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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. Transamerica
    The movie's soul is with Huffman. Speaking in a low voice, her posture as stiff as her vocabulary, her eyes a pool of sadness and hope, she turns this small, resonant film into a cry from the heart.
  2. Down to the Bone
    If there were an ounce of taste left in Hollywood, the magnificent Vera Farmiga would be a front-runner for the Best Actress Oscar.
  3. The Libertine
    This one-of-a-kind spellbinder from first-time director Laurence Dunmore is not afraid to shock. Depp is a raunchy wonder, especially in a time-capsule-worthy opening monologue.
  4. Syriana
    Takes off with the lightning speed of a thriller, the gonzo force of frontline journalism and the emotional wallop of a drama that puts a human face on shocking statistics.
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    With the cast getting looser and the mind games kinkier, it's hard to resist.
  6. Walk the Line
    Witherspoon has nailed it before, notably in "Election," but her portrayal of June is astounding in its vitality and richness.
  7. Breakfast on Pluto
    In substance and style, the movie is more than a few tears short of Jordan's "The Crying Game." But Murphy is an actor to watch. Even in heels.
  8. Pride & Prejudice
    Romantic yearning hasn't looked this sexy onscreen in years.
  9. Derailed
    The strapping Owen as a guy who can't handle himself and cutie-pie Aniston as a witchy woman? I don't think so. Talk about derailed.
  10. Bee Season
    Fine directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel take a detour into mumbo jumbo.
  11. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Sarah Silverman is the most outrageously funny woman alive.
  12. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    The film is shockingly light on music and heavy on crime scenes that play as bogus.
  13. Jarhead
    Even when the script slips into sermonizing -- a Swoff voice-over informs us that we're all still "in the desert" -- Mendes keeps invading us with emotions. The jolt of Jarhead is undeniable, and it comes when you least expect it.
  14. The Dying Gaul
    The actors could not be better. Sarsgaard, Scott and the luminous Clarkson negotiate the film's razor-sharp laughs and bone-deep tragedy with resonant skill. Lucas' powerfully haunting film gets under your skin.
  15. Prime
    Younger knows it's fun to watch Rafi and David cross lines of age, culture and religion. He also knows it's painful. That's what makes his movie hilarious and heartfelt.
  16. The Weather Man
    Cage works hard to find traces of humanity in a man that God forgot, as do screenwriter Steven Conrad and director Gore Verbinski. But in the face of a character no one cares about, can audiences be faulted for asking: Why should we?
  17. Paradise Now
    Shot in the West Bank, the film radiates authenticity. Even when he plays the action like a thriller, Abu-Assad is in search of a deeper truth.
  18. The Passenger (re-release)
    The script, co-written by Antonioni and Peter Wollen, focuses on a TV journalist (a superb Jack Nicholson).
  19. Shopgirl
    Even the film's missteps (the score, by Barrington Pheloung, is cringe-inducing) can't stop this meditation on love -- Martin calls it "Jane Austen for the twenty-first century" -- from melting into heartbreak.
  20. Stay
    Some people find this twisty and twisted psychological thriller arty and pretentious. I find it arty and provocative.
  21. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Shane Black creates a movie that is defiantly smartass and too cool for the room. I couldn't have liked it more.
  22. Domino
    The movie is full of possibilities. Frustratingly, only a few of them are realized.
  23. Elizabethtown
    The film's problems lie with the lack of spark between a wired Dunst and a bland Bloom, and the meltdown of Drew's mother (Susan Sarandon), who grieves by tap-dancing.
  24. Where the Truth Lies
    This movie isn't over-the-top -- it doesn't know where the top is. Trash addicts will eat up every graphic minute, even if they prefer to wait for the DVD.
  25. North Country
    Any similarities between Josey and Lois Jenson, the real woman who made Eveleth Mines pay for their sins in a landmark 1988 class-action suit, are purely coincidental. Instead, we get a TV-movie fantasy of female empowerment glazed with soap-opera theatrics.
  26. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    In ninety-three tight, terrifically exciting minutes, Clooney makes integrity look mighty sexy.
  27. In Her Shoes
    It's Hanson's astute directing that makes the film's life lessons go down painlessly, turning the smartly entertaining In Her Shoes into a comfy fit for both sexes.
  28. The Squid and the Whale
    Without jerking tears or reducing the acid content of his wit, Baumbach's humane movie gets under your skin.
  29. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    You will laugh yourself silly.
  30. Capote
    Capote is a movie that doesn't pull its punches. It's a knockout.
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