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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Broken Flowers
    Broken Flowers may be too low-key for laugh junkies, but Jarmusch fills his sharply observed comedy with wonderful mischief. The mix of humor and heartbreak brings out the best in Murray.
  2. The Chumscrubber
    An appallingly clumsy and stupid take on drugs, kidnapping and suicide in suburbia.
  3. Must Love Dogs
    It's a frisky romantic comedy with a great title and wonderfully appealing performances.
  4. The Aristocrats
    Killer-funny documentary.
  5. The Devil's Rejects
    Indefensible on a moral level, Rob Zombie's perversely watchable follow-up to his much-reviled cult hit "House of 1000 Corpses" is loaded with filmmaking energy.
  6. Hustle & Flow
    Explosive entertainment.
  7. The Island
    A borrowed idea -- hello, "Blade Runner," hi there, "Matrix" -- but an idea nonetheless.
  8. Bad News Bears
    The mischief Thornton does make adds up to wild, rowdy fun.
  9. Last Days
    Van Sant, following "Gerry" and the superb "Elephant," is on the same elliptical quest. His journey is labored but undeniably hypnotic.
  10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Depp and Burton fly too high on the vapors of pure imagination. But it's hard to not get hooked on something this tasty.
  11. Wedding Crashers
    Sometimes a movie comedy just clicks. Welcome to one of those times.
  12. Happy Endings
    The film rambles, but rambling with the mischievous Roos is still a tricky and winning proposition.
  13. Murderball
    It's original, outrageous and murderous fun.
  14. Dark Water
    In a movie with more subtext than "Rosemary's Baby," nearly everyone, including Tim Roth as Dahlia's lawyer, harbors secrets. Salles unleashes a torrent of suspense for one purpose: to plumb the violence of the mind.
  15. War of the Worlds
    It's those dark visions of destruction that stick, even when Spielberg pushes the script to an unlikely happy ending. Great foreplay, failed orgasm.
  16. Rize
    There's no way to take your eyes off it.
  17. March of the Penguins
    Michael Moore might want to look into this before more animal docs steal his thunder.
  18. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Performance artist Miranda July hits a grand slam as the writer, director and star of her first film. It's a moonbeam romance laced with startling wit and gravity.
  19. Batman Begins
    The buildup is steadily engrossing. That's because Nolan keeps the emphasis on character, not gadgets. Gotham looks lived in, not art-directed.
  20. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Only Vince Vaughn registers hilariously as John's boss.
  21. Howl's Moving Castle
    There's a word for the kind of comic, dramatic, romantic, transporting visions Miyazaki achieves in Howl's: bliss.
  22. Cinderella Man
    It's the classic American tale of the family man triumphant, and Howard makes sure that it hits you right in the heart.
  23. Lords of Dogtown
    Hardwicke whips up a frenzy of crazy-cool board action, with Alva choreographing the stunts. Even when the slippery-slope-of-success cliches halt the film's momentum, the ready-to-rock actors rev it up again.
  24. Rock School
    You cheered Jack Black in "School of Rock," now give it up for Paul Green in the real thing.
  25. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    Working from a deft script by Delia Ephron, director Ken Kwapis labors hard so that guys won't cringe (too much) as four teen girls, of different body types, pass along the same pair of lucky jeans during a summer of love and loss.
  26. The Longest Yard
    What links the two films in fun and ferocity is the big game, a ripsnorter that is irresistibly entertaining.
  27. Madagascar
    Less like "Shrek," meaning hilarious and heartfelt, and more like "Shark Tale," meaning manic and exhausting, Madagascar will keep kids distracted without transporting them to wonderland.
  28. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Until the last half-hour, when Lucas actually does establish a emotional connection between the landmark he created in 1977 and the prequel investment portfolio he laid out in 1999, the movie is one spectacularly designed letdown after another.
  29. Monster-in-Law
    It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo, even when the laughs turn mean-spirited.
  30. Unleashed
    Li is action poetry in motion. Damn them for spoiling our popcorn fun with salty tear-jerking.
  31. Mad Hot Ballroom
    Listening to the kids talk is a treat in itself, but watching them strut their stuff in the final competition is enough to make you stand up and cheer.
  32. Tell Them Who You Are
    Funny, touching, vital.
