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For 1,070 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Frost/Nixon
Lowest review score: 0 Gigli
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 709 out of 1070
  2. Mixed: 172 out of 1070
  3. Negative: 189 out of 1070
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  1. Army of Shadows
    Composed of relatively few events and scenes, it's often excruciatingly tense and never less than heartbreakingly human. And as much as I admire "Munich," Shadows leaves Spielberg's film in the dust in the moral-ambiguity department. Never before seen in the States, it's already on my year's ten-best list. (April 2006 Premiere)
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  2. Pan's Labyrinth
    This intense film, a mix of horror, fantasy, and history that convinces on all those levels and mixes them up with dizzying brio, is a searing cinematic experience, a beautiful, terrifying vision from writer-director Guillermo del Toro.
  3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    A remarkably engrossing and thoughtful picture, beautifully rendered in an artful mode of realism.
  4. Killer of Sheep
    Burnett creates an insistently poetic, devastatingly ironic world and work.
  5. Ratatouille
    The slapstick-comic set pieces involving Remy and Linguini's cooking struggles might solicit the admiration of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    WALL-E
    When it works, it really works, but it's debatable whether its target audience will really enjoy anything more than the nifty robots. Which is fine, too. Robots are pretty cool.
  7. Sideways
    Every performance here is wonderful, and the movie abounds in moments so true as to be cringe-worthy.
  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    A phantasmagorical slab of epic entertainment that satisfies on every conceivable level.
  9. There Will Be Blood
    There Will Be Blood is, in fact, not a historical saga; rather, it's an absurdist, blackly comic horror film with a very idiosyncratic satanic figure at its core.
  10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    Every performer in the international cast -- Seigner, de Bankole, von Sydow (magnificent as Bauby's father), and the late Jean-Pierre Cassel to name but a few -- completely disappears into each of their roles, which I think is as much a testament to Schnabel's talents as to theirs.
  11. No Country for Old Men
    As stomach-churning a suspense exercise as the cinema has seen since the salad days of Hitchcock.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Toy Story 3
    The credits may be silly, but the last scene is a definite tear-jerker.
  13. Lost in Translation
    This is one of the year's most subtly moving films, and a strong affirmation of Coppola's substantial talent.
  14. Before Sunset
    Yep, this movie is basically a yakfest, but an incredibly fluid and involving one, and if you have any kind of affinity for either of the characters, you’re bound to find the picture a kind of miracle.
  15. The Queen
    The Queen is a surprisingly compassionate portrait (excepting Blair's reactionary wife with the "shallow curtsy") of a rigid pragmatist in denial over the monarchy's out-of-touch dysfunction.
  16. American Splendor
    One of the funniest, smartest, most moving pictures of the year.
  17. Finding Nemo
    I don't think we're going to see a better--a funnier or more genuinely heartwarming, for that matter--comedy this year.
  18. The Incredibles
    Preaches post-9/11 family values to conservatives while appeasing liberals with ideas of tolerance and social activism.
  19. Once
    Once may not boast stellar production values or elaborate dance numbers, but in its own scruffy way it captures the spirit of the genre better than any recent Hollywood musical.
  20. Capturing the Friedmans
    Jarecki does a remarkable job with this easily exploitable material.
  21. Persepolis
    While avoiding specious bromides about universality, Persepolis insists on communicating with its audience, and insists that communication and empathy are the keys to our survival.
  22. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    A wildly imaginative, hugely entertaining tour de force that asks big questions about life and love and fate while never ceasing to fully engage the viewer.
  23. The Lives of Others
    von Donnersmarck delivers something extraordinary and rare: a thriller that's entirely adult in both its concerns and perspective which manages to be as thoroughly gripping as any finely tuned albeit adolescent Hollywood nail-biter.
  24. House of Flying Daggers
    All told, while the goods that Daggers offers are choice, the movie ultimately demonstrates that too much can be, well, more than enough.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Man on Wire
    Much of this story is indeed entertaining: there's a tone of lighthearted mischievousness to the plotting and scheming of an illegal act that is essentially harmless.
  26. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    Borat is, in many ways, an heir to the same kind of subversion of American norms that the transvestite Divine perfected in John Waters’ early films.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Letters from Iwo Jima isn't just the film that Eastwood wanted to make, but one that the film's producer Steven Spielberg had tried to make twice with "Empire of the Sun" and "Saving Private Ryan."
  28. Capote
    Catherine Keener is remarkably subtle and soulful as Capote's friend and helpmeet Harper Lee, who delivers a shocking verdict against him at the end, but the movie, as you probably will not be surprised to learn, is owned by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
  29. Mafioso [re-release]
    Mafioso isn't a straight black satire of Sicilian culture so much as a suspenseful near-tragedy leavened by the zesty, irreverent wit that helped define the golden age of Italian comedies.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
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    Each character has their own story, and Pixar never sacrifices their development just for a happy ending.
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