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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. Harsh Times
    Bale brings intense energy (and a convincing American accent) to the proceedings, and the film manages to make this borderline Travis Bickle into a sympathetic character - with a sweetheart, and a sweeter life, beckoning from south of the border. Strong stuff.
  2. Crazy/Beautiful
    An intelligent romance that cuts against the grain of the youth-pic genre, crazy/beautiful boasts a scarily good performance from Dunst.
  3. Legally Blonde
    Smart screwball comedy that upends the stereotype of the airhead towhead.
  4. Shall We Dance
    The new film compensates with Gere's wry performance as a man who lacks for nothing material but hungers for something spiritual. Even better is Stanley Tucci's delirious turn as Gere's balding, button-down colleague.
  5. Lebanon, Pa.
    Hickernell's film aesthetic is straightforward, narrative-driven.
  6. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Ambitious, even audacious, the movie's mix of action and for-devotees-only intrigue can overwhelm, but there are moments of sheer virtuosity, too.
  7. Safety Not Guaranteed
    It's about time: Aubrey Plaza gets her own movie!
  8. Price of Glory
    Hollywood keeps turning out boxing movies. Price of Glory is the latest to step into the ring and face an increasingly no-win situation
  9. Sarah's Key
    Excellent performances make the movie effective. Yet the flashbacks have a depth and resonance largely absent from the modern scenes.
  10. The Closet
    It's a bright and breezy piece, and a refreshing alternative to the gross-out Hollywood comedies.
  11. Sisters
    It's a sweet, funny comedy starring two of the best and brightest in the game.
  12. The Adventures of Tintin
    And if there's a problem with Tintin, it's that it's too big and booming.
  13. The Business of Strangers
    In The Business of Strangers the right words are hard to come by, but the truth of them -- and the lies -- cut to the quick.
  14. CQ
    CQ is a movie for movie-lovers, by a movie-lover: Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford and a successful commercial and video director in his own right, making a witty, whimsical feature debut.
  15. The Virgin Suicides
    There's a melancholy sweetness here, a gentle humor that speaks to the angst and awkwardness of girls turning into women, and the awe of boys watching the transformation from afar.
  16. Firehouse Dog
    A touching, family-friendly entertainment
  17. The Secret Life of Bees
    The filmmakers give Latifah and Fanning room to create characters that breathe in the sweet smell of clover and breathe out the contented sigh of independence.
  18. The Invisible Woman
    Jones (Like Crazy) gives Nelly's tragic plight a palpable anguish. There is no doubt that Dickens - who was mad about theater, about acting, about inhabiting other lives onstage and in the pages of his books - was in love with Nelly.
  19. Stoker
    A beautifully twisted, slow-burning psychothriller that may or may not all be taking place inside India's head.
  20. Down from the Mountain
    If the heart of the film is Hartford, who late in his struggle with cancer conveys the luminous colors of a man at his twilight, its soul is Welch.
  21. Trees Lounge
    Buscemi has pulled off a deft feat: He doesn't romanticize his characters, but he doesn't condemn them as losers either. They're just people. [25 Oct 1996, p.12]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  22. Robot and Frank
    It's an Alzheimer's allegory, full of humanity, heart, and humor.
  23. Facing Windows
    Facing Windows is rich stuff. Maybe too rich. But thanks to fine performances and a grounded script, the pieces of this intriguing little puzzle all manage to fit.
  24. Win Win
    The same kind of keen, empathetic observations that made "The Station Agent" and "The Visitor" so illuminating are at play here, too.
  25. Head-On
    Despite all its roiling melodrama, Head-On has its moments of sharply observed humor.
  26. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Silverman is wickedly fast. Her timing kills.
  27. The Other F Word
    And talk about transcendent parenting moments: When Lindberg's girls pull out their Barbies, the Pennywise singer goes and gets his Devo doll to play with them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    Remarkable documentary.
  29. Douchebag
    Mostly, Doremus' movie rings true, as some truly jerky behavior ensues.
  30. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    An engagingly knuckleheaded comic vehicle for former Saturday Night Live trouper Will Ferrell.
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