  33. Crash
    The acting is dynamite, notably by Dillon and Newton in their shocking second encounter. Despite its preachy moments, the film is a knockout.
  34. House of Wax
    Purists, be warned: This scare-flick quickie has as much relation to the 1953 Vincent Price classic with the same title as Paris Hilton does to acting.
  35. Kingdom of Heaven
    Odd as it is to say, Kingdom of Heaven loses its momentum the more Balian gets religion.
  36. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    Director Vadim Jean is lucky that his low-octane comedy is long on Short.
  37. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Go with the whimsical flow that includes a hilariously morose robot named Marvin, voiced by the great Alan Rickman with the weight of the galaxy resonating in every bored, cynical syllable. Adams would be pleased.
  38. The Interpreter
    The Interpreter bristles with the smart, steadily engrossing tension that marked such 1970s goodies as "All the President's Men," "The Parallax View" and Pollack's own "Three Days of the Condor."
  39. A Lot Like Love
    As the film stopped counting back in years and switched to months, I panicked that it would slog on to weeks, hours and seconds before reaching its inevitable end. I was wrong. About A Lot Like Love leaving you wanting a lot less, I am right.
  40. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    It's scarier than "The Amityville Horror," as scandalous as "Fahrenheit 9/11" and loaded with more conspiracies than "The Interpreter."
  41. The Amityville Horror
    Result? It's not scary, just busy.
  42. House of D
    The film looks and feels authentic, but Duchovny has powered his undeniably personal journey with a counterfeit heart.
  43. Palindromes
    Solondz likes to put the screws to moral hypocrisy. As always, he goes too far. As always, you don't want to look away.
  44. Sahara
    McConaughey, despite alarmingly orange makeup, does justice to the role, a hard-drinking, shipwreck- hunting senator's son with a 007 way with the ladies.
  45. Fever Pitch
    The movie is so soggy and anonymous, I had to remind myself that the Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby, directed it. It's sad to watch the kingpins of gross-out try to dial down to cute. Swung at and missed.
  46. Kung Fu Hustle
    Does the plot spin out of control? You bet. But dumb fun this smart is a gift.
  47. Sin City
    The worst thing I can say about this savage, sexy and ferociously funny screen translation of three stories from Frank Miller's Sin City series of graphic novels is that it's too much of a good thing.
  48. Control
    It's the whooshing terror that fries your nerves to a frazzle. Antal's control never falters.
  49. Look at Me
    This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all.
  50. Oldboy
    As always with Park Chanwook, you just hold on and let him rip.
  51. Guess Who
    Guess what? It's almost bearable.
  52. D.E.B.S.
    You might think there's no downside to a movie that peeks up the skirts of babes in micro-minis, but writer-director Angela Robinson's dimwitted satire is libido-killing proof to the contrary.
  53. Mondovino
    If "Sideways" made you curious about vino, this fierce, funny and challenging doc opens up a world worth debating.
  54. The Ring Two
    You have to admire Nakata's skill at letting the dead run free while hinting that we may have more to fear from the living. With a braver step in that direction, this middling movie would ring more than box-office bells.
  55. Melinda and Melinda
    With Melinda and Melinda he's (Allen) not just going through the motions. He's saying the game isn't over before you laugh till it hurts.
  56. Hostage
    Take a tired formula...Stir with a director, Florent Siri, who has no shame about stealing every sadistic suspense trick from the Die Hard series. Serve to a gullible audience willing to pay top dollar for secondhand goods.
  57. The Upside of Anger
    A fiercely funny human comedy with jokes that sting and leave marks.
  58. Mail Order Wife
    It looks like a documentary...Don't let anyone tell you more.
  59. Don't Move
    The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.
  60. Off the Map
    The funny and heartbreaking Off the Map, directed with a poet's eye and a keen ear for nuance by Campbell Scott, resonates with something rare in today's movies: simplicity.
  61. Be Cool
    You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, "Please make it stop!"
  62. The Jacket
    Though shot for maximum moodiness by the gifted Peter Deming ("Mulholland Drive"), the movie straps you in for a head trip that promises hallucinatory wonders but delivers the same old Hollywood formula with sugar on top.
  63. The Pacifier
    It just plain sucks.
