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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 0.4 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. Shortbus
    If there is such a thing as hard-core with a soft heart, this is it.
  2. The Grey
    A terrifically exciting, deeply unsettling survivalist epic.
  3. Fast Food Nation
    It's less an expose of junk-food culture than a human drama, sprinkled with sly, provoking wit, about how that culture defines how we live.
  4. Serial Mom
    John waters and Kathleen Turner bring out the sicko best in each other in Serial Mom. It’s a killingly funny spoof of crime and nonpunishment that couldn’t have come at a better time for us or them.
  5. Anna and the Apocalypse
    In short, this is a genre mash-up has no agenda except providing escapist fun. Mission accomplished.
  6. Dancer in the Dark
    For all its fancy pedigree, the spellbinding Dancer in the Dark aims right for the heart and aces its target.
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  7. Official Secrets
    Official Secrets remains a compelling tale of injustice on an individual and global level. It’s a shame that it hasn’t been told better, but give it points for being told at all.
  8. 16 Blocks
    Until Richard Wenk's script drives the characters into a brick wall of pukey sentiment, it's a wild ride.
  9. One True Thing
    Even director Carl Franklin, an artful purveyor of sterner stuff in "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress," can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
  10. Songcatcher
    McTeer and the transporting music hold you in thrall.
  11. Unfaithful
    Lane is a force of nature. Her slow-burning, fiercely erotic performance charges the movie.
  12. Kids
    Cautionary tales aren't new. What sets Kids apart as daringly original, touching and alive is its authenticity.
  13. The Creator
    There is the slightly conspiratorial sense that the team behind this trip down movie-memory lane simply fed the scripts of various canonized sci-fi epics into an AI program and waited to see what sort of composite it spit out.
  14. Backbeat
    Backbeat catches the Beatles in the act of discovering themselves. It’s a thrilling spectacle that rocks the house and a lot of lazy misconceptions about how legends are made.
  15. Good Kill
    Writer-director Andrew Niccol, who worked impressively with Hawke on the topic of genetic modification in 1997's "Gattaca," puts a lot out there.
  16. Hard Target
    Even when the acting is hammy, notably Wilford Brimley’s turn as Chance’s Cajun uncle, Woo stages every fight with hypnotic grace.
  17. Out of Time
    It's a kick to watch Denzel Washington do a movie just for the hot, sexy fun of it.
  18. Secretary
    A film of startling humor and feeling. For that, director Steven Shainberg, who co-wrote the script with Erin Cressida Wilson, owes much to two remarkable performances.
  19. The Patriot
    A thunderous spectacle.
    • Rolling Stone
  20. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    The tricky thing about parody movies is that the jokes get old fast and they're hit-and-miss. Walk Hard, a spoof of every musical biopic from "Ray" to "Walk the Line," is guilty on both counts. How lucky that when the jokes do hit, they kick major ass.
  21. The Guilty
    Even with its familiar visual and dramatic approach — the extent to which we are firmly, subjectively pushed into Joseph’s world and made to tumble around for a while amid his unpredictable behaviors — the movie packs an odd little punch.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
    What should’ve been a major coup for Netflix, and audiences at large, comes off as a rank revival that will only sully the memory of a British classic.
  23. Don Juan DeMarco
    What jump-starts the film is the casting of Johnny Depp as Don Juan and Marlon Brando as his shrink. They bring a playfully romantic touch to a drama that could have been dead weight in clumsier hands.
  24. Hold the Dark
    An extraordinary high-pulp potboiler, one that mixes elements of indigenous mysticism, Greek tragedy and rural revenge flicks, along with a genuinely showstopping centerpiece.
  25. My Cousin Rachel
    Credit Rachel Weisz, who's just the dynamite actress needed to play a character who could be a misunderstood innocent or a fortune-hunting seductress who could be a cold-blooded killer. How delicious to watch the star keep us guessing.
  26. The Lincoln Lawyer
    This is rock-solid entertainment. McConaughey, a cunning mesmerizer in the courtroom, steers this Lincoln into what could be a hell-raising franchise. More, please. Soon.
  27. Piece By Piece
    Sometimes all of these little plastic avatars are a needless distraction from what is a compelling origin story by any measure. Other times, the LEGO-ification of it all provides a welcome distraction from some fairly cut-and-dried Music Documentary 101 business, with Piece by Piece putting a formally unique spin on a very familiar, if slightly incomplete arc.
  28. 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.
  29. Nyad
    As a portrait of a friendship, one tested by decades of high times and lows, successes and failures, bad behavior and forgiveness, Nyad the movie is trawling deeper waters. As a bio-dramatization of one human’s resilience — and thus a stand-in for the triumph of the human spirit overall — it comes perilously close to merely treading them.
  30. Kingdom of Heaven
    Odd as it is to say, Kingdom of Heaven loses its momentum the more Balian gets religion.
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