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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. Alfie
    The only touch of Caine's brutal sexiness is in the thrilling songs by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart that should win Sir Mick his first Oscar. The rest is marshmallow.
  2. The Incredibles
    Bird has crafted a film -- one of the year's best -- that doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true.
  3. Enduring Love
    Spellbinding.
  4. Birth
    The best of what's onscreen is a mesmerizing mind-teaser.
  5. Saw
    It's gross as hell.
  6. Ray
    Jamie Foxx gets so far inside the man and his music that he and Ray Charles seem to breathe as one.
  7. Sideways
    Pure movie bliss.
  8. Undertow
    It's no go. Green and Gothic make for a clumsy fit.
  9. The Machinist
    Director Brad Anderson tightens the screws of suspense, but it's Bale's gripping, beyond-the-call-of-duty performance that holds you in thrall.
  10. P.S.
    P.S., adapted from Helen Schulman's novel, is Linney's show, and she makes it hilarious and haunting.
  11. Being Julia
    Hungarian director Istvan Szabo (Sunshine) overplays his hand and traps Bening in a role that's all emoting, no emotion.
  12. Shall We Dance
    What's left is a lot of strenuous playacting when what's called for is the finesse of the Japanese original. Skip this stub-toed substitute.
  13. Team America: World Police
    A ruthlessly clever musical, a punchy political parody and the hottest look ever at naked puppets -- the first film, porn included, in which a woody is actually made of wood.
  14. Vera Drake
    Using Staunton's face as his canvas, Leigh crafts a powerfully moving film that is unmissable and unforgettable.
  15. Stage Beauty
    Expertly directed by Richard Eyre (Iris) from Jeffrey Hatcher's play, the film is bawdy fun.
  16. Friday Night Lights
    Thornton gets inside the coach's skin. It's a subtle, soulful performance in a movie that otherwise goes for the jugular.
  17. Tarnation
    The result is a film that defies description. I'd call it some kind of miracle.
  18. Shark Tale
    It's stale, like something you wrap in yesterday's newspaper.
  19. I Heart Huckabees
    Best of all is Mark Wahlberg as Tommy, an angry post-9/11 firefighter so against Big Oil that he rides to fire scenes on his bike.
  20. The Yes Men
    Subversive and diabolically funny.
  21. A Dirty Shame
    A Dirty Shame is Waters unleashed, and wicked, kinky fun for anyone except the twits who rated it NC-17.
  22. The Last Shot
    Never achieves liftoff.
  23. Infernal Affairs
    Throbs with action, suspense and a seductive rhythm all its own.
  24. Shaun of the Dead
    Blast of fright and fun.
  25. The Motorcycle Diaries
    A mesmerizing look at an asthmatic, rich-boy medical student in the act of discovering his insurgent spirit.
  26. Head in the Clouds
    This spark-free film has no place to go on their resumes except under the heading of "Cringing Embarrassment."
  27. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    It's a gimmick, it's not a movie.
  28. Wimbledon
    There's no script to speak of, just two appealing actors volleying comic-romantic cliches at each other.
  29. Silver City
    The real action in Silver City happens on the fringes, where the mischief is. Daryl Hannah is spice incarnate as Dickie's sexy screw-up sister. Billy Zane plays a lobbyist with insinuating soullessness. And Dreyfuss feasts on the snappiest lines.
  30. Criminal
    Here's the problem: The movie was made just four years ago by Argentinian director Fabian Bielinsky. It is called "Nine Queens," and it is vastly superior to this blah U.S. remake from director Gregory Jacobs.
  31. Persons of Interest
    The callous inequity of what you see and hear will floor you. It can't happen here. But it did. It does.
  32. Vanity Fair
    In an effort to blend Thackeray and "Sex and the City," Vanity Fair ends up nowhere.
  33. Bush's Brain
    Potent if hardly evenhanded documentary.
  34. Hero
    The film never musters the intimate feel the gifted director brought to such early films as "Raise the Red Dragon" and "Ju Dou." You cheer his accomplishment in Hero without ever feeling close to it.
  35. Bright Young Things
    By the time Fry lets darkness encroach on these bright young things, the fizz is gone, and so is any reason to make us give a damn.
  36. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    There is nothing new in Robert Greenwald's sobering doc.
  37. Red Lights
    Darroussin is killer good and director Cedric Kahn turns Georges Simenon's seminal novel into a darkly comic spellbinder that pins you to your seat.