  64. Dear Frankie
    What could have been a sentimental train wreck emerges as a funny and touching portrait of three bruised people.
  65. Gunner Palace
    A riveting and indispensable record of the war in Iraq because it comes from the men who lived it.
  66. The Best of Youth
    The acting is electric. By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just imagined.
  67. Constantine
    The choice for the uninitiated is simple: Take the ride for its fitful thrills and dark elements, or just say the hell with it.
  68. Bride & Prejudice
    Lightweight but utterly beguiling.
  69. Hitch
    Will Smith has an easy charm, and this labored romantic farce works it hard. Too hard.
  70. Inside Deep Throat
    The film goes beyond historical anecdotes. Besides fresh and funny insights from the likes of Norman Mailer and John Waters, it shows how little censorship politics have changed from Nixon to Bush.
  71. Assault on Precinct 13
    By playing it safe, the new Precinct leaves the audience sorry and restores thirteen to its place as the unluckiest number.
  72. Coach Carter
    This afternoon-TV special trying to pass as a real movie earns an extra half star solely for Samuel L. Jackson, who brings his usual fire to the role.
  73. Elektra
    Breathlessly boring.
  74. White Noise
    "Sixth Sense" rip-off.
  75. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    It's the stunning location photography of camera ace Elliot Davis that provides what the movie itself lacks: authenticity.
  76. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    This riveting film qualifies as the anti-crowd-pleaser -- but Penn makes it unthinkable to turn away.
  77. The Merchant of Venice
    The film itself occasionally plods, but Pacino, tackling a tough trap of a role, raises the bar in a mesmerizing acting triumph.
  78. In Good Company
    Fresh comic thinking spices up this smart cookie of a satire from director-writer Paul Weitz (About a Boy). He makes it sexually provocative and subversively hilarious.
  79. The Woodsman
    It's Bacon who overcomes all obstacles.
  80. The Phantom of the Opera
    Phantom, still running on Broadway after sixteen years, is a rapturous spectacle. And the movie, directed full throttle by Joel Schumacher, goes the show one better.
  81. Hotel Rwanda
    George has been criticized for simplifying a complex story into an African "Schindler's List." But despite flaws in execution, this is a film of rare courage and imperishable heart.
  82. Imaginary Heroes
    What the movie damagingly lacks is a personality of its own.
  83. Beyond the Sea
    Doing his own singing (an uncanny imitation), Spacey is a marvel.
  84. The Sea Inside
    The film, quite rightly, is a tour de force for Bardem.
  85. Spanglish
    A rich blend of humor and heartbreak.
  86. The Aviator
    When it flies, it soars.
  87. Million Dollar Baby
    The knockout punch comes from Eastwood. His stripped-down performance -- as powerful as anything he's ever done -- has a rugged, haunting beauty. The same goes for the movie.
  88. Ocean's Twelve
    Clooney and company work it too hard this time. You can tell they're huffing and puffing to stay afloat. But all I hear is: glug glug glug.
  89. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Wilson drops the ironic smirk to give a sincerely affecting performance. His scenes with Murray provide the ballast when the script veers off into unconvincing pirate attacks and animated sea creatures.
  90. House of Flying Daggers
    Forget "Hero" -- that cult hit was just Zhang Yimou's warm-up for this martial-arts fireball that throws in a lyrical love story, head-spinning fights and dazzling surprises.
  91. Closer
    Mike Nichols' haunting, hypnotic Closer vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
  92. A Very Long Engagement
    An emotional powerhouse.
  93. Alexander
    Alexander breaks the key rule that makes movies move: Show, don't tell.
  94. National Treasure
    It's not just hard to believe any of this, it's impossible. And director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenom) directs with robotic cheerlessness.
  95. Bad Education
    A rapturous masterwork.
  96. After the Sunset
    A movie utterly devoid of wit , excitement and any reason for being.
  97. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Is it the clumsy script or the switch in directors -- Beeban Kidron in for Sharon Maguire -- that has sucked out the charm of the original and replaced it with crude pratfalls and enough shag gags to stuff the next three Austin Powers movies?
  98. Kinsey
    Scrappy, funny, hot-to-trot biopic.
  99. Finding Neverland
    Glorious entertainment.
  100. The Polar Express
    The result is a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.
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