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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. No Country for Old Men
    Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel is an indisputably great movie, at this point the year's very best.
  2. American Gangster
    Call it the black "Scarface" or "the Harlem Godfather" or just one hell of an exciting movie.
  3. Bee Movie
    At its relaxed best, when it's about, well, nothing, the slyly comic Bee Movie is truly beguiling.
  4. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    A dynamite film that ranks with the year's best.
  5. Dan in Real Life
    Carell shows a whole new side to his talents.
  6. Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone is full of dark secrets, and how they unravel will keep you glued.
  7. Rendition
    What a cast, indeed. And what a bust as persuasive drama.
  8. Reservation Road
    Even the best actors -- and I'd rank Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo among their generation's finest -- can't save a movie that aims for tragedy but stalls at soap opera.
  9. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Del Toro is the movie's force field. This is a performance you will not forget.
  10. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    Cate Blanchett can do anything, even play Bob Dylan, but she can't save this creaky sequel to her star-making 1998 biopic of Elizabeth I.
  11. We Own the Night
    We Own the Night is defiantly, refreshingly unhip.
  12. Control
    It's Corbijn, shooting with a poet's eye in a harshly stunning black-and-white, who cuts to the soul of Ian's life and music. You don't watch this movie, you live it.
  13. Michael Clayton
    Deliberate, demanding and character-driven, Michael Clayton flies in the face of what sells at the multiplex. I couldn't have liked it more.
  14. The Darjeeling Limited
    All the acting is exemplary. Brody, new to Wes' World, is revelatory as Peter.
  15. The Kingdom
    Matthew Michael Carnahan's caffeinated script isn't much concerned with balance, but it gets some anyway, from the resonant images of culture clash that Berg catches on the fly and a remarkable performance from Ashraf Barhom.
  16. Lust, Caution
    Lee is a true master, and his potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you won't want to break.
  17. Into the Wild
    Penn, in tandem with the superb cinematographer Eric Gautier (The Motorcycle Diaries), captures the majesty and terror of the wilderness in ways that make you catch your breath.
  18. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    Artfully exciting and compulsively watchable even at a butt-numbing 152 minutes, the film makes good on the promise New Zealand writer-director Andrew Dominik showed with "Chopper" in 2000.
  19. Across the Universe
    To call it trippy would be an understatement. Your head might explode. Just don't accuse Taymor of playing it safe.
  20. Eastern Promises
    In Eastern Promises, shot to envelop by the great Peter Suschitzky, Cronenberg brings us face to face with the horror of self.
  21. In the Valley of Elah
    The haunting, heart-piercing Elah isn't perfect. It's something better: essential.
  22. King of California
    In updating Shakespeare’s "The Tempest," writer-director Mike Cahill focuses on the magic worth finding between a father and daughter. That’s why the film sticks with you. It’s a gift.
  23. The Brave One
    Foster is electrifying as ego and id clash and the movie fires up with genuine provocation.
  24. 3:10 to Yuma
    Maybe this redo didn’t need so many bells and whistles, but Mangold brings it home.
  25. In the Shadow of the Moon
    Want to know what the “right stuff” really is? Take a look.
  26. Shoot 'Em Up
    This wet dream for action junkies leaves out logic and motivation --you know, all the boring stuff.
  27. Superbad
    It helps that the fun doesn't stop. It helps even more that the pitch-perfect script doesn’t step out of character for a joke.
  28. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Who would have guessed that a documentary about gamers obsessed with scoring a world record at Donkey Kong would not only be roaringly funny but serve as a metaphor for the decline of Western civilization?
  29. Delirious
    Buscemi makes this pathetic and potentially lethal shutterbug a figure of surprising humor and compassion.
  30. The Bourne Ultimatum
    The movie is thunderously exciting, but what makes it resonate is the wrenching story we read on Damon's face. We've waited all summer for a wild ride to grab us with more than jolts. Now it's here. Hang on.
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