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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 0.6 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. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Steve Carell, best known as a team player on "The Daily Show," "The Office" and such movies as "Anchorman," earns top-banana status as Andy. He is flat-out hilarious.
  2. In the Valley of Elah
    The haunting, heart-piercing Elah isn't perfect. It's something better: essential.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What's Eating Gilbert Grape
    An offbeat mix of typically quirky elements, and it could have easily been hard to stomach. But the author and director Lasse Hallstrom's affection for these characters shines through. Their greatest asset is the young Leo himself, in his first Oscar-nominated role, bringing great sensitivity and complexity to a part that might have come off as cloying or cynical.
  4. The Longest Yard
    What links the two films in fun and ferocity is the big game, a ripsnorter that is irresistibly entertaining.
  5. Is Anybody There?
    Blending humor and heartbreak in a performance that makes a small movie a richly satisfying one, Caine truly is magic.
  6. The Aristocrats
    Killer-funny documentary.
  7. Matchstick Men
    Credible? Not really. But Cage and Rockwell play off each other with devilish finesse. And Lohman (White Oleander) is on fire -- she's a comer.
  8. Salt
    Primed to keep your pulse racing so your brain will stop thinking, "WTF!" Go with the illogic or you'll miss the fun.
  9. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Dawn is dynamite entertainment, especially in the rousing first hour.
  10. Warrior
    Warrior aspires to myth. It's Cain and Abel battling it out in the face of a decidedly ungodly father before humanity goes down for the count. Strong stuff.
  11. Cold Souls
    You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
  12. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    Cruise finds the core of Reacher in his eyes, with a haunted gaze that says this lone wolf is still on a mission and still a long way from home. That's the Reacher Lee Child created in his books. And Cruise does him proud.
  13. 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.
  14. My Old Ass
    Elliott is a recognizable archetype. Thanks to Park’s writing and Stella’s ridiculously charismatic performance, she’s anything but a generic one.
  15. Goosebumps
    Nonstop mayhem follows in a stampede of comic terrors ready made for Halloween. Sure it's exhausting. But Goosebumps, knowing its audience, lets it rip.
  16. The Living End
    Araki gives his hypnotic film a raw intensity heightened by a surreal landscape and a jagged score from the likes of Braindead Sound Machine, KMFDM and Coil.
  17. Stranger Than Fiction
    This is a Ferrell you've never seen before, nailing a role that calls for breakneck humor in the final race against the clock and touching gravity in the love scenes with Gyllenhaal.
  18. De-Lovely
    At its best, De-Lovely evokes a time, a place and a sound with stylish wit and sophistication.
  19. Fear of a Black Hat
    The best hip-hop film of all, taking on obvious targets (misogynist lyrics) and sacred cows (political rap) alike.
  20. The Dancer Upstairs
    Malkovich weaves something delicate and devastating.
  21. The Way
    Estevez keeps his touch light, with a minimum of pedantry. The Way is really a gift from this son to his father. Sheen, gradually revealing a man painfully getting reacquainted with long buried feelings, who gives the film its bruised heart.
  22. Quartet
    The actors are world-class charmers, and the magnificent Dame Maggie is the diva divine. Her wit still stings, as it does on "Downton Abbey."
  23. Churchill
    You can certainly argue just how speculative this film version of Churchill is as history. But Cox's performance cannot be faulted. It's a master class in acting.
  24. Nil by Mouth
    Nil By Mouth is a shockingly intimate portrait of entrapment that may leave you wincing. It’s Oldman’s Raging Bull.
  25. Limitless
    It's a wet dream for anyone who's ever dreamed of getting an edge on the information highway. The worst side effect is that you won't believe a word of the damn thing in the morning. Fair exchange.
  26. Saving Mr. Banks
    A tasty swig of holiday cheer.
  27. I Love You Phillip Morris
    It's one crazy love story, but Carrey and McGregor make it work by making us buy the romance as the real thing. There's something about these Marys that pulls you in.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Forbidden Zone
    A vibrant, bizarre hybrid of sci-fi and fantasy with avant-garde, jazz-inflected music by the composer, Forbidden Zone still remains unique decades after its inception.
  29. A Wrinkle in Time
    This Wrinkle in Time is undoubtedly flawed, wildly uneven and apt to tie itself in narrative knots in a quest to wow you with sheer Technicolor weirdness. It's also undeniably DuVernay's movie as much as Disney's, and works best when she puts her feminine energy, high-flying freak flag and sense of empathy front and center.
  30. Lymelife
    Even when the drama gets overcooked, Lymelife sends off sparks.
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