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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. State of Fear
    One of the most remarkable explorations of recent history ever conducted.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Wings of the Dove
    The rigid distinction usually made between a terrific outfit movie and cinematic art is just another barrier washed away in the overflowing riches of The Wings of the Dove.
  3. A Band Called Death
    And then would come this generous, spirited documentary, to capture one of the strangest and most inspiring of all family stories of tragedy and triumph that this crazy country has produced.
  4. The Iron Giant
    Surprising as it sounds, as far as examinations of trust, loyalty and identity go, the big metal dude's story winds up far more satisfying than the plodding Kubrick opus any day of the week.
  5. All About My Mother
    So intrinsically rich that it doesn't need any metaphors.
  6. The King's Speech
    It's a warm, richly funny and highly enjoyable human story that takes an intriguing sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history.
  7. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
    Burns has accomplished something both remarkable and reassuring. Remarkable because this is a compelling film, blending astonishing historical images with long-winded talking-head interviews, in vintage Burnsian style, and reassuring for almost the same reason.
  8. Flannel Pajamas
    So truly and exceptionally fine, a spiny and dispassionate little masterpiece of a marriage movie.
  9. The Tree of Life
    The Tree of Life is pretty much nuts overall, a manic hybrid folly with flashes of brilliance. But even if that's true it's a noble crazy, a miraculous William Butler Yeats kind of crazy, alive with passion for art and the world, for all that is lost and not lost and still to come.
  10. Gosford Park
    Isn't much more than marvelous entertainment -- but then, that's a lot right there.
  11. Superman Returns
    Superman, born in 1938, is still very much alive in 2006. The Man of Steel has so skillfully bent the bars of our imagination that he seems real to us. And in a sense, he is.
  12. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    There are so many great things happening on almost every level of this movie, from Swinton's haunting, magnetic and tremendously vulnerable performance, which is absolutely free of condescension to the suburban American wife-ness of her character, to the many unsettling individual moments.
  13. The Claim
    One of those rare literary adaptations that finds its fidelity in freedom, that stands as both a fitting version of its source material and as its own creation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Filth and the Fury
    A kinetic and unstoppable ride.
  15. Omar
    If Alfred Hitchcock had grown up as a Palestinian, he might have made something like Hany Abu-Assad’s Oscar-nominated Omar, which is a tender love story, a haunting tragedy and an expertly crafted thriller with flawed, damaged and not entirely likable characters.
  16. The Others
    An elegantly crafted entertainment, balanced between the psychological and the supernatural, that gets extra credit for not relying on computer effects.
  17. Daybreak
    Masterfully paced and constructed, and the performances are memorable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Piano Teacher
    When you see The Piano Teacher in a movie theater you get a chance to go back in time, back to the days when French movies were titillating, provocative and kind of smart.
  19. Food, Inc.
    An engaging and often wrenching film, Food, Inc. covers a wide range of material, including the horrific, the humorous and the exemplary.
  20. The House of Mirth
    Anderson's Lily is the kind of heroine who earns our protectiveness by never begging for it; it's an astonishing performance.
  21. The Day He Arrives
    But at his best - and his new movie, The Day He Arrives, is among his very best - Hong offers a strange mixture of magic, mystery, rueful melodrama and dry comedy that's like absolutely nothing else.
  22. The Thomas Crown Affair
    It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex.
  23. Blackfish
    Cowperthwaite builds a portrait of an intelligent but profoundly traumatized animal who was taken from his family in the North Atlantic as an infant, and has been driven to anger, resentment and perhaps psychosis after spending his life in a series of concrete swimming pools.
  24. Read My Lips
    It's a wholly amoral movie, but it's honestly amoral. And that's a relief for the audience.
  25. Tulpan
    What makes Tulpan remarkable are the extended unbroken scenes, both dramatic and comic.
  26. Hustle & Flow
    In a world of movies that try far too hard to move, entertain and dazzle us, the artistry of Hustle & Flow lies in the way it waits for us to come to it. We can walk as slowly as we want, but sooner or later, it's going to get us.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dead Man Walking
    Possesses that rarest of qualities: moral humility.
  28. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    I love Jackson's "Rings" saga despite his propensity for whimsical animation whenever he tries to strike a chord of dread or menace.
  29. When We Leave
    Aladag's point, I think, is that no matter how righteous we may feel about this kind of zero-sum cultural collision, for the human beings involved it often results in unbearable tragedy.
  30. Monkeybone
    A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years.
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