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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Oliver Twist
    It's unlikely audiences will be echoing a starving Oliver's most famous line: "Please, sir, I want some more."
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Thumbsucker
    Pucci is an actor to watch: He rides this spellbinder without softening the truths that plague the thumbsucker in all of us.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    Oh, how good actors can trap themselves in drivel.
  12. Keane
    Keane means to shakes us, and does.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Red Eye
    The gripping, seat- clutching suspense in this baby will pin you to your seat.
  17. Four Brothers
    What holds us are the actors, including Terrence Howard as a cop who grew up with the brothers.
  18. Grizzly Man
    Herzog conducts his own expedition into knowing the unknowable -- the true task of any filmmaker. Herzog makes it an art.
  19. Pulse
    Just know that Pulse possesses the dark art to make your pulse pound and your hair stand on end -- with no cheating.
  20. The Dukes of Hazzard
    There is no wrong time to flush this turd. The only bright spot comes during the outtakes over the final credits.
  21. Broken Flowers
    Broken Flowers may be too low-key for laugh junkies, but Jarmusch fills his sharply observed comedy with wonderful mischief. The mix of humor and heartbreak brings out the best in Murray.
  22. The Chumscrubber
    An appallingly clumsy and stupid take on drugs, kidnapping and suicide in suburbia.
  23. Must Love Dogs
    It's a frisky romantic comedy with a great title and wonderfully appealing performances.
  24. The Aristocrats
    Killer-funny documentary.
  25. The Devil's Rejects
    Indefensible on a moral level, Rob Zombie's perversely watchable follow-up to his much-reviled cult hit "House of 1000 Corpses" is loaded with filmmaking energy.
  26. Hustle & Flow
    Explosive entertainment.
  27. The Island
    A borrowed idea -- hello, "Blade Runner," hi there, "Matrix" -- but an idea nonetheless.
  28. Bad News Bears
    The mischief Thornton does make adds up to wild, rowdy fun.
  29. Last Days
    Van Sant, following "Gerry" and the superb "Elephant," is on the same elliptical quest. His journey is labored but undeniably hypnotic.
  30. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Depp and Burton fly too high on the vapors of pure imagination. But it's hard to not get hooked on something this tasty.
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