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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 1.3 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. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    It doesn't sacrifice craftsmanship and elegance at the altar of its strong convictions.
  2. The Kill Team
    Soberly executed and highly principled documentary filmmaking, tightly focused on the Winfield family’s efforts to navigate the byzantine Army bureaucracy and the ass-covering military justice system. But it’s also a kind of Rorschach test of any viewer’s attitudes about war, the military and the United States’ amorphous 13-year mission in Afghanistan.
  3. United 93
    It's an expertly made picture that I wish I could stamp out of my mind. What's the value of artistry that sucks the life out of you?
  4. Delirious
    Among DiCillo's best, and returns to the central theme of his career: the elusive and destructive nature of fame.
  5. For the Bible Tells Me So
    A powerful documentary.
  6. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
    If you're willing to take this voyage with Fiennes into the psychic landscape and working life of one of the world's greatest contemporary artists, it's a trip you'll never forget.
  7. Two Girls and a Guy
    You slip into the movie so easily that by the time it reaches its emotional climax, you're unprepared.
  8. Grizzly Man
    Herzog wants us to see a deluded nobility in this quest. Treadwell's flawed dreams were, in the end, all too human.
  9. Get On Up
    While Brown’s complicated trajectory as a cultural and political figure gets short shrift in Get on Up, his music does not – the sequence depicting his legendary “Fever in the Funkhouse” show in Paris in 1971 is an absolute knockout, worth the price of admission all by itself.
  10. Happy Christmas
    A subtle, witty, wise and deeply compassionate American movie.
  11. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The brilliance of The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie -- as well as the show -- is that it's cognizant without being self-consciously knowing.
  12. Red Eye
    When Craven says "Jump!" we all do it at once, and giggle at how easily we've fallen under the spell. The key is that Craven is laughing with us, not at us.
  13. Ballets Russes
    It's a profoundly optimistic and delightful movie, for balletomanes and neophytes alike. It made me happy for days afterward.
  14. The Last King of Scotland
    This is a wonderful, horrifying performance: Whitaker doesn't take the easy way out by playing Amin as a killer clown, a treacherous buffoon.
  15. The Straight Story
    And now in The Straight Story, no director has been so buzzingly alert to the emotional lives of those people or to the beauty of the world they inhabit as David Lynch.
  16. The Devil Came on Horseback
    This shouldn't be a competitive sport or anything, but I'm pretty sure that Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's documentary The Devil Came on Horseback has the most horrifying images I have ever seen in a motion picture.
  17. Iron Man
    The movie's climactic battle scene is mildly thrilling -- although it's not nearly as exciting as simply watching Downey and Bridges work together. Bridges makes a great villain precisely because he's such a relaxed, affable presence.
  18. Square Grouper
    If "Cocaine Cowboys" was an epic, ironic yarn of murder and madness and the building of a boomtown built largely on drug money, Square Groupers is a more rueful tale.
  19. Sweet and Lowdown
    Undeniably pleasant, but British actress Samantha Morton quietly explodes it: Her performance is like nothing I've seen in recent years.
  20. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
    Watching McDormand navigate that transformation is the kind of thing that can keep your hope in movies, and in actors, alive.
  21. Tetro
    Certainly it isn't the greatest of Coppola's pictures, or even of his independent productions, but those are pretty high standards. It has a verve and vitality that's been missing from his pictures for 25 years, and its various and visible flaws all result from too much of that verve rather than too little. I enjoyed it tremendously.
  22. Red Cliff
    It's a movie on the Hollywood scale that has so much of the Asian spirit. It has drawn the Asian audience back to the movie theater.
  23. Out of Sight
    What makes "Out of Sight" a grown-up treat is that the mixture of lust and longing is as flawlessly proportioned as the ingredients in a perfect cocktail.
  24. Billy Elliot
    A surprisingly wise and funny meditation on the nature of what it truly means to be a man.
  25. 51 Birch Street
    Block has made a sad, delightful and half-accidental movie about his own parents.
  26. Love
    Even with its abundant flaws and its willingness to embarrass itself this strange and extraordinary film never lost me and never let me go; it wrapped me in a dreamlike rapture and then in a sense of profound and nearly universal personal tragedy.
  27. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    This is an immersive and powerful thriller, driven by terrific leading performances. It's mostly really good and then it wears out its welcome.
  28. Our Idiot Brother
    It's a warm, intelligent and highly contemporary comedy with just the right amount of edge, a terrific ensemble cast and a big, fuzzy golden retriever ready to knock you down and lick you like a giant lollipop.
  29. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Less like a movie than an interpretive-dance piece, with Cage as its lurching, depressed-satyr star.
  30. Hellion
    Hellion offers a startling and memorable portrait of adolescent life in downscale East Texas suburbia, along with a white-hot breakthrough performance from teenage actor Josh Wiggins.
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