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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. Alpha Dog
    Timberlake walks off with the movie. Too bad it's not worth stealing.
  2. Freedom Writers
    Leave it to Hilary Swank. Even when her film's pace lags behind its cliches, she sparks this true story, about a California teacher who sparks her students, with the passion the subject demands.
  3. Pan's Labyrinth
    Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means us to leave Pan's Labyrinth shaken to our souls. He succeeds.
  4. Notes on a Scandal
    If you want to see explosive acting, just watch Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett ignite in this film version of Zoe Heller's 2003 novel.
  5. Children of Men
    Cuarón has a gift only the greatest filmmakers share: He makes you believe.
  6. The Good Shepherd
    Shepherd wants to say something profound about the effect of a deceitful government on human values. But it's tough to slog through a movie that has no pulse.
  7. We Are Marshall
    No go. Marshall deserved better than this misbegotten tribute.
  8. Venus
    O'Toole gives a staggering performance -- fearless, defiantly untamed and in its own way a work of art.
  9. Curse of the Golden Flower
    The final effect is stunning, but also sadly impersonal.
  10. Letters from Iwo Jima
    Eastwood's direction here is a thing of beauty, blending the ferocity of the classic films of Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) with the delicacy and unblinking gaze of Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story).
  11. The Painted Veil
    The Painted Veil has the power and intimacy of a timeless love story. By all means, let it sweep you away.
  12. Rocky Balboa
    Just when you're ready to puke, the old Bill Conti theme ("Gonna Fly Now") kicks in -- are you feeling it? -- Stallone steps in the ring and every day is Christmas. All together now: Rock-ee! Rock-ee!
  13. Dreamgirls
    This baby dazzles like nothing else anywhere.
  14. The Good German
    This is Soderbergh's show, and a haunting and hypnotic show it is.
  15. Breaking and Entering
    The actors, especially Binoche, do their damnedest to bring urgency to their roles. But despite Minghella's admirable attempt to tackle major themes on an intimate scale, the film goes down like weak tea. There's no kick in it.
  16. The Pursuit of Happyness
    Smith wins our hearts without losing his dignity, as Chris suits up for success by day and fights off despair by night. The role needs gravity, smarts, charm, humor and a soul that's not synthetic. Smith brings it. He's the real deal.
  17. Blood Diamond
    DiCaprio is terrific, but he can't save this lecture from the shame of using Africa as a vehicle for another white man's redemption.
  18. Apocalypto
    Gibson has made a film of blunt provocation and bruising beauty.
  19. Days of Glory
    Bouchareb's film helped shame the French government into raising pensions for more than 80,000 of these veterans. Here's that rare movie that really did change things. I'll be damned.
  20. Inland Empire
    My advice, in the face of such hallucinatory brilliance, is that you hang on.
  21. The Lives of Others
    Von Donnersmarck has crafted the best kind of movie: one you can't get out of your head.
  22. The Fountain
    In telling a tale of love across time, Aronofsky is sometimes guilty of creating arty, pretentious psychobabble. But in visual terms, he's trying to expose his own raw, romantic heart. Folly? Maybe. But a risk worth taking.
  23. The History Boys
    The film can't hide its stage origins, and in cutting almost an hour on the journey from stage to screen some resonance is lost. But Bennett's dialogue sparkles and skewers with killer wit. Dig in.
  24. Casino Royale
    Craig gives us James Bond in the fascinating act of inventing himself. This you do not want to miss.
  25. 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.
  26. For Your Consideration
    Catherine O'Hara is comic perfection as Marilyn Hack.
  27. Bobby
    Estevez means well. But having your heart in the right place is no excuse for insipid ineptitude.
  28. A Good Year
    The scenery is glorious; you can almost feel the sunshine and smell the wine. But Crowe and Scott are bulls in Mayle's china shop. Like an assertive Burgundy served with a delicate fish, they're a classic wrong pairing.
  29. 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.
  30. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    Downey makes something lively, sexy and moving out of a role that's just a thin concept. But the movie feels like it's still in the darkroom.
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