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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. The Amateurs
    You'll notice that the actors are way overqualified for this nonsense. But the kick they get out of one another is what pulls you in. Traeger's script does more than strain credulity, it administers multiple fractures.
  2. The Golden Compass
    Me, I just think it blows. What does it matter if you spend millions on a movie - love the talking, battling bears! - if the effects are cheesy, the story runs off on tangents and after watching the movie fail utterly to be the next Lord of the Rings, you just want to go home.
  3. Grace Is Gone
    Simplicity -- four-square, not sappy -- is rare in film. James C. Strouse had it in his script for Lonesome Jim. As writer and first-time director, he gives Grace Is Gonethe quiet power to sneak up and floor you.
  4. Juno
    There's a special kick that comes in finding a new star. So step up, Ellen Page, and take your bows.
  5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The movie will wipe you out. Schnabel's previous two films (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) also focused on artists. But this is his best film yet, a high-wire act of visual daring and unquenchable spirit.
  6. The Savages
    With the help of acting giants, Jenkins turns The Savages into a twisted, bittersweet pleasure.
  7. Starting Out in the Evening
    Langella delivers a master class in acting. He's playing Leonard Schiller, an aging author aching from the loss of his wife, a weak heart and literary neglect.
  8. Enchanted
    Not since Julie Andrews rode an umbrella to glory in Mary Poppins has Disney given us such a real-life doll (Amy Adams).
  9. I'm Not There.
    So what if nothing is revealed. Todd Haynes is a mischievous visionary who puts the music and the myth of Bob Dylan before us in I'm Not There and dares us not to revel in the troubadour's poetic, contentious, ever-changing essence. It's a feast for the eyes, the ears and the Dylanologist scratching around our minds and hearts.
  10. Beowulf
    Zemeckis springs so many pow 3-D surprises you'll think Beowulf is your own private fun house.
  11. Margot at the Wedding
    Dissenters who see this film as a wallow in self-absorption aren't paying attention. Baumbach is acutely attuned to the droll mind games of smart people who only think they're impervious to feeling.
  12. 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.
  13. American Gangster
    Call it the black "Scarface" or "the Harlem Godfather" or just one hell of an exciting movie.
  14. Bee Movie
    At its relaxed best, when it's about, well, nothing, the slyly comic Bee Movie is truly beguiling.
  15. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    A dynamite film that ranks with the year's best.
  16. Dan in Real Life
    Carell shows a whole new side to his talents.
  17. Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone is full of dark secrets, and how they unravel will keep you glued.
  18. Rendition
    What a cast, indeed. And what a bust as persuasive drama.
  19. 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.
  20. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Del Toro is the movie's force field. This is a performance you will not forget.
  21. 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.
  22. We Own the Night
    We Own the Night is defiantly, refreshingly unhip.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. The Darjeeling Limited
    All the acting is exemplary. Brody, new to Wes' World, is revelatory as Peter.
  26. 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.
  27. Lust, Caution
    Lee is a true master, and his potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you won't want to break.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. Across the Universe
    To call it trippy would be an understatement. Your head might explode. Just don't accuse Taymor of playing it safe.
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