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For 3,654 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Caesar Must Die
Lowest review score: 0 Summer Catch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,408 out of 3654
  2. Mixed: 966 out of 3654
  3. Negative: 280 out of 3654
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  1. The Heart of the Game
    Intimate, funny, moving and incredibly rousing -- even if you're allergic to sports movies.
  2. Daughters of Darkness
    This is decidedly not for everyone, but many consider it an offbeat classic. [03 Nov 2006, p.45]
    • Portland Oregonian
  3. The New Girlfriend
    It's fun to watch The New Girlfriend the way it's fun to drink a glass of Champagne, and about as memorable.
  4. The Dish
    Appropriate music, lovely cinematography and stellar performances by both a subtly moving Neill and a likable, barrel-chested super-American Warburton.
    • Portland Oregonian
  5. The Hurricane
    This is some of the finest acting you will see on-screen, maybe ever. Single-handedly, Washington turns The Hurricane from so-so to must-see.
  6. Billy Elliot
    An exquisite, ecstatic film, crude in its characterizations and plotting, yes, but extraordinary in its capacity for elation and its hard-earned sentimentality.
    • Portland Oregonian
  7. Vixen!
    By today's standards the sexuality is fairly discreet, the color cinematography is brilliant and the sense of absurdity marks this as one of Meyer's bust, er, best, efforts. [22 Oct 2004, p.39]
    • Portland Oregonian
  8. Kung Fu Panda
    The result is a genuinely pleasing kung fu movie that kids and grown-ups can enjoy.
  9. The History Boys
    As you can reliably expect of a work by Alan Bennett, The History Boys is bubbly, witty, sneaky-smart entertainment with the additional virtues of heart and cunning.
  10. A Mighty Heart
    The most striking thing about it is what it's not...a richly atmospheric film that races surefootedly through complexities of data and emotion like a spy movie and not at all like a sentimental sob story.
  11. Place Vendôme
    Long and slow, granted, but it's so peppered with moments of realism and nuanced craft that it continually rewards careful viewing.
    • Portland Oregonian
  12. Invictus
    It’s not a great film, but parts of it are outstanding.
  13. The Italian
    The juvenile performances are impressive, as they usually are in foreign films, and Spiridonov handles some grueling material with impressive maturity. But the movie comes undone with an abrupt and preposterous finale.
  14. The Duchess of Langeais
    The performances are solid and subtle, with Depardieu growing nicely into the brooding, smarter-than-he-looks roles his father tackled for years.
  15. Starlet
    Convincing performances from Hemingway and the charmingly crabby Johnson and an unhurried pace ensure that Baker's film achieves its modest goals.
  16. My Kid Could Paint That
    The result is a true conundrum: You can't say for sure if a scam is in play or if a genuine genius is being smeared. And the brilliance of the film is that it doesn't let you feel secure in choosing either side.
  17. Two Lovers
    Phoenix makes an interesting case of Leonard's twitchiness and mooning, but neither Paltrow nor Shaw is particularly credible as a Brooklynite, and Rossellini and Moshonov seem like they've wandered in from another film altogether.
  18. Sin City
    Some things in Sin City are almost too much to watch: the violence, the cruelty, the irredeemable evil. But it's irresistibly magnetic because it serves as a barely distorted mirror to our world.
  19. Neil Young Journeys
    Neil Young Journeys is the third documentary/concert film focusing on the great Canadian songwriter that director Jonathan Demme has made since 2006, and it's the weakest of the three, even as it sporadically charms.
  20. Shower
    A lovely film that requires a leisurely sit to think, Shower is not so much a shower as a bath, and a refreshing one at that.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    The miracle of Some Kind of Monster is Berlinger and Sinofsky's ability to make us root for these self-absorbed man-children.
  22. Source Code
    This is hair-raising, clever and winning entertainment. Even if his protagonists aren't entirely what they seem to be or think they are, Mr. Jones is, it's increasingly clear, the real thing.
  23. Joe
    Joe works better as a study of character and environment than as the thriller it tries to become in its final act.
  24. Breach
    That it's based on a true spying case seems almost incidental. The heart of the picture is the human drama.
  25. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Parker jams South Park with so much comic "stuff" that the effect is dizzying, at least for those who haven't left the auditorium in a huff before the end.
  26. 28 Days Later...
    Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, a veteran of low-tech Dogme films, work wonders with a digital camera, pausing to take in the beauty of the countryside or an eerily empty London…It's virtuosic without ever quite being showy.
  27. Japanese Story
    Collette proves herself worthy of carrying a movie with a performance that runs the gamut of human emotion without striking one false note.
  28. Red Road
    It's a wonderful debut, despite all the pain you may feel watching it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Fantastic Planet
    Thirty-five years later, Rene Laloux's surreal animated film remains a singular psychedelic experience. For the uninitiated, think Yellow Submarine but way more arty, trippy and funky. Highly recommended.
  30. Into the Wild
    Feels like a lost film from the '60s in the very best way: unstructured and intrepid and free. As a result, it's sometimes a little indulgent and overlong. But, like its hero, it's never less than sincere in its search for truth and beauty, even as it stares death in the eye.
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