnear does what he's done in the past: You underestimate the guy's acting chops, and suddenly, strikingly, he floors you.
  4. Monster
    Monster brings the horror stories of everyday life down to a recognizable level -- even as the actress inhabiting that story remains startlingly unrecognizable.
  5. Undefeated
    Undefeated is undeniably inspirational stuff.
  6. Paradise Now
    Paradise Now plays like Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," but with explosives.
  7. The Man Who Fell to Earth
    It's not just the grainy stock and bad sound - technically, we've come a long way. It's the cheesy sex, the awkward edits, the hammy symbolism, the mix of art-house aesthetics and exploitation cliché. Strange creature, this is.
  8. The Conjuring
    Unexpectedly fresh, alive, and vibrant - and wonderfully traumatizing.
  9. In Darkness
    The filmmaker, whose career took off with a very different sort of Holocaust film, 1990's Oscar-nominated "Europa Europa," understands that most of these stories arrive at a point of unspeakable, incomprehensible horror.
  10. My Big Night
    Iglesia's riotous film is crammed with comedic chaos.
  11. Hocus Pocus
    Silly, but irresistible.
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  12. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Johnny Depp, who portrayed Thompson's alter-ego in Gilliam's film, provides the narration. If there's hagiography here, it's counterbalanced by biographical truth.
  13. Bridget Jones's Diary
    As adorable and predictable a film as the Helen Fielding best-seller that inspired it.
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  14. After Innocence
    In her clear and compelling film, Sanders lets the innocents do the talking.
  15. The Experiment
    Because the confrontations between power and powerlessness are so dramatic and because Hirschbiegel's editing is so emphatic, Das Experiment is practically over before you realize that you don't know what its point is, exactly.
  16. This Is 40
    In short, This Is 40, in tried and true Apatowian style, mixes weighty issues about intimacy and cohabitation with astute and smart-alecky pop culture references, crude bathroom jokes, stoner riffs, boob ogling, and existential angst.
  17. Sunshine Cleaning
    Kudos to Clifton Collins Jr., who appears as a dispenser of cleaning products and common sense.
  18. Please Give
    A movie as generous, stingy, and biting - and memorable - as its six main characters.
  19. Shadow Magic
    Transports us to a world that still had a capacity for awe, and that's the core of its charm.
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  20. Tsotsi
    Evocatively shot by cinematographer Lance Gewer in warm browns and reds that make Tsotsi seem all the more chilling, the film records his gradual metamorphosis from id-driven brute into empathic, if crude, care-giver.
  21. Becket (re-release)
    Peter Glenville's staging of the material is the opposite of cinematic, but the pleasure of these two extravagantly gifted actors at the top of their game - their diction! their conviction! their beauty! - is enormous.
  22. Owning Mahowny
    An unflashy but fascinating meditation on addiction and greed. The junkie was clearly Mahowny, but the greed, in a way, was everybody else's: the bankers', their flush clientele's, and the casinos', all busy feeding his habit.
  23. Blue Car
    Not an easy movie to watch.
  24. Cartel Land
    Cartel Land offers a chilling glimpse into a world of violence and vigilantism.
  25. V for Vendetta
    A lot of dark, Orwellian fun.
  26. Affliction
    Nolte, reinforced by the bleak discretion of Schrader's direction and a wonderful supporting cast, makes the most of the opportunity.
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  27. The Notebook
    A bleak, despairing testament to the cruelty of war, and how it mangles and defaces everyone it touches.
  28. The Village
    A third-generation performer, this daughter of actor-director Ron Howard makes a stunning feature debut.
  29. Muppets from Space
    Who would have imagined that the galactic Gonzo would turn out to be a more entertaining space trip this summer than you-know-what? [14 July 1999, p.D01]
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  30. Dark Shadows
    Pinpointing the era - lovingly - is very much what Dark Shadows' has on its mind. While there's a tangle of romance and vengeance and all sorts of family matters to deal with, Burton's film is really about hippies in bell-bottoms, stoned out in their VW micro-buses.
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