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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 3.3 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. MirrorMask
    Not everyone's cup of tea, but a strong, heady brew.
  2. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    Startlingly original film.
  3. Flightplan
    Despite excellent elements - great actress, taut plot, slick visuals - Flightplan is like airplane food. No matter how good the ingredients the air chef has to work with, the entree inevitably ends up tasting like a Xerox of a facsimile of a meal.
  4. A History of Violence
    Cronenberg's movie is eerily compelling and darkly humorous. And chilling - to the bone.
  5. Oliver Twist
    The movie about literature's luckiest orphan may teem with children, but it is not for them.
  6. Proof
    Once you get past that golden swag and curtain of hair, Paltrow's performance is devastating, cutting to the pith and marrow of parent-child relations. The other actors in this stagebound movie fare less well.
  7. Just Like Heaven
    A groaningly awful romantic comedy.
  8. Lord of War
    A black comedy, a character study, and a thriller, Lord of War lacks the gritty, hell-bent hilarity of David O. Russell's contemporary war pic, "Three Kings."
  9. Everything Is Illuminated
    Whimsically conjures the magic-realist imagery of the novel while pruning the book of its narrative undergrowth. What results is a striking piece of topiary shorn of its vital branches.
  10. Corpse Bride
    Easily the best stop-motion animated necrophiliac musical romantic comedy of all time. It is also just simply, wonderful: a morbid, merry tale of true love that dazzles the eyes and delights the soul.
  11. Thumbsucker
    Quiet, quirky gem.
  12. The Thing About My Folks
    So powerful and tender are the scenes between Falk and Dukakis that by movie's end, I was wishing that the film had been more about the marriage of Sam and Muriel and less about the father and son.
  13. Venom
    This insipid take on the teens-in-peril formula, with a snake-bit ghoul chasing kids around the bayou, is truly a fangless task.
  14. Separate Lies
    So gin-and-tonic dry, so deceptive in its deadpan-ness, that it's not always clear that Julian Fellowes is having fun. But he is.
  15. An Unfinished Life
    Everything about An Unfinished Life's screenplay is cliched and predictable, but the actors manage to elevate the proceedings above and beyond shameless soap.
  16. Cote d'Azur
    A mild and merry romp about family, friends and sexual identity.
  17. Green Street Hooligans
    A silly melodrama.
  18. Transporter 2
    For high-speed action, eye-popping locales, and chopsocky fight-fests galore, watch The Transporter - on video.
  19. The Constant Gardener
    Simply the best adaptation of any John le Carré thriller to make it to the screen.
  20. The Brothers Grimm
    If The Brothers Grimm flies apart like a badly designed airplane (and it does), it still has more going for it than most of the movie fare this summer.
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    The Cave
    It's not original, but unlike some of this summer's movies (such as The Island and Stealth), The Cave knows its place. Its job is to deliver a few jolty thrills and a couple of laughs and wrap things up before it starts to get too dumb.
  22. Undiscovered
    An enjoyably cheesy teen melodrama with a touch of indie edge.
  23. The Baxter
    No great shakes, The Baxter nonetheless has a quiet loopiness going for it. And it has the absence of a laugh track going for it, too.
  24. The Memory of a Killer
    A cracking police procedural from Belgian director Erik van Looy, has a jaw-dropping premise so smartly executed that if this movie weren't in Flemish I'd swear that Michael Mann had directed it.
  25. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Apatow's film succeeds in having its virginity and losing it, too. Like "Wedding Crashers," it purges its cynicism with romanticism.
  26. Red Eye
    Murphy, in the boogeyman role, toggles between seductive and sinister with enough conviction to make you forget that his character makes no sense at all.
  27. The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    The heroine of this story is the eloquent Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett's mother, who recalls her fight to have an open-casket funeral for her son.
  28. The Skeleton Key
    Stylishly spooky and featuring a hammy, cigarette-sucking performance from Gena Rowlands.
  29. Four Brothers
    Easily the best 1975 B-movie made in 2005, Four Brothers is a raucously entertaining vigilante film.
  30. The Great Raid
    Lacks the visceral sweep of "Saving Private Ryan." But Spielberg's story, for all its gut-wrenching intensity, was a fiction. Dahl's movie, slower in pace and conscious of its own artifice, addresses the same issues of courage and sacrifice - and tells a true story. That's worth something. In fact, it's worth a lot.
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