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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. 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!
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Death of a President
    Shopworn propaganda.
  6. Marie Antoinette
    With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.
  7. Running with Scissors
    Too much manic energy runs the movie off the rails.
  8. Flags of Our Fathers
    A film of awesome power and blistering provocation.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. The Departed
    A new American crime classic from the legendary Martin Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its highest beams.
  15. 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."
  16. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    Putridly written, directed and acted.
  17. Shortbus
    If there is such a thing as hard-core with a soft heart, this is it.
  18. The Queen
    One of the best and liveliest movies of the year - funny and touching in ways you can't predict.
  19. School for Scoundrels
    Uproarious and unexpectedly biting.
  20. The Last King of Scotland
    Whitaker is on fire, and as long as he's onscreen, King keeps you riveted.
  21. All the King's Men
    Overthought, overwrought and thuddingly underwhelming, this high-profile misfire makes a congealed gumbo out of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer-winning 1946 novel and the Oscar-winning 1949 movie that followed it, sinking a classy cast in the goo.
  22. Jackass Number Two
    The heart of Jackass - the adolescent drive to bash body and soul into the symbolic brick wall of maturity - remains pure.
  23. American Hardcore
    Messed up as it is, you can't tear your eyes away from this explosion of brutal sounds and images.
  24. The Science of Sleep
    Fusing animation and live action with a series of outrageous props, Gondry veers dangerously close to being precious. But make no mistake: Gondry's hallucinatory brilliance holds you in thrall.
  25. The Black Dahlia
    Looks and flows great, dripping with the 1940s crime-thriller atmosphere that James Ellroy described in his 1987 novel. On other levels -- plot (overstuffed), suspense (muted), acting (Hilary Swank as a femme fatale? Please!), posing (Scarlett Johansson plays dress-up as a mini Lana Turner), sex (it's all before and after) -- the movie is a bust.
  26. The Last Kiss
    Director Tony Goldwyn tries for the lyrical melancholy he brought to "A Walk on the Moon," but as Michael waits for days on Jenna's porch getting drenched (as irritating a scene as any in recent cinema), only the most rabid chick-flick fan will fail to notice that it's the movie that's all wet.
  27. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    Lennon's spirit, like his music, shines through this movie like a beacon. Powerful stuff.
  28. Hollywoodland
    The irony is that Affleck's battering at the hands of fame has prepped him beautifully to play Reeves.
  29. SherryBaby
    Sherrybaby is the kind of pretend-arty Sundance thing that gives indie cinema a bad name.
  30. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Kirby Dick's indispensable guerrilla attack on the film-ratings system gives Hollywood a swift, smart and hilarious kick in its institutional, hypocritical ass.
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