  38. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    The film, sometimes talky and overemphatic, is also literate, erotic, brutally funny and touched by brilliance in its quartet of live-wire performances.
  39. Code 46
    What doesn't spark is the love story. Morton still seems soggy from her "Minority Report" role as a drenched pre-cog. Who wants romance in a future where glum is the word?
  40. Little Black Book
    Here's a comedy of punishing tedium that pretends to be hip when it's so five minutes ago.
  41. Open Water
    The ending -- a more devastating surprise than "The Village" could manage -- caps eighty sweat-job minutes of imaginative, jolting suspense.
  42. Collateral
    No crime film in years boasts a cooler vibe than Michael Mann's dazzling Collateral.
  43. The Village
    The Village, even when its step falters, is on to something more provocative than seeing dead people. Its power, unrelated to digital monsters, comes from the tension building inside the characters.
  44. The Manchurian Candidate
    This riveting film is marred by compromises -- such as a switch of assassins to create an unpersuasive upbeat ending -- that keep it in the shadow of its predecessor.
  45. She Hate Me
    When a Spike Lee film doesn't fly, it sinks like a stone.
  46. Garden State
    It's a hilarious and heartfelt ode to twentysomething angst. Braff has himself a winner.
  47. Catwoman
    Not to be catty about it, but the stench of the litter pan is all over this big-screen $90 million disaster-in-waiting.
  48. A Home at the End of the World
    How many movies these days leave you wanting more? The funny and heartfelt Home is a small treasure.
  49. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    Kitano is a riveting spectacle. So's the movie.
  50. The Bourne Supremacy
    If you've forgotten the kick you get from watching a globe-trotting, butt-kicking, whiplash-paced action movie done with humor, style and smarts, take a ride with The Bourne Supremacy.
  51. A Cinderella Story
    It's probably the movie event of the summer if you're an eight-year-old girl who doesn't get out much.
  52. Maria Full of Grace
    Marston builds incredible tension. But it's the human drama etched on Moreno's young, weary face that gives Maria its potent punch.
  53. The Door in the Floor
    You can't shut the door on this spellbinder. It gets into your head.
  54. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Don't let anyone spoil the surprises of this thrashing, thrilling chunk of cinematic gold. It's one for the time capsule.
  55. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    There's no sense to the scene in which the boys get together for a close-harmony rendition of "Afternoon Delight" -- just pure pleasure.
  56. King Arthur
    Strains credulity at every turn.
  57. The Clearing
    The pleasures of this endeavor, directed with a keen eye for detail by Pieter Jan Brugge, come from what the actors bring to the material.
  58. Before Sunset
    There is something uniquely unforgettable in the way Linklater, Hawke and Delpy (equal collaborators on the script) find nuance, art and eroticism in words, spoken and unspoken. The actors shine.
  59. De-Lovely
    At its best, De-Lovely evokes a time, a place and a sound with stylish wit and sophistication.
  60. Spider-Man 2
    A sequel of twisted thrills and sly surprises.
  61. The Notebook
    I have the same allergic reaction to this open faucet of tear-jerking swill as I do to the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel that inspired it.
  62. Fahrenheit 9/11
    Moore has marshaled what's on the record and off into a stinging indictment of where we're going. In a multiplex filled with Hollywood cotton candy, we need him more than ever.
  63. The Terminal
    In his sappiest film since 1989's "Always," director Steven Spielberg has come down with a case of the cutes that the whole cast catches.
  64. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    It's one for the time capsule.
  65. The Stepford Wives
    Close gets laughs, as does Bette Midler as a Jewish rebel. But the sting is gone.
  66. Napoleon Dynamite
    Hess and his terrific cast -- Heder is geek perfection -- make their own kind of deadpan hilarity. You'll laugh till it hurts. Sweet.
  67. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Not only is this dazzler by far the best and most thrilling of the three Harry Potter movies to date, it's a film that can stand on its own even if you never heard of author J.K. Rowling and her young wizard hero.
  68. Saved!
    Fanaticism is Dannelly's target, not faith. That's what makes his film a keeper: It sticks with you.
  69. Baadasssss!
    The film is technically raw, but the sight of Van Peebles playing his father at a defining moment in movie history exerts a potent fascination.
  70. The Day After Tomorrow
    Don't ask whether or not you should take The Day After Tomorrow seriously. Don't take it at all.
  71. The Five Obstructions
    Keep "Survivor" and "Fear Factor," and give me this spellbinding mind teaser, the ultimate game for movie buffs.
