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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 Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    It will knock you for a loop like no other movie this year.
  2. Mona Lisa Smile
    "Irritating" doesn't begin to describe Julia Roberts as Katherine, an art-history prof who arrives at Wellesley in 1953.
  3. House of Sand and Fog
    Before it runs off course into excess, this brilliantly acted film version of the 1999 novel by Andre Dubus III moves with a stabbing urgency.
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    This is a film in which ideas resonate as well as action. Gandalf’s words to Pippin about death have a muscular poetry.
  5. The Statement
    Jewison dodges the issues in the script by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) to focus on cat-and-mouse chases that kill interest.
  6. Something's Gotta Give
    In an era of dumb farce, Something's Gotta Give is something special.
  7. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Near the end, when Griet puts on that earring and Johansson magically morphs into the figure on that canvas, you'll be knocked for a loop.
  8. Big Fish
    Director Tim Burton finally hooks the one that got away: a script that challenges and deepens his visionary talent.
  9. The Last Samurai
    When the script, by Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, doesn't sabotage the images, and the great cinematographer John Toll turns action into poetry, The Last Samurai emerges as a haunting silent movie.
  10. The Cooler
    Wayne Kramer, who co-wrote the scrappy script with Frank Hannah, makes a potent directing debut and strikes gold with the cast.
  11. The Triplets of Belleville
    It's comic, touching and a visual knockout.
  12. In America
    An emotional wipeout.
  13. Bad Santa
    If you've had it with all that feel-good holiday sludge, hook up with the combustibly nasty Bad Santa. It could become a Christmas perennial for Scrooges of all ages.
  14. 21 Grams
    You won't see more explosive acting this year.
  15. Gothika
    Stupefyingly stupid thriller.
  16. The Barbarian Invasions
    It's a feast of smart, sexy, glorious talk. The Oscar for best foreign film belongs right here.
  17. The Cat in the Hat
    Talk about your quick-buck exploitation.
  18. The Missing
    Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.
  19. Tupac: Resurrection
    Lazin's remarkable achievement is to catch Tupac in the act of discovering himself. It's something to see.
  20. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Crowe -- fierce, funny and every inch the hero -- gives a blazing star performance.
  21. Elf
    Ferrell makes the damn thing work. Even though he can't get naked or use naughty words, there's a devil of comedy in Ferrell, and he lets it out to play. Director Jon Favreau has the good sense to just stand out of his way.
  22. Love Actually
    Curtis ladles sugar over the eager-to-please Love Actually to make it go down easy, forgetting that sometimes it just makes you gag.
  23. The Matrix Revolutions
    At the risk of understatement, The Matrix Revolutions sucks.
  24. Die, Mommie, Die!
    Hotly hilarious.
  25. Shattered Glass
    The film never digs deep enough into the pressures on Glass from his family, his peers and himself to achieve psychological depth. But as an inside look into the hothouse of journalism, it's dynamite.
  26. The Human Stain
    The Human Stain is heavy going. It's the flashes of dramatic lightning that make it a trip worth taking.
  27. Radio
    There's no arguing that Cuba Gooding Jr. is trying to do right by the mentally disabled James Robert Kennedy.
  28. Elephant
    To those who see no purpose to this film, I say the purpose is learning not to turn a blind eye. The unique and unforgettable Elephant keeps its eyes wide open.
  29. In the Cut
    The result, sadly, is a mess.
  30. Sylvia
    Paltrow looks glam even in death, which only supports the notion, raised by Plath’s daughter Frieda Hughes, that the movie would be about a "Sylvia Suicide Doll." Good call.
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