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For 4,545 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: 2,928 out of 4545
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4545
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4545
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  1. 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.
  2. The Lives of Others
    Von Donnersmarck has crafted the best kind of movie: one you can't get out of your head.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Casino Royale
    Craig gives us James Bond in the fascinating act of inventing himself. This you do not want to miss.
  6. 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.
  7. For Your Consideration
    Catherine O'Hara is comic perfection as Marilyn Hack.
  8. Bobby
    Estevez means well. But having your heart in the right place is no excuse for insipid ineptitude.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    You won't know what outrageous fun is until you see Borat. High-five!
  13. Volver
    Volver is Almodovar's passionate tribute to the community of women -- living and dead -- who nurtured him. Through the transformative power of his art -- carried on the wings of Alberto Iglesias' exhilarating score -- we feel their presence. You do not want to miss this one.
  14. Babel
    In the year's richest, most complex and ultimately most heartbreaking film, Inarritu invites us to get past the babble of modern civilization and start listening to each other.
  15. Shut Up & Sing
    For three years, the camera focuses on the Chicks as wives, mothers, entertainers and political flash points. Their fight to stay uncompromised is inspiring.
  16. Death of a President
    Shopworn propaganda.
  17. Marie Antoinette
    With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.
  18. Running with Scissors
    Too much manic energy runs the movie off the rails.
  19. Flags of Our Fathers
    A film of awesome power and blistering provocation.
  20. The Prestige
    Nolan directs the film exactly like a great trick, so you want to see it again the second it's over. I'd call that wicked clever.
  21. Sleeping Dogs Lie
    Goldthwait's movie, shot on video that makes it look dragged through puppy poop, is an unholy mess. But it also possesses a quick wit and an endearing tenderness toward Amy as honesty wrecks her life. It's sweet, doggone it.
  22. 51 Birch Street
    Through haunting home movies, Mina's diaries and interviews with Mike, a raw, riveting portrait emerges of what a child sees in his parents' relationship and what lies beneath.
  23. Infamous
    The film's most pleasing surprise is the beautifully nuanced portrait of Capote's confidante, "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee, by Sandra Bullock. You heard me. Bullock gives the film what it otherwise lacks: the ring of truth.
  24. The Departed
    A new American crime classic from the legendary Martin Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its highest beams.
  25. Little Children
    This unnervingly funny and quietly devastating film -- director Todd Field's first since his smash 2001 debut with "In the Bedroom" -- pulls you in like a magnetic-force field.
  26. Employee of the Month
    I laughed once or twice during this flat and fatuous farce, mainly because director and co-writer Greg Coolidge lifted a lot of it from "Office Space."
  27. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    Putridly written, directed and acted.
  28. Shortbus
    If there is such a thing as hard-core with a soft heart, this is it.
  29. The Queen
    One of the best and liveliest movies of the year - funny and touching in ways you can't predict.
  30. School for Scoundrels
    Uproarious and unexpectedly biting.
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