  72. Raising Helen
    Despite Joan Cusack, whose comic spark earns the film its only star, Raising Helen is like tumbling into chick-flick hell.
  73. Stateside
    Anselmo, basing his script on a true story, juggles more plots than a full season of "The O.C.," setting his cast adrift in a sea of soap-opera bubbles.
  74. Shrek 2
    Shrek 2 may be computer-generated, but its innate heart and glorious sense of mischief make it one of the best and most humane movies of the summer.
  75. Coffee and Cigarettes
    Jarmusch makes it a feast that plays like a haunting concept album.
  76. Troy
    Troy lacks the focus of Gladiator, not to mention that Oscar winner's scrappy wit. But why kick a gift horse when you're in summer-movie heaven?
  77. Super Size Me
    It’s one of the blackest comedies to hit the screen since Dr. Strangelove. Spurlock proves himself a supersize talent; he makes you choke on every laugh.
  78. Van Helsing
    Here's a shrieking bore of a horror flick.
  79. Laws of Attraction
    They are all victims of a script of such colossal banality and gross stupidity that smiles freeze on their faces, leaving them looking trapped and desperate, much like the audience.
  80. Godsend
    Every scare is telegraphed. Every surprise is recycled from a better thriller. Even the devil would send this one back.
  81. Envy
    Environmentalists are up in arms. "Where did the shit go?" they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay.
  82. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    It's too bad. Jones deserved better than a biopic with a TV-movie heart.
  83. Mean Girls
    The plot is flimsy, but director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday) trusts Fey's tart dialogue to carry the day. Wise man. Fey subverts formula to find comic gold. She's a brash new voice in movie comedy. Boy, do we need her now.
  84. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    You'll thrill to the action, savor the tasty dialogue and laugh like bloody hell.
  85. The Punisher
    Among the recent spate of comic-book movies, from "Spider-Man" to the "X-Men," The Punisher is unique.
  86. Young Adam
    Tepid.
  87. The Girl Next Door
    Director Luke Greenfield, the auteur behind "The Animal," starring Rob Schneider, wants to pass off this limp-dick farce as social satire. Ha!
  88. I'm Not Scared
    In the guise of a nerve-jangling thriller, director Gabriele Salvatores, an Oscar winner for "Mediterraneo," delivers a fierce, frightening and deeply moving study of childhood. It's a keeper.
  89. Walking Tall
    There was a time when guys would grab a six-pack and watch this kind of flick at a drive-in. I mean that as a compliment.
  90. Hellboy
    Hellboy is on fire with scares and laughs and del Toro’s visionary dazzle. It’s the tenderness that comes as an unexpected bonus.
  91. The Ladykillers
    It's as if the brothers admired the Swiss-watch precision of the original and wanted to take it apart to see how the pieces would work in a new setting. As an experiment, it's fascinating. But damn if the fiddling doesn't suck the life out of the laughs.
  92. Jersey Girl
    Affleck is modest and engaging, which keeps the movie out of "Gigli" territory. But it's close.
  93. Dogville
    Kidman gives the most emotionally bruising performance of her career in Dogville, a movie that never met a cliche it didn't stomp on.
  94. Bon voyage
    It’s sexy, suspenseful fun, and gorgeous-looking to boot.
  95. Taking Lives
    If you can buy the pillow-lipped Angelina Jolie as a psychic FBI agent in Montreal to hunt a serial killer, then you can swallow the other implausibilities in this retread thriller.
  96. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Chases so many ideas that it threatens to spin out of control. But with our multiplexes stuffed with toxic Hollywood formula, it's a gift to find a ballsy movie that thinks it can do anything, and damn near does.
  97. Spartan
    Imagine David Mamet rewriting his political satire "Wag the Dog" -- in which a president and his advisers declare war to distract the media from the prez's horn-dog activities -- as a joke-free kidnap drama.
  98. Hidalgo
    An adventure that never met a cliche it couldn't saddle, mount and ride for a butt-numbing two hours and sixteen minutes.
  99. Starsky & Hutch
    Were detective Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and his partner, Ken Hutchinson (David Soul), hot for each other when they started working undercover in Bay City?... you can watch Starsky and Hutch on the big screen and see subtext stiffen into hard and hilarious evidence.
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    Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Luna and Garai struggle to look like they're having the time of their life. But the movie, more wan than wicked, proves you can't go home again.
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