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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. L'Enfant (The Child)
    Renier and Francois give deeply affecting performances that help soften the film's harsh blows. But only in the compassionate eye of the Dardennes do these three children achieve a state of grace.
  2. Stoned
    Could 1960s-style sex, drugs and rock & roll really have been this dull?
  3. V for Vendetta
    The explosive V for Vendetta is powered by ideas that are not computer-generated. It's something rare in Teflon Hollywood: a movie that sticks with you.
  4. Find Me Guilty
    Sadly, Lumet's skill at bringing out the juice in actors isn't enough to save the film from overkill.
  5. She's the Man
    There I sit, suffering total numbness of body and brain, no longer having to wonder what it might be like to be buried alive in gooey marshmallow.
  6. Thank You for Smoking
    Both sides of the political fence will feel royally skewered. All that's lacking is a warning from the Surgeon General: This film will make you laugh till it hurts.
  7. The Hills Have Eyes
    What good is a wallow in sicko sadism if you take all the fun out of it?
  8. Ask the Dust
    The film, which is literary to a fault, includes an earthquake, but if the earth moves at all, thank Hayek, who gives the tale a smoldering life that finally lifts it from the page.
  9. 16 Blocks
    Until Richard Wenk's script drives the characters into a brick wall of pukey sentiment, it's a wild ride.
  10. Tsotsi
    Based on a play by Athol Fugard, Tsotsi is South Africa's entry in this year's Oscar race for Best Foreign-Language Film. This remarkable movie means to shake you, and boy does it ever.
  11. Freedomland
    Roth takes three powerhouse actors -- Julianne Moore as the mother, Samuel L. Jackson as the cop who interrogates her and Edie Falco as another woman who lost her son -- and reduces their talents to rubble and their characters to screeching cliches.
  12. Firewall
    As a thriller, Firewall is flabby and familiar.
  13. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    This is more than a movie, it's a privilege.
  14. A Good Woman
    Hunt's flat delivery is mercilessly cruel to Wilde's delicious epigrams. That sound you hear is Oscar spinning madly in his grave.
  15. Bubble
    A potent and provocative look at life unhinged. Bubble is said to be the first in a series of six low-budget films from Soderbergh. If they all rock the boat like this one, bring 'em on.
  16. Manderlay
    Howard struggles with the role Kidman nailed. And the graphic nude scene in which "proudy slave" Timothy (Isaach De Bankole) puts a towel over Grace's head before ravishing her pale body is as rugged on the audience as it is on the actors.
  17. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    It's really inventive and bizarre and marvelously entertaining.
  18. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    This Brooks is a comedian who forgets the golden rule of "know your audience." He thinks he'll get his laughs if he keeps doing the same act with better lighting.
  19. Why We Fight
    Why We Fight deserves high praise for making it that much tougher to wear blinders.
  20. Glory Road
    Josh Lucas plays Haskins with a no-bull vigor that comes in handy when the script saddles him with all-bull platitudes.
  21. Fateless
    This unique and devastating look at the Holocaust is drawn from the autobiographical novel of 2002 Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz.
  22. Match Point
    Woody Allen's best movie in years means to trip us up: Sexual sizzle. London instead of Manhattan. Brit actors. Dark humor with a sting that leaves welts. You bet it's a change. And it looks good on the Woodman.
  23. Casanova
    Ledger's comic flair is a big plus in a film that is fanatically busy and fatally sexless.
  24. Rumor Has It...
    Following "Derailed," this comic turd makes it two strikes for Jennifer Aniston. She looks great, but her acting is board-stiff.
  25. The New World
    Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki -- a grandmaster at blending color and natural light -- craft a tone poem that may throw some audiences through its use of interior monologues.
  26. The Matador
    Writer-director Richard Shepard gives Brosnan his meatiest role ever, and he digs in with relish.
  27. Munich
    Bana is magnificent in the role.
  28. Caché (Hidden)
    Casts a spell that grips you and won't let go. The film works as a provocation, on a personal and a political level.
  29. The Ringer
    It's getting harder to sustain a rooting interest in the career of Johnny Knoxville.
  30. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    There's something pernicious about a toxic mix of sitcom and snickering sex jokes getting packaged and effectively sold as wholesome fun for the family.
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