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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. Stay
    Some people find this twisty and twisted psychological thriller arty and pretentious. I find it arty and provocative.
  2. 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.
  3. Domino
    The movie is full of possibilities. Frustratingly, only a few of them are realized.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    In ninety-three tight, terrifically exciting minutes, Clooney makes integrity look mighty sexy.
  8. 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.
  9. The Squid and the Whale
    Without jerking tears or reducing the acid content of his wit, Baumbach's humane movie gets under your skin.
  10. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    You will laugh yourself silly.
  11. Capote
    Capote is a movie that doesn't pull its punches. It's a knockout.
  12. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    It's tough to imagine a guy who won't squirm through this tale of 1950s housewife Evelyn Ryan.
  13. A History of Violence
    Other films this year will have to sweat bullets to match the explosive power and subversive wit of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. It slams you like a body punch and then starts messing with your head.
  14. Oliver Twist
    It's unlikely audiences will be echoing a starving Oliver's most famous line: "Please, sir, I want some more."
  15. Everything Is Illuminated
    Wood, whose mostly mute turn is defined by his black suit and glasses, can only stare in stupefaction at Schreiber's jittery mix of broad laughs and sentiment. Audiences will share the feeling.
  16. Proof
    Madden directed Paltrow in the play on the London stage, but he does his "Shakespeare in Love" goddess no favors by filling the screen with big close-ups that betray the theatrical origins of the piece and drain the movie of life and urgency. Proof hasn't been filmed at all -- it's been embalmed.
  17. Lord of War
    Niccol is too good a screenwriter (The Truman Show, Gattaca) not to know that Hollywood cliches are hell on a film's political bite. They muzzle it.
  18. Corpse Bride
    It's warped and wonderfully effervescent. Ditto the songs by Danny Elfman, who sings the role of Bonejangles, the frontman for a skeleton jazz band at a swinging underworld club. Best of all is the love story.
  19. Thumbsucker
    Pucci is an actor to watch: He rides this spellbinder without softening the truths that plague the thumbsucker in all of us.
  20. Separate Lies
    Watson and Everett, both superb, bring ferocity and feeling to their roles. But the one you won't forget is Wilkinson (In the Bedroom) in a towering performance of grace and grit that deserves to put him on Oscar's shortlist. Good show.
  21. An Unfinished Life
    It's not just that Jennifer Lopez looks lost and out of her league acting with Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman. That's to be expected. It's the drag-ass solemnity of this turgid family drama that makes you crazy.
  22. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    Oh, how good actors can trap themselves in drivel.
  23. Keane
    Keane means to shakes us, and does.
  24. The Constant Gardener
    Director Fernando Meirelles and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine put a human face on John le Carre's novel of sex, lies and dirty politics in modern Africa. Prepare for a thrilling ride.
  25. The Brothers Grimm
    If you're a Gilliam junkie, as I am, you go with it, even when the script by Ehren Kruger (The Skeleton Key) loses its shaky hold on coherence.
  26. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Steve Carell, best known as a team player on "The Daily Show," "The Office" and such movies as "Anchorman," earns top-banana status as Andy. He is flat-out hilarious.
  27. Red Eye
    The gripping, seat- clutching suspense in this baby will pin you to your seat.
  28. Four Brothers
    What holds us are the actors, including Terrence Howard as a cop who grew up with the brothers.
  29. Grizzly Man
    Herzog conducts his own expedition into knowing the unknowable -- the true task of any filmmaker. Herzog makes it an art.
  30. Pulse
    Just know that Pulse possesses the dark art to make your pulse pound and your hair stand on end -- with no cheating.
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