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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 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. Promised Land
    Director Gus Van Sant finds the human side of a knotty issue. No polemics. Just the face of a new America in crisis.
  2. Military Wives
    In these times of pandemic isolation it’s no crime to look for the film equivalent of comfort food. Military Wives, though deeply reliant on formula and wrapped in a blanket of bland, fits the bill.
  3. 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.
  4. Rendition
    What a cast, indeed. And what a bust as persuasive drama.
  5. Sergio
    Sergio is not a film about a saint or a sinner, but an attempt that succeeds more often than not to create a portrait of a man in full. Yes, it also occasionally puts him on a pedestal — but in these dark days, advocating for hope and idealism feels exactly right.
  6. Rob Roy
    You always know where it's going even as it meanders for two and a half hours getting there.
  7. Hobo with a Shotgun
    Moralists, beware. Hobo looks like a garish cartoon puked up by a filmmaker overstuffed with cheap thrills and celluloid scuzz. What's not to like?
  8. Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
    You don't have to be in vogue to enjoy this stylish ride through Bergdorf's. It's a surprise package to die for. Miele and his virtuoso cinematographer, Justin Bare, show how fashion can be aspiration, a model for dreaming the impossible.
  9. Love and Other Drugs
    Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal are hotties with talent. And they maneuver through the daunting maze of shifting tones and intersecting plots of Love and Other Drugs like the pros they are.
  10. Take the Lead
    Inspired by a true story (translation: a lot of it is made up), the movie shucks its corn straight from the cob. But it's no less engaging for that, thanks to the enthusiasm of the young cast and the fusion of classic dance with hip-hop moves courtesy of Rich and Tone Talauega.
  11. Party Girl
    What makes it delicious fun is Posey, a party girl for the ages.
  12. When You're Strange
    Unhappy with what Oliver Stone did to Jim Morrison and the Doors in his 1991 biopic? Here’s the doc for you.
  13. Bride & Prejudice
    Lightweight but utterly beguiling.
  14. The Current War: Director's Cut
    It’s not a bad film, just a generically bland one.
  15. The Conspirator
    The film pivots on McAvoy's powerfully implosive performance as a man trying to grow beyond his own prejudices. His scenes with Wright, under Redford's nuanced guidance, give this film its timely resonance and its grieving heart.
  16. The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    The action and jokes pile up with exhausting repetitiveness. But Theroux and Franco make a truly hilarious team.
  17. The Prom
    This is what it looks like when you Glee a beloved Broadway production to death.
  18. The Lion King
    What’s missing? Let’s start with intangibles such as heart, soul and the faintest hint of originality.
  19. The Secret Life of Pets 2
    Sad to say, the bloom is off the rose.
  20. Frankie
    The film stubbornly resists coming together as more than a series of hit-and-miss vignettes. Only near the end, in a stunning tableau that illustrates how individual desire laughs at the plans of God — and the ringmaster Frankie — does Sachs turn his wisp of film into something funny, touching and vital.
  21. Tusk
    Tusk is a mesmerizing mess that will make Joe Popcorn yak. Jay and Silent Bob will love it.
  22. Harry Brown
    In "Gran Torino," Eastwood took on the moral issues that screenwriter Gary Young and first-time director Daniel Barber studiously avoid. It's the difference between riveting and repellent.
  23. All the Pretty Horses
    It doesn't help that Damon and Cruz fail to generate sparks or that the second half of the film, in which John and Lacey face hell in a Mexican prison, feels bluntly edited to fit a two-hour running time.
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  24. Hearts in Atlantis
    What a shame, though, that the movie isn't a livelier business.
  25. Snatch.
    Ritchie's got something all his own: a go-for-broke energy that cuts through the cliches of the crime genre.
  26. Godard Mon Amour
    What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina.
  27. The Missing
    Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.
  28. Liberal Arts
    Radnor and Olsen are so funny and touching you want to say happythankyoumoreplease. What you get is frustratingly less. Still, to the movie's refreshingly uncynical credit, you feel for them.
  29. The Good Liar
    Yes, you would watch these two in virtually anything. You just wish it wasn’t this. They deserve something sturdier and far less head-slappingly preposterous, and that’s the truth.
  30. The Last Samurai
    When the script, by Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, doesn't sabotage the images, and the great cinematographer John Toll turns action into poetry, The Last Samurai emerges as a haunting silent movie